“Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence,” co-curated by Dennis Geronimus, chosen as one of the year’s best exhibitions by the Wall Street Journal

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-art-of-2015-at-play-in-the-landscape-of-art-1450401413

 

Piero exhibition curators Dennis Geronimus (NYU) and Gretchen Hirschauer (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Bagel Bash

Hey Everyone,

We hope your studying and final days of classes are going well! With exam season upon us, we thought you could all use a little pick-me-up. Stop by the 3rd floor of Silver on Wednesday and grab a bagel to fuel you for finals!

Ace those exams and we’ll see you next semester for more art-filled events!

Good luck!
-FAS

Ink & Image Seeks Student Submissions

Calling all Art History and Urban Design majors, 

“Ink and Image,” the department’s journal of original undergraduate scholarship in art history and urban design, is currently looking for submissions for our 2016 publication. The submission can be a term paper or the product of an independent research project, so long as it is an original idea and research. Papers should be 10-20 pages long and the deadline for submissions will be February 15. Selected students will then undergo a series of edits with the student co-editors and Professor Krinsky, and their work will be published in the journal in the spring.

In addition, thesis writers are eligible to submit an abridged version of their final thesis or a portion of it.

 

Submissions and any questions should be sent to inkandimagenyu@gmail.com

 

Best of luck with final exams!

 

The editors of “Ink and Image”

Ritchie Markoe Scribner ’75 Lecture by Stephen Houston on Thursday, December 10

Professor Miriam Basilio to Speak at the Meadows Museum

http://www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org/symposia.htm

Friday, December 4, 2015, 9:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M.

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Alba: Lives and Afterlives of a Historic Collection

To coincide with the groundbreaking exhibition Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting (September 11, 2015–January 3, 2016), a public symposium at the Meadows Museum will bring together established and emerging scholars for discussion and debate on a selection of masterpieces from the collection of the Alba family.

The morning session will be devoted to three keynote lectures that will narrate a story of the life and afterlife of the Alba collection, and raise broader questions about parallel collections throughout Europe. The first lecture will examine the dispersal of the Alba collection in the nineteenth century, the second will investigate the political appropriation of the collection during the Spanish Civil War, and the third will address conservation issues pertaining to specific objects. The afternoon session will take place in the exhibition galleries where eight speakers will present “object biographies,” unfolding the stories of individual works on view in the exhibition. A break for lunch will follow the morning session, and the symposium will close with a reception for attendees.

FREE; no registration required. Space is limited and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 214.768.4677. Alba: Lives and Afterlives of a Historic Collection is co-organized by the Meadows Museum and The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and informal viewing of the exhibition Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting

Morning Session: Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium

9:30 – 9:40 a.m.
Opening Remarks

Mark Roglán (Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows Museum and Centennial Chair in the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU)
Richard Brettell (Director, Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, UTD)

9:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lectures

9:40 – 10:20 a.m.
Richard Brettell (O’Donnell Institute, UTD)
The Alba Collection Paris Sale: Spanish Art, Tapestries, and French Taste in the early Third Republic

10:25 – 11:05 a.m.
Miriam Basilio (Assoc. Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, New York University)
“Museums for the People”: The Alba Collection and Debates about Cultural Property during the Spanish Civil War

11:10 a.m. – 11:50 p.m.
Rafael Alonso (Conservator, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)
Preserving the Legacy of the House of Alba in the Twentieth Century

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Break for Lunch

Informal viewing of the exhibition Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting

Afternoon Session: Jake and Nancy Hamon Galleries

1:30 – 3:10 p.m.
Object Biographies, Part I

1:30 – 1:50 p.m.
Shira Lander (Professor of Practice & Director of Jewish Studies, SMU)
Rabbi Mosé Arrajel and School of Toledo, Alba Family Bible, 1430

1:55 – 2:15 p.m.
Lori Diel (Assoc. Professor and Coordinator of Art History, TCU)
Decree granting coat of arms to Martín Moctezuma, 1536

2:20 – 2:40 p.m.
Mark Rosen (Assoc. Professor of Aesthetic Studies, Edith O’Donnell Institute, UTD)
Fernão Vaz Dourado, Portulano, Atlas of the World, 1568

2:45 – 3:05 p.m.
Lisa Pon (Assoc. Professor of Art History, SMU)
Willem de Pannemaker, Mercury in Love with Herse, 1570

3:10 – 3:30 p.m.
Break and Informal Discussion

3:30 – 5:10 p.m.
Object Biographies, Part II

3:30 – 3:50 p.m.
Nicole Atzbach (Curator, Meadows Museum, SMU)
Andrea Vaccaro, Penitent Magdalene, c. 1650–60

3:55 – 4:15 p.m.
Amy Freund (Asst. Professor & The Kleinheinz Family Endowment for the Arts & Education Endowed Chair in Art History, SMU)
Louis Michel van Loo, The Children of the Second Duke of Berwick, c. 1715

4:20 – 4:40 p.m.
Xavier Salomon (Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, Frick Collection, New York)
Francisco de Goya, The Duchess of Alba in White, 1795

4:45 – 5:05 p.m.
Mark Roglán (Meadows Museum, SMU)
Josep María Sert, Victory Comes Slowly; Defeat of the Enemy; The Book of History; Mobilization, c. 1918

5:10 – 6:00 p.m.
Reception for symposium attendees at the Meadows Museum

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