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Visual Culture ColloquiumTuesday, September 14, 2021 at 4:45pmG22 Goldwin Smith Hall Min Ma Naing Beyond Burmese Esthetics “I don’t find Burmese esthetics in your work.” This is a critique that Min Ma Naing, a photographer from Myanmar, has often received from international curators and editors. Living through dictatorships,...
Anissa Rahadiningtyas, PhD '21, has accepted a position as Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Aesthetics in Southeast Asia at the National Gallery of Singapore.The National Gallery of Singapore
Sara Garzon to speak at online event for Independent Curators International.Shadows Travel at the Speed of Light: Notes on Latin American FuturityThursday, August 12, 20216pm EDTICI OnlineRegister for the event here.In the face of multiple climatic, social, and health emergencies, the future has become one of the most contested sites of...
Congratulations to Yuhua Ding, PhD '19, for her recent placement as the Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellowship in East Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museum.The Curatorial Fellowship Program at the Harvard Art Museums is designed to broaden the experience of scholars embarking on professional careers in art history who are considering...
Announcing the B-Examfor Anissa RahadiningtyasHistory of Art and Archaeology, and Visual Studies Dissertation Title:Islam and Art in the Makings of the Modern in IndonesiaJuly 5, 20211pmCommittee:Kaja McGowan, ChairIftikhar Dadi, MemberEric Tagliacozzo, MemberChiara Formichi, Member
Announcing the B-ExamforAsli MenevseHistory of Art and Archaeology, and Visual StudiesDissertation Title:Monuments on Paper: Radical French Printmakers and the Critique of Authority (1871-1914)July 6, 2021
Congratulations to the History of Art and Visual Studies class of 2021! An incredible group undeterred by the challenges of their final semesters. We wish you all the very best!December '20 Phd Students:Elizabeth Emrich-RougéBetty HensellekKaja Tally-SchumacherDec. '20 & May '21 Undergraduate History of Art Majors:Rebecca Allen...
Date Time: May 24, 2021 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Sovereignty, Nationhood & North American Indigenous Art Link to the calendar listing of Sovereignty, Nationhood & North American Indigenous Art on May 25The canon of American art often erases the histories of Indigenous peoples of North America. So how do we shift...
The Society for French Historical Studies is very pleased to announce the Research Travel Award, jointly conferred by the Western Society for French History and the SFHS, the Farrar Memorial Awards, and the Institut Français d’Amérique Fund Research Fellowships for 2021. Research Travel Award Kelly Presutti, Cornell University, “...
The History of Art and Visual Studies Department is proud to announce Kaja Tally-Schumacher has been selected as a Humanities Scholars Program Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year.Society for the Humanities announcement page2021-22 Focal Theme: AfterlivesThe Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks...
PhD candidate Sara Garzon will speak at the Metropolitan Museum’s Virtual Spring Fellows Colloquium – Economies of Vision: Art Labor, Art Markets, and Cultural Production after 1940. Garzon, a Met Fellow, will present on her research, The Counter-Baroque: Transhistorical Expressions in Contemporary Latin American Art. Moderated by Brinda Kumar,...
The Findley History of Art Lecture Series presents:Dr. Patricia Norby (Purépecha)Indigenous Interventions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Water, Bones, and BombsTuesday, April 27, 2021 at 4:30pm Virtual Event Register in advance for this meeting:In recent years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) has committed to expanding its...
Claudia Pederson's, PhD '12, book Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media was recently published.John Corso's, PhD '08, Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft was just released in paper back.Soraya Murray, PhD '07, published an issue on gaming Art Journal, Volume 79, Issue 2 (2020).
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 4:30pm Register in advance for this meeting:Charlene Villaseñor Black is Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Associate Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center, editor of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and founding...
In Curatorial Practicum, ARTH 4110/ 6010, students work with Professor Samuels and with Curator, Nancy Green to create an exhibition, The Power of Portrayal: Envisioning Women's Representation.H.F.Johnson Museum LinkEnvisioning Women's Representation Exhibition LinkIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment allowing women...
Rayna Klugherz, History of Art Major '23, presented Decolonial Online StrategiesSUNY New Paltz Symposium site This paper demonstrates how a digital online resource transcends the geographical and temporal limits of an art museum, thereby reaching a larger audience and ensuring accessibility and visibility. Recognizing that the “digital...
X Zhu-Nowell: Myths of the Transaction (feat. Kan Xuan)This Visual Culture Colloquium (VCC) lecture is May 4, 2021 at 4:30 pm via Zoom.Register in advance for this meetingThis lecture revisits the notorious artist-instigated exhibition Art for Sale (1999), which partially operated as a fully functioning 'art supermarket' inside a large...
Rosalia Engchuan will present a Visual Culture ColloquiumTuesday March 30, 4:30pmRegister here Cinematic Epistemologies from Within Problem Clusters Of Modernity (Commonly Referred To As Climate Change)What are de-colonial strategies of visualizing, representing and acting on ecological crises, their causes, histories, and effects?...
March Meeting is Sharjah Art Foundation's annual gathering of curators, artists, art historians and critics to explore vital issues in contemporary art. Featuring over 50 speakers and participants, MM 2021 examines the history of the Sharjah Biennial, its impact on the contemporary art scene regionally and globally, and the future of the biennial...
PhD candidate Sadia Shirazi will present in two events: a panel on Global Modernism/New Scholarship, and a paper titled “Against Art History.” March Meeting is Sharjah Art Foundation's annual gathering of curators, artists, art historians and critics to explore vital issues in contemporary art. Featuring over 50 speakers and participants, MM 2021...
Lara Fresko Madra, History of Art PhD candidate, will participate in The Institute of Fine Arts and The Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art on April 16, 2021, from 3-5 pm via Zoom. Her talk, “Aftermaths of Forced Monolingualism in the Works of Aydan Murtezaoğlu and Dilek Winchester” will take place at the beginning of the session. ...
The Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies presents a Visual Culture Colloquium (VCC) talk with Artist Dionne Lee:Surface Tension3.23.21, 4:30pmPlease register for this Zoom event hereDionne Lee works in photography, collage, and video to explore ideas of power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American...
Lauren van Haaften-Schick, History of Art PhD candidate, and member of the CAA Committee on Intellectual Property, is participating in CAA’s 2021 virtual conference by co-leading the Committee’s Dialogue & Drop-In Session “Exploring IP considerations through the CAA 2021 Presenter Agreement.”This session will use the College Art Association...
Jolene Rickard, History of Art Associate Professor, presented at CAA’s 2021 virtual conference with her talk, titled: “Ecofeminism is Ancient in the Americas.” The panel also included, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Pratt Institute – Edging Closer: Beyond the Colonial Anthropocene and Cecilia Vicuña (closing keynote), Independent Artist – An Ancient...
Professor Salah M. Hassan Named 2021 College Art Association Distinguished Scholar The College Art Association (CAA) will honor Professor Salah M. Hassan at the Distinguished Scholar session at the 109th CAA Annual Conference. The session will highlight his career and provide an opportunity for dialogue between and among colleagues. The panel...