Congratulations to Adjunct Professor Lynden Miller

Please join us in congratulating Lynden Miller on receiving this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award, presented annually to the most deserving adjunct instructors across all of CAS. Our department has been lucky to be home to two consecutive winners of this award, as Lynden joins Holly Haff (2023) in earning the well-deserved recognition.

Our URDS program has been very fortunate to have had Lynden as an adjunct faculty member for the past sixteen years. During this time, she has taught a number of popular Special Topics courses for us, with a focus on parks: most notably, The Role of Well-Designed Public Open Space in the City; Creating Successful and Sustainable Public Space; and Parks, Plants, and People. I hope that Lynden will continue teaching our students for many more years to come.

Lecture by Gregory Dietrich

https://greenwichvillagesocietyforhistoric.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP00000129RdYAI#

URDS Adjunct Professor Gregory Dietrich Consultant on Preservation Award

Last night the New York Landmarks Conservancy honored the former 75th Police Precinct Station with a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award. This eye-filling work, designed by George Ingram in 1892, evokes both a medieval fortress and a castle inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Today, it has a new life as a men’s homeless shelter and clinic. 

Gregory Dietrich Preservation Consulting is proud to have served as the
historic tax credit consultant on this award-winning project!

With Help from Professor Leila Amineddoleh, Looted Roman bust, bought from Texas secondhand store for $34.99, will be returned to Germany

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/04/roman-bust-germany-goodwill-store-texas-restitution

https://www.artandiplawfirm.com/voluntary-return-of-marble-bust-to-germany-provides-model-for-restitution-of-artifacts-looted-in-wartime/

Online Exhibit by DAH Adjunct, Blair Fowlkes Childs, “Photographs of Dura-Europos 1922-2022”

https://ism.yale.edu/events/photographs-dura-europos-1922-2022-and-onward

Leila Amineddoleh: Cultural Heritage, the Law, and Looting

Thursday, October 7 at 6:30 PM Via Zoom RSVP here to receive the link

For centuries, sought-after antiquities have been subject to high-profile ownership disputes. From the smuggling of religious artifacts out of the Holy Land to Hitler’s extensive looting of artistic property, cultural objects have been targeted by rapacious collectors and leaders. Whether ownership claims involve private parties or government entities, laws regulating the trade of art and antiquities have evolved over time, and they provide telling clues as to how we value art and cultural heritage.  Amineddoleh’s lecture will examine a number of antiquities disputes and will discuss legal topics related to the trade of artifacts. 

Leila Amineddoleh is founding partner at Amineddoleh and Associates.  She has successfully represented and advised the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Republic of Italy and various private individuals and governmental organizations against practices of looting, forgery and illicit sales of artworks.  Her publications can be found in multiple legal and cultural heritage journals, and she is adjunct professor at NYU and Fordham University.

Leila Amineddoleh has contributed a chapter to Provenance Research Today

This is a book about provenance (Professor Amineddoleh’s chapter focuses on the use of provenance in legal disputes).

News from DAH Adjunct Leila Amineddoleh

Professor Amineddoleh’s  law firm represented Greece in a litigation against Sotheby’s. They received the court’s ruling last week, and they won!

https://www.artandiplawfirm.com/litigation-update-amineddoleh-associates-secures-second-circuit-win-for-the-greek-ministry-of-culture-in-a-landmark-cultural-heritage-case/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/barnet-case-sothebys-1883349

Outstanding Teaching Award for Alexa Sue Amore!

 

Alexa Sue Amore (PhD Student, The Institute of Fine Arts) is a recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Alexa has served in the Department of Art History since she entered the PhD program at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts in fall 2018 first as a writing tutor, then as a course assistant for Medieval Art, and finally as a recitation leader/adjunct instructor for History of Western Art 1 (fall 2019 and spring 2020). In a statement submitted to the award selection committee, Alexa emphasized her commitment to teaching art history in view of current events concerning museums, archaeology, and politics, as well as the appropriation and citation of works of pre-modern art in a wide range of contemporary contexts ranging from popular media to propaganda. She also strives to be as transparent as possible with her students about her love of art history and of learning in general.

Alexa is thrilled to be recognized as an Outstanding Teacher by the College of Arts and Sciences and is especially grateful to her students!

Lecture by DAH Adjunct, Leila Amineddoleh, at the Frick Collection

https://mailchi.mp/frick/enews_feb_2020?e=78ebc38913

 

 

Lecture

Importance of Provenance in Legal Matters and Ownership Disputes
Tuesday, February 18
5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Join Leila A. Amineddoleh of Amineddoleh & Associates to learn about the importance of provenance research in art law.

This event is presented by the Frick Art Reference Library and is free with registration.