Professor Miriam Basilio to Lecture in Santiago de Compostela

Announcing a lecture in Santiago de Compostela next Friday, June 29, 7PM at Galeria TRINTA on the occasion of Michelle Vaughan’s exhibition “Generations”.  Luis Antonio Segura Iglesias, Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Professor of the Department of Plant Physiology of the USC, will introduce the lecture by Professor Miriam Basilio of New York University’s Dept. of Art History and Program in Museum Studies: “Generations: Genealogies of Art and Power” which will be followed by a conversation with the artist.

“Generations” will be on view at Galeria TRINTA through September 15, and works will also be shown at the Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology, University of Santiago de Compostela.

 

Galeria TRINTA web is www.trinta.net

“Generaciones” es un proyecto de ocho años de duración que comenzó tras el descubrimiento de unas investigaciones genéticas en los Habsburgo españoles en un momento en el que yo estaba estudiando los retratos cortesanos de Diego Velázquez. Ello supuso una forma nueva y emocionante de ver estas obras maestras y pasé varios años reinterpretando el arte y la ciencia en mi propio trabajo. He analizado las similitudes de los retratos de los Habsburgo y los Borbones a lo largo de dos siglos que se repiten de una generación a otra. En algunos casos, maridos y esposas son muy parecidos. Estas semejanzas aparecen en mi trabajo, donde he repetido y modificado las imágenes mediante el grabado digital, el vídeo (GIFT), el dibujo y la creación de patrones de símbolos. Una serie de trabajos sirve de base a la siguiente y así los retratos se convierten en copias de copias. Los genetistas españoles continúan publicando nuevas investigaciones sobre los Habsburgo en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. El verano pasado fui invitada a su laboratorio para interpretar sus últimos descubrimientos. El resultado son cuatro retratos completamente nuevos realizados al pastel sobre papel que se han incluido en esta exposición. La investigación científica sobre los Habsburgo ha dado a los historiadores del arte y a los artistas una nueva perspectiva a la hora de examinar las increíbles obras maestras que cuelgan hoy en el Prado. “Generations” is an eight year long project which began after discovering genetic research into the Spanish Habsburgs during a time I was also examining the court portraits of Diego Velázquez. This was an exciting and new way to look at these masterful artworks, and I spent several years reinterpreting the art and science into my own work. I have looked at the similarities across two centuries of Habsburg and Bourbon portraits, which repeat from one generation after the next. In some cases, husbands and wives look very similar. These resemblances show up in my work, where I have repeated and morphed the images by using digital printmaking, GIFs, drawings and pattern making. One series of work builds on to the next, where portraits become copies of copies. Spanish geneticists continue to publish new research into the Habsburgs at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Last summer I was invited to their lab to interpret their latest research. The results are four brand new portraits which have been drawn with pastel on paper, and are included in this exhibition. Scientific research about the Habsburgs has given art historians and artists a fresh perspective on examining the incredible masterpieces which hang in the Prado today.

Professor Prita Meier co-curates exhibition at The National Museum of African Art

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/10/614361414/the-surprising-history-of-old-timey-swahili-postcards

Ink and Image turns 10!

Kathryn Moreno
Between Her Hands
December 16th, 2017
Oil paint on recycled board; digital photography 
Copyright: © 2018 Kathryn Moreno 

We are so pleased and proud to announce that Ink and Image, New York University’s journal of undergraduate research in the history of art, architecture, and urban design, published its tenth issue at the end of this academic year!

The articles published in each issue of Ink and Image develop out of term papers and other research conducted by students in advanced Art History and Urban Design & Architecture Studies courses, independent studies, and senior honors theses.  The journal had four wonderful student editors for the 2017-18 academic year.  Grace Lubin (Art History/Politics ’18) and Sabrina Santos (Urban Design & Architecture Studies/Environmental Studies; Web Programming and Applications minor ’18), both of whom edited the journal last year, served as Editors-in-Chief this year.  Grace and Sabrina were joined by Co-Editors Amanda Betancourt (Art History/French ’18) and Lane Bhutani (Gallatin; Italian minor ’19).  As in so many years past, Professor Carol Krinsky provided guidance and assistance as the journal’s faculty advisor and editor.  Kathryn Elizabeth Moreno (M.A. Steinhardt, Art Therapy ’18) designed the striking cover for the tenth issue.

Four articles, all by current NYU undergraduates or recent graduates, appear in the tenth issue.  The authors and their essays are as follows:

Abbe Klein (Art History; German minor ’18), “Bruno Taut’s Waldsiedlung:  Realizing a Social Utopia in Weimar Berlin.”

Xiaolu (Joy) Wu (Art History ’20), “Liu Xaiodong:  A Native Chinese Artist.”

Tony Trianzi Cui (Art History ’19), “Remarkable Foreigners:  A Preliminary Study of Kunlun Slaves in Early Tang Art.”

Luming Guan (Art History ’18), “Modern Andachtsbild:  Modernism and Historicism in Twentieth-century German Art.”

Ink and Image was founded in 2008-09 by Malcolm St. Clair (Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’09) and Alexis Wang (Art History ’09) with the goal of expanding the community of scholars at NYU by publishing original undergraduate research in the history and theory of art and architecture.  We’re delighted to give shout-outs to those two stellar alumni and their equally stellar associate editor, Adrian Marshall (Art History ’10), on the occasion of the publication of the journal’s tenth issue.  The journal continues to benefit from the support of the CAS dean and administration and the Department of Art History.  You may read about previous issues of the journal in our earlier posts.

Ink and Image is distributed to the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Getty Research Institute, as well as Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and Technical University in Dresden, Germany.

Hearty congratulations to the authors and editors on their splendid achievements. Please stop by the Department of Art History and pick up a copy of Ink and Image 10.

ROBERTO JUAREZ Processing: Paintings & Prints 2008 – 2018, Guest Curated by Edward Sullivan, at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art

https://bmoca.org/exhibitions/2018/summer/roberto-juarez-processing