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Teach In featuring Jon Ritter

Roundtable Conversation: Who Was Baya? Outsider? Insider?

Roundtable Conversation:
Who Was Baya? Outsider? Insider?
Friday, March 2, 6:00 pm
La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews

This panel will consider the work of Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931–1998); Jean Dubuffet’s travels in Algeria and concomitant formulation of his definition of “art brut”; and the late Assia Djebar’s writing on Baya at the end of the Algerian War of Independence. Speakers includeNatasha Boas, Curator of Baya: Woman of Algiers; author Omar Berrada; Denis Hollier, Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU; and Kent Minturn, Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s La Maison Française and Grey Art Gallery.

Free of charge, no reservations, capacity limited. All programs are subject to change. Photo ID required for entrance to NYU buildings.

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Baya: Woman of Algiers, exhibition on view at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, NYC, January 9–March 31, 2018.

Also on view, in the Upper Level Gallery: The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

For more information on the exhibitions, please visit greyartgallery.nyu.edu

“Dirty Pictures for a Dangerous Goddess: The Turin Erotic Papyrus ” by Professor Ann Macy Roth

Gallery Conversation

Gallery Conversation
Thursday, March 1, 6:30–7:30 pm
Grey Art Gallery, NYU
100 Washington Square East

Eugene S. Flamm, M.D., rare-book collector and Jeffrey P. Bergstein Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center; and Anne Garner, Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, New York Academy of Medicine Library, will discuss images of the brain in the historic volumes in the exhibition, dating from 1523 to 1911.

Free of charge, no reservations. All programs are subject to change.

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal on view at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, NYC, January 9–March 31, 2018.

Also on view, in the Grey’s Lower Level Gallery: Baya: Woman of Algiers.

For more information on the exhibitions, please visit greyartgallery.nyu.edu

Department of Art History faculty honored by the University

Four professors in the Department of Art History were among the NYU faculty recognized at a reception hosted on February 21^st by President Andrew D. Hamilton and Provost Katherine E. Fleming for awards, prizes, special honors, or grants received in 2017:

**Dennis Geronimus, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, was awarded an Emily Harvey Fellowship from the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice

**Prita Meier, Assistant Professor of Art History, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

**Kenneth E. Silver, Professor of Art History, was named a Silver Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science

**Kathryn A. Smith, Professor of Art History, was elected a Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America, the largest organization in the world promoting excellence in the field of medieval studies

 

 

Panel Discussion: Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Practical Aesthetics in Diagnostic Imaging

Panel Discussion: Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Practical Aesthetics in Diagnostic Imaging Thursday, February 22, 7:00 pm Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place) Speakers will focus on the cross-fertilization of science and art in the form of CAT scans, MRIs, and 3-D imaging, and in their re-purposing by artists. Moderated by Tom Drysdale, Associate Professor, with speakers Caitlin Berrigan,  Associate Arts Professor, both of Photography & Imaging (TSOA); John G. Golfinos, Chair of Neurosurgery, and Timothy Shepherd, Diagnostic Radiologist, both of NYU Langone Medical Center. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Photography & Imaging (TSOA) and Grey Art Gallery. Free of charge, no reservations, capacity limited. All programs are subject to change. Photo ID required for entrance to NYU buildings. Offered in conjunction with the exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, on view at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, NYC, January 9–March 31, 2018. Also on view, in the Grey’s Lower Level Gallery: Baya: Woman of Algiers. For more information on the exhibitions, please visit greyartgallery.nyu.edu

Professor Meredith Martin’s Journal18 receives an ARIAH Digital Development Award!

Journal18  is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the art and culture of the long eighteenth century from around the globe. Inspired by the rich and exciting state of the field of eighteenth-century art history, Journal18  has been founded as a scholarly forum to support and extend that richness. Taking form as a digital publication, Journal18  embraces the accessibility and flexibility of its format, seeking the widest possible engagement with the latest research in the field.

Journal18  will be the first journal dedicated to the field of eighteenth-century art history, and one of the few online and fully open access journals for the discipline of art history more broadly. Appearing twice a year, Journal18  will publish thematic issues of articles investigating all aspects of eighteenth-century visual and material culture. Throughout the year, Journal18  will also offer a forum for intellectual exchange in Notes & Queries: a space for short notes, reviews, archival discoveries, or scholarly musings.

Journal18  is co-edited by eighteenth-century art historians based in New York, London and Bern, and is advised and supported by a specialist international advisory board of academics and museum curators. The journal is affiliated with HECAA, the professional association for Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture. For regular updates, find us on Twitter and Facebook.

Journal18 is the recipient of an ARIAH Digital Development Award for Art History Publishing (2017).

Meet our Spring 2018 Writing Tutors!

Although the Arts and Science College Learning Center has offered subject-specific assistance in the past and continues to do so in biology, chemistry, math, languages and the like, in recent years our own Department has taken the lead in providing art history-specific tutoring to its undergraduates. The program kicked off in October 2008 and, according to our students’ feedback, has proven to be a great success.

A tutor is available in the Department of Art History on Mondays through Fridays from 12.30 to 2pm. Students may see them on a walk-in basis.

Rie Ong is a first year MA student at the Institute of Fine Arts specializing in pre-modern Asian art, with a focus on the arts of China and Southeast Asia. She graduated from a B.A. in History (and a minor in Art History) from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2016. Besides pre-modern Asian art, she is also interested in global contemporary art and has conducted several research projects on the history of exhibitions. Her current research interests are centered on understanding the relationships between Chinese painting and its modes of display in the context of the decorative arts, as well as theories of perception of art. Rie will be available on Mondays and Fridays.

Geoff Tortora completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Rhode Island in 2012, where he focused primarily on 20th century German history, particularly that of the wartime and postwar periods. He completed a creative writing MA at NYU Gallatin in 2014, the same year he joined the Art History Department as a full-time employee. Though always a fixture in the front office, you will find Geoff happily available to assist with your writing on Wednesdays.

Fosca Maddaloni is a second-year MA student at the Institute of Fine Arts specializing in Chinese Art History. Prior to her studying at the Institute, she received her MA in East Asian Studies from Sapienza University of Rome. While her primary focus lies on ceramics of the Song period (960-1279), her research interests include networks of exchange, materiality and cross-cultural encounters. Fosca will be available on Tuesdays and Thursdays.