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Professor Iftikhar Dadi is the recipient and Principal Investigator of a $238,000 grant from the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative. This grant supports a series of research seminars titled Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Dadi He also serves as an advisor to Asia Art Archive.Cornell has...
Thursday October 10, 2019, 4:30 pmGoldwin Smith Hall G22Reception to follow in the History of Art Gallery Free and Open to the PublicPlease contact slb343@cornell.edu or vm54@cornell.edu for accommodations Title: “The gift of screws”: material un-making in the Middle AgesMuch recent work on materials and “materiality” in the Middle...
Keywords for Philippine Cinema’s Archival AfterlivesBliss Cua Lim, University of California, Irvine Goldwin Smith Hall, G22 4:30 pm, reception to follow in History of Art Gallery The contours of Philippine cinema’s archival crises are alarming: of over 350 films produced before the outbreak of World War II, only five Filipino films from...
Performing Angkor: Dance, Silk, and Stone:Cornell in Cambodia January 1–18, 2019 Kaja McGowan, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, & Hannah Phan, Senior lecturer of Khmer Cornell University’s ongoing collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) continues to flourish and bear fruit much like the gestural...
PhD students in History of Art often spend their summers doing some exciting things. Here are a few from 2019: Lauren van Haaften-Schick is an artist mentor and seminar leader at the SOMA Summer residency program in Mexico City. On August 14 and 16 she will also present a two-part public seminar on her research, titled "Conceptual Art Against...
Finley's Committed to Memory was mentioned in the Boston Review in a review of Matthew Fox-Amato’s new book Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America.For more information on Professor Finley's book launch at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco please visit the below link....
Professor Cheryl Finley's Committed to Memory won the Horowitz Book Prize for the best book published in 2018 on the decorative arts, design history and material culture of the Americas from Bard Graduate Center.For more information https://www.bgc.bard.edu/research-forum/projects/11/book-prize-material-culture-of
Professor Cynthia Robinson celebrates the launch of, El palacio nazarí de Daralhorra, a new book she co-edited and contributed to.
Professor Jolene RIckard was chosen as one of the winners of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly's Faculty Teaching, Advising, and Mentorship Award. This award recognizes outstanding faculty who excel in their teaching, mentorship, and advising of graduate and professional students. Nomination letters written by her students clearly...
History of Art and Visual StudiesCongratulations 2019 Graduates:Majors:Alessandra Clare BaslerJulia CurleyGrace GoldsmithGabrielle LeungGeorgia SeehausNina SimpkinsRyan John Francis StommelJinfang ZhuHistory of Art Minors:Katherine Jung ArmourRaymond BallyAmanda DermanChristian HighamFrancesca LaPastaSabrina Rose...
COMMITTED TO MEMORYTHE ART OF THE SLAVE SHIP ICON | by Dr Cheryl FinleyIn Conversation: Dr Cheryl Finley & Dr Nicola Cloete (HoD Art History, Wits)With introductions by Prof Anthony Bogueslink to articleFriday 10 May 201918:00 for 18:30 | Click HERE to RSVPThe ROVING BANTU KITCHEN125 Caroline Street, Brixtonwww.rovingbantu.co.za ...
Visual Culture Colloquium - VCCAsli Menevse"(Un)Masking Authority" Monumentality in French Radical Prints (1871-1914)"May 7th 2019, 4:30, History of Art GalleryReception to follow
Professor Ananda Cohen-Aponte is the 2019 Recipient of the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising. "Established in 1992, the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Endowment for Academic Advising enables the College of Arts & Sciences to honor undergraduate advisers who make a difference in the lives of their Cornell students. The...
ARTH 4354/6354 Byzantine Archaeology (ARKEO 4254/6254, CLASS 6754, NES 4354/6354)FALL 2019B. AndersonM 7:30pm – 9:25pm A seminar on the archaeology of the Byzantine Empire, from the late Roman through to the early modern periods. Topics to be covered include: long-term changes in settlement patterns and urban...
ARTH 4101/ 6101 Proseminar: Introduction to Methods (VISST 4101)FALL 2019B. AndersonW 2:30 – 4:25 pm Works of art have always engendered political, social, and cultural meanings. This seminar presents an introduction to the methods used by art historians and the objects and ideas that constitute the historiography of their...
ARTH 4040/ 6940 The PhotobookFall 2019A. MoiseyM 10:10-12:05Permission of Instructor RequiredFullfills tutorial requirement for ARTH majors The history of photography as an art has been mostly on the page, not on the wall. This course refocuses the standard museum and gallery history of photography back to the book. Significantly,...
VISST 3001 Documentary Art (ARTH 3001)FALL 2019A. MoiseyT/R 2:55- 4:10 DIS 201 M 2:30-3:20 DIS 202 M 3:35-4:25 DIS 203 F 10:10-11:00 DIS 204 F 11:15 – 12:05 How do we define reality with pictures? In this transhistorical course we focus on the theory and practice of depicting real objects and spaces—on works...
ARTH 3440 Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Their World (VISST 3443)C. LazzaroT/R 10:10 am – 11:25 am This course examines Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael as a thinker as well as an artist, through their own writings together with their painting, sculpture, and architecture...
ARTH 2600 Introduction to Modern Western Art, from the Age of Revolutions to the Age of CapitalFALL 2019A. KimT/R 11:40 – 12:55 Sec 1: W 1:25-2:15 Sec 2: W 2:30-3:20 Sec 3: R 9:05-9:55 Sec 4: R 10:10-11:00This course surveys major artistic movements and artists in Europe and the United States from the French...
ARTH 1100 Art Histories: An Introduction FALL 2019C. RobinsonTR 1:25-2:40This lecture course introduces students to the History of Art as a global and interdisciplinary field. Team-taught by a selection of professors from the department, in collaboration with members of the staff and faculty of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, its...
"Museum and Nation: Architecture, history and statehood in the United Arab Emirates"Kishwar Rizvi is Chair of the Middle East Studies Council at Yale University and Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture . Her recent publications include The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East (University...
Sam Lewitt will speak Monday, April 15th, 2019 in Milstein Auditorium at 4:30 pmSam Lewitt is an artist living in New York. His work takes the form of interventions into the infrastructure of display, throwing into relief material forms of power that circulate through specific sites. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2017...
Okwui Enwezor, an influential Nigerian curator whose large-scale exhibitions displaced European and American art from its central position as he forged a new approach to art for a global age, died on Friday in Munich. He was 55.Enwezor was a founding editor of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, whose editorial offices are located at...
Dr. Diana Magaloni Kerpel currently serves as Deputy Director, Program Director, and Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas at the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA). She was formerly Director of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City from 2009 to 2013.
