https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444824/fishko-files
Tomorrow, May 1st, marks the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Empire State Building. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, the building’s rise to its 102-story height is only one of the ways it towered over all the rest. More, in this episode of Fishko Files.
| Dear students, Join the Fine Arts Society via Zoom on Thursday, May 6 at 7:00 PM to hear from a panel of esteemed professionals about their experiences navigating career pathways in the art world. Panelists are: Stephan Wolohojian – Curator, European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum Michele Marincola – Professor of Conservation, The Institute of Fine Arts David Pollack – Senior Vice President, Sotheby’s Randy Schoenberg – Attorney specializing in the recovery of looted or stolen artworks ***Via Zoom: register here*** |
Pepe Karmel to moderate a webinar tonight, called “From Picasso to Chagall: The Art of Lithography with Eric Mourlot,” at 6:30 pm, presented on Zoom by the Alliance Française, NY.
And here’s a direct Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98075658810
| PASOLINI SYMPOSIUM to discuss the new book by NYU Professor Ara Merjian “Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism” |
| Ara Merjian will discuss his book with: Rossella Catanese, NYU Florence Stefano Chiodi, Università Roma Tre Luca Peretti, University of Warwick Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, UCLA Moderator: Larry Wolff, NYU Florence |
| Monday, MAY 3, 2021, Webinar 6.30 PM CET (12.30 EST) |
Professor Kathryn A. Smith has been awarded a Senior Fellowship by Yale University’s Paul Mellon Centre Studies in British Art.
The fellowship will support the advanced research and writing of her current book project, Scripture Transformed in Late Medieval England: The Religious, Artistic, and Social Worlds of the Welles-Ros Bible. Professor Smith’s book will be the first long-form art historical study of Paris, BnF MS français 1, the most complete surviving witness and sole illuminated copy of the Anglo-Norman Bible, the earliest full prose vernacular Bible from England.
Professor Smith’s project also will be supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, announced late last year.
Announcement from Professor Sullivan:
April 21, 2021
TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE DAH COMMUNITY
I had the privilege of being Chair of the Promotion Committee for Professor Dennis Geronimus. The committee’s work has very happily resulted in his being named to the rank of FULL PROFESSOR as of today’s memo from Provost Katherine Fleming. We are all extremely pleased and proud of Dennis. As you all know, Dennis Geronimus is one of the leading scholars in the world of the art of the Italian Renaissance. Specializing in artists from Central Italy, he has contributed ground-breaking research on such figures as Piero di Cosimo, Bronzino, Pontormo and Leonardo da Vinci, among many others. He is also a scholar of modern art, successfully blending in his books and essays, deep knowledge of the historical phases of European art history with the achievements of modern and contemporary figures from both sides of the Atlantic. Dennis has served multiple functions as scholar in residence in prestigious venues in the U.S. and Europe, organizer of path-breaking conferences and commentator on the developments in the art world for audiences both general scholarly. As an administrator Dennis has taken the lead in so many initiatives that have strengthened the position of the field of art history at New York University and beyond. He is widely recognized (and admired) for his humane, just and intelligent leadership of the Department of Art History, serving as Chair for an extended period of time. As a teacher and mentor he is virtually without parallel; his legions of students have gone out into the worlds of academe, commerce and non-profit, owing so much of their success to the training they received from Dennis. Everyone connected to the DAH is grateful for the kindness and intelligence of Dennis as a colleague, professor, friend and fellow scholar. This promotion is so richly deserved.
Edward J. Sullivan
Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art
Department of Art History and Institute of Fine Arts
We’re delighted that so many alumni responded to our call for news during this challenging time. Hearty congratulations on all of your achievements and activities. We hope that all of our alumni and your loved ones are well and staying safe; and we hope to hear from more of you for our next “Alumni News” round-up, which we’ll post sometime in fall, 2021. Great thanks go to departmental faculty Mosette Broderick, Dennis Geronimus, Carol Krinsky, and Prita Meier and to the redoubtable Geoff Tortora, our Undergraduate Student Assistant, for their contributions to this post.
Sara J. Oshinsky (B.A. Art History ’96; M.A. History of Decorative Arts and Design, Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons ’05) was invited to participate in The Preservation Society of Newport County/Newport Mansion’s upcoming online lecture series, “Creativity from Crisis: Design in Times of Need.” Sara will be presenting on April 22 at 1:00 PM on “Disease & Décor: How Epidemics Shaped the Look of the Victorian Middle-Class Bedroom.”
Sara Allain-Botsford (B.A. Art History ’09) sends this news: “I’m currently working as an intern at Louvre Abu Dhabi in the Research Department while finishing the Master’s in History of Art and Museum Studies at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi. I am also a certified yoga instructor. During the summer months I started teaching yoga online with an online studio, the Mindful Life Practice Community.”
Ksenia Nouril (B.A. Art History ’09; Ph.D. Rutgers University ’18), who is Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center in Philadelphia,was one of ten early-career curators from the United States, Japan, and Germany named a Mentee for 2020 by The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC).
Ashley Lehrer (B.A. Art History/B.F.A. Experimental Theater, Tisch School of the Arts ’11) will complete her Masters of Science in Parson’s Design and Urban Ecologies program in May. She will continue her thesis work at her partner organization, Universe City NYC, as the Strategic Design and Project Manager. There, Ashley is helping to build a regenerative food economy in East New York, Brooklyn.
Alicia Caticha (B.A. Art History ’12; M.A. Art and Architectural History, University of Virginia ’15; Ph.D. Art and Architectural History, University of Virginia ’20) began a position as Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University in September, 2020. As her bio notes, Alicia specializes in “eighteenth-century sculpture and decorative arts, “with a particular focus on the intersection between Enlightenment aesthetic theory and artisanal production outside of the academic sphere.” Her book project, derived from her doctoral dissertation and tentatively titled “Sculpting Whiteness: Marble, Porcelain, and Sugar in Eighteenth-Century Paris,” focuses on the career of the eighteenth-century French sculptor Étienne-Maurice Falconet and “the replications and reverberations of his work in marble, porcelain, and sugar.”
Kaylee Alexander (B.A. Art History, ‘13; M.A. History of Art & Architecture ’15, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) recently completed her Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture at Duke University, having successfully defended her dissertation, “In Perpetuity: Funerary Monuments, Consumerism and Social Reform in Paris, 1804–1924,” in February, 2021. She is now working on revising the dissertation for publication. In 2020, Kaylee published an article related to her dissertation in Early Popular Visual Culture and, in March, 2021, she presented some of her work at the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. For the 2020-21 academic year Kaylee is working as the Eleonore Jantz Reference Intern at Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She additionally serves as an at-large board member for the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, spearheading their new Emerging Scholars Working Group, and as an editorial board member for the Collective for Radical Death Studies. Kaylee co-chaired a panel at the CAA annual conference earlier this year on “Death in Visual Culture, Visual Cultures of Death (1800-present).” More information about Kaylee’s work can be found on her website.
Marlee Miller (B.A. Classics/Art History ’13), currently a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, was awarded the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2021-2022 Marica and Jan Vilcek Fellowship. Marlee will use her fellowship award to examine the artistic representation of gladiatorial training and its relationship to the architecture of the gladiatorial training school, emphasizing function and social hierarchy.
Karen Zabarsky (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’13) published an article in February 2021 titled “Giving citizens a (virtual) voice: How NYC can strengthen public input post-pandemic.”
Kola Ofoman (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’16) completed her Master in Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture. Since 2019 she has been an Architectural Professional at Skidmore Owings & Merrill in New York.
Emma Holter (B.A. Art History ’17) recently began a position as a research assistant at Sotheby’s in the Impressionist and Modern Art Department. “I’m working closely with the two co-Heads of the Department in organizing the evening and day sales,” Emma reports. “On my first day, I was introduced to Amy Cappelazzo (B.A. Art History ’89) who I was thrilled to learn is a fellow NYU DAH alumna!” Previously Emma was Curatorial Assistant to the Chief Curator at the Frick Collection, and before that, Administrative Assistant in the Office of the Chief Curator at the Frick. This coming fall Emma will begin the Masters program at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and will pursue their Renaissance option.
Sarah Mackay (B.A. Art History ’17) will begin the Masters program at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London this coming fall, and will pursue their Renaissance option.
Xiaoli Shirley Pan (B.A. Art History ’17) completed the concentrated Masters program in Religion and the Arts (visual arts) in Yale University’s Divinity School last year. In fall, 2020 she began the Ph.D. program in Art History at Case Western Reserve University, where she is studying medieval art with Elina Gertsman. As her bio states, Shirley is interested in “late medieval sculpture and its relationship to the pictorial arts during the time when oil painting began to gain supremacy over the plastic arts.”
Rebekah Coffman’s (M.A. Historical and Sustainable Architecture ’18) recent essay, “The Sacred Shift: Expanding Heritage Narratives through Adaptive Reuse,” earned a commendation from The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB). It was an entry for the Society’s James Morris Prize, “Awarded to the best essay submitted in competition that uses postcolonial critical approaches to architecture and the British Empire, aimed at students, academics and professionals in architectural history, heritage and conservation practice.”
Luming Guan (B.A. Art History ’18) will complete the M.A. program in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University this spring. She is writing a Masters thesis on the Late Gothic vaults in the parish church in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Luming has been accepted to the Ph.D. program in History of Art at the University of Cambridge, where she will study Northern Renaissance art and write a doctoral thesis provisionally titled “Artists as Tricksters: Jokes and Humor in the Art of Hans Baldung and Urs Graf” under the supervision of Alexander Marr. Luming will begin her studies in the U.K. in Michaelmas Term 2021 (begins 5 October 2021).
Kevin Tang (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’18) was accepted to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He will begin the M.S. program in Architecture and Urban Design this coming fall.
Sabina Vitale (B.A. Art History ’19) held an internship with the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation internship program in Venice in November and December. Sabina writes, “Despite the museum being closed, it was a wonderful experience, as I got to spend more intimate time with the collection and archives and enjoy an empty Venice.” Now she is back in the U.S. and, while job-hunting, she is contributing arts and culture coverage to an online-only publication called Air Mail. Here is Sabina’s piece on the exhibition “Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint,” scheduled to open on May 17th at The British Museum. Sabina studied the cult of Thomas Becket, including the Becket miracle windows in Canterbury Cathedral, in Professor Smith’s “Gothic Art in Northern Europe” course in spring, 2019.
Talia Abrahams (B.A. Art History ’20) was accepted to the Masters program in the History of Art at Williams College. She will begin her studies this coming fall. Take the opportunity to read Talia’s recent article, “Voices of a Kong Power Object,” published in issue 12 of the online journal Witty Partition.
Max Chavez (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’20) has been named the first Director of Research and Special Projects at Preservation Chicago, an organization dedicated to “protect[ing] and revitaliz[ing] Chicago’s irreplaceable architecture, neighborhoods and urban green spaces.”
Danielle Elbaum (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’20) was accepted to NYU’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), and will begin the Masters program in Real Estate this fall.
Shawn C. Simmons (B.A. Art History; Urban Design and Architecture Studies minor ’20) will begin the Masters program in Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder this coming fall. While pursuing his studies Shawn will have the opportunity to TA for an undergraduate survey course.
The New York Workshop of Etruscan Art is an initiative promoted jointly by Columbia University and New York University. The ambition of the workshop is to advance our understanding of the artistic and visual dimensions of pre-Roman Italy by promoting discussion and sustained reflection on their role within the field of Etruscan studies, but it does not prescribe a specific intellectual agenda. This year, the workshop will: advance discussion of buildings, their roofs and decoration and the avenues they provide to investigate production processes, networks of interaction and creation, the sacred image and the porousness of Italic arts; reflect on the impact of 3D-modeling and reconstructions on our understanding of Etruscan aesthetics; present new findings from the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum; present unpublished bronze figurines of subordinate characters; explore the relation with comedy of the imagery of Praenestine cistae. The keynote talk will investigate the ideological history of the discipline of Etruscology vis-à-vis modern European perceptions of the past.
For details and to register: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/calendar/new-york-workshop-of-etruscan-art.html
| Teaching the “Long” 18th Century – Mellon Roundtable | Fri., Apr. 23 @ 9am (EDT) |
| Organized by Sarah Betzer, University of Virginia, and Dipti Khera, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Friday April 23, 2021, 9:00 am – 11:00 am (EDT) Register Here Roundtable featuring:Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Princeton UniversityNebahat Avcıoğlu, Hunter College, City University of New YorkEmma Barker, The Open University, LondonAnanda Cohen-Aponte, Cornell UniversityPrita Meier, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts, New York UniversityNancy Um, Binghamton University, State University of New YorkStephen Whiteman, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London This roundtable brings together scholars from a broad array of geographical foci and institutional perspectives who have been at the forefront of efforts to rethink approaches to thinking, researching, and, crucially, teaching the art and material culture of an interconnected “long” eighteenth century. Convened in conjunction with a session at the 2021 College Art Association conference, the roundtable will appear in distilled form in a dedicated issue of Journal18, forthcoming in Fall 2021. Two key aims animate the roundtable and its afterlife in Journal18: 1) to reflect upon teaching the “long” eighteenth century, particularly in light of renewed debates on the reparation of objects, revision of histories, and inclusion of colonized and enslaved voices in museums, plantation sites, and public squares; and 2) to compile a list of resources and open-access supporting materials that are pragmatically useful for colleagues engaged in teaching the “long” and “broad” eighteenth century. Register Here |
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