New DAH Staff Member!

Please join us in welcoming Akeem Flavors, our new Visual Resources Administrator, to the DAH.

Prior to joining the DAH, Akeem worked at Duke Energy Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina from 2015-2021. He managed the corporate art, archival, and digital asset collections. During his time there he completed an archival practicum at Delta Airlines as part of the Georgia Archives Institute program, became a Certified Archivist (C.A.) and earned a certificate in full-stack web development from the University of North Carolina Charlotte.

Akeem’s interest in archives and collections management began during his graduate study at the University of Arizona, where he studied colonial Latin American art and the history of photography. During his time there he was also a curatorial assistant at the Tucson Museum of Art and held various support roles at the University of Arizona School of Art.

Akeem has a B.A. in Art History and Creative Photography from the University of Florida and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Arizona. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and miniature dachshund, Milo.

Ink & Image 13 has been published!

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Ink & Image, New York University’s journal of original undergraduate research from the Department of Art History released its 13^th edition this past May. The journal publishes research in the history of art, architecture, and urban design. Typically academic journals do not support undergraduate discourse from joining scholarly debate, but at Ink & Image we strive to lift and enhance the voices of capable students.

The journal’s editors for the 2020-2021 academic year were Anna Leckie (Art History; English Literature minor ’21), Niall Lowrie (Art History; Studio Art minor ’22), Ann Lukyanova (Art History; Business Studies minor ’21), Marie Normand (Art History; Chemistry and Studio Art minors ’21), Clara Reed (Art History/ Photography ’21), and Sang “Sunnie” Zhang (Art History/ Psychology ’21). Professor Carol Krinsky provided invaluable advice as both faculty advisor and editor. This year we strived to publish both physical and digital formats, which you may read on our website.

Five exceptional articles by NYU undergraduates appear in the thirteenth issue. The authors and their essays are as follows:

Emilie Meyer, “Baubo: Friend or Foe?” 

Adriana Carmela van Manen, “ ‘Let us note how great this thirst was’: Christ in the Winepress and Viticulture in Northern Europe”

Brock Riggins, “What Stares Back: Ruin and ‘Animal’ Encounter through Derrida”

Sasha Carnes, “Progressive Deaccessioning: A Step Towards Museum Parity”

Zoe Shields, “The Artist and Art Institution in the Digital Age”

This upcoming academic year the Ink & Image team will be headed by co-Editor-in-Chiefs Niall Lowrie (Art History; Studio Art minor ’22) and Emilie Meyer (Gallatin ’22). They will be joined by Editors Hannah Javens (Gallatin ’22) and Ainsley Dean (Urban Design and Architecture; Sociology and Italian minor ’24), Design Editors Abigayl Medina (Urban Design and Architecture ’23) and Elizabeth Baltusnik (Urban Design and Architecture and Spanish ’24), and Social Chair Caroline Cook (Art History; Hebrew & Judaic Studies and History ’23) . 

Ink & Image was founded in 2008-09 by department alumni Malcolm St. Clair (Urban Design & 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. College of Arts & Science Dean Matthew Santirocco and Dean Sally Sanderlin provided crucial support toward the launch of Ink & Image; the journal enjoys the sustained 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 & Image is collected by NYPL, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Library of Congress. It is also distributed to a myriad of academic centers, including the Getty Research Institute, the Technical University in Dresden, Germany, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France.

Hearty congratulations to the authors and editors on their splendid achievements. Please take the opportunity to read Ink & Image 13.