NEWSLETTER Dear Students, Colleagues, Alumni, and Friends: As I Trust the Following Pages Will Reveal, Next Fall

NEWSLETTER Dear Students, Colleagues, Alumni, and Friends: As I trust the following pages will reveal, next fall. And the Visual Resources Collection Fall 2019 the past year has been a truly extraordinary will be hiring a new director and at least one one for the department—in almost every additional staff member. respect. We have seen major innovations Our most significant challenges going 2 and significant accomplishments from all forward relate to the plans for the rebuilding Faculty News quarters. Our undergraduate students are of the Princeton University Art Museum— flourishing with new initiatives, responding designed by Sir David Adjaye—and with enthusiastically to team teaching and the it, the home of the department. This fall 13 continuation of our program of course- our staff will begin the massive planning Graduate Student News related travel. Our graduate students involved, including preparations for our continue to make ever more impressive move to temporary quarters for three to 16 progress, with their attainment of four years during the construction, which will Undergraduate News competitive fellowships, success on the job commence in the summer of 2021. market, publications, the revival of a graduate I would like to take the opportunity to student conference, and participation extend our sincere thanks to Sam Evans, the in the University’s new Collaborative 18 coordinator of our undergraduate programs, Teaching Initiative in the Humanities. The Archaeology News who is leaving us for a new position in the faculty has been extremely productive, and Princeton Institute for International and many members have received a variety of Regional Studies. Sam has done a remarkable professional honors and fellowships. Our 21 job over the course of the past three years, lecture series, now coupled with seminars Seminar Study Trips for the graduate students, has been a and we wish him the best in his new job. And we are very happy to welcome Joanna Burkitt decided success. The Program in Archaeology continues to thrive, and the Visual Resources to this position, who joins us this fall from 23 Lectures and Conferences Collection, the Tang Center, Marquand the Department of Physics, where she was a Library, and the Index of Medieval Art have all faculty assistant. Lastly, I want to thank Maureen had a productive year and made impressive 26 contributions to our joint endeavors. The Killeen and our entire staff for helping us Marquand Library department looks ahead to a very bright transform all our department’s efforts into future. accomplishments—especially Julie Angarone, The coming year will surely bring new our computing support specialist, who has 28 taken on the additional task of designing and developments to our programs and additions Tang Center for East Asian to the department. A search has been producing this newsletter in such marvelous launched to hire an Islamicist, and we hope fashion. Art to have a new faculty member in this area for Michael Koortbojian, chair 30 Index of Medieval Art

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Bridget Alsdorf published two back-to-back summer 2019 conducting research for various issues of the open-access, peer-reviewed projects in France and at the Getty Research humanities journal nonsite (nonsite.org) Institute in Los Angeles. devoted to 19th-century European art, Nathan Arrington neared completion of his coedited with Marnin Young. Featuring monograph At the Margins: Style and Society new work by emerging, midcareer, and in Early Athens, which is under contract with senior scholars in the field, these issues Princeton University Press, and he delivered inaugurated an ongoing series under Alsdorf lectures on the project at the Institute for and Young’s direction. Alsdorf also published the Study of the Ancient World at New York Bridget Alsdorf et al., Manet and an essay on Manet’s Baudelairean treatment University and the Comparative Antiquity Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years of flowers, both in his late still lifes and in group at Princeton. He also continued to several of his major Salon paintings, in the prepare the publication of the 2013–15 catalogue accompanying an exhibition of excavations he directed at Ancient Stryme Manet’s late work, Manet and Modern Beauty, in northern Greece, provisionally entitled at the Art Institute of Chicago (through Between Sea and Mountains: A Trading Port in September 8, 2019) and the Getty Museum Aegean Thrace. He co-presented syntheses of in Los Angeles (October 8, 2019–January 12, the analysis at the Archaeological Institute of 2020). She completed another essay on a America’s annual meeting in San Diego and pair of paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, to be in Alexandroupolis, Greece. At the San Diego published in French in the catalogue for a meetings, he also presented the results of retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work a rescue excavation in Greece; an article on at the Grand Palais in Paris this fall. This text that topic, “Glimpses of the Invisible Dead: A relates to her ongoing book project, Gawkers: 7th-century Burial Plot in Northern Piraeus,” Art and Audience in Fin-de-siècle France. has been accepted for publication in Hesperia. A separate article on Vallotton’s political His article “Touch and Remembrance in Greek caricatures for the avant-garde journal La Funerary Art” appeared in The Art Bulletin Revue blanche is also in progress, slated to and won the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, appear in an upcoming issue of Nineteenth- the College Art Association’s annual award Century French Studies commemorating the for a distinguished publication by a younger 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune. scholar. Arrington published a review of This past fall, Alsdorf enjoyed co-teaching a Wolfgang Filser’s book Die Elite Athens auf graduate seminar, “Painting and Literature der Attischen Luxuskeramik in the Bryn Mawr in 19th-Century France and England,” with Classical Review, and his first book,Ashes, Professor Deborah Nord of the Department Images, and Memories: The Presence of the of English. She has been working with Nord War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford and Professor Rebecca Rainof (English) on a University Press), received new life as a related symposium on 19th-century literature paperback. In June he served as respondent and the graphic arts, “A Single Drop of Ink and discussant at a Yale conference on reliefs for a Mirror,” which will bring 21 scholars to sponsored by New Antiquity. Arrington campus on October 4–5, 2019. Alsdorf spent continued to serve as director of the

Athenian oil flask ca. 440 B.C.E., one of the artifacts discussed in Nathan Arrington’s award-winning article

In the spring 2019 course “Self and Society in 19th-Century French Painting,” Professor Bridget Alsdorf, right, discusses work by Cézanne at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (photo: Julie Clack, Office of Communications)

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750026 Program in Archaeology and president of the Archaeological Institute of America– Princeton Society, and he began his three- year term as departmental representative. He taught the art history methods course for juniors and two new courses: a graduate course, “The Greek House,” and, with Professor Rachael DeLue, an undergraduate humanities course, “Battle Lab: The Battle of Princeton,” an archaeological and interdisciplinary investigation of the Princeton Battlefield, its history and preservation. He received a permit from the Greek government to resume excavations at Ancient Stryme and in summer 2019 took students to excavate the settlement, cemetery, and sanctuary, and to survey the region (see pages 19–20). Basile Baudez completed his first year as a faculty member in the department. He continued work on his book manuscript, they visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Department faculty 2018–19. Front entitled Inessential Colors: A History of Color row, left to right: Bridget Alsdorf, Museum and toured the architecture of the Anne McCauley, Beatrice Kitzinger, in Architectural Representation, and he was MIT campus (see page 21). With Professors Basile Baudez, Rachael Z. DeLue; invited to present material from the project Anne McCauley and Joseph Scanlan (visual middle row, left to right: Deborah at the June 2019 conference “Repetition, arts), Baudez also organized and led art and Vischak, Carolina Mangone, Carolyn Revival, Reconstruction: The Visual Culture art history majors to Paris during the 2018 Yerkes, Irene Small, Chika Okeke- of Architecture 1750–1900,” organized by Agulu, Cheng-hua Wang, Andrew fall break (see page 21). In the spring, Baudez M. Watsky; back row, left to right: Caroline van Eck at King’s College, University and Professor Caroline Yerkes cotaught a Hal Foster, Nathan Arrington, of Cambridge, and at the international radically new version of the introduction to Michael Koortbojian, Thomas conference “The Circulation of Architectural architectural history course. He also created, DaCosta Kaufmann, Brigid Doherty, Graphic Models between France, Italy, and with the help of the Princeton Program for Charles Barber (not pictured: Anna Spain in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” held Arabindan-Kesson) (photo: John Community-Engaged Scholarship, a 300-level Blazejewski) at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. community-engaged course that focused In Cambridge, he addressed the use of and on the relationship of domestic architecture market for hand-colored architectural prints and public urban utilities. Working with at the end of the 18th century; in Madrid he the East Trenton Collaborative, a nonprofit presented research on color conventions in association devoted to improving the 18th-century architectural draftsmanship. In lives of the residents of a disenfranchised September, he gave a talk at a conference neighborhood of Trenton, New Jersey, of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana students confronted prevalent notions of in Naples that developed his work on the comfort, basic needs, and progress in local Students in Art 583, “Textile history of transparent papers by examining communities and compared them to readings Architecture,” and Professor Basile tracing papers used by vedute artists in the Baudez in Eero Saarinen’s MIT on 18th- and 19th-century Paris. chapel, built in 1955 1830s. In the spring, Baudez joined In a volume honoring Claude Mignot, the steering committee of the Baudez published an essay on the role of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in amateurs in the French Royal Academy of Architecture, Urbanism, and the Architecture—a theme that formed part Humanities, and will lead their of the undergraduate course he taught fall forum, “Narratives,” with in the fall on the birth of architecture as Professor Anne Cheng (American a profession in 18th-century Europe. His studies). Maintaining links with his graduate seminar dealt with the relationship former home, he was asked to be between architecture and textiles, from the only academic member of the the nomadic tent to contemporary tensile steering committee of the Cité de architecture. This seminar linked the l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in department with the School of Architecture, Paris, the French National Center including a talk by Professor Spyros for Architecture and Cultural Papapetros on Gottfried Semper, and with Heritage. the School of Civil Engineering, where During summer 2019, Baudez Professor Sigrid Adriaenssens led a workshop was based partially in London, on form-finding structures. At the end of where he worked on the the semester, Baudez took the students architectural drawings collections on a two-day study trip to Boston, where of the Royal Institute of British fall 2019 3

750026 Architects and prevailing theorizations of and approaches Sir John Soane’s to abstraction in the long 20th century, with Museum. With Professor Irene Small, and an undergraduate Caroline Yerkes, course titled “Battle Lab: The Battle of Baudez has Princeton,” with Professor Nathan Arrington. begun to build An experimental course, Battle Lab combined a teaching the methodologies, knowledge, and tools collection of of multiple disciplines, including art history, architectural archaeology, engineering, computer science, drawings, funded and American studies, to study the pivotal jointly by the Revolutionary War battle that took place in department, Princeton on January 3, 1777. Collaborating through the with local experts—including the Princeton Laura P. Hall Battlefield Society, the New Jersey State Memorial Fund, Park Service, the Princeton Historical Students in Professors Rachael and the Princeton Society, cultural heritage and battlefield DeLue (top row, left) and Nathan University Art Museum. Since fall 2018, 65 archaeologists, and specialists from Arrington’s (bottom row, second architectural drawings have been added to Firestone Library’s Rare Books and Special from right) Battle Lab course at museum’s collections. They range in date Collections—the class excavated several a performance of Hamilton on sections of the battlefield and researched Broadway from the 17th through the late 19th century and were produced in France, Italy, and the larger social, economic, religious, and Germany. political contexts of the conflict, including its relationship to histories of slavery and Rachael DeLue completed several research indigenous cultures in 18th-century New projects during the 2018–19 academic year, Jersey. In the spring semester, DeLue taught including essays on the study with Professors Sarah Rivett (English) of Native America in early American archaeology and the and Bernadette Pérez (history) “America significance of the shoreline Then and Now,” the gateway course for perspective in American and Princeton’s American Studies Certificate. Australian landscape painting. She continues to work in collaboration Her article on Romare Bearden’s with the Terra Foundation for American only major self-portrait appears Art on the Terra Essay Series, a collection in the exhibition catalogue of edited volumes that includes Picturing, for the High Museum of Art’s Scale, Experience, Circulation, Intermedia, and Something Over Something Else: Humans, with additional volumes planned. Romare Bearden’s Profile Series, She also continues to serve as a member opening in September 2019. of the board of an organization devoted to DeLue delivered the keynote restoring the historic Geneva, New York, address for the symposium studio and residence of the modern artist “Invisible Spectrum: Making and Arthur Dove, the subject of her recent book, Viewing the Unseen” hosted Arthur Dove: Always Connect. Finally, DeLue by the Department of Art at and her husband, Erik, and her children Asher Reenactment of Washington (11) and Zane (7) enjoyed time on the West crossing the Delaware featuring the University of Virginia; she presented Professor Rachael DeLue and the Jessamy Samuels Memorial Lecture Coast, a visit to Frederic Church’s Olana, many students from the Battle Lab course at the University of Arkansas; and she little league baseball games, and playing with (photo: Nathan Arrington) gave a talk on Arthur Dove’s watercolors Zeppelin the dog. at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Brigid Doherty served as acting chair of the Connecticut. At Princeton, she participated Department of German and as director of in the “Indigenous/Settler Conference” the Program in European Cultural Studies in A cannon ball and bayonet from the organized by faculty and students in 2018–19. In fall 2018, she had the pleasure Revolutionary War in the collection Princeton’s Department of English, the of co-teaching the capstone seminar for of the Princeton Historical Society American Indian and Indigenous Studies the undergraduate certificate program that were studied in Rachael DeLue and Nathan Arrington’s Battle Lab Working Group, and the Program in American in Humanistic Studies with Professor course Studies. DeLue will be on leave during Peter Brooks (comparative literature and the 2019–20 academic year to work on Program in Law and Public Affairs). Among her current book project, Impossible the invited lectures Doherty delivered this Images and the Perils of Picturing, year were one on the conceptualization of with the support of an Old Dominion infantile experiences of wishing in the early Research Professorship sponsored by psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud and Princeton’s Humanities Council. Sándor Ferenczi (at the Center for Advanced During the fall semester, DeLue Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität cotaught two courses: a graduate in Munich in September 2018); another, on seminar on abstraction that challenged the development of the visual program of 4 fall 2019

750026 the so-called Rorschach test, 1918–21, and of their theses ranged from Spain and Italy on contemporary artist Rosemarie Trockel’s to northwest Germany, to Henri’s France, to Doherty Receives interpretations of that test (at the Courtauld late-17th-century Sweden. Their examination Institute of Art in London in November 2018); committees, which included professors Distinguished and a third, on philosopher and literary from Princeton’s Department of History and Teaching Award critic Walter Benjamin’s engagements with from the Universities of Texas and California Professor Brigid Doherty art history (as a keynote at the June 2019 and Harvard University, recommended that received the President’s Award conference of the International Walter their dissertations, with slight changes, be for Distinguished Teaching Benjamin Society at the University of Bern, published as books. He is also pleased to at the 2019 Commencement. Switzerland, where Benjamin received his report that his graduate students Wenjie She was one of four Princeton Ph.D. in June 1919). In connection with her Su, Yifu Liu, and Suzie Hermán have now faculty members to be honored visit to Bern, she also conducted research embarked on dissertations with cross-cultural with the award. A committee at the Hermann Rorschach Archive at the character. of faculty, undergraduate Institute for the History of Medicine at the In January 2019, Kaufmann lectured at the and graduate students, and University of Bern. On leave for the academic Princeton Public Library on “Queen Christina academic administrators year 2019–20, she will continue her research of Sweden and the Collections of Her Time.” selected the winners from on Rorschach and Trockel as a visiting scholar At the annual meeting of the Renaissance nominations submitted by at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Society of America in March, he chaired students, faculty colleagues, Science in Berlin in fall 2019, and will spend sessions on “Global Prague: Renaissance and alumni. spring 2020 as the Holly Fellow at the Clark and Reformation Crossroads” and “Beyond Doherty, who has served on Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Eastern Europe, 1400–1700,” which he also the faculty since 2003, focuses Also in 2019–20, Doherty and her fellow co-organized, and he spoke in a memorial on the interdisciplinary study of founding members of the Consortium for session devoted to the late Robert Williams 20th-century art and literature, Psychoanalytic Studies in the 21st Century *88, who was professor at the University of with special emphasis on will launch a large-scale, international, California, Santa Barbara, and Kaufmann’s relationships among the visual interdisciplinary research project with events doctoral student. arts, literature, and aesthetic at Columbia and New York University, with During the academic year, Kaufmann and psychoanalytic theories of plans for a conference in Princeton in fall published the following essays: “Las German modernism. She is also 2020. At Princeton’s 2019 Commencement, metamorphosis de la naturaleza de Giuseppe an associated faculty member Doherty received the President’s Award for Arcimboldo: Una nueva vision,” in La era de in the School of Architecture Distinguished Teaching. los genios: De Michelangelo a Arcimboldo, and a member of the executive Hal Foster was on leave in 2018–19, edited by Miguel Falomír (Critica, 2018); committee of the Program in supported by the department, the Dedalus “Japanese Export Lacquer and Global Art Media and Modernity. Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute. History: An Art of Mediation in Circulation,” In recommending her for Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia During this time, he turned his 2018 Mellon in , the award, one colleague cited Lectures, delivered at the National Gallery edited by Raquel A. G. Reyes (Palgrave her extraordinary teaching of Art in Washington, on postwar art and Macmillan, 2019); “‘New’ Pictures by and advising, along with the theory into a book for Princeton University Christoph Gertner and a Reconsideration blend of rigor and sensitivity Niederdeutsche Press; titled Brutal Aesthetics, it will appear of His Work as a Painter,” in in her relationships with her Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte in fall 2020. He also gathered short texts on , new series 4 students, noting that she Kunstkammer contemporary art and politics drafted over (2019); “The : Historiography, demands the highest quality of The Art of Collecting the last decade for Artforum, London Review Acquisition, Display,” in , work but also demonstrates, of Books, and other journals, into a collection edited by Hugo Miguel Crespo (Pedro Aguiar over many hours of meetings Zur Zierd for Verso, which will publish it in spring 2020 Branco, 2019); and “ : Revisiting the and conferences, how that Kunstkammer Studia Rudolphina under the title What Comes After Farce? In Prague ,” in work is to be done. Another the fall, his Conversations on Sculpture, a 17–18 (2018; published in March 2019). A highlighted the intensity and project with Richard Serra that extends back condensed version of the Arcimboldo essay engagement of her teaching, 25 years, was released by Yale University appeared online in English and French: her focus as a listener, and Press, and Foster continues his work on the “Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Metamorphoses her ability to draw from every catalogue raisonné of Serra’s comment the element most work. In spring 2019, he was likely to further the general both a fellow at the Getty discussion, adding that the Center in Los Angeles and the same care is evident in her UCLA Arts Council Distinguished comments on student work, Scholar. which are extensive, critical in a highly constructive way, and Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s always encouraging. students Rebecca Ben *19, Holly Kileff Borham *19, Jamie Kwan *19, and Kjell Professor Brigid Doherty, right, with President Eisgruber and other Wangensteen *19 defended recipients of the President’s Award their dissertations in May 2019 for Distinguished Teaching (photo: and received their doctoral Denise Applewhite) degrees in June. The subjects fall 2019 5

750026 of Nature Reviewed: Kalamazoo, and in a research group meeting A Summary” in Arts in Cologne. and Societies: Letter of In the fall 2018 term, Kitzinger taught for Seminar 106, sciencespo. the Humanities Sequence and particularly fr/artsetsocietes/en enjoyed lecturing on Anna Komnene’s Alexiad (online from November for the first time. She introduced a 300-level 16, 2018); French edition: course on medieval book arts, which was “Les métamorphoses featured on the University’s homepage de la nature selon and which she hopes to offer regularly. Arcimboldo: Une Thanks to Jessica Dagçi, coordinator of révision critique,” in Arts Marquand Library operations and special et Sociétés: Lettre du collections, and her colleagues, the course seminaire 106, sciencespo. showcased Marquand’s splendid collection fr/artsetsocietes/ of manuscript facsimiles. Warm welcomes fr. Another online from Don Skemer, curator of manuscripts, publication was “Gerson’s and Julie Mellby, graphic arts librarian, both Students in Art 311 with Professor Ausbreitung und in Firestone Library’s Rare Books and Special Beatrice Kitzinger (center), and Don Nachwirkung der Holländischen Malerei des Collections, and from Calvin Brown, associate Skemer, curator of manuscripts 17. Jahrhunderts and Its Significance for the curator of prints and drawings in the (third from right), viewing original Study of Netherlandish Art in International Princeton University Art Museum, brought manuscripts in Princeton University Library’s Division of Rare Books and Context,” in RKD Online (online from original medieval codices and fragments into Special Collections (photo: Denise December 2018). Kaufmann continues as conversation with modern artists’ books. Applewhite) editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliography of In the spring, Kitzinger taught new editions the History of Art, and has been hard at work of her graduate seminar “‘Influence’ and on a new global history of art; in connection Innovation in Medieval Art,” which included with that project, he traveled to Egypt and an excursion to Italy and Switzerland over Jordan during the late spring and to Iran in the break (see pages 21–22), and the lecture the autumn. course “Art and Power in the Middle Ages,” Beatrice Kitzinger’s monograph The Cross, cotaught with Professor Charles Barber. With the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Professor Sally Poor (German), Kitzinger led Carolingian Age was published by Cambridge a student trip for the Program in Medieval University Press in the spring of 2019. After Studies and Butler College to the landmark the Carolingians: Re-defining Manuscript exhibition Armenia!, at the Metropolitan Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries, a Museum of Art. The Index Workshops in volume she coedited with Joshua O’Driscoll Medieval Art hosted four papers, two by of the Morgan Library and Museum in New scholars visiting Princeton from France, and York, was published by De Gruyter in July. two by local colleagues. In addition to this Kitzinger is a founding editor of the series fruitful series of talks, Kitzinger looks forward Sense, Matter, and Medium: New Approaches in coming years to organizing events geared to Medieval Literary and Material Culture, to specifically to exploring the relationship between medieval art and music, thanks Beatrice Kitzinger, The Cross, the be published by De Gruyter. It was a busy Gospels, and the Work of Art in the year for proposal reviews as the series to a grant from the Humanities Council’s Carolingian Age launches in earnest: the first two volumes, Collaborative Humanities initiative to LUDUS, including After the Carolingians, appeared a working group she conceived together Professor Carolina Mangone with this year. In the next several years, the series with Professor Jamie Reuland (music) to students in the Villa Borghese in Rome plans to publish build upon their cotaught seminar “Art and three primarily Music in the Middle Ages.” The funding will art-historical support invited papers along with practical collections and two workshops. With Kathryn Starkey and interdisciplinary Fiona Griffiths, both at Stanford University, volumes that Kitzinger continued to serve as the chair of include robust the advocacy committee of the International visual components. Center of Medieval Art, working primarily on She also a student mentoring initiative. At Princeton, participated in she was appointed to the Harold Willis Dodds the panel series University Preceptorship for 2019–2022. “New Directions Carolina Mangone completed work on her in Carolingian first book manuscript,Bernini’s Michelangelo, and Ottonian which is forthcoming from Yale University Art History” at Press, and conducted research for her the International next book project, on the creation and Congress for reception of Michelangelo’s unfinished Medieval Studies in (non-finito) sculpture. She delivered various 6 fall 2019

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talks throughout the year, among them a Photography, 1895–1925 continued to circulate paper coauthored with Jonathan Unglaub in 2018–19. After closing at the Wellesley of Brandeis University, “Guercino’s Saint College Davis Museum of Art in June 2018, Petronilla: Saintly Body, Michelangelo, and it traveled to the Portland Museum of Art Beatrice Kitzinger et al., After the Carolingians: Re-defining Manuscript New St. Peter’s,” at the annual meeting in Portland, Maine, where McCauley gave Illumination in the 10th and 11th of the Renaissance Studies Association in the opening lecture. Between October Centuries Toronto, and a lecture on “The Fragment 21, 2018, and January 21, 2019, a reduced and the Non-finito” at the two-day version was featured at the Cleveland interdisciplinary workshop “The Filologos Museum of Art. McCauley’s essay “Lance and the Antiquarius: Studying Language Sieveking and Francis Bruguière’s Beyond and Objects in Renaissance Europe” at This Point: From Book to Exhibition,” was Princeton. Mangone’s teaching took her published in the exhibition catalogue No to Italy over fall break with her colleagues Two Alike: Karl Blossfeldt, Francis Bruguière, Professors Moulie Vidas (religion) and Thomas Ruff, edited and curated by Ulrike Caroline Cheung (classics) along with a Stump *18. The exhibition was presented at group of undergraduate students from the the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati 2017–18 Humanities Sequence course on the as part of the FotoFocus Biennial 2018, Western intellectual tradition. They traveled organized by another department alumnus, to Paestum, Pompeii, and Rome to study Kevin Moore *02. With Stump and Edward Greek temples, Roman ruins and antiquities, Juler of Newcastle University, McCauley medieval churches, Renaissance and Baroque participated in a panel presentation on art and architecture, and the palimpsest that Bruguiere, Blossfeldt, and the London Warren is modern Rome. In her graduate seminar Gallery (where plates from Blossfeldt’s Anne McCauley et al., No Two Alike: on Michelangelo and Renaissance sculpture, Urformen der Kunst and Bruguière’s Karl Blossfeldt, Francis Bruguière, Mangone brought the marble quarries photographs were shown together in 1929). Thomas Ruff of Italy into the classroom with hands-on In addition to taking the junior explorations of practice, including a lesson departmental majors to Paris over fall in stone carving from Stephen Shaheen, break with Professor Basile Baudez (see an American sculptor trained in Siena. In page 21), McCauley organized a new spring summer 2019, Mangone was on the trail of undergraduate course on the history of unfinished sculptures from the Renaissance fashion photography. Inspired by research and Baroque in the collections and gardens done for her essay “From Contrivance of Italy and beyond. She is also organizing to Naturalism, 1911–1929,” for the J. Paul an interdisciplinary conference at Princeton, Getty Museum’s 2018 exhibition and with the collaboration of Anthony Grafton catalogue Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion (history), entitled “Arts in the Imperfect Photography, edited by Paul Martineau, Tense,” on the subject of imperfection the course represented a new direction in the visual and textual material of the in departmental offerings and inspired early modern period. In 2019–20, Mangone the Princeton University Art Museum to will be a senior fellow at the Center for purchase several fashion photographs to Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) in enhance its collection, along with a gift Washington. from the Staley-Wise Gallery. McCauley Anne McCauley et al., Icons of Style: Anne McCauley’s exhibition Clarence H. also hosted postdoctoral research fellow A Century of Fashion Photography White and His World: The Art and Craft of Christian Joschke from the University of fall 2019 7

750026 Paris-Nanterre, who contributed to her spring and the Iwalewahaus at the University of graduate seminar on amateur photography. Bayreuth, Germany. In March, the exhibition As an outgrowth of her work on Clarence El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, co-organized by White and his milieu, McCauley presented Okeke-Agulu with Okwui Enwezor, opened a lecture, “Pictorial Photography in New at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Its tour York in the Age of Arts and Crafts,” at the venues will include Mathaf: Arab Museum of 20th Anniversary Conference on the Arts and Modern Art, in Doha, United Arab Emirates; Crafts Movement, New York City, organized the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland; and by Initiatives in Art and Culture and held at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. Baruch College. In November she participated In spring 2019, Okeke-Agulu was appointed in a pre-exhibition workshop at the Yale to the advisory board of the Hyundai Tate Center for British Art on “Photographs of Research Centre: Transnational at Tate Italy and the British Imagination,” and, in Modern in London. He continues to serve May, in a scholar’s day at the Metropolitan on the board of advisors of the Center for Chika Okeke-Agulu et al., Mapping Museum of Art for the exhibition Monumental Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the Modernisms: Art, Indigeneity and Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de National Gallery of Art in Washington. Colonialism Prangey. Her book review of Mary Campbell’s Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Irene V. Small returned from sabbatical Image appeared in Winterthur Portfolio to teach during the last year of her Harold (winter 2018). McCauley was also interviewed Willis Dodds Presidential Preceptorship, by Michel Poivert, professor of the history and was promoted to associate professor of contemporary art and photography at in spring 2019. She continued work on the Sorbonne, for the fiftieth anniversary her new book, tentatively titled The issue of the Revue de l’art (no. 4, 2018), Organic Line: Modernism on Edge, and gave which included nine leading foreign scholars’ presentations on the project at Columbia assessments of the state of art history in their University, the University of Chicago, and respective fields. the Clark Art Institute, the last as part of Chika Okeke-Agulu published “Natural a workshop titled “Precarity, Resistance, Synthesis: Art, Theory, and the Politics of and Contemporary Art from the Americas.” Decolonization in Mid-Twentieth-Century She also spoke on archives and labyrinths Nigeria,” in Mapping Modernisms: Art, at a Hauser & Wirth Institute symposium Indigeneity, Colonialism, edited by Ruth on artists’ estates, and on histories of B. Phillips and Elizabeth Harney (Duke catastrophe at Columbia University’s Brazil University Press, 2018); “Osadebe’s Long Seminar during an event focused on the Journey,” in Oseloka Osadebe: Inner Light recent fire at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Chika Okeke-Agulu et al., Bodys Isek (SMO Contemporary, 2018); “On Kingelez’s Kingelez Janeiro. She contributed an essay on the Audacious Objects,” in Bodys Isek Kingelez, specter of race and affective labor in the edited by Sarah Suzuki (Museum of Modern work of the Brazilian modernist Tarsila do Art, 2018); “A Art Society e a Criação do Amaral to Tarsila Popular, the catalogue of Modernismo Pós-Colonial na Nigéria,” in a retrospective that opened at the Museu Histórias Afro-Atlânticas, volume 2, Antologia, de Arte de São Paulo in April 2019, as well edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Amanda Carneiro, as an essay titled “Bodies of/or Things” Students in Professor Irene Small and André Mesquita (Museu de Arte de for the exhibition Sur Moderno: Journeys São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2018). He (fourth from left) and Cristina Freire’s of Abstraction, which will accompany the “Museum as Laboratory” class gave endowed and keynote lectures this Museum of Modern Art’s newest expansion, carrying the artist Ricardo Basbaum’s year at the Centro Cultural San Pablo, in participatory NBP (New Bases for opening in October 2019. Together with Oaxaca, Mexico; the Pinacoteca de São Personality) object (nbp.pro.br) Professor Rachael DeLue, she taught a new Paulo, in São Paulo, Brazil; graduate seminar, “Abstraction,” in the fall and the Department and, with Cristina Freire, a visiting fellow in of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He the Program in Latin American Studies, a class also presented conference titled “Museum as Laboratory: Experimental papers and participated Art Practices in Latin America and Beyond” in panel discussions and in the spring. Student-designed projects public conversations at the from the latter course included a short-term Museen Dahlem/Staatliche exhibition in Firestone Library’s Rare Books Museen zu Berlin; ART X and Manuscripts classroom centered on the Lagos, at the Lagos Civic University’s holdings of postal art, as well as Centre in Ikoyi, Lagos; the programming that will unfold in fall 2019 at Johann Jacobs Museum the Princeton University Art Museum around in Zurich; the Museum the themes of “reverse anthropology” and für Kunst und Gewerbe “(re)articulations” in Latin American art. in Hamburg, Germany; This year, she also acted in a new role as the 8 fall 2019

750026 department’s graduate job placement and and rounded out the fellowship officer, a position she will continue spring by presenting next year. two papers: one in April on the 2018–19 Deborah Vischak spent much time traveling field seasons of in Egypt over the past year. In the fall, she the North Abydos cotaught, with Professor Marc Domingo Expedition, at the Gygax (classics), a new graduate seminar annual meeting of the for the Program in the Ancient World, American Research “History, Archaeology, and the Construction Center in Egypt; and of Knowledge.” Over fall break, the seminar another, in May, traveled to Egypt, visiting Cairo, Giza, Saqqara, on “Networks of Luxor, Dendera, Abydos, and Alexandria. Artistic Production The 12 students presented their research on in Egypt during a variety of monuments across the country the 3rd Millennium and shared discussions on how scholars of B.C.E.,” for the panel ancient history seek to understand our deep Professor Deborah Vischak (holding “Entangling Ancient Art: New Perspectives past through the lens of the modern world. banner at left) with the Princeton from Americanist to Classical Archaeology” at Journeys alumni group at the temple Many cups of tea were drunk. Over the the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference of Ramses II at Abu Simbel in Egypt January break, Vischak returned to Egypt to in Syracuse. lead an alumni tour, joined by Kristin Appelget, director of the Office of Community and Andrew M. Watsky centered his teaching Regional Affairs at Princeton, and Fetiche and scholarship this year in the Princeton Posma-Zaalouk, their wonderful Egyptian University Art Museum and in Japan. With guide. The group visited sites around Cairo, graduate student Caitlin Karyadi and Cary flew to Luxor to take in the city of temples Liu, the Nancy and Peter Lee Curator of Asian and royal tombs, then sailed up the Nile, Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, stopping by Edfu before arriving in Aswan. he co-curated Picturing Place in Japan, an After trips to the temples at Abu Simbel exhibition of some 40 paintings, prints, and and Philae, they gamely hiked up to the photographs—many borrowed from the mountain site of Qubbet el-Hawa to visit the Gitter-Yelen Collection, one of the finest monuments discussed in Vischak’s first book. private holdings of Japanese art—in the art It was an exceptionally engaged and cheerful museum. Watsky taught a Freshman Seminar group that has already reconnected at the that used the exhibition as its classroom, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York just spending all sessions intensively studying prior to Reunions weekend in May, with plans original works of art in the galleries and the being made for future reunions. In the spring, Asian art storage room. Another teaching Vischak returned to Egypt once more to work highlight was the undergraduate seminar at the North Abydos Expedition (see pages “Visual Japan, Past and Present,” which Irene V. Small et. al., Tarsila Popular 18–19). She spent an unexpected amount of included a trip to Japan over spring break, time researching how to protect mudbrick viewing art in situ, meeting with scholars and architecture from small birds, and she hopes artists, and with students conducting research to implement some of those plans in the near for their individual projects (see pages 22–23). Installation view of Picturing Place in Among Watsky’s lectures this year were one Japan, the exhibition co-curated by future. When not on a plane, Vischak Professor Andrew M. Watsky continued her work on a social art history of ancient Egyptian elite tombs, which she hopes to complete this year. She also continued her research on regional community experiences in the area around Abydos, and published an article on the conception of artists at the nearby site of Hawawish, “Artists’ Inscriptions at el-Hawawish,” in Earlier Egyptian Inscriptions: Materiality, Locality, Landscape, edited by Julie Anne Stauder-Porchet (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 2019). Vischak kicked off the academic year by presenting a paper, “Representing the Community in Egypt: Local Monuments in a National Context,” at a conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, fall 2019 9

750026 at Brown University and two in Lisbon at the in light of evolving ecological thought and Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, all concerning environmental realities. Nature’s Nation his current research on 16th-century tea opened at Princeton in October and practice (chanoyu) and its objects, which will subsequently toured to the Peabody Essex be the focus of his work while on sabbatical Museum in Massachusetts and Crystal during academic year 2019–20. Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas. Carolyn Yerkes’s book, Drawing after It is accompanied by a catalogue which won Architecture: Renaissance Architectural the Association of American Publishers’ 2019 Drawings and Their Reception (2017), was PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly named a finalist for the Charles Rufus Excellence in the Art Exhibitions category, Morey Book Award from the College Art as well as the Award for Excellence from the Association. Her new publications this year Association of Art Museum Curators for the included “Inhabited Sculptures, Lethal year’s best publication among larger midsize museums. In spring 2019, Kusserow served as Carolyn Yerkes, Drawing After Weapons,” in Tributes to David A. Freedberg: Architecture: Renaissance Images and Insight (Harvey Miller/Brepols guest editor for a roundtable on ecocriticism Architectural Drawings and Their 2018); and “Leonardo on the Stairs,” an in Panorama, the journal of the Association Reception article coauthored with Michael Cole *99 of of Historians of American Art, and over Columbia University for Leonardo the summer he worked on editing Picture in Dialogue: The Artist Amid Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary His Contemporaries (Marsilio, Perspective, the volume resulting from a 2019). Yerkes presented her conference that extends the approach of ongoing research on Giovanni Nature’s Nation to diverse visual cultures, and Battista Piranesi (1720–78) in to which he is contributing an essay on “Pope a series of talks. At Harvard’s Francis’s Laudato si’ and Christian Visual Villa I Tatti in Florence, she Ecology.” participated in the exploratory AnnMarie Perl is a modernist whose research seminar “Collaboration in focuses on postwar French and American art the Renaissance Architect’s and contemporary American art. This year Workshop.” At Princeton, she gave invited talks on her recent research she shared her research with on Franz Kline and on the Simulationists— her colleagues as part of the an artistic movement based in New York works-in-progress series of the City in the 1980s— both of which she is Committee on Renaissance and developing into journal articles. In the spring, AnnMarie Perl (in white blouse at Early Modern Studies. Together she taught an undergraduate seminar, center) and her undergraduate with the coauthor of her forthcoming book, “Supply-side Aesthetics: American Art in seminar visiting the Neo- Heather Hyde Minor *02, of the University the Age of Reagan,” which was co-listed Conceptualist painter Peter Halley (in of Notre Dame, Yerkes gave a paper at the by the Program in American Studies. The dark blue shirt at center) in his studio Society of Architectural Historians’ annual course brought together students from meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. At different academic backgrounds, including the annual meeting of the Renaissance art history, economics, and politics, to Society of America, held in Toronto, she examine the art and the aesthetics of the spoke on “Architecture in Reflection,” as age of Reagan and Reaganism with an eye part of the disciplinary roundtable “The toward the present. It drew heavily upon Materials and Practices of Renaissance the collection of the Princeton University Architecture.” Yerkes’s classes this year Art Museum and included a field trip to view included a new seminar on 17th-century the Warhol retrospective at the Whitney conflict and knowledge, cotaught with Museum of American Art, as well as studio Professor Yaacob Dweck (history), and a visits and meetings with leading artists of the new instantiation of the “Introduction to the 1980s, such as Peter Halley, Haim Steinbach, History of Architecture” survey, cotaught and Avram Finkelstein. Perl continues to with Professor Basile Baudez. work on her book projects, including a first book on public performances of painting Lecturers during the 1940s and 1950s, which is nearing Karl Kusserow, the John Wilmerding completion, and a second book that revolves Curator of American Art at the Princeton around the contemporary American artist University Art Museum, taught “Exhibiting Jeff Koons. Her in-depth article on Koons’s John James Audubon, Carolina ‘Nature’s Nation’: American Art, Ecology, relation to Reaganism is forthcoming in the Parrot, from The Birds of America and Environmental History” in fall 2018 to journal Art History. (London, 1827–38), volume 1, plate coincide with Nature’s Nation: American 26, Princeton University Library, Rare Visiting Scholar Books and Special Collections, part Art and Environment, the exhibition he of the exhibition Nature’s Nation co-curated with Alan C. Braddock of William Kwun Nam (Phil) Chan was the J. S. Lee curated by Karl Kusserow & Mary. Each offered a new approach to Memorial Fellow at the Princeton University American art of the 18th to 21st centuries Art Museum and the Tang Center for East 10 fall 2019

750026 Asian Art from January through July 2019. by the Getty Foundation. Its His research focused partly on the museum’s mission is to create an intellectual collection of Song and Yuan dynasty painting network of 12 postdoctoral and calligraphy, with the aim of recasting scholars, primarily from around how we view the complex period from the the Mediterranean rim. Brown 10th–14th centuries and how we understand participated in workshops in and define “Chinese art”—as opposed to Nicosia in May 2018 and in Spain the “arts of China” —in light of the diverse (Córdoba and Granada) in January contributions from Khitan, Mongol, and 2019. Brown also lectured at the other non-Chinese agents. He examined Princeton Athens Center and the contemporary and later inscriptions, published an article relating to colophons, and seals on these works in an her Venice Outside Venice project: attempt to reveal more about the history of “Vain Legislation Against Vana aesthetic values, collecting, and intellectual Ostentazione: Sumptuary Laws in trends. Chan also studied some of the more the Venetian Dominion,” in Artibus than 600 Song (967–1279) to Qing (1644– et historiae 76 (2017, published 1911) letters that are part of the museum’s in 2018). Brown’s attention to John B. Elliott Collection of Chinese water in the Venetian dominion calligraphy. In-depth research on these continued, with lectures on letters is expected to reveal a more detailed Phil Chan working in the Asian the topic at the Casa Italiana in art storage room in the Princeton and realistic picture of the period, especially New York, for Save Venice Inc.; the Nasher University Art Museum in terms of its networks of scholars, daily Museum of Art at Duke University; and the life, and calligraphy. A third focus of his Minneapolis Institute of Art. As a trustee research was the late Ming artist-literatus of Save Venice Inc., Brown was involved in Dong Qichang (1555–1636), his collections, supporting the full restoration of Carpaccio’s colophons, artistic mind, and connoisseurship cycle of the Life of Saint Ursula in the Gallerie of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Of dell’Accademia in Venice, completed this particular interest is how his unique status spring. Relating to this project, she gave a and long-lasting impact were established and paper and co-organized a panel, “Venetian consolidated in his era, and how his work Brides–No Real Choices: Carpaccio’s Life of can provide a more detailed understanding Saint Ursula in Context,” at the Renaissance of the history of Chinese art both before Society of America’s annual meeting in New and after his time. Chan hopes that these Orleans in March 2018. She also presented projects will develop into exhibitions. The a lecture entitled “From Carpaccio’s ‘Saint Chinese letter project has special potential to Ursula’ to Titian’s ‘Lady in White’: The be presented as a fascinating exhibition on Feminine Mystique in Renaissance Venice,” the techniques and culture of Chinese letter at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, in Zhejiang University Press’s 2019 writing. February 2019. Brown has finally completed Chinese edition of Robert Bagley’s book Emeritus Faculty the manuscript of her book The Venetian Bride: Feudal Tradition and Civic Values in the Robert Bagley Robert Bagley continues to Professor Emerita Patricia Fortini Most Serene Republic. The next step is to find Brown with the MCities Group in the work on his history of ancient Chinese art. a publisher. Lapidary Museum in Nicosia, Cyprus His 2008 book on style and classification in the history of art, Max Loehr and the Study Esther da Costa Meyer taught a fall 2018 of Chinese Bronzes: Style and Classification in seminar in the department: “Havana” the History of Art, has just been published in focused on modern architecture and Chinese translation by Zhejiang University urbanism in Havana, including the old Press. The first printing sold out in two colonial city, Art Deco, the International months, probably because of the fine Style, the footprint of the American translation by Wang Haicheng *07. presence (from the mob to the sugar mills), buildings from the Cuban Patricia Fortini Brown continues to research, Revolution, and the Soviet period. In write, lecture, and travel extensively, spring 2019, she was appointed Vincent so much so that she forgot to submit a Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural report for last year’s newsletter. Since it History at Yale University, teaching went to press, Brown participated as an “Havana’s Architecture: Recent Past and adviser for a three-year research project, Possible Future.” “Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval John Pinto participated in an April 2019 and Early Modern Cities” (MCities). Directed symposium at the University of California, by Nikolas Bakirtzis *06 and D. Fairchild Berkeley, entitled “Techniques of Memory: Ruggles, of the University of Illinois, Urbana- Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium and Champaign, the MCities project is sponsored Power.” One of the organizers was Andy by the Cyprus Institute and supported Shanken *99. fall 2019 11

750026 In Memoriam: Wen Fong distinction for its Chinese calligraphy, unsurpassed outside of East Asia, and for Wen Fong, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor its prized study collection, rich in many of Chinese Art History, Emeritus, died in mediums and often including multiple Princeton on October 3, 2018, at the age of versions of a work, both original and copy. 88. He was a pioneer who helped shape the Concurrent with his service at Princeton, study and public collecting of Chinese art from 1971 to 2000 Fong served as special in America. Wen Fong was also a thorough consultant and then consultative chairman Princetonian, dating back to 1948, when he of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s arrived as an undergraduate, followed by Department of Asian Art, which grew under turns as a graduate student, professor at all his stewardship from a negligible department ranks, and emeritus professor—70 years in into an internationally distinguished all. collection. Born in Shanghai in 1930, Fong was a child prodigy in calligraphy, regarded as China’s In his teaching, research, and museum premier visual art. Performing since the age work, Wen Fong established an analytical of 10, he was familiar with artistic life and rigor that combined an understanding of the traditional art scene in China, struggling art—its materials, creative processes, and stylistic language, all couched in a Sinological Wen and Constance Fong, 2001 in its collision with Western modernity. Fong’s family nevertheless expected him engagement with political, social, and to gain a practical education. He came to intellectual history, literature, and religion. Princeton to escape engineering and, once Primacy was always given to the object here, able to follow his own curiosity, he itself, which Fong proclaimed was “always explored Western art with a generation of right.” In 1956, he coauthored, with Sherman master scholars who had helped establish art Lee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the history as an academic discipline, including first monograph in the field,Streams and Kurt Weitzmann, George Rowley, and Erwin Mountains Without End: A Northern Song Panofsky. They were European medieval Handscroll and Its Significance in the History of and Renaissance specialists, but Rowley was Early Chinese Painting. Among his best-known experimenting with Chinese art study. When publications, often with student coauthors or he suggested that Fong turn his medieval coeditors, were Images of the Mind: Selections angels into apsaras, Fong was ready to follow from the Edward L. Elliott Family and John Rowley’s lead into an area he already knew B. Elliott Collections of Chinese Calligraphy first hand, and he wrote the first study of and Painting at The Art Museum, Princeton Buddhist art, authenticity, and authorship University (1984); Words and Images: Chinese using Western stylistic methods. Even Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting (1991, with before his Ph.D. graduation, the department Alfreda Murck *95); Beyond Representation: retained Fong as the country’s first East Asian Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Wen Fong, Art as History: Painting art historian with a native command of the Century (1992); Possessing the Past: Treasures and Calligraphy as One, published in language and culture. 2014, reprinted 2016 from the National Palace Museum, Taipei Wen Fong and fellow Princeton professor (1996); and The Embodied Image: Chinese Frederick Mote, of the Department of East Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection Asian Studies, established the country’s first (1999, with Robert E. Harrist *89). Wen Fong in the Tang Reading Ph.D. program in Chinese art history and Wen Fong was elected in 1991 to the Room, 2011 archaeology in 1959, requiring advanced American Philosophical Society and the Sinological training of its students. The hiring Academia Sinica in Taiwan. In 1998, he in 1962 of Professor Shūjirō Shimada from received the College Art Association’s the Kyoto National Museum broadened Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award. the program to include Japanese art. As a A two-volume festschrift was published in dedicated teacher, Fong built an ongoing his honor in 2011, with chapters by 30 of his cohort of outstanding graduate students, former students, among others: Bridges to supervising more than 30 completed Ph.D.s. Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of His students have since served as faculty Professor Wen C. Fong. In his final publication, and as museum curatorial and research staff Art as History: Calligraphy and Painting as in leading institutions on three continents, One (2014), Fong revisited eight issues that many producing graduate students of their had preoccupied him throughout his career own. Upon his retirement from teaching in and brought them up to date. Larger than 1999, Fong worked to establish Princeton’s life, Wen Fong left his deep personal mark P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East on art and art studies at Princeton and at Asian Art. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and on his Fong was constantly engaged in building many Princeton students. the Princeton art museum’s collection of Chinese art. During this period, the museum’s Jerome Silbergeld, P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Chinese collection gained international Professor of Chinese Art History, Emeritus 12 fall 2019

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Madeleine L. Haddon spent the 2018–19 intellectual activism. In June 2019, Lathrop’s academic year on a Fulbright Predoctoral Warhol Foundation-funded exhibition African Research Award in Madrid, where she was Modernism in America, 1947-1967, co-curated in residence at the Museo del Prado, the by Jamaal Sheats and Nikoo Paydar of Universidad Autónoma, and the Centro Fisk University Galleries in Nashville, was de Superiores Investigaciones Cientificas accepted by the board of the American (CSIC). At each institution she worked with Federation of Arts as a traveling exhibition professors and curators on research for her for 2022–23. She will edit the exhibition’s dissertation, “Local Color: Race, Ethnicity, accompanying multiauthor scholarly and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Paintings catalogue, to be copublished by Vanderbilt of Spain.” Her research also extended to University Press and the American Federation of Arts. [[email protected]] the collections and archives of the Museo Javier Rivero Ramos and Julieta Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Real Ying Sze Pek spent the 2018–19 academic González, Juan Downey, 1940–1993 Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, year on a German Academic Exchange the Biblioteca Nacional, the Museo Sorolla, Service (DAAD) research fellowship in and the Museo Lazaro Gáldiano. She was also Germany. She co-organized the half-day a fellow in residence at the Casa de Velázquez August 2019 symposium “To Institute the in Madrid in support of her dissertation Postcolonial,” which traced debates around research. Before beginning her Fulbright in the reception and institutionalization of September, she presented the first chapter of postcolonial theory within the cultural her dissertation in a paper entitled “Spain in field in Germany. Taking place at the noted Black and White: 1855–1882” at the Society of community space Südblock, in Berlin, Dix-Neuviémistes conference “(Re-)Shaping the event, which was supported by the Identities” at the University of Exeter. department and the Northwestern University During the course of her Fulbright grant, she Department of Art History, brought together gave presentations on her new research at scholars, artists, and cultural workers. the Association of Nineteenth-Century Art [[email protected]] Historians’ Graduate Student Symposium, Javier Rivero Ramos published the book at the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York, Juan Downey, 1940–1993 (Ediciones MP/RM and at “En Construcción,” the Universidad Verlag, 2019) together with fellow co-curator Autónoma de Madrid’s Department of Julieta González. The 565-page volume is the Art History Graduate Symposium, and she largest-ever monograph dedicated to the participated in the scholars’ symposium Chilean artist, featuring extensive archival “Sorolla: Master of Light” at the National research, more than four hundred artworks, Poster for the international workshop where Mi Tian presented Gallery, London, in conjunction with their and essays by Julieta González, Franceso her recent research exhibition of paintings by Joaquín Sorolla y Pellizzi, Felicity Scott, and Edward Shanken. Bastida (March 18–July 7, 2019). In April, Haddon It is the culmination of more than four years had the pleasure of giving a gallery talk at the of research and production conducted in Princeton University Art Museum, entitled association with the estate of Juan Downey Perrin Lathrop visiting Abraham “Coloring Race in Manet’s Gypsy with a and Ediciones MP. [[email protected]] Oghobase’s exhibition Layers of Time Cigarette” in conjunction with the museum’s and Place: What Lies Beneath at Art installation “Investigating Change in Manet’s Mi Tian participated in the June 2019 21 in Lagos, Nigeria (photo: Rufus Paintings.” [[email protected]] international Nwoko) workshop “Painting Perrin Lathrop spent the 2018–19 academic in China Around year at work on her dissertation, “A Sublime 1800,” hosted by Art: Akinola Lasekan and Colonial Modernism the Metropolitan in Nigeria.” She made related research trips Museum of Art to Lagos, Nigeria; Nashville, Tennessee; and and the Institute of Bayreuth, Germany. Her essay “The Artist at Fine Arts, New York Work: Akinola Lasekan’s Colonial Networks” University. As new will appear as a chapter in Akinola Lasekan: research in art history, Cartooning, Art, and Nationalism at the Dawn literature, and cultural of a New Nigeria (Bookcraft, 2019), the first history is beginning major peer-reviewed publication on the to demonstrate, the Nigerian modernist. She also presented attitudes of later research from her dissertation at a May 2019 Chinese painters were interdisciplinary conference at the University rooted in the work of Vienna that explored Pan-African of painters active fall 2019 13

750026 from 1790 to 1830. The tentatively titled China through the Lens, and workshop brought together she contributed to the exhibition A Lasting scholars of early-19th- Memento: John Thomson’s Photographs Along century Chinese painting the River Min (June 1, 2019–May 17, 2020). and calligraphy to showcase [[email protected]] new research on a body of Justin Willson spent 2018–19 in Moscow on material that has remained a Fulbright study/research grant. He was largely unknown and which affiliated with the Moscow State University is notoriously difficult to Department of Art Theory and the History classify, even to specialists. of Art, where his adviser was Professor Tian presented her recent Engelina Sergeevna Smirnova. Willson spent research on the “elegant the year doing research in archives and gathering” paintings commissioned by Zeng museum collections and traveling to various Yu, the salt distribution historic monuments in the Moscow region. commissioner in Yangzhou In addition to drafting his dissertation, he from the late 18th to the had two articles accepted for publication early 19th century. in art history journals this year: “Reading with the Evangelists: Portrait, Gesture, and Church of the Intercession on the Stephanie H. Tung’s Interpretation in the Byzantine Gospel Book,” Nerl, Vladimir, Russia, 12th century, spotlight on contemporary photographer one of the subjects of Justin in Studies in Iconography 41 (2020); and “A Willson’s recent research (photo: Ka-Man Tse appeared in Aperture’s fall 2018 Gift No More: A Byzantine Reliquary of the Justin Willson) issue, Family. Her book Ai Weiwei: Beijing Holy Cross,” in RES: Anthropology & Aesthetics Photographs, 1993–2003, coauthored with 73/74 (spring/autumn 2020). He is also the artist and John Tancock, was published publishing the essay “The Allegory of Wisdom by MIT Press in February 2019. The volume is in Chrelja’s Tower Seen through Philotheos a visual diary of the decade after Ai’s return Kokkinos” in North of Byzantium: Artistic and from New York, when he established his Cultural Interchange in Eastern Europe in the artistic and architectural practice in China. Late Middle Ages, edited by Maria Alessia In addition, Tung presented chapters from Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan (Brill, 2020). her dissertation on Republican Era art In summer 2019, Willson held a Liana Paredes photography at the March 2019 Association Fellowship at Hillwood Estate, Museum & of Asian Studies annual conference and the Gardens, in Washington. During the 2019–20 May 2019 workshop “Chinese Optics: Artful academic year, he will be a graduate research Looking,” organized by the Department of fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard at Princeton. [[email protected]] University and Harvard’s CAMLab (Chinese Arts Media Lab). At the Peabody Essex Museum, where she is currently an assistant New Dissertation Topics curator, Tung organized a conference on Gina Choi, “Reaching ‘Peach Blossom Spring’: 19th-century photography of China for a Poetry and Painting in Fifteenth-Century forthcoming exhibition she is co-curating, Japan and Korea” (Andrew Watsky)

Stephanie Tung et al., Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 1993–2003

Ph.D. recipients and their advisers (left to right): Professor Anne McCauley, Kjell Wangensteen *19, Ellen McFarlane *18, Holly Kileff Borham *19, Jamie Kwan *19, Rebecca Ben *19, Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

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750026 Suzie Hermán, “Beyond the Facade: Jaqueline Sturm, “The Bishop, His House, Mercantile Architecture of the German and His Church: Early Medieval Episcopal 2019 Faggen Prize Hanse, the Dutch East India Company, and Complexes in Italia Annonaria (300–600 the Dutch West India Company” (Thomas C.E.)” (Charles Barber and Nino Zchomelidse Miriam Chusid *16 has been awarded the 2019 Jane Faggen, DaCosta Kaufmann) [Johns Hopkins]) Ph.D., Dissertation Prize. Her Annemarie Iker, “Secrecy in the Art Kjell Wangensteen, “Hyperborean Baroque: dissertation, “Picturing the of Santiago Rusiñol and the Catalan David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628–98) and Afterlife: The Shōjuraigōji Six Modernistes” (Bridget Alsdorf) the Rhetoric of Style” (Thomas DaCosta Paths Scrolls and Salvation in Margaret Kurkoski, “Imperial Presence in the Kaufmann) Medieval Japan,” examines Villas of Roman Italy” (Michael Koortbojian) Fellowships for 2018–2019 the emergence of hell pictures used in rituals to benefit Yifu Liu, “Essai sur l’architecture Chinoise: Sria Chatterjee, Charlotte Elizabeth Procter the dead beginning in the Late-18th-Century Jesuit Studies of China” Fellowship 13th century. Focusing on a (Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann) Erica Cooke, Museum of Modern Art monumental set of 15 paintings Erene Morcos, “Greco-Latin Psalters and Fellowship depicting various scenes from Their Illustration: Bilingualism in the 13th the afterlife, the dissertation Century” (Charles Barber and Beatrice Sonia de Laforcade, Princeton Institute explores how visualities of Kitzinger) for International Regional Studies (PIIRS) hell, strategies of display, and Fellowship Francesca Pistone, “Manuscript Production religious knowledge rendered in the Abbey of Fleury, 798–1004” (Charles Erica DiBenedetto, Museum Research images of the infernal realms Barber and Beatrice Kitzinger) Consortium Fellowship, Museum of Modern Art as ritually effective objects that addressed a range Javier Rivero Ramos, “Poetics of Madeleine Haddon, Fulbright Fellowship, of postmortem concerns Dissemination in Latin America (1960–1980)” Spain and expectations within (Irene Small) Daniel Healey, Dean’s Completion Fellowship increasingly diverse Buddhist Hannah Smagh, “The Embeddedness of communities. By going beyond Caitlin Karyadi, Fulbright Fellowship, Japan Religion in the Classical Greek House and Its existing scholarly approaches Consequences for Social Practice” (Nathan Margaret Kurkoski, Lemmermann that seek to understand how Arrington) Foundation Fellowship image parallels doctrinal Wenjie Su, “Machines of Time, Towers of Perrin Lathrop, Dean’s Completion scripture, her study repositions Knowledge: Miniature Architectural Spaces Fellowship medieval visual practices within and the Design of Timepieces in Sino-Euro the narrative of Buddhist art Ben Murphy, Fulbright Fellowship, Brazil, and Encounters, 17th and 18th Centuries” history and addresses the Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship (Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann) foundational role that hell Ying Sze Pek, DAAD, German Academic images played in shaping Joanna Vickery, “Ethnographic Re-Telling: Exchange Service Research Grant, Germany the core of the Japanese The Art of Lothar Baumgarten” (Hal Foster) medieval worldview. Chusid’s Caitlin Ryan, Fulbright Fellowship, France dissertation was supervised by Dissertations Defended Kimia Shahi, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Professor Andrew Watsky. She in 2018–19 Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art is currently a visiting assistant Rebecca Ben, “Leonardo and the Borgias” Museum professor at Haverford College. The Faggen Dissertation (Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann) Nathan Stobaugh, Fulbright Fellowship, Prize, established by Jane Holly Kileff Borham, “The Art of Germany Faggen in 2007, recognizes Confessionalism: Picturing Lutheran, Justin Willson, Fulbright Fellowship, Russia a distinguished dissertation Reformed, and Catholic Faith in Northwest completed in that year or the Germany, 1580–1618” (Thomas DaCosta previous two years, selected Kaufmann) Professor Andrew Watsky with Miriam Chusid *16, winner of the 2019 Faggen Prize by the chair in consultation Jamie Kwan, “‘Un Roi, une Loi, une Foi’: Henri with department faculty. The IV and the Portrait of the King” (Thomas previous recipients of the DaCosta Kaufmann) award are Milette Gaifman Leigh Lieberman, “The Persistent Past: *05, Haicheng Wang *07, Refoundations in Sicily in the Fifth and Fourth Kristoffer Neville *07, Daniel Centuries B.C.E.” (Nathan Arrington) McReynolds *09, Katherine Marsengill *10, Annie Bourneuf Ellen Macfarlane, “Seeing Plus: The *11, Robert Glass *11, Johanna Photography of Group F.64” (Anne Heinrichs *13, Alexis Cohen *14, McCauley) Leslie Geddes *14, Emmelyn Peng Peng, “The Lost-Wax Casting in Bronze Butterfield-Rosen *15, and Age China: Art, Technology, and Social Abigail Newman *16. Agency” (Robert Bagley) fall 2019 15

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Julia Cury ’19 wrote a senior thesis on dealing with the mind’s most absurd realities early-20th-century fashion photographer before and during sleep, the show worked Baron Adolph de Meyer, titled “A Curated with psychological undertones that may Life: Adolph de Meyer’s Self-Fashioning reflect our deepest concerns and desires to into a Celebrity,” under the guidance of her understand the subconscious. On campus, adviser, Professor Anne McCauley. This year, Northrop was a member of the women’s she completed her term as president of the varsity fencing team and served as an A 1924 photograph of an unnamed student advisory board of the Princeton officer on the alumni relations team in the sitter by Adolph de Meyer, the University Art Museum, an organization she Entrepreneurship Club. Following graduation, subject of Julia Cury ’19’s thesis was involved in since her freshman year. she took on a managerial role exploring After graduation, she entered the marketing multiple facets of business operations. and advertising world, accepting a position as [[email protected]] an associate analyst for Sullivan, a boutique Charlotte Reynders ’19 wrote her senior brand engagement firm based in New York thesis, “Re-visions of Violence: Taboo City. [[email protected]] and Transformation in the Paintings of Louisa Molson ’19 researched the European Contemporary French-Algerian Artist Dalila consumption of Japanese art in the 19th Dalléas Bouzar,” under the guidance of century for her senior thesis, and analyzed Professor Bridget Alsdorf. In October 2018, how Vincent Van Gogh incorporated the Reynders had the opportunity to conduct visual language of the woodblock print into an in-person interview with Bouzar at Vincent van Gogh’s The Sower his own painting. Under the guidance of her studio in Bordeaux, which gave her (November, 1888), one of the works Professor Andrew Watsky, she examined the invaluable insight into the artist’s creative studied by Louisa Molson ’19 works of art Van Gogh created in Arles, in practice. Combining visual analysis with the south of France, between 1888 and 1889, political history, postcolonial theory, and and argued that he created— intentionally phenomenology, the thesis examines or not—what she terms a “Euro-Japanese Bouzar’s relationship both to the French aesthetic.” This year she will be an intern in painting tradition and to Algerian cultural the Old Masters department at Christie’s in memory. While at Princeton, Reynders New York. [[email protected]] served on the student advisory board of the Kate Northrop ’19 created her senior thesis Princeton University Art Museum and on the exhibition, “The Midnight,” under the editorial staff ofKunstkammer: Princeton guidance of Colleen Asper and Eve Aschheim, University Undergraduate Journal of Art. lecturers in the Program in Visual Arts, In addition, she cultivated her passion for and Professor Bridget Alsdorf. Using the educational access and equity by facilitating weekly after-school arts workshops in Detail of Kate Northrop ’19’s thesis backdrop of a typical teenager’s bedroom, exhibition, “The Midnight” her thesis aimed to foster a discussion of the Trenton and co-leading Princeton’s branch of worries, obsessions, thoughts, and dreams Matriculate, a college advising nonprofit that that might be encountered in a private and aims to support high-achieving, low-income The 2018–19 student advisory board high school students on their path to college. of the Princeton University Art personal space. The “furniture” of the room Museum at their 2018 gala, “Wonders consisted of works that metaphysically Next year she will continue to explore her of the Wilderness,” with President placed the viewer in both the teenager’s interest in education as a Project 55 Fellow Julia Cury ’19 holding the “Camp SAB” at Altitude Learning (formerly AltSchool), sign (photo: Ans Nawaz ’21) bedroom and state of mind. One such furnishing was a an educational technology company in San museum vitrine Francisco. [[email protected]] containing Sanneh ’19 created their thesis show, “Holy,” fictitious under the guidance of Deana Lawson and religious objects James Welling, professors in the Program in that satirized Visual Arts, and the department’s Professor the notion of Chika Okeke-Agulu. Through self-portraits display through and color photographs of friends and its placement strangers, Sanneh explored the relationships in an informal between black identity, family, history, setting while also gender, and religion. Using Ethiopian acknowledging Orthodox Christianity as a backdrop, “Holy” the existential worked to transfer the sacred and revered concerns of nature of religion onto black subjects, the bedroom’s creating a state of black being that refuses occupant. In to be defined solely in relation to whiteness, 16 fall 2019

750026 white history, or negative stereotypes. Stella and Rensselaer Sanneh is currently based in New York and W. Lee Prize is focusing on creating new works exploring Tamar Willis ’19, race and gender. They plan to pursue a career “Perceptions and in the arts. [[email protected]] Rejections of Pop, Pornography, and Rebecca Yuste-Golob ’19 wrote her Americanization senior thesis, “Are We Postmodern?: The in the Art of Tom Architectural Exhibition in Late Twentieth- Wesselmann” Century France” under the supervision of Irma S. Seitz Prize in Professor Carolyn Yerkes. She examined the Field of Modern four exhibitions in Paris in the early 1980s, Art three of which had not previously been Louisa Molson ’19, “Van Gogh’s Japan: studied. She argued that the exhibition Picturing an Unseen acted as a site of history-making, political Land” debate, and disciplinary positioning. During Frederick Barnard White Prize in Archaeology Jason, 2019, archival pigment print, her junior year, Yuste-Golob was selected to 44 × 66 inches, part of Sanneh’s be a spring semester student at Pembroke Noah Hastings ’19, “Chasing Splendid thesis show Eccentrics: Robert Hamilton, Khirbat College, Cambridge University, where she al-Mafjar, and Islamic Archaeology” studied with Paul Binski and Alexander Frederick Barnard White Prize in Marr. This past academic year, she was Architectural History a coeditor of Kunstkammer: Princeton Rebecca Yuste-Golob ’19, “Are We University Undergraduate Journal of Art and Postmodern? The Architectural a member of the student advisory board of Exhibition in Late Twentieth-Century the Princeton University Art Museum. As France” an undergraduate, she held internships at Frederick Barnard White Prize in the Princeton University Art Museum, the Art History Norman Foster Foundation, and the Whitney Brooke Hammarskjold ’19, Museum of American Art. This fall, she will “Landscape Painting, Urbanization, continue her studies in architectural history and the California Imaginary” as a doctoral candidate in the Department Grace May Tilton Prize in Fine Arts of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia Brooke Hammarskjold ’19, University, under the supervision of Barry “Landscape Painting, Urbanization, Bergdoll. During summer 2019, she traveled and the California Imaginary” in Europe and enjoyed doing what she loves Herbert L. Lucas Award in most: photographing buildings. Visual Arts [[email protected]] Kyra Gregory ’19, “The Lady’s Room” Isaiah Nieves ’19, “origen” 2019 Senior Thesis Prizes Pearl Thompson ’19, “Dazzle Art and Archaeology Senior Thesis Prize Camouflage / Cloak Cloak” Charlotte Reynders ’19, “Re-Visions of Yuanyuan Zhao ’19, “Elephant” Violence: Taboo and Transformation in the Lewis Center for the Arts Paintings of Contemporary French-Algerian Toni Morrison Award Professor Bridget Alsdorf and Artist Dalila Dalléas Bouzar” Sanneh ’19, “Holy” Charlotte Reynders ’19 on Class Day (photo: Charlton Reynders ’80)

2019 senior thesis prize winners. Front row, left to right: Noah Hastings ’19, Tamar Willis ’19, Louisa Molson ’19, Brooke Hammarskjold ’19, Charlotte Reynders ’19, Kyra Gregory ’19; back row, left to right: Rebecca Yuste-Golob ’19, Pearl Thompson ’19, Sanneh ’19, Yuanyuan Zhao ’19, Isaiah Nieves ’19 fall 2019 17

750026 Archaeology News

Abydos, Egypt both cases, the gateways did not allow direct access into the interior space, but The 2019 season of the North Abydos rather included interior screening walls Expedition, a joint project co-directed by the that directed entrants through a kind of department’s Professor Deborah Vischak and View of the conserved northeast antechamber. In the antechamber visitors Matthew Adams of the Institute of Fine Arts gate of the Shunet el-Zebib at could transition from the secular world Abydos showing the interior at New York University, focused primarily on outside the monument, shutting out views of antechamber conservation and site management at several the surrounding environment, and prepare locations across the site. themselves to enter the sacred ritual space Work on the architectural conservation of the interior. Over the course of the 2019 of the Shunet el-Zebib, the great Second season, the remnants of these entrance walls Dynasty (ca. 2700 B.C.E.) were capped with new mudbrick masonry, mudbrick enclosure that stands recapturing the original shape of the at the center of the expedition’s gateways and, in so doing, making it possible concession, was a major focus of for modern visitors to gain some sense of the 2019 season. The results of how the architecture originally functioned. this season’s work were especially The expedition’s first steps through finished satisfying, as conservation efforts conservation work provided an experience focused on two of the four unlike any other during many years of work original gateways leading into at the Shuneh. the enclosure—at the northeast The conservation project necessitated corner and at the southern end of excavation around the southeast gateway, the east wall. The gateway areas where abundant funerary remains were have long been at risk of decay, recovered. The 35 excavated burials were given the vulnerability of their View of the Thirtieth Dynasty almost evenly divided between adults and pylon of the Temple of Osiris in exposed edges and being subject to human children, and they covered a wide time span, Kom el-Sultan contact, yet, because these areas were not beginning in the late Middle Kingdom (ca. as likely to collapse as the higher interior 1650 B.C.E.) and continuing into the Third wall sections, the latter have been the focus Intermediate Period (ca. 650 B.C.E.). Three of of previous conservation work. As crucial as the latter era burials had beautifully painted those conservation efforts have been for the View of the conserved gateway coffins that will undergo more extensive continued integrity of the monument, they at the south end of the east wall conservation work in future seasons. did not have the same visitor impact as this of the Shunet el-Zebib, with head The second major area of work was the architectural conservator Tony season’s work on the two gateways. Temple of Osiris in Kom el-Sultan, where the Crosby (fourth from left) and head These gateways were the primary points focus was on uncovering the foundation of of the Egyptian crew Reis Ibrahim of access from the low desert expanse (fourth from right), along with the the massive stone pylon that fronted the expert Quftis who guided the work into the sacred space of the enclosure. In

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750026 ancient temple. The stone foundations of the 2013–15 and is currently editing the final pylon that remain in situ date to the Thirtieth publication of the first campaign as the Program in Dynasty (ca. 380 B.C.E.), an era that saw new project unfolds. The site, described by Archaeology Events significant rebuilding of temples all across Herodotus, was colonized by Thasos in the Egypt. Early phases of the temple dating back 7th or 6th century B.C.E., and it occupied such September 28 to at least the early New Kingdom (ca. 1400 an important geopolitical position that it was Claire Lyons B.C.E.) have been discovered, suggesting often the bone of J. Paul Getty Museum that the surviving contention between Painting Etruscan Tombs and pylon was part of one competing powers Temples of these rebuilding Cosponsored by the Archaeological in the north Aegean, Institute of America projects. The scale such as Athens and of the pylon—70 Maroneia. Tumulus October 25 meters long by 15 burials of the 5th Irene Soto Marín meters thick—closely century B.C.E. dotted University of Basel, Switzerland matches that of the the landscape, and The Monetary Supply of Late Antique Egypt: Local, Global, still standing temple the city flourished and “Illegal” Sources of Horus at Edfu, in the 4th century and testifies to the Cosponsored by the Committee for B.C.E., with the Study of Late Antiquity great cultural and A Third Intermediate Period painted coffin reoccupation in the November 8 religious significance of Late Roman and Early this temple and its god Osiris to the ancient Israel Finkelstein Byzantine periods. Tel Aviv University Egyptians. The primary goals in exposing the The project uniquely combines both The Arid Negev Highlands pylon were to clarify the great importance excavation and surface survey, allowing for (Southern Israel) in the Iron Age: of this area of the site and thus to encourage the investigation of the relationship between The Impact of the Exact and Life its protection, and to present the Ministry of a city and its hinterland from a diachronic Sciences Antiquities with additional possibilities for perspective. Moreover, specialists are Cosponsored by the Institute for tourist interest at the site. Additional work closely involved in the excavation and survey Advanced Study furthering both goals will be part of future processes, allowing immediate feedback on November 9 seasons. bones, plants, and artifacts. The project runs Israel Finkelstein in conjunction with Art 304, “Archaeology Tel Aviv University Molyvoti, Thrace in the Field,” a credit-bearing course that Jerusalem in Biblical Times: The Molvyoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project Arrington offers to a select group of 12 Comments on the Archaeology received a five-year permit from the Greek Princeton undergraduates. The students and History of Jerusalem, ca. government to begin a new campaign in rotate through all aspects of the project 1350–100 B.C.E. 2019 at the site known as Ancient Stryme. (excavation, survey, and lab), attend lectures Cosponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study The project operates under the auspices of and seminars, take modern Greek, and travel the American School of Classical Studies at on Saturdays to regional archaeological sites. November 10 Nathan Arrington, Rachael DeLue Athens and in close collaboration with the The first campaign uncovered a complete Princeton University Rhodopi Ephorate of Antiquities. Professor 4th-century B.C.E. house, known as the Ian Burrow, Wade Catts Nathan Arrington directed the project in House of the Gorgon. It was destroyed in Professional archaeologists Christopher Wilson ’21 and Natasha Montiel ’22 excavate a temple in Aegean Thrace The Princeton Battlefield: Public Archaeology Day February 15 Marcus Milwright University of Victoria Architecture, Ornament, and the Qur’an Fragments from the Mosque of San’a in Yemen Cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America March 15 Pearce Paul Creasman University of Arizona Excavations at a Forgotten Female Pharaoh’s “Temple of Millions of Years” Cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America April 10 Thomas Hare Princeton University The Black Sphinxes of Tanis fall 2019 19

750026 the mid-4th century, probably by Philip or undergraduate course, “Battle Lab: The the Thracians, but, unlike many plundered Battle of Princeton.” Drawing on multiple sites, it was reoccupied and revitalized disciplines, including history, art history, shortly thereafter. The settlement was archaeology, engineering, computer wealthier than excavators expected, with science, historic preservation, and American wall painting, antefixes, fine pottery, coins (in studies, the course examined the pivotal the hundreds), writing, and jewelry. Whereas Revolutionary War battle that took place in most colonies in Thrace were oriented Princeton on January 3, 1777. Collaborating toward mining, activity at Stryme focused on with local experts—including the Princeton the production of grain and on an abundant Battlefield Society, the New Jersey State trade of amphoras and their contents, Park Service, the Princeton Historical probably wine or fish. Traces of indigenous Society, cultural heritage and battlefield Thracian activity at the site are slight but tantalizing, including loom weights, pottery, archaeologists, and specialists from and coins. Princeton’s Rare The site already Books and Special has changed our Collections—the conceptions of Greek class excavated colonization in the several sections north, the nature of the battlefield of trading ports, and researched and Aegean trade the larger social, networks. In the economic, religious, new campaign, the and political Kevin Tong ’22 uncovers the project is focusing on contexts of the 4th-century B.C.E. House of Hermes uncovering a second conflict, including house, the House its relationship to of Hermes, in order Christian Maines ’21 uses the Total Station to plot the histories of slavery to have comparative location of an artifact and indigenous material that will allow for a more refined cultures in 18th-century New Jersey. A visit analysis of the way houses were built and to the Museum of the American Revolution used in this part of the Greek world. The survey is extending beyond the immediate in Philadelphia supplemented the students’ hinterland of the city to a distance more than classroom and on-site work, as did close an hour’s walk from the walls in order to study of Charles Willson Peale’s famous investigate how settlement activity changed portrait of George Washington in the as distance from the city increased. It is Princeton University Art Museum. The course also investigating the role of the Roman Via also hosted a Public Archaeology Day, when Egnatia in changing settlement patterns. members of the public toured the battlefield, Last but not least, the project discovered an learned about its history from local experts, extra-urban temple in 2015, which it began and participated in several aspects of the excavating in 2019, in order to elucidate the excavation, including metal detecting, sacred landscape of Thrace. ground-penetrating radar, and artifact study. The course was generously supported Battle Lab by Princeton’s Humanities Council, with Professor Nathan Arrington In fall 2018, Professors Nathan Arrington and additional support from the department and demonstrates sieving soil for small finds to Public Archaeology Rachael DeLue debuted an experimental the Program in American Studies. Day participant Nicholas Alsdorf Cronan in search of clues about the 18th-century Clark House and the Battle of Princeton during Public Archaeology Day

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750026 Seminar Study Trips

Arts and Architecture in Paris department. The participants were Sharif Anous, Angelique Firmalino, During 2018 fall break week, Professors Basile Chase Galis, Larissa Guimarães, Baudez and Anne McCauley, accompanied Matthew Maldonado, Domenica by Joe Scanlan, professor of visual arts in Massamby, Alexsander Musial, the Lewis Center for the Arts, introduced Peter Pak, and Mariah Smith. a group of 13 undergraduate majors to the Basile Baudez, assistant professor architectural, artistic, cultural, and culinary of architectural history in the highlights of greater Paris. On the day of their department, led the seminar. Professor Basile Baudez and students behind the scenes in the arrival, Scanlan took interested students The first day was spent at the Isabella to the contemporary art space La Maison former anatomy department of the Stewart Gardner Museum, where the class École des Beaux-Arts Rouge. The following day began with a walk met with textiles conservator Tess Fredette. around the Ile de la Cité and surrounding They discussed the challenges and decisions quais, including a visit inside Notre Dame, behind the restoration and reinstallation followed by an afternoon in the Louvre, of the silk and velvet wall paneling of the where students were able to examine objects recently completed Raphael Room. Later that were the subjects of their fall Junior that day, the students visited the museum’s Papers, listen to faculty presentations, and conservation laboratory to analyze fabric roam at will. Other days were devoted to the samples and discuss the strategies of Musée d’Orsay and the Centre Pompidou. restoration of the Titian Room. They On their visit to the Musée des Arts also had the opportunity to have a Décoratifs, the group was greeted by quick look at the restoration in progress director Olivier Gadet, had a guided tour of the museum’s Rape of Europa by of the newly installed post-1950s galleries, Titian. On the following day, the class and visited the drawings cabinet to look at toured the newly reconceived Harvard a sampling of the collection with curator Art Museums and Harvard Graduate Bénédicte Gady. At the École des Beaux- School of Design before heading to the Arts, the majors experienced the life of MIT campus. There, themes that had a 19th-century art student by touring the been discussed in the seminar—such anatomy amphitheater and collection, the as concepts of textility, wrapping, chapel with samples of the copies that were veiling, and cladding in contemporary staples of artistic training, and an exhibition architecture—were confronted with of 19th-century architectural drawings. built examples that included the Ray Elizabeth Schwartz ’20 and Sydney Wilder ’20 in the Centre Pompidou Special treats were a meeting with textile and Maria Stata Center, by Frank Gehry; the artist Sheila Hicks in her studio and a dinner in MIT chapel and Kresge Auditorium, by Eero the home of Catherine and Serge Sobczynski. Saarinen; and the Baker House Dormitory, by On Thursday, after an energetic tour of Alvar Aalto. the royal apartments, Hameau de la Reine, Grand Trianon, and gardens at Versailles, the Medieval Wall Painting in Italy ever-enthusiastic culture vultures headed and Switzerland for Charles Garnier’s Opéra (which they Thanks to generous funding from the had studied in its architectural model in the Tess Fredette, conservator of textiles department and the Learning Across Borders Musée d’Orsay) for an homage to American at the Isabella Stewart Gardner initiative of the vice provost for international choreographer Jerome Robbins. Museum (second from right), affairs, the graduate seminar Art speaking to students in Art 538 This was the first departmental overseas 537, “‘Influence’ and Innovation field trip organized jointly for students in in Medieval Art,” traveled to the History of Art and Practice of Art Tracks, Italy and Switzerland over allowing students and faculty with very spring break 2019 to study the different interests to come together. The greatest surviving cluster of department’s undergraduate coordinator, early medieval wall painting and Sam Evans, was invaluable in facilitating the stucco. The course, taught by planning of the trip. Professor Beatrice Kitzinger, focused on the interaction Textile Architecture in Boston of artistic traditions in the On December 14, 2018, graduate students in historic region of Churrätia Art 583, “Textile Architecture,” left Princeton (Switzerland) and the Lombard for a two-day field trip to Boston and territory conquered by Cambridge, Massachusetts, funded by the Charlemagne in 774. The sites fall 2019 21

750026 studied demand consideration medieval archaeology and art history. of reception and innovation in Former Princeton Visiting Student Research multiple media and techniques, Collaborator Sabine Utz joined the group in an archaeological approach to Müstair, and Professor Saverio Lomartire architecture and its decoration, guided them through the royal graves of and close attention to spatial Pavia. Luca Villa in Cividale and Michael aspects of program, inscription, and Wolf in Müstair took the class deep into the iconography—making in situ study archaeology, conservation, and technical especially valuable. study of the monuments, opening especially The trip began in the jewel-like lively discussions on paint composition, ducal chapel of Cividale del Friuli, stucco installation technique, and plaster a multimedia extravaganza of application. Each student led a conversation virtuoso stucco, wall painting, stone that ensured variety in the lines of discussion: Studying the stucco figures at Cividale (left to right): Beatrice carving, and, originally, mosaic. The space in Cividale, Meseret Oldjira commented on Leal; graduate students Francesca as the class saw it has not been accessible the chapel stuccoes with reference to a Pistone, Erene Morcos, and Erin for many generations, thanks to the range of comparanda, and Sopio Gagoshidze Piñon deinstallation of the late medieval choir stalls (Rutgers) compared the Lombard stone that had occupied the lower walls. Traveling carving to Georgian work, while Erene on to the royal Lombard basilica of Brescia, Morcos inaugurated a discussion of the students continued discussing the inscriptions that stretched across the sites. In relationship between painting and stucco, Müstair, Janice Cheon ’20 and Nomi Schneck and enjoyed a visit to the stunning Roman– proposed new ways to think about narrative medieval collections of Brescia’s Santa Giulia composition in its architectural setting. Museum. They then crossed the Alps on Francesca Pistone took up the stylistic puzzle Charlemagne’s route to reach Müstair and at Castelseprio, and Erin Piñon thought Mals, along with the 12th-century painted through the spatial function of painted crypt at Marienberg. Intensive conservation textiles at Torba. work continues at Müstair; the class visited From the crypts of Pavia to the vaults the recently reopened Holy Cross Chapel and of Müstair, the class gained precious new mounted scaffolding in the central apse to views of the monuments—both experiential study the early medieval painting and its mid- and scholarly—that informed and redefined 20th-century restoration up close. Leaving the seminar discussions for the rest of the snowy Switzerland, the group looped back semester. Special thanks are due to the hosts south by way of a hike to the dramatic hilltop and to Francesca Pistone, who gracefully church at Civate before visiting the highly coordinated entry to Castelseprio and Civate, refined presbytery painting at Castelseprio and found a way for the group to see the Looking at the graves of Lombard and the enigmatic two-story nuns’ tower spectacular late-10th-century golden Pax queens in San Felice, Pavia, now at Torba. The last day took the group back of Chiavenna. Most valuable of all on such the study library of the university’s to royal churches in the Lombard capital of Department of Economics, during excursions is the experience of sustained exam season Pavia and finished in the treasury of Milan. looking-in-conversation, for which each The seminar participants were fortunate participant in the excursion is to be thanked. to be in conversation with a bevy of colleagues on the road who welcomed them Visual Culture in Japan Students in the class “Visual Japan, with extraordinarily generous access to the Past and Present” witnessing the sites, opened new outlooks based in various The 12 undergraduate students in Professor Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima disciplines, and stimulated vivid dialogue Andrew Watsky’s seminar Art/East Asian (photo: Sam Evans) with the latest hypotheses, Studies 429, “Visual Japan, Past and discoveries, and technical Present,” spent the 2019 spring break methods for studying wall traveling through Japan, accompanied by painting and stucco. Princeton Sam Evans, undergraduate administrator in medievalists Charles Barber the department, and Ueda Keiko, a Tokyo- and Sally Poor brought based gallerist. The seminar had spent expertise from Byzantium the weeks before spring break studying and historical linguistics, premodern Japanese art in the classroom respectively. Professor John and the Princeton University Art Museum, Mitchell of the University of building a foundation of knowledge that East Anglia and Beatrice Leal served the group well on the ground in of Oxford University, longtime Japan, where it visited many of the places specialists on the monuments studied in the classroom and experienced a at hand, approached each wide variety of art forms—including painting, site afresh and framed new sculpture, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, and questions for the group from gardens—in context. broad perspectives of early The trip was designed to move through Japan with an eye to chronology, and so 22 fall 2019

750026 it began, bright and early on the first day study its memorialization in the country, with an hour-long bus ride of the atomic bombing from the hotel in Kyoto to the outskirts of devastation, including a Nara to visit the early-8th-century Hōryūji, special lecture by a survivor. the oldest extant Buddhist temple in Japan, The final two days of the trip and its trove of early Buddhist architecture took the students, finally, and sculpture. In the afternoon at Tōdaiji, to the modern megalopolis founded in the mid-8th century, a senior of Tokyo, where they went priest guided the group through its Great to Hama Rikyū, the garden Buddha Hall, one of the largest wooden estate of the former shogun buildings in the world, and up onto the dais rulers of Japan, now with of its 15-meter-high bronze statue of the a forest of steel-and-glass Great Buddha; there, students were able skyscrapers as its “borrowed to study up close the 1200-year-old base of scenery.” They also visited enormous bronze lotus petals engraved with temples, museums, and Making ceramics with Ōtani Shirō, in Shigaraki (photo: Sam Evans) scenes of the Buddhist cosmos. galleries, meeting with curators and Subsequent days took the students contemporary artists. through Kyoto, where they visited, among All of the students had individual other sites, a Buddhist sculptor’s studio; the projects—covering such topics as fashion home of a family devoted for centuries to the old and new, Buddhist pilgrimage, tattoos, tea culture of Japan, with an exemplary tea textiles, and architecture—and everyone room, Hanshōan; a center for the restoration struck out on their own to pursue research of traditional architecture; rock gardens in Kyoto and Tokyo. Throughout the trip, the and Zen temples; the Miho Museum, just seminar explored the full range of Japanese outside Kyoto, designed by I. M. Pei; and the cuisine, an art form of its own, especially in ancient ceramics town of Shigaraki, for an relation to ceramics (the topic one student afternoon with renowned potter Ōtani Shirō. examined as her research project). The seminar made a day trip to Hiroshima to

Lectures and Conferences

Fake Friends: A Symposium on graduate student-organized conference. Art History and Comparison This is what graduate students Mostafa Graduate Student Conference Heddaya and Christopher Barrett-Lennard November 29 and 30, 2018 sought to accomplish when they proposed Participants in the graduate what eventually became “Fake Friends,” a conference “Fake Friends.” Front Questions of method have a way of tangling symposium on comparison and similitude in row, left to right: Saul Nelson, Joe themselves into formats or effects—just and around art history that was held in the Bucciero, David X. Borgonjon, Tausif Noor, Caroline A. Jones, Tanja ask a media theorist (or don’t). One way department on November 30, 2018, with to parry with the recursive thicket of Michalsky, Roko Rumora; back row, an opening public program and screening left to right: Amelia Ames, Joan Kee, methodology is to double down on it, and organized with the Institute of Contemporary Jaleh Mansoor, Julia E. Robinson *08, what better place for conceptual excess Art in Philadelphia the preceding evening. Andrew Norman Wilson, Mostafa than the most idiosyncratic forum of all, the Heddaya, Christopher Barrett- The symposium’s title also records a debt Lennard, Klaus Krüger

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750026 to the work on pseudomorphism by Erwin manuscripts—one that presents 9th-century Department Lectures Panofsky and Yve-Alain Bois. full-page images of Christ, the Mother of and Conferences Heddaya and Barrett-Lennard had the God, and three of four evangelists in a honor of welcoming a stimulating and 12th-century codex—to meditate upon topics Fall 2018 diverse group of scholars and practitioners addressed by two distinguished former to Princeton, and the pleasure of seeing an October 11 members of Princeton’s Department of Art audience assembled from all corners of the Gennifer Weisenfeld and Archaeology. The origin and significance department, campus, and New York and of evangelist portraits were a major concern Duke University Philadelphia to hear the speakers: Caroline Electric Design: Light, Labor, in the scholarship of Albert Mathias Friend Walker Bynum, Shira Brisman, Caroline Jr. (1894–1956), and the methods used in the and Leisure in Prewar Japanese A. Jones, Joan Kee, Jaleh Mansoor, Tanja study of medieval manuscripts had shaped Advertising Michalsky, Saul Nelson, Julia E. Robinson *08, the research and teaching of Kurt Weitzmann October 18 Roko Rumora, and Andrew Norman Wilson. (1904–93). In responding to their legacy, Jeffrey Hamburger The full call for papers and schedule can be Nees invited the large audience to think Harvard University seen at fakefriends.princeton.edu. beyond an analysis guided by the pursuit of Mindmapping: The Diagram “Fake Friends” was shaped in pictorial stemmata. In so doing, he asked us Paradigm in the Middle Ages— foundational ways by the generosity to step away from the search for the ultimate and Beyond of graduate students and faculty in the department and elsewhere. The project origins of Gospel illumination and the “author November 8 would not have evolved as it did, or would portrait” and to contemplate instead the Ralph Ubl not have happened at all, without support, possibilities proposed by the deployment of a University of Chicago succor, and/or thoughtful feedback from, wide-ranging network of comparanda. Delacroix’s Lyric Form among others, department Professors Building upon the wealth of his prolific November 30 Charles Barber, Brigid Doherty, Nathan scholarship on early medieval, Byzantine, Graduate Student Conference Arrington, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Hal Foster, and Islamic art, Nees demonstrated how Fake Friends: A Symposium on Irene Small, and Anna Arabindan-Kesson, the standing evangelist portraits deserve Art History and Comparison as well as scholars elsewhere throughout to be considered in light of a broad context the world; Department Manager that reaches beyond the parameters of the Maureen Killeen; Graduate Administrator tradition of Greek book illumination. His Diane Schulte; Media Specialist Marilyn argument built upon an understanding of Hansen; Computing Support Specialist the flexibility of this type, using numerous Julie Angarone; and photographer John witnesses in Syriac, Ge‘ez, Arabic, Coptic, Blazejewski. The incisive responses and and Latin manuscripts to underscore the other intellectual labors of graduate student breadth and variety of options available to colleagues Amelia Ames, Joe Bucciero, Sonia artists at a given moment and within a given, de Laforcade, Daniel Healey, Rhiannon Pare, yet connected, culture of book production David Xu Borgonjon (Columbia University), and consumption. This modified approach, and Tausif Noor (Institute of Contemporary aimed at opening possibilities rather Art, University of Pennsylvania) were than constraining the object in light of its also crucial. If nothing else, the aim of the reconstructed origins, raised new questions symposium was to stage a small space for being open to collaboration, as they were, regarding the function of the manuscript’s and thinking critically in common, as they did. inserted miniatures. Finally, and along the same lines, the good Nees drew attention specifically to news is that not only was the symposium the agency of the book illuminator, the stimulating for a variety of attendees but movement of books across cultures, and Poster for the Kurt Weitzmann that the department’s practice of hosting the value that accrued to particular visual Lecture an annual graduate-student-organized solutions to the problem posed by the conference will continue, with a future “author portrait.” The lecture’s sensitivity conclave, “(A)synchrony: Recurrence, to variety, flexibility, and creativity allowed Reversal, and Resistance,” slated for March Nees to consider the precise implications 26–28, 2020. of the differences among the evangelist portraits in this manuscript, asking about Kurt Weitzmann Lecture the significance of John’s display of an open March 11, 2019 book, rather than the closed books of Mark Lawrence Nees, professor of art history and Luke. The lecture breathed fresh life into and the H. Fletcher Brown Chair of a well-known set of images. Already notable the Humanities at the University of for their reuse, surely a marker of value, Delaware, delivered the twelfth annual as well as their early date, they have now, Professors Charles Barber (left), and thanks to Nees, become points of departure Beatrice Kitzinger (right) with the Kurt Weitzmann Memorial Lecture. His Kurt Weitzman Lecturer, Lawrence paper was entitled “The Princeton Garrett for rethinking the study of illuminated books Nees 6 Evangelists Revisited.” The lecture in the complex and expansive book culture(s) deployed one of Princeton University’s own of the Early Middle Ages. 24 fall 2019

750026 James F. Haley ’50 Lecture architecture, and visual culture, seeking to April 15, 2019 challenge the ways in which we think about Department Lectures artistic production in Eastern Europe. In Deborah Swallow, the Märit Rausing the later centuries of the Byzantine empire, Spring 2019 Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and especially in the decade after the fall of University of London, delivered the 2019 March 11 Constantinople in 1453, Serbia, Bulgaria, and KURT WEITZMANN LECTURE James F. Haley ’50 Memorial Lecture on the Romanian principalities of Wallachia, April 15, 2019. Her talk, titled “Art and Its Lawrence Nees Moldavia, and Transylvania, among other Institutions: A View from London’s Somerset University of Delaware centers, took on prominent roles in House,” drew on her The Princeton Garrett 6 the transmission and diverse career as a curator, Evangelists Revisited appropriation of western scholar, trustee, and chair medieval, Byzantine, and March 13 of various arts institutions Slavic artistic traditions, as Sabeth Buchmann and organizations in the well as the transformation Akademie der bildenden United Kingdom and India. of the cultural legacy of Künste, Vienna Opening up a view of the Subjects Put to the Test: Byzantium. To address this future of art institutions Learning Exercises in phenomenon, speakers through contemporary Contemporary Art institutional engagement from Serbia, Cyprus, with the arts in the light Ukraine, Switzerland, April 4 Professor Michael Koortbojian with Russia, Austria, Greece, Whitney Davis of new funding initiatives, Deborah Swallow at the Haley Lecture local politics, and Romania, the United University of California, Berkeley international alliances, her talk also touched Kingdom, and the United States came to Art and Global Psychological on the histories of colonial museums in India. Princeton to examine issues of cultural Modernity Widely known for her exhibitions and contact, transmission, and appropriation April 11 research initiatives on Indian and Southeast of western medieval, Byzantine, and Slavic Caroline van Eck Asian art, and the relationships between artistic and cultural traditions in Eastern University of Cambridge art and anthropology, Swallow joined Europe. They also engaged with the issue Piranesi’s Colossal Candelabra, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Indian of how this heritage was deployed to shape Totem Poles, and Other Varieties Department in 1983 and served as the notions of identity and visual rhetoric in these of Zoomorphism in the Age of director of collections and keeper of the regions, which formed a cultural landscape Neoclassicism Asian Department between 2001 and 2004. beyond medieval, Byzantine, and modern She established the Nehru Trust for the borders. April 15 JAMES F. HALEY ’50 MEMORIAL LECTURE Indian Collections at the Victoria and Albert The event included two keynote lectures, Deborah Swallow Museum in New Delhi, which encourages the nine papers, and a roundtable discussion, Courtauld Institute of Art study, preservation, and display of India’s as well as a film screening and exhibition Art and Its Institutions: A View art and cultural heritage and has supported related to unique footage from 1929, recently from London’s Somerset House new scholarship from Indian and U.K. discovered at Princeton by Visual Resources scholars for more than a decade. Swallow staff, that records monastic life at Mount continues to work toward establishing close Athos and Meteora, Greece (see page 33). working relationships both with South Asian The speakers also took part in two study communities in the U.K. and with institutions sessions showcasing the Princeton University across India. Art Museum’s and Firestone Library’s art collections. Papers presented at the Eclecticism at the Edges: symposium, together with additional invited Medieval Art and Architecture essays, will be published in a volume with at the Crossroads of the Latin, the goal of expanding and theorizing about Greek, and Slavic Cultural the eclectic visual cultures of the Balkan Spheres (c. 1300–c. 1550) Peninsula and the Carpathian Mountain regions during the late medieval period. April 5–6, 2019 The co-organizers of the “Eclecticism This two-day international symposium In addition to the Jaharis Center, the at the Edges” symposium: Maria was co-organized by Maria Alessia Rossi, symposium was cosponsored by the Alessia Rossi (left) and Alice Sullivan postdoctoral researcher at the Index of Princeton Institute for International Medieval Art, and Alice Sullivan, Getty/ and Regional Studies, the Seeger ACLS postdoctoral fellow at the University Center for Hellenic Studies with the of Michigan, as part of North of Byzantium, support of the Stanley J. Seeger a larger three-year initiative funded by the Hellenic Fund, the Department of Art Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and and Archaeology and the Index of Culture. Medieval Art at Princeton University, In response to the global turn in art the International Center of Medieval history and medieval studies, this event Art, and the Society of Historians of explored the temporal and geographical East European, Eurasian, and Russian parameters of the study of medieval art, Art and Architecture. fall 2019 25

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During the 2018–19 academic year, the Pieter Schenk’s Picturae Sinicae ac Surattenae, Marquand Library, under the direction of Vasis Tabellisque Exhibitae (1702), one of the Head Librarian Holly Hatheway, continued few chinoiserie albums thought to derive its long tradition of acquiring new and directly from authentic Chinese sources, such antiquarian materials as ink drawings of famous with a focus on service people accompanied by and outreach. Items from transcriptions of Confucian the library’s collections teachings. Signa Antiqua e appeared in several Museo Jacobi de Wilde… notable exhibitions, (1700) is an early catalogue including Chippendale’s of a private collection Director: The Designs of ancient antiquities and Legacy of a Furniture authored and illustrated by Detail of title page of Lorenzo Maker at the Metropolitan a woman, Maria de Wilde, Mondanari, Villa Laurentii…(1541) Museum of Art. The library daughter of the collector also contributed nine Jacob de Wilde. books, many featured Marquand also added in past newsletters, to some spectacular festival the inaugural exhibition books: a 1625 publication Welcome Additions: celebrating the visit Selected Acquisitions 2012– of Prince Władysław 18 in the newly opened Portrait of Maria de Wilde from Signa Sigismund Vasa–Jagiellon, Ellen and Leonard Milberg Antiqua e Museo Jacobi de Wilde (1700) (later king of Poland) to Gallery in Firestone Library. the Archduchess Maria (All nine titles have been fully digitized and Maddelena of Austria, joint regent of are available online via the Digital Princeton Florence, includes La Liberazione di Ruggiero University Library website, dpul.princeton. dall’Isola d’Alcina, considered to be the edu). Use of Marquand’s special collections first opera by a female composer, with in courses continued to grow this year, as music composed by Francesca Caccini and did opportunities for public programing, illustrations of the sets and the ducal palace including the presentation of seven Islamic by the Parigi family; and Pierre de Bretagne’s manuscript facsimiles to visitors attending Rejouissances et fêtes magnifiques… (1723), Princeton’s Office of Religious Life event which commemorates the marriage of the “Muslims & Manuscripts.” The staff at Electoral Duke of Bavaria to Princess Maria Marquand looks forward to continuing to Amalia of Austria, with 20 double-page plates preserve the library’s collections and find of festivities in the palaces and gardens at creative ways to share content with scholars, Nymphenburg and Schleissheim. Title page of Giovanni Battista both onsite and around the globe. Significant additions to Marquand’s stellar Piranesi, Campus Martius Antiquae Many notable acquisitions collection of depictions of the Urbis (1762) were made for the Marquand antiquities of Rome include a collection this past year. magnificent copy of Giovanni Medieval and Renaissance Battista Piranesi’s Campus items of note include Mirabilia Martius Antiquae Urbis (1762), Romae (ca. 1475), one of the featuring the “Ichnographia,” earliest editions of the first an enormous foldout plan pilgrims’ guides to the city showing Piranesi’s visionary of Rome; Joachim de Fiore’s re-creation of this area of Revelationes super Statum ancient Rome; and Jean Summorum Pontificum Barbault’s Recueil de divers [1511–12], a scarce book of monumens anciens… (1770), papal prophecies attributed with 104 plates. Pascal- to the pseudo-Joachim de Xavier Coste’s Monuments Fiore, illustrated with 31 modernes de la Perse (1867), remarkable woodcuts, each Cover of Quatre gats (1899) lavishly illustrated with 56 combining image, text, and plates (some folding and eight Detail of mosaic tiles at the Royal Mosque, Isfahan, from Pascale- motto; and Villa Laurentii…(1541), a unique in chromolithography), joins Coste’s earlier Xavier Coste, Monuments modernes copy of Lorenzo Mondanari’s descriptive publication of ancient Persian architecture of de la Perse (1867) poem about Cardinal Trivulzio’s villa and the region already in Marquand’s collection. (lost) gardens near Tivoli. Also acquired was Recent notable acquisitions of journals 26 fall 2019

750026 include Quatre gats (1899) and Pèl & ploma 17th-century Japanese books. There were (1899–1903), published in Barcelona; Stile also a number of remarkable acquisitions futurista (Turin, 1934–35); and Daily Bûl of Japanese rare books illustrated by (1951–53), a late Surrealist Belgian serial. famous woodblock print artists this past Other 20th-century highlights include La year, including: Onna kasen shinsho [The Métromanie (1949), Jean ‘New Style’ Female Dubuffet’s whimsical Poets] (1682) by celebration of the Paris Hishikawa Moronobu; subway, and Un jardin Shunjō yubiningyō d’hiver (1974), an artist’s [Passionate Finger book commemorating Puppets] (ca. 1830) the installation of a by Keisai (Ikeda) mock winter garden in Eisen; and three titles the Palais des Beaux- by the artist Utagawa Arts, Brussels, by Marcel Kunisada: Sento Broodthaers. shinwa [New Stories Chinese art of the Bathhouse] Hua Lu, Roulin [Ravaging], back acquisitions continue (ca. 1820s); Ukiyo cover of Man hua jie [Modern Puck], issue 7 (1936) to build on the existing Genji gojuyo jo strengths of the Title page of Jean Dubuffet,La Métromanie (1949) [Floating World Genji collection. Marquand in 54 Chapters] (ca. has partnered with the East Asia Library 1850), an erotic twist on the classic tale; and to purchase the full 108-volume series of Natsu no Fuji [Mt. Fuji in Summer] (1827–28), Buddhist woodblock images, Zhongguo fojiao famously featuring celebrated Kabuki banhua quanji, which is available for browsing actors without their makeup. A handscroll, in Marquand’s stacks. The first installments Kumano kozaura kujirakata onyakusho of the lavishly illustrated Ming hua quanji zaikinchu [Treatise on Whaling in the Kozaura series have been added to complement (Inlet), Kumano] (1856), was among several the Zheijiang University Press series on purchases that enhanced the collection of Song and Yuan paintings. Select film titles, materials documenting the visual tradition including Lydia Chen’s Wumai zhong de yishu of whales and whaling in Japan. Other [Art in Smog], a thoughtful presentation of acquisitions include a number of important the changing lives of artists and curators architecture books, including extremely in contemporary China, and Zhang rare titles like Metaborizumu 1960: toshie no Ximing’s intimate and highly stylized short teian [Metabolism 1960: The Proposals for documentary of photographer Ren Hang, Wo a New Urbanism], which was the manifesto you yige youyu de xiao wenti [I’ve got a little Ukiyo Genji gojuyo jo [Floating World for this influential Japanese architectural Genji in 54 Chapters] (ca. 1850) problem], were added to the University’s movement, and significant Japanese video collection. Important Chinese special collections acquisitions include additions to photography titles like Araki Nobuyoshi’s Oh the growing collection of rare Republican-era Nippon and Senchimentaru no tabi-Okinawa serials: Shanghai manhua [Shanghai Sketch]; [Sentimental Journey—Okinawa]; Ishiyuchi Manhua jie [Modern Puck], which was Miyoko’s The Apartment and a full run of her published in an eight-issue run in 1936 when Main: foto magazine; and a very scarce copy the Guomindang shut down publication of of Another Country in New York, printed and Shidai manhua [Modern Sketch]; and the photocopied by photographer Moriyama collaborationist-leaning Beijing manhua Daido as part of a performance piece in [Beijing Puck], published in the Tokyo in 1974. north with pro-Japanese content but emulating its Shanghai-based antecedents closely in format and visual style. Marquand’s Japanese rare books were featured in the Princeton University Art Natsu no Fuji [Mt. Fuji in Summer Museum’s exhibition Picturing (Actors without Makeup and Place in Japan this past year. The Costume)] (ca. 1827) library was also fortunate to host Madoka Takagi, a Friends of the Princeton University Library Grant Kumano kozaura kujirakata onyakusho recipient from Japan who studied zaikinchu [On Whaling in the Kozaura materials in Marquand’s recently (Inlet), Kumano] (1856) acquired Shibui Collection of fall 2019 27

750026 Tang Center Events Tang Center for East Asian Art Lectures Throughout the 2018–19 academic year, the included the female authorship of The Tale of October 9, 2018 Tang Center, under the direction of Professor Genji, the work’s relationship to Buddhism, Soyoung Lee, Harvard Art Museums Andrew M. Watsky and Dora C.Y. Ching, and the political uses of Genji imagery from Korean Ceramics: Not Your balanced research for publication projects the medieval to the modern era. Gennifer Usual Story with a diverse program of lectures, panels, Weisenfeld *97 of Duke University presented Cosponsored by the East Asian and workshops. the lecture “Electric Studies Program Four scholars came Design: Light, Labor, and October 11, 2018 to Princeton to lecture Leisure in Prewar Japanese Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University on topics, ranging from Advertising.” She addressed Electric Design: Light, Korean ceramics to the role of graphic Labor, and Leisure in Prewar portraiture in 17th- and design and advertising in Japanese Advertising 18th-century China, aestheticizing, visualizing, Cosponsored by the Department of The Tale of Genji in and commodifying the Art and Archaeology Japanese art, and seemingly transformative March 27, 2019 design and advertising social powers of electric Klaas Ruitenbeek, director emeritus, in 20th-century Japan. energy. The Tang Center was Berlin Museum of Asian Art Soyoung Lee, Ph.D., pleased to have partnered Albums of Ordinary Faces: chief curator of the with the East Asian Studies Small-Size Portraits from Harvard Art Museums, Program as co-organizer and Painters’ Studios in Late discussed Korean cosponsor of three of these Imperial China ceramics, exploring Yeesookyung (b. 1963), Translated Vase four lectures. Cosponsored by the East Asian broad-ranging definitions TVWI, ceramic shards, epoxy, and gold leaf In November, the Tang Studies Program (detail), Princeton University Art Museum of “Korean” in ceramics. (2017-229), one of the works discussed by Center organized, with the April 16, 2019 Drawing on examples Soyoung Lee Princeton University Art Melissa McCormick, Harvard from the Chosŏn (Joseon) Museum, an interdisciplinary University dynasty (1392–1910), she demonstrated the panel discussion, “Place Making in the Illuminating Genji: A Lecture complexities of analyzing “Korean” ceramics, Arts: Japan and Beyond” to complement on The Tale of Genji Exhibition revealing how cross-cultural influences the museum’s exhibition Picturing Place at the Metropolitan Museum complicate traditional interpretations. Klaas in Japan, co-curated by Watsky. The panel of Art Ruitenbeek, Ph.D., director emeritus of drew inspiration from the exhibition, which Cosponsored by the East Asian the Berlin Museum of Asian Art, shared his revealed how representations of place Studies Program recent scholarship in his lecture “Albums could evoke the topography of an actual of Ordinary Faces: Small-Size Portraits from location but could also be artistic creations Painters’ Studios in Late Imperial China.” of imagined places or reinventions of past An outgrowth of an exhibition on portrait images. Speakers explored the concept painting of the Ming and Qing dynasties, of place from the perspectives of art, his lecture delved into the making and the art history, literature, and photography. uses of small-size studio portraits. Melissa Watsky introduced the complexities of how McCormick *00 of Harvard University place is depicted and imagined in Japanese introduced highlights from The Tale of Genji painting. Leila Philip ’86, a writer, poet exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of and educator, shared her experiences of Art, for which she was guest curator. She studying with a master potter in Miyama in discussed the show’s central themes, which southern Japan and how place—the town

At the reception after Gennifer Weisenfeld’s lecture (left to right): Mai Yamaguchi, Kent Cao, Jay Xu *08, Professor Cheng-hua Wang, Mengge Cao, Gina Choi, and Yutong Li

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750026 of Miyama—became emblematic of craft, different tones and colors, Kuwabara created culture, and a way of life. Photographer an intricate lattice of layers of overlapping Tang Center Events Lois Conner described the importance of circles by manipulating the placement of experiencing landscapes and capturing the center points of the circles. The lines a vision of those landscapes through and lattices impart both meditative and Panel photography. Karl Kusserow, the John expressive qualities that resonate with Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the ink line paintings in the museum’s Asian November 8, 2018 museum, discussed his exhibition, Nature’s art collection and minimalist works in the Place Making in the Arts: Nation: American Art modern and contemporary Japan and Beyond and Environment, art collection. Organized by Tang Center for East which reconsidered Asian Art and cosponsored by the The Tang Center and Princeton University Art Museum American art—both the art museum also famous landscapes welcomed Kwun Nam Workshop and seldom-seen (Phil) Chan, Ph.D., as a J. objects—through S. Lee Memorial Fellow in April 12, 2019 the lens of late January (see pages Questions on the Concept of environmentalism and 10-11). A research-assistant Landscape in Chinese Art ecology. curator of painting and Organized by Cheng-hua Wang and In late spring, the Dora C.Y. Ching calligraphy at the Art Tang Center held a one-day workshop, Museum at the Chinese “Questions on University of Hong Kong, the Concept of Chan spent the spring Landscape in Chinese semester studying works Art.” Organized by of Chinese calligraphy Professor Cheng- and painting from the hua Wang and Dora Song through the Qing Ching, the workshop dynasties in the museum’s brought together collection. He worked in a core group from particular on calligraphic Princeton—including Lo Archive photograph of Cave 257 at the Mogao letters, often making Watsky; Cary Liu, Caves in Dunhuang, China; photograph taken in or further developing 1943–44 the Nancy and Peter transcriptions. As part of Lee Curator of Asian Art at the Princeton his fellowship, Chan was also able to travel to University Art Museum; Professor Rachael numerous museums in the U.S. and expand DeLue; and Professor Emeritus Jerome his knowledge of Chinese art collections. Silbergeld—with Jie Shi, of Bryn Mawr Throughout the year, the Tang Center College; Wu Hung, of the University of continued work on the Lo Archive project, a Chicago; Xiaofei Tian, of Harvard University; multiyear endeavor which examines the mid- Kuwabara Moriyuki (b. 1942), and Ronald Egan, of Stanford University. 1940s photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Drawing, 1975 (detail), Princeton Discussions centered on the concept Caves in western China from the Lo Archive. University Art Museum (2016-106) of landscape, or, more appropriately, A chief focus of the Center, this project “shanshui,” meaning “mountains and will culminate next year in a seven-volume water” in Chinese. Participants recalibrated publication titled Visualizing Dunhuang: The questions about “shanshui” as a term, Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and as literary and painting genres, and as a Yulin Caves (volumes 1–6) and Visualizing descriptor for ways of depicting the world. Dunhuang: Seeing, Studying, and Conserving All recognized the need to reevaluate the Caves (volume 7). The publication will “landscape” or “shanshui” as a keyword make available for the first time in print more and organizing principle in the study of art and literature in Asia. Comparisons with the than 2,000 photographs made by James and idea of nature and the practice of landscape Lucy Lo in the 1940s, with newly drawn maps, painting in the West provided insights diagrams of the different cave structures, and on how to view and analyze “landscape/ a collection of research essays. shanshui” painting. The workshop served as Finally, in April the Princeton scholarly a touchstone for future topics, including the community gathered at the University Chapel role of travel in “landscape,” the concept of with friends, family, and colleagues and time, and the use and meaning of colors and students from around the world to remember ink, among others. and honor Professor Emeritus Wen Fong In collaboration with the art museum, the (1930–2018), who passed away in October Tang Center contributed to the acquisition of 2018 (see page 12). For a visual tribute to Wen a drawing by Kuwabara Moriyuki (b. 1942). Fong’s life and career, please visit Using a compass and acrylic pigments of tang.princeton.edu. fall 2019 29

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The Index’s conclusive transition to a new an art history specialist. Her wide-ranging online database platform opened the door expertise, which included Gothic manuscripts to many new developments this year, and liturgy, women artists, and musical and including new cataloguing of backfiles and botanical iconography, was deeply valued other collections not previously added by her colleagues, and her good humor and to the online database; the development collegiality will be very much missed as we of a browsable network of subjects; and wish her a relaxing and rewarding retirement the design of a relational presentation for with her husband, John. In September 2019, in-situ iconography. It also introduced the Maria Alessia Rossi joined the staff as art possibility of new partnerships with outside history specialist after two years at the Art History Specialist Judith K. Golden institutions, currently envisioned to include Index as a postdoctoral researcher hired the Universidad Nova de Lisboa and the to develop the new Index subject network. Sorbonne. A specialist in Byzantine art, Rossi will The busy program of events this year oversee the completion of the network while opened in November with the annual transitioning to the regular cataloguing and Index Conference, “Out of Bounds: reference responsibilities of her new role. We Exploring the Limits of Medieval Art.” are delighted that she has chosen to continue This introduced a new model in which her work with us. department graduate students and their Index staff were active individually as well. advisers, Professors Charles Barber and Director Pamela Patton published “Demons Beatrice Kitzinger, worked with Index staff and Diversity in León,” in Medieval Encounters to invite speakers to join the students for 25, nos. 1–2 (2019), and “Otherness a research workshop prior to the public in European Medieval Art,” in Oxford lectures. Both events provoked an inspiring Bibliographies in Art History. She lectured and enjoyable exchange. In spring 2019, at the University of Pittsburgh, Fordham the Index also cohosted two externally University, the Institut national d’histoire de generated conferences: “Eclecticism at l’art in Paris, and the 2019 Medieval Academy the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture conference; consulted with both Lovett at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Productions, for the documentary Children of Slavic Cultural Spheres (c. 1300–c. 1550),” Studies in Iconography 40 (2019) the Inquisition, and Elsabeth Productions, for organized by Alice Sullivan with Index the forthcoming Through All Creatures; and postdoctoral researcher Maria Alessia Rossi, gave interviews about concepts of race in the and “Abstraction before the Age of Abstract Middle Ages with BBC Brasil and The Root. In Art,” organized by Elina Gertsman and September 2018, Patton was one of six U.S. Vincent Debiais. The Index also sponsored Poster image from the Index scholars in attendance at the “Homenaje al two sessions at the International Congress on roundtable at Kalamazoo: Last Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo and offered Hispanismo Internacional” in Madrid, hosted Supper, Gladzor Gospels (Los by the Duques de Soria Foundation and King Angeles, Charles E. Young Research several informal Index Workshops. Library, Armenian 1, p. 156), ca. 1300 In tandem with these public Felipe VI of Spain. programs, the Index has joined with Penn Art History Specialist Catherine State University Press to copublish the Fernandez lectured on “Matrix as Ornament: book series Signa: Papers of the Index The Medieval Afterlife of Intaglios and of Medieval Art at Princeton University. the Retrospection of Function,” at the Replacing an earlier distribution Institute for Advanced Study, and on agreement with the press, the series will “Relic Assemblage as Memory Palace: The be inaugurated by the volume The Lives Construction of Valois Identity through and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography, Jean de Berry’s Reliquary Collection,” scheduled to appear in 2021. The Index in a roundtable honoring Cynthia Hahn also continues to copublish the journal at the 54th International Congress on Studies in Iconography with Medieval Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. She also Institute Publications; the recently provided an overview of the new features published volume 40 includes articles on of the Index’s database to scholars at topics ranging from Late Antique mosaics the ROMANE database in the Center for and Gothic manuscripts to Islamicate Medieval Studies (CESCM) at the University stucco ornament and Renaissance of Poitiers. As outreach coordinator for the painting. Index, Fernandez led numerous classroom Index staff witnessed two major instruction sessions; she also continued changes this year. On July 1, 2019, Judith working with Jon Niola on refinements to the Golden retired after nearly 20 years as Location in Structure Field for in-situ iconography. 30 fall 2019

750026 Postdoctoral Researcher Maria Alessia Differentiating between Rossi represented the Index at a lecture the Byzantine Traditions of at the University of Mississippi and Wallachian and Moldavian coorganized, with Jessica Savage, two Embroideries” in the “North Index sessions at the 2019 International of Byzantium” sessions Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. sponsored by the Mary Jaharis She also collaborated with Julia Gearhart, Center for Byzantine Art acting director of the Visual Resources and Culture and organized Collections, on the exhibition “No Woman’s Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Land,” shown in McCormick Hall. In Sullivan at the Byzantine addition, together with Alice Sullivan, Studies Conference in San Rossi has developed the new initiative Antonio, Texas. In May 2019, North of Byzantium, sponsored by the he presented “How Not to See Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and the Iconography, Ornament, Culture; among its first outcomes was the and Inscriptions on Moldavian Moldoviţa Monastery, Romania, conference “Eclecticism at the Edges,” Epitaphioi” at the colloquium Church of the Annunciation, a topic hosted at the Index in April 2019 (see page “Fils de Foi” at the Institut national d’histoire in the “Eclecticism at the Edges” 25). Rossi’s coedited volume Late Byzantium de l’art in Paris. Throughout the last year, conference Reconsidered: The Arts of the Palaiologan Schilb also continued to oversee a project Era in the Mediterranean (Routledge, 2019) that he initiated three years ago: with the appeared in spring 2019. She began her new help of his Index colleagues, he has been position as art history specialist at the Index verifying and updating each of the thousands on September 1, 2019. of location names used in the Index Together with Rossi, Art History Specialist database—from countries and counties to Jessica Savage organized two Index- castles and caves. sponsored sessions at the 54th International Office Coordinator Fiona Barrett oversaw Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo: both Index subscriptions and event logistics a roundtable, “Encountering Medieval with masterful efficiency in this very busy Iconography in the Twenty-First Century: year. In addition, she continued assisting Scholarship, Social Media, and Digital editorial staff with metadata cleanup in Methods,” and a workshop introducing the new database, supervising student search features of the new Index database. workers, and adding catalogue numbers Savage also contributed two biographical to the Index library in preparation for a entries, on former Index directors Helen M. future reorganization. Photographer John Woodruff and William Burke, to the online Blazejewski continues to divide his time Dictionary of Art Historians (arthistorians.info). between the Visual Resources Collection and At the Index, Savage continues the research the Index; for the latter, he has developed Maria Alessia Rossi et al., Late and cataloguing of Index backfiles and a workflow for new photography that will Byzantium Reconsidered: The digitized manuscript collections, including aid his work with editorial staff in adding Arts of the Palaiologan Era in the Professor Emeritus James Marrow’s images and upgrading images in the new online Mediterranean of manuscripts in the New York Public database. Finally, Technology Manager Jon Library. In summer 2019, she worked with Niola continued his work on refinements Speakers at the “Out of Bounds” two Rutgers library school interns to create to the Index database and looks forward conference. Left to right: Sarah Guérin, an up-to-date inventory of the Index card to implementing several new features, Pamela Patton, Jill Caskey, Suzanne files. including a browsable taxonomy network Conklin Akbari, Michele Tomasi, In October 2018, Art History Specialist and specially structured cataloguing for Thelma Thomas, Christina Maranci *98, Michele Bacci, Alice Sullivan, Alicia Henry Schilb presented “Mutual Peripheries: iconography found in situ. Walker, Eva Frojmovic

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This past year the Visual Resources Collection 13-R. In May 2019, the Antioch archive was (VRC) continued to support the curriculum the focus of research by repeat visitor and scholarship of the department with Mustafa Kemal Baran, a doctoral candidate Mustafa Kemal Baran working with superior images and comprehensive at Koç University in Istanbul who studies the Antioch material cataloguing while also increasing outreach social history of archaeological excavations in of the collections, improving the quality of Turkey. At the VRC, he worked on his Library and access to digital images, and forging new Research Grant project “Exploring Local collaborations on campus and beyond. Communities, Labor, and Politics: An Inquiry November 2018 saw the visit of Robert into the Social History of the Excavations of M. Pennoyer, retired partner at Patterson Antioch-on-the-Orontes (1931–1939).” Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, former trustee Student workers Sophie Evans ’21 and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Jacob Wheeler ’20 digitized the photographic lifetime trustee of the Morgan Library & negative collection of the late Professor Museum. Pennoyer viewed the exhibition Richard Stillwell ’21, *24 (1899–1982). Robert Pennoyer (center) reviews of photographs taken by his uncle, Sheldon Stillwell, an archaeologist, was not only an the Pennoyer archive with his son, Russell, and Julia Gearhart A. Pennoyer, during his service as one of the esteemed teacher at Princeton (where he “Monuments Men” during and after World was affectionately referred to as “Digger War II. He also generously donated additional Dick” by his students) but also served the photographic prints belonging to his late American School of Classical Studies in uncle. Athens in many capacities, including director. During the fall semester, graduate He directed the excavations of ancient students from Harvard and Princeton Corinth, contributed to the excavations of consulted the archives of the Antioch the Athenian Agora and Antioch-on-the- excavation for the class Religion 504, Orontes, and was editor-in-chief of the “Studies in Greco-Roman Religions: Antioch American Journal of Archaeology from 1954 from the Seleucids to Late Antiquity,” to 1973. The Stillwell collection contains cotaught by Professor AnneMarie Luijkendijk more than 1,000 images, primarily of classical (religion) and Laura Nasrallah ’91, then architecture in Greece—Athens, Corinth, professor of New Testament and early Aegina, Bassae, Delos, Delphi, Olympia, Christianity at Harvard Divinity School (now Sounion, Thebes, and other sites—taken in at Yale Divinity School). Another class, the late 1920s. Virginia French, senior image Aladza mosque in Foca, Bosnia and “Antioch through the Ages: Archaeology cataloguer and assistant director of the VRC, Herzegovina, 1550–51, destroyed during the Bosnian War (Živkov and History,” also utilized the archives also found that the collection includes many Collection, ca. 1965–66) extensively. Taught by Alan Stahl, curator images of Byzantine architecture and scenes of numismatics in Firestone of village life in Greece. Of particular interest Library, the class focused are the images of the Delphic Festival from on a single sector of the 1927 or 1930. Antioch excavations (13- In an effort to learn more about these R) which produced the images and the people shown in them, greatest concentration the VRC has reached out to Stillwell’s of dated materials and granddaughter, Camilla MacKay, Ph.D., an therefore illustrates well the archaeologist and director of library research transitions of the site from and instructional services and scholarly the Classical to the Late communications librarian at Bryn Mawr Antique and Islamic eras. College. MacKay has offered to review her The new Antioch collection grandfather’s diaries and share information website (vrc.princeton.edu/ on his travels in order to more precisely researchphotographs), which date these photographs, which have little is actively being expanded identifying information. An exhibition of and improved, was a great these fascinating and beautiful photographs resource for the class: the is planned for McCormick Hall in fall 2019. VRC had added scans of Professor Charles Barber facilitated the correspondence, coin cards, purchase of a collection of digital images and additional archival of the art and architecture of the Balkans documents relating to sector from Stanislav Živkov, an art historian and archaeologist who assembled much of the Richard Stillwell wearing flower collection from the archive of his former crown at Delphic Festival, Delphi, Greece, 1927 or 1930 (Stillwell teacher, Professor Andrej Andrejević. Collection) Andrejević is best known for his monograph 32 fall 2019

750026 on the Ottoman-era Aladza Mosque at Michele Mazeris has been busily Foca, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, adding edited or newly catalogued which has undergone extensive rebuilding images to the institutional image after being destroyed in 1992 and was collection within Artstor. As of June reopened this year. Senior Image Cataloguer 2019, the VRC has made 476,960 Michele Mazeris has been inventorying this catalogued images available to intriguing collection, which includes scans Princeton students, who can also of many vintage photographs from the early access more than 2 million images in 20th century as well as detailed technical other collections in Artstor. documentation of historic buildings. Finally, there have been a number In November 2018, Richard Betts *71 of interesting developments in brought a gift of digital images of the relation to the film documenting construction of the Picasso Head of a Woman a 1929 expedition to Mount Athos that formerly stood in front of McCormick that was discovered in McCormick Hall. The photographs record Carl Nesjar— Hall last year and was described the Norwegian sculptor, painter, and graphic in last year’s newsletter. The film artist who directed the construction of this footage was screened to enthusiastic and other exposed aggregate concrete public audiences in McCormick sculptures by Picasso—at work on the piece, Hall and at the Seeger Center for as well as the department’s late professor David Coffin observing the process. These Hellenic Studies. VRC Acting Director welcome additions to the VRC collection Julia Gearhart collaborated with documenting architecture and art on campus Maria Alessia Rossi, postdoctoral have also been made available to the researcher at the Index of Medieval Campus Collections division of the Princeton Art, on an exhibition in McCormick University Art Museum. Hall that describes the discovery of Installation of Picasso’s Head of a Media Specialist Marilyn the collection and the Woman, July, 1971 (photo by Richard Hansen, who was celebrated at story of the expedition, and Betts *71) this year’s Service Recognition displays some of the beautiful Luncheon for her 35 years images from the glass lantern at Princeton, continues to slides and prints that the VRC support the department has scanned, edited (thanks primarily by assisting with to VRC photographer John classroom projection. She Blazejewski), and catalogued recently completed painstaking (thanks to Michele Mazeris). Photoshop editing of the VRC’s During their research, Gearhart Poster for the Mount Athos collection of photographs and Rossi contacted the collection exhibition, designed by of sites in the former Roman Marilyn Hansen with Mount Athos Center Jacob Wheeler ’20 provinces in the area of modern President Eisgruber at the in Thessaloniki, an Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon taken 2019 Service Recognition Luncheon institution devoted to Example of Gilento’s computer- in the 1890s by Rudolf-Ernst promoting the spiritual generated 3-D renderings of heavily Brünnow and Alfred von Domaszewski. The and cultural history of Mount Athos. damaged buildings image collection currently online will soon be This led to an exciting collaboration replaced with these greatly improved digital that will allow the center to exhibit images. curated images from the collection Yichin Chen has been busy cataloguing in Thessaloniki in May 2020, with images of Chinese paintings of the Song an accompanying catalogue. In dynasty and wall paintings from Song hua return, the center will help with quan ji [Complete Works of Song Art] and the identification of images and Zhongguo chu tu bi hua quan ji [Complete Collection of Murals Unearthed in China]. will undertake additional archival During summer 2019, she catalogued research that will be used for a images in preparation for Professor Cheng- website displaying the collection. hua Wang’s fall 2019 course “Europe Anastasios Ntouros, the director in the Making of Early Modern Chinese of the center, visited Princeton Art.” In June, Chen attended the Summer in early June 2019 to examine the Education Institute for Visual Resources collection, view the exhibition and and Image Management at the University the film footage, and sign an official of New Mexico, Albuquerque. The multiday agreement. This collaboration will workshop covered digital project design, provide a valuable resource for those intellectual property, digitization, digital working to preserve and share the preservation, and digital repositories, as well rare early visual documentation of as instructional design and user outreach. Mount Athos. fall 2019 33

750026 Select 2019 Art Museum News Art Museum Events September 19–20 The museum in 2018–19 presented 11 special Professor of Art History and American Lecture and Symposium | exhibitions and more than two dozen Studies at William & Mary, the exhibition Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity themed gallery installations featuring considered a wide range of art in many hundreds of works from the museum’s media—from colonial furniture and Hudson October 10 collections and from a variety of lenders River landscape painting to Native American Panel Discussion | Nature, Art, worldwide. By year’s end the museum had basketry, modernist abstraction, and postwar and the Subjectivity of Color again welcomed more than 200,000 visitors. environmental activism—highlighting the October 19 Of particular importance, the museum saw evolving ecological implications of subjects a significant increase in both the number and contexts of creation as well as artistic Panel Discussion | The Eternal and diversity of visiting classes this year. materials and techniques. After its premiere Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th During the 2018–19 academic year, more than at Princeton, Nature’s Nation traveled to Century 7,000 students from 150 courses offered by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, 51 departments and programs visited the Massachusetts, and the Crystal Bridges November 2 museum, once again setting a record. Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Opening Lecture | The Eternal The fall semester began with the exciting Arkansas. The exhibition garnered extensive Feast: Banqueting in Chinese news that Sir David Adjaye and Adjaye critical coverage, and its accompanying Art from the 10th to the 14th Century by Zoe Kwok, assistant Associates, in partnership with Cooper publication was recognized with awards curator of Asian art Robertson, had been selected to design a of excellence from both the Association of new building for the museum. Programming American Publishers and the Association of November 7 and concept design phases have already Art Museum Curators. Opening Lecture | States of been completed, and the project has now Also during the fall, the exhibition Health: Visualizing Illness and entered the schematic design phase, with Picturing Place in Japan explored Healing by Veronica White, construction expected to begin in early 2021. representations of place as a dominant curator of academic programs The museum will remain fully programmed subject of Japanese painting throughout November 15 in its current facility until that time, including history. Curated by Professor Andrew Watsky Symposium | States of Health: supporting teaching and research needs. and Ph.D. candidate Caitlin Karyadi, along Visualizing Illness and Healing Museum staff are currently evaluating how with Cary Liu, Nancy and Peter Lee Curator to sustain object-based teaching, as well as of Asian Art, the exhibition featured 40 a limited program of exhibitions and a full paintings, prints, books, and photographs roster of educational programs, during the from the 16th to the 21st century, including a construction period, which is expected to last number of significant loans and acquisitions approximately three and a half years. from the renowned Gitter-Yelen Collection. In October 2018, the museum opened The spring was anchored by a pair of Nature’s Nation: American Art and exhibitions curated by museum director Environment, a sweeping examination of James Steward. Gainsborough’s Family more than 300 years of art-making in North Album, organized in association with the America. Curated by Karl Kusserow, the John National Portrait Gallery, London, highlighted Wilmerding Curator of American Art, and a select group of works by the 18th-century Alan Braddock, the Ralph H. Wark Associate English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who

Utagawa Hiroshige, Moon Pine at Ueno, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo, 1857, museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund, selected for acquisition by students in Art 425, “The Japanese Print”

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750026 painted more portraits of his family—his gaps. Particularly noteworthy wife, father, sisters, but most importantly acquisitions included an his two daughters as they grew—than important gift from the Helen any European artist before him, leaving Frankenthaler Foundation of a legacy both poignant and remarkably 15 prints by the distinguished modern for its time. A companion exhibition, abstract artist, which formed Confronting Childhood, featured a selection the nucleus of the exhibition of photographs and paintings from the Helen Frankenthaler Prints: museum’s collections—including works by Seven Types of Ambiguity. Diane Arbus, Ruth Bernhard, Lewis Carroll, The museum also acquired an Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Sally Mann, extraordinary group of nearly and Clarence White—that considered the 5,000 drawings by American complex reality of childhood and family life in architect and designer the modern world. Michael Graves, spanning Also during the spring, the museum the entire range of his hosted its first fully bilingual exhibition, subject matter throughout Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican his career. Photojournalism Sally Mann, Under Blueberry Hill, 1991 Migrants to the United States, which by artists including Margaret (© Sally Mann, Courtesy of Gagosian featured 50 small-scale votive paintings Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Gallery) commemorating the dangers of crossing Smith was a major collecting focus this year the border and living in the United States. in advance of next year’s exhibition Life Offered in conjunction with Princeton’s Magazine and the Power of Photography. Migration Lab, the exhibition continued A spectacular impression of Rembrandt’s the museum’s investigation of questions of etching Landscape with the Three Trees was migration. another highlight. Educational activities and events This fall the museum will present continued to grow in energy and impact, The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in numbering some 300 public programs, from Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th complex scholarly symposiums to lecture Century, a focused exhibition that series to artists’ talks to student- and docent- examines the art of the feast and its led tours. During the run of Nature’s Nation, role in communicating concepts that the museum partnered with the Princeton linked earthly life with the afterlife. Environmental Institute in presenting a Also on view will be States of Health: pair of public lectures by the renowned Visualizing Illness and Healing, a cross- environmental writers Bill McKibben and cultural consideration of the role Naomi Klein, as well as an interdisciplinary that art plays in shaping perceptions faculty panel that considered environmental and experiences of illness and issues against the backdrop of selected healing. Research and planning also works from the exhibition. continues toward future exhibitions, Helen Frankenthaler, Deep Sun, The museum continues to strengthen its including Cézanne: The Rock and 1983 (© 2019 Helen Frankenthaler collections with strategically selected works Quarry Paintings and Basquiat in the Studio: Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights that build on existing strengths or that fill The Blue Ribbon Paintings. Society (ARS), New York / Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Bedford Village, NY)

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Undergraduate Alumni the company, see DouglasDunnDance.com. [[email protected]] Lex Brown ’12’s exhibition of video and large-scale drawings, Animal Static, ran at The Katie Dubbs ’14, after working as an opera Kitchen in Chelsea, Manhattan, from January director, returns to art and architectural The New Face of LAA (2018), 17 through February 23, 2019. Receiving history this fall when she starts her graduate an oil painting by Leif Nilsson praise in The New Yorker and ArtForum for education in the History, Theory, and Criticism commemorating the exterior its “sobering truth” and “original voice,” the Department of the School of Architecture and restoration of the Lyme Art Planning at MIT, where she is the recipient of Association gallery, where Elsbeth exhibition culminated in a performance of (Field) Dowd ’04 is development her one-woman operetta Focacciatown. In the Ida M. Green Fellowship. manager April, Lex began her video project The Inside [[email protected]] Room at Recess Art on Washington Avenue Tracy Ehrlich ’87 has been promoted to in Brooklyn. The project transformed the associate professor at the Parsons School of space into a site for the creation of an absurd Design/The New School. Her article “Carlo streaming TV show of the same title. On Marchionni and the Art of Conversation” is June 20, Lex performed Focacciatown at the forthcoming in The Art Bulletin. Baltimore Museum of Art. [[email protected]] [[email protected]] Daria Rose Foner ’11 is a research associate Elsbeth (Field) Dowd ’04 recently at the Morgan Library & Museum in New joined the Lyme Art Association York and is also finishing her doctorate as development manager. She at Columbia University. Her dissertation loves working in Old Lyme, examines the life and work of the Florentine Connecticut, next door to the painter Andrea del Sarto in terms of his Florence Griswold Museum, collaborative approaches to artistic creation. in a historic gallery founded Daria recently spoke on a panel sponsored by American Impressionists by the American Academy in Rome at the that today showcases both annual meeting of the Renaissance Society established and emerging of America in Toronto, and she represented representational artists. Columbia at the Institute of Fine Arts/Frick [[email protected]] Symposium on the History of Art at the Frick Douglas Dunn + Dancers performing Douglas Dunn ’64 premiered Crag Collection. [[email protected]] Crag at 92nd Street Y in New York in New York City at 92nd Street Y as part of (photo: Boyd Hagen) Christopher Green ’12, currently a Ph.D. the Merce Cunningham Centennial Festival. candidate in art history at the Graduate The 60-minute dance for his 10-member Center, CUNY, has been named the 2019–20 company Douglas Dunn + Dancers features Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellow. music by Steven Taylor and costumes by His dissertation, titled “Masked Moderns: Andrew Jordan. The dance is available for Northwest Coast Native Art Beyond tour. Douglas is looking to expand his board Revival,” considers the interplay between Installation view of Lex Brown ’12’s of directors and invites interested alums to Euro-American modernism and post-war exhibition Animal Static at The contact him. For more information about Indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest. Kitchen (photo: Kyle Knodell) Christopher has recently published articles in Art in America, frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, and ab-Original, and he coedited “Blood and Earth and Soil,” issue 11 of Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture. He was a 2018–19 Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian. [[email protected]] Sarah Johnson ’10 was appointed curator of the Middle East and North Africa at the National Museum of World Cultures in the Netherlands in June 2019. The museum consists of three museums at three different sites: the Museum Volkenkunde, in Leiden; the Tropenmuseum, in Amsterdam; and the Africa Museum, in Berg en Dal. Sarah recently 36 fall 2019

750026 submitted her Ph.D. dissertation at the Freie turn rooted in a sensational course on the University in Berlin on the 20th-century Iraqi architectural history of the skyscraper, which painter Hafidh Druby. Part of her dissertation included weekly trips into Manhattan to research will be published in the fall 2019 study the buildings in their full glory). issue of Arab Studies Journal under the [[email protected]] title “Impure Time: Archaeology, Hafidh Anthony Mastromatteo ’92 continues to Druby (1914–1991), and the Persistence of paint on a daily basis in his studio hidden Representational Art in Mid-Twentieth- in the suburban sprawl of northeast Ohio, Century Iraq.” exploring the relevance and possibilities of [[email protected]] representational realism Will Johnson ’68, a child in the context of the of the ’60s, first started contemporary art world. He experimenting with cannbis escapes those confines as at Princeton when it was often as possible to visit the “God’s medicine.” He has gallery that represents his used it his entire life—for work in New York City, Rehs writing, playing music, Contemporary, and to open doing yoga and meditation, himself up to the potential Rachel Lyon ’05, Self-Portrait with Boy and exploring the world of of foreign influences. touch with his wife. Legends [[email protected]] passed down to the present Michaela Milgrom ’16 day tell of how the great completed a master’s Hindu god Shiva would get degree in the history of art high on cannabis, of how at the Courtauld Institute his body would start making of Art in London, where Will Johnson ’68 Cannabis in spontaneous movements, her adviser was Jo Applin. and how out of those Spiritual Practice: The Ecstasy of Shiva, the Calm of Buddha Her research focuses on movements he brought the the historical configuration body-oriented practices of yoga and dance of painting and feminism, particularly in the to the planet. That is what Will’s latest book, postwar American context. In September Cannabis in Spiritual Practice: The Ecstasy of 2019, she will begin a full-time, academic- Shiva, the Calm of Buddha (Inner Traditions, year internship at the National Gallery of Art 2018), is about. [[email protected]] in Washington, assisting with research for Studio Maddox, founded by Ashley Emily Kamen ’17 is currently an M.A. student the forthcoming catalogue raisonné Mark Maddox ’94, featured on the cover in the Williams Graduate Program in the Rothko: Works on Paper. She then plans to of the March/April 2019 edition of History of Art. She spent the summer of pursue a Ph.D. [[email protected]] Vogue Living 2019 in the beautiful Berkshires, working as Brody Neuenschwander ’81 is currently a research assistant for a professor and as a filming a documentary on the origins and Anthony Mastromatteo ’92, Self curatorial assistant at the Williams College future of writing for PBS, the BBC, and Arte Portrait, 2019, oil on gesso board, Museum of Art. Her research interests are 8 × 8 inches primarily 18th- to 20th-century American art, with a focus on natural history and critical animal studies. [[email protected]] Rachel Lyon ’05’s debut novel Self-Portrait with Boy, about an ambitious young photographer living in Brooklyn in the early 1990s, was published in paperback on March 12, 2019. The book has been optioned by Topic Studios (Spotlight, Citizenfour), to be adapted for a feature film. Ashley Maddox ’94 is the founding principal of Studio Maddox, a boutique property development firm that buys, renovates, and sells historic apartments in the heart of Paris. Her firm has been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decoration, and Vogue Living. Ashley’s love of architectural history goes back 25 years to her studies at Princeton, where she developed a special appreciation both for color (which found its first expression in John Wilmerding’s Pop Art class) and for engineering (which was in fall 2019 37

750026 Television (France and Germany). The formation, when the setting sun gradually three-part series, produced by Dox began to move, transforming the tip of a Productions, London, investigates small valley into what looked like the beak the origins of writing worldwide of a bird. He waited for three hours with his (Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Central Leica M6, 35-mm lens, and Ilford HP5 film America), the development of the until the body of the bird appeared, then great calligraphic traditions, and the captured a landscape that resembles a bird transition of these traditions to the in a Braque painting as the shadow emerged age of print. The materiality of writing from the sand. Instead of seeking the image, will be investigated, showing the the photograph finds him. John has had solo influences of papyrus, clay, parchment, shows of the Inhabited Desert series in Paris, and paper on the dissemination and Tel Aviv, Dubai, and Tehran. See more of his preservation of information. The work at johnrpepper.it. final episode looks at the effects of [[email protected]] modern technologies—and, above Katherine Pratt-Thompson ’18 concluded a all, the digital revolution—on writing, year-long position as a research fellow at the education, social interaction, and Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, the arts. Brody and his crew have New York, in May. During her fellowship, traveled from the Great Pyramid to the mountains of Sinai, from Istanbul to Katherine conducted original research on the Silk Road, and will soon continue Thomas Cole’s mineral collection, as well Brody Neuenschwander ’81 in the filming in Europe, China, and Australia. as the artist’s relationship to the natural tomb of Khnumhotep II at Beni The documentary is scheduled for release in sciences of the 19th century. She also worked Hassan on the Upper Nile for the early 2020. [[email protected]] as a curatorial assistant for an upcoming filming of his upcoming documentary traveling exhibition that will unite the artistic Robert Peck ’74 was recognized for his practices of Cole, Frederic Church, and contributions as “a passionate explorer of Martin Johnson Heade, and is scheduled to science and its history” and “for embodying open in May 2020. The exhibition is a joint the spirit of the great Victorian naturalists” collaboration between the Thomas Cole when he was awarded a doctor of humane National Historic Site, Olana New York State letters degree by the Wagner Free Institute Historic Site, and Crystal Bridges Museum of Science of Philadelphia on June 6, 2019. of American Art. This fall, Katherine will Bob’s 2019 publications include the foreword pursue a master’s degree in art history at to Florida Explored, by Thomas Peter Bennett Columbia University, with a focus on 19th- and (Mercer University Press, 2019), and a chapter 20th-century American art. [[email protected]] on the Himalayan paintings of Edward Lear in Britain in the World: Highlights from the Charles Scribner ’73 *77 has news in the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University graduate alumni section. Press, 2019). His own book, Specimens of Margot Yale ’17 is currently a cataloguer Hair: The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne in the Department of Drawings and Prints (Blast Books, 2018), was featured on NPR’s at the Museum of Modern Art, where she “Science Friday,” Atlas Obscura, Hyperallergic, researches and catalogues the collection, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. In April 2019, at the including major archives of Fluxus and Robert Peck ’74, Specimens of Hair: National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, The Curious Collection of Peter A. Conceptual art. She also assists curators in Browne (photo: Rosamond Purcell) England, he spoke on Arctic exploration, processing acquisitions, preparing works and he will be speaking at the American for exhibition, and caring for the collection. Antiquarian Society and Harvard’s Museum of She recently completed the No Longer Comparative Zoology this fall. Empty Curatorial Lab (nolongerempty.org/ [[email protected]] John R. Pepper ’76, Bird, Dasht-e education/nle-curatorial-lab), a socially Lut, Iran, 2016, analogue photograph John R. Pepper ’76, in his photographic series conscious platform for experimentation in with no post-production Inhabited Deserts, uses the curating and a professional development desert as a painter would program for emerging curators interested in use a virgin white canvas. curating a site-responsive and community- Traveling through various centered exhibition. The program culminated deserts of the world— in the exhibition (after)care, which she from Russia to Egypt, co-curated with other participants, at Mauritania to Oman, the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn in June U.S., and elsewhere—he 2019. In fall 2018, Margot curated Memory sought out images that Palace at Equity Gallery in New York, an subliminally express his exhibition examining the relationship inner being as an artist. In between architecture and memory in the the photograph published work of three emerging artists. Around the here, he was lying on the same time, she completed the year-long ground, interested in a sand Artist Commissioning Program at Queens 38 fall 2019

750026 Council on the Arts (QCA), through which Rūm, 1240–1330 (Ashgate, 2014), was recently she commissioned four new works in the published in Turkish as Moğol Fethinden Sonra performing arts and served as a grant Anadolu’nun Yeniden İnşası: Rum Diyarında panelist for QCA’s ArtSite program, which İslami Mimari, 1240–1330 (Koc University commissioned eight new works of public Press, 2018). This past year, she published art in the Jamaica and Jackson Heights articles in Studies in Iconography, The Textile neighborhoods of Queens. Museum Journal, and Review of Middle East [[email protected]] Studies. [[email protected]] Jelena Bogdanović *08, associate professor Graduate Alumni of architecture, and Charles Kerton, associate Scott Allan *07 coedited Manet and Modern professor of physics and astronomy, at Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years (J. Paul Getty Iowa State University won the university’s Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago), an Bridging the Divide grant to continue their examination of the last years of the artist’s research on the Studenica monastery in life and career, and the first book to explore Serbia, a UNESCO heritage site. Their team Scott Allan *07 et al., Manet and the transformation of his style and subject will use the grant to test whether the design Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years matter in the 1870s and early 1880s. It was of the Studenica dome employs medieval- published to coincide with an exhibition at era knowledge of physics and optics. Her the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul previous research on Studenica resulted Getty Museum co-curated by Scott with Emily in a panel at the 2018 Annual International Beeny and Gloria Groom. The first significant Conference of the Society of Architectural Manet show in Chicago in more than 50 Historians in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and years and the first ever in Los Angeles, it was in two coauthored contributions that on display at the Art Institute of Chicago detail the use of proportional systems from May 26–September 8, 2019, and then for the church design, published in the traveled to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Angeles (October 8, 2019–January 12, 2020). Mathematics (2019), and Proceedings of the Other catalogue contributors include the 18th International Conference on Geometry department’s Professor Bridget Alsdorf and Graphics, Advances in Intelligent Systems and former professor Carol Armstrong *86. and Computing (2019). For more information Scott also delivered the keynote address on the project, visit studenica.design.iastate. at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies edu. Jelena is also serving as a member of the Association conference in Manhattan Beach, organizing committee for the international California, on October 26, 2018. His lecture, conference “Hellenic Political Philosophy and entitled “ ‘Coup de pistolet’: Edouard Manet’s Contemporary Europe” (ichs.me), to be held in Herceg Novi, Montenegro, in 2019. She Carol Armstrong *86, Cezanne’s Portrait of M. Pertuiset, the Lion Hunter,” Gravity drew on research that was published in the is an area editor for Eastern Europe for the exhibition catalogue. [[email protected]] volume The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, general editors Lori A. Carol Armstrong *86, who taught in the Brown and Karen Burns, which is scheduled department between 1999 and 2006, is for publication in 2021 by Bloomsbury currently professor in the Department of the Academic. [[email protected]] History of Art at Yale University, where she has taught since 2007. In 2018 she published Kaira Cabañas *07’s new book Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Cézanne’s Gravity (Yale University Press), Contemporary Art (University of Chicago a book that applies an interdisciplinary Press, 2018) examines the “art of the approach to the reassessment of insane” that flourished within the modernist Cézanne’s paintings, examining them movements in Brazil from the 1920s to the as a phenomenological and intellectual 1960s, when the direction and creation of art endeavor and untethering them from a strict by the mentally ill was actively encouraged timeline. This year her book won the Robert by prominent figures in both medicine and Motherwell Book Award for an Outstanding art criticism, and works of art produced Book on Modernism in the Arts. by psychiatric patients were given a status [[email protected]] similar to those of professional artists. The Patricia Blessing *12 is assistant professor of book examines the lasting influence of this medieval and Islamic art history at Pomona unique era of Brazilian modernism, and how College, where she has taught since 2016. She the afterlife of this “outsider art” continues is currently working on her second book, with to raise important questions. Yve-Alain Bois the provisional title A Malleable Empire: Past of the Institute for Advanced Study, writes and Present, Nature and Artifice in Fifteenth- that the volume is “an efficient antidote to Kaira Cabañas *07, Learning from Century Ottoman Architecture. Her first what [Cabañas] calls the ‘monolingualism of Madness: Brazilian Modernism and book, Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol the global’…Goethe’s motto, ‘What is inside, Global Contemporary Art Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of is outside,’ as quoted by Brazilian critic Mário fall 2019 39

750026 Pedrosa, is the Ariadne’s thread linking the within the city. Alexis’s research draws on five case studies examined in this brilliant her dissertation, which examined utility book.” Kaira is professor in the School of as an intellectual and aesthetic value in Art + Art History at the University of Florida. 18th-century Neoclassical design. Nick Camerlenghi *07’s book St. Paul’s [[email protected]] Outside the Walls: A Roman Basilica, from Tracy Cooper *90 participated in a roundtable Antiquity to the Modern Era was published on gender and naming for the Society for in October 2018 by Cambridge University the Study of Early Modern Women at the Press. The diachronic monograph is a fall 2018 meeting of the Sixteenth Century heavily reworked version of his Princeton Society Conference in Albuquerque, New dissertation and benefitted from a generous Mexico. She continued work on projects and Barr Ferree subvention grant. In spring educational activities for Save Venice Inc. as 2019, Nick was promoted to associate a member of its board of directors. This year professor with tenure in Dartmouth College’s also included sharing scholarly editing for Department of Art History. Among his future publications related to Tintoretto exhibitions projects, he is producing an annotated virtual Nick Camerlenghi *07, St. Paul’s held in Venice to commemorate the artist’s Outside the Walls: A Roman Basilica, reality experience of the various built phases 500th anniversary. Tracy remains on the from Antiquity to the Modern Era of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls—the building department’s advisory council and was acting burned in 1823 and was rebuilt in a different director of graduate studies in the M.A. guise—aimed at scholars and students and program for the Department of Art History at serving as an outgrowth of his book. With Temple University. [[email protected]] colleagues at the University of Oregon and Stanford University, he is also pursuing Hugh Davies *76 retired at the end of research on the collaborative project December 2018 after 33 years as director and “Mapping Medieval Rome,” as well as a book- CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art length study of the history of domes in Italy San Diego. He also stepped down as adjunct during the Middle Ages. He lives in Amherst, professor in the Department of Visual Art at Massachusetts, with his wife, Jessica (also an the University of California, San Diego. Hugh art history professor), and their two children. will continue to serve on the Francis Bacon Authentication Committee and on nonprofit Alexis Cohen *14 has been working since boards in San Diego, and he plans to enjoy graduation as an architectural historian for lecturing, writing at leisure, and advising. ERA Architects, a Toronto-based architecture [[email protected]] firm specializing in heritage conservation (historic preservation). In 2018 she was Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi *15 completed made an associate. In her role at ERA, Alexis her first year as assistant professor of works collaboratively with complex project art history in the Department of Art and teams using her academic background to Art History at Albion College, where she inform the conservation of evolving urban taught courses on Islamic and African visual cultures. This year she published chapters Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi *15 et al., environments. A 2018 Getty Library Research Social Housing in the Middle East: Grant supports her current research on in two edited volumes: “The Aesthetics of Architecture, Urban Development, adaptive reuse at Honest Ed’s and Mirvish Taste Making in (and out of) the Algerian and Transformational Modernity Village, a well-known Toronto site undergoing Salon,” in The Art Salon in the Arab Region: redevelopment. Alexis’s research investigates Politics of Taste Making, edited by Nadia von adaptive reuse as a historical phenomenon, Maltzahn and Monique Bellan (Orient Institut situating Mirvish Village—a residential Beirut and Max Weber Stiftung, 2018); and street transformed into a cultural enclave “Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses in the 1960s—in the context of social and and the Spatial Economies of Development in economic forces in 1960s Toronto and Postcolonial Tunisia,” in Social Housing in the underlying architectural and urban patterns Middle East: Architecture, Urban Development, Photo collage of Honest Ed’s and a in the city. It focuses on Toronto as a “city and Transformational Modernity, edited by part of Mirvish Village in Toronto, the of homes,” where residential architecture Kivinc Kilinc and Mohammad Gharipour focus of Alexis Cohen *14’s current has become host to commercial and cultural (Indiana University Press, 2019). The latter research project (photos: ERA uses and, in turn, the creation of public space Architects) stemmed directly from her dissertation and

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750026 current book manuscript. In spring 2019, Gail Feigenbaum *84 was awarded she presented papers at two conferences: the Tessin Medal in November 2018, “The Global Diffusion of the Moorish Revival: in Stockholm, for her contribution Exhibitions, Academies, and Polytechnical to the field of art history. On that Schools,” at the Escuela Técnica Superior de occasion she gave the Tessin Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica Lecture at the National Gallery of de Madrid; and “Digital Arab Diasporas: Stockholm, entitled “In the Breach Archiving, Curating, and Narrating,” at the of Decorum: Painting between University of Sussex (U.K.). Nancy received a Altar and Gallery.” fellowship from the National Endowment for [[email protected]] the Humanities to participate in the summer Caroline Fowler *12 is currently institute “Understanding Middle Eastern interim director of the Research Millennials through Literature, Culture, and and Academic Program at the Clark Media” at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Art Institute. Her book The Art of She also published reviews pertaining to the Paper: From the Holy Land to the contemporary French-Algerian artist Adel Americas is forthcoming from Yale Abdessemed and Qajar visual culture in the University Press in November. Journal of North African Studies and caa. Her forthcoming article in The Art reviews, respectively. [[email protected]] Bulletin, “Technical Art History Pierre du Prey *73 contributed a chapter as Method?” is a methodological titled “Conviviality versus Seclusion in Pliny’s think-piece that developed from Tuscan and Laurentine Villas” to The Roman her two years as an Andrew W. Villa in the Mediterranean Basin: Late Republic Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Yale to Late Antiquity, edited by Annalisa Marzano University, teaching courses in John Soane’s long-missing drawing of “La Conocchia,” near Capua, 1779–80, and Guy Métraux (Cambridge University the history and philosophy of conservation. [[email protected]] discovered by Pierre du Prey *73 Press, 2018). Pierre made a serendipitous discovery while in London to lecture at the Marcy Freedman *81 (M.A.) addressed Society of Antiquaries on Hawksmoor’s contemporary social and political issues in album of designs for Ockham Park, now in the several solo and collaborative art projects Canadian Centre for Architecture. At Sir John in 2018 and 2019. For her interactive Soane’s Museum, he found an early Soane performances —Tell me, “Is this your drawing that was long missing and believed country?” and What are you afraid of ?—Marcy lost. It shows an ancient Roman funeral conducted one-on-one conversations in monument outside Capua, nicknamed “La coffee shops and at the Katonah Museum of Conocchia,” which Soane was commissioned Art, respectively. As curator of Performance to record by his Grand Tourist patron Philip Art on the Farm, she organized a program Yorke. The watercolor’s pristine washes of timely and challenging performances by wistfully depict, as Piranesi might have done, six artists willing to tackle tough topics. As a weed-infested, crumbling brickwork. Soane, founding member of In Question and Art and the son of a bricklayer, knew all about the Activism, she helped to arrange exhibitions, material and often used it with expressive panel discussions, and public actions on Caroline Fowler *12, The Art of Paper: results in his buildings. [[email protected]] topics such as voting in primary elections From the Holy Land to the Americas and life after incarceration. For a solo show Nika Elder *13 is assistant professor of art in her home town of Croton-on-Hudson, Promotional image for Rethinking history at American University. Her essay New York, Marcy prepared an exhibition Past Work from a Feminist Perspective, an exhibition of art “African-American Art History and the called Rethinking Past Work from a Feminist Museum” is forthcoming in the Routledge and commentary by Marcy B. Perspective, which Freedman *81 (M.A.) Companion to African American Art History. featured a written In fall 2018, she presented new research on analysis of each John Singleton Copley at the University of work on view. In California, Berkeley, and the University of conjunction with Virginia. With Catherine Roach (University of this exhibition, Virginia), she organized the conference “Art she presented Institutions and Race in the Atlantic World, an interactive 1750–1850” at the Courtauld Institute of performance Art in London in May 2019. Nika is currently called Pick one. completing a book manuscript on William Tell me about it. Harnett and painting in the industrial era, and Get a surprise. She she was invited to present material from that was honored to project at the Wyeth Symposium on American be a guest speaker Art at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for at Hudson Valley Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) in MOCA, presenting fall 2018. [[email protected]] a series of three fall 2019 41

750026 lectures, collectively titled “Art Studies, vol. 2, The Coins—the final report on History with a Twist.” For further the coins found by the excavations of the information, marcybfreedman.com. ancient town in east central Sicily through [[email protected]] 1981—is preparing, along with Alex Walthall Milette Gaifman *05, associate *13, the final publication of the nearly one professor of Greek art and thousand coins recovered in excavations at archaeology in the Departments Morgantina since 1982. The new publication Morgantina of Classics and History of Art at will serve as a supplement to Studies Yale University, published The 2. [[email protected]] Art of Libation in Classical Athens Jennifer Hardin *00 continues her (Yale University Press, 2018). The independent curatorial work on exhibitions volume explores the affective force and scholarship. Her latest exhibition, of libation imagery in the visual Imagining Florida: History and Myth in the culture of Athens in the 5th century Sunshine State, for the Boca Raton Museum B.C.E. In May 2018, she delivered of Art, co-curated with the photographer the Louise Smith Bross Lectures, an Gary Monroe, was on display from November endowed lecture series sponsored 2018 through March 2019. With 200 works, by the Department of Art History the exhibition was widely reviewed, including at the University of Chicago in in the New York Times. The accompanying collaboration catalogue, distributed by with the Art the University Press of Institute of Florida, sold out before Chicago and the exhibition closed. the University Much of Jennifer’s of Chicago research material could Promotional image for What are you Press. The not be included in that afraid of?, a performance by Marcy B. Bross Lectures are publication, so she is Freedman *81 (M.A.) at the Katonah Museum of Art given every three years pursuing further study by a distinguished of artists’ interpretations scholar of early of, and approaches to, modern, medieval, Florida from the 1700s to or ancient art, and 1950, and will continue to are intended to be work with collections in revised and published the state and beyond. She by the University of has also started a project Chicago Press. In her Diane Harris-Cline *81, Οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες: involving the Description lecture series, titled Μια εικονογραφημένη ιστορία [The Ancient de l’Égypte (1809–1829), “Classification and the Greeks: An Illustrated History] having access to the History of Greek Art,” Milette examined Imperial Edition that comprises 20 volumes how labeling and classifications inform our and 800 images. The French collection also understanding of ancient monuments and holds 150 duplicate plates and extensive shape modern-day histories of Greek art and biographical information on its original architecture. In December 2018, she was owner, Dubois-Aymé, who helped found Milette Gaifman *05, The Art of named the new coeditor-in-chief of The Art the antiquities collection at the Musée de Libation in Classical Athens Bulletin, along with Lillian Tseng (Institute for Grenoble. Dubois-Aymé was one of the the Study of the Ancient World, New York youngest savants for this Napoleonic-era Jennifer Hardin *00 et al., Imagining Florida: History and Myth in the University). [[email protected]] study, which helped launch the 19th-century Egyptian Revival. Jennifer traveled to France Sunshine State Ludovico Geymonat *06 in December 2018 and again in summer 2019 is assistant professor of for related research. [[email protected]] medieval art at Louisiana State University in Baton Diane Harris-Cline *91 spent the fall Rouge. He is currently 2018 semester as a fellow at the Harvard co-heading an international Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington team preparing an collaborating with Eleni Hasaki of the exhibition of Venetian University of Arizona on a new project, SNAP: art, titled Venice: Art Social Networks of Athenian Potters. The and Power, 1204–1346, to preliminary publication is available on the be published by Electa. center’s website (chs-fellows.org/2019/03/19/ [[email protected]] connected-world-of-potters), along with another article on the social network of Thomas Groves *81 Socrates (chs-fellows.org/author/dcline). (M.A.), who was one of Diane spent the spring 2019 term on the the authors of Morgantina island of Crete on a Fulbright fellowship (her 42 fall 2019

750026 second), teaching a class on social networks commissioned essays from scholars of and ancient biography at the University of contemporary art, including Elissa Auther, Crete, Rethymno. Her recent book, National Alex Kitnick *10, Rebecca Lowery, Kayleigh Geographic’s The Greeks (2016) has been Perkov, Sarah-Neel Smith, and Hamza Walker, translated into Greek, and a celebration and as well as artist entries, a bibliography, panel was held in March in Athens. Diane is an exhibition history, and reprints of associate professor in the Department of historically significant writings. Anna’s other History at the George Washington University. recent and upcoming exhibitions at MOCA [[email protected]] include Pipilotti Rist (2020), Give and Take: Kiki Karoglou *05, who is associate curator Highlighting Recent Acquisitions (2018), and in the Department of Greek and Roman Peter Shire: Naked Is the Best Disguise (2017). Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, She recently contributed to the catalogues curated the exhibition Dangerous Beauty: Elizabeth Murray: Flying Bye (2019), Kerry Medusa in Classical Art, which was on James Marshall: Mastry (2016), and Doug display at the museum from February 2018 Aitken: Electric Earth (2016). [[email protected]] through February 2019, and authored the Evonne Levy *93 was awarded the University Kiki Karoglou *05, Dangerous Beauty: accompanying Metropolitan Museum of of Toronto’s Desmond Morton Research Medusa in Classical Art Art Bulletin (winter, 2018). The exhibition Excellence Award, and in 2019 was named explored for the first time the visual Distinguished Professor of Early Modern Art transformation of the Gorgon Medusa at the university. [[email protected]] and other mythical female hybrids such as sphinxes, Sally Metzler-Dunea *97 and sirens, and Scylla in classical her husband, George Dunea, Greek art and traces M.D., have established their enduring appeal in a travel grant honoring Hellenistic, Roman, and Professor Irving Lavin, which later Western art. Kiki also will support Department coedited the proceedings of Art and Archaeology and contributed a paper to student research in Italy on the Metropolitan Museum Italian Baroque Art. Last of Art’s symposium December, they visited the series volume Art of the Museum of Islamic Art in Hellenistic Kingdoms: From Doha, Qatar, designed by I. Pergamon to Rome (Yale M. Pei. They live in Chicago, Mary Grigoriadis, New Day, 1975, oil where Sally is director of University Press, 2019). Sally Metzler-Dunea *97 and her and acrylic on linen, one of the works Based on 20 papers given husband, George Dunea, M.D., at the art collection at the featured in the exhibition organized at a two-day international I. M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Union League Club Chicago, by Anna Katz *13 (courtesy of the artist and Accola Griefen Fine Art) scholarly symposium held Doha, Qatar among the foremost private in conjunction with the award-winning collections in the region (ulcc.emuseum. exhibition Pergamon and the Hellenistic com). [[email protected]] Kingdoms of the Ancient World, which was Matthew Milliner *11 was granted tenure on view at the Metropolitan in 2016, the at Wheaton College. [matthew.milliner@ volume examines the scope and diversity of wheaton.edu] the Hellenistic arts, which cover the three centuries between the death of Alexander James Mundy *80, after 28 years as director the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the suicide of of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Cleopatra in 30 B.C.E. In addition, Kiki was Vassar College, retired at the end of June the Met’s participant in the State Hermitage 2019, and became director emeritus. His post- Museum Exchange Program (2018–19) and retirement plans include the completion of a was awarded the Met’s curatorial fellowship long-term project to catalogue the drawings at the American Academy in Rome for of the 16th-century Italian artist Federico 2019–20. Zuccaro, of which there are more than a thousand in existence. [[email protected]] Anna Katz *13 is curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), Nick Napoli *03 coedited the book Radical where she is currently organizing With Marble: Architectural Innovation from Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Antiquity to the Present (Routledge, 2018) Art 1972–1985, the first full-scale, scholarly with William Tronzo of the University of survey of the Pattern and Decoration California, San Diego. The book explores the movement, opening in the fall of 2019 at unusual, unexpected, even “radical” uses MOCA and then traveling to the Hessel of the stone from antiquity to the present James Mundy *80 in the Frances Museum of Art at Bard College. The day. In addition, he contributed an essay on Lehman Loeb Sculpture Garden at exhibition catalogue, copublished by MOCA the Neapolitan Baroque to a book on the Vassar College and Yale University Press, contains newly cultural history of the city, Delirious Naples: fall 2019 43

750026 A Cultural History of the City of the Sun, Artist-Naturalist” for Christie’s sale of the edited by Pellegrino D’Acierno and Stanislao Duke of Portland set of Birds of America G. Pugliese (Fordham University Press, in 2018. In addition, she was honored in 2019). With Gerner, Kronick, and Valcarcel spring 2017 with the Audubon Art Inspiring Architects in New York City, he completed Conservation Award from the John James the redesign of the River Club in Manhattan Audubon Center at Mill Grove/Audubon and is presently integrating Art Deco features Pennsylvania. [[email protected]] with 21st-century Tessa Paneth- amenities in the Pollak *16 has been renovation of a 1930s appointed director of apartment building on the LookOut! Gallery the Upper West Side. and other exhibition [[email protected]] spaces at Michigan Roberta Olson State University’s *76’s book Making Residential It Modern: The Folk College in Arts and Art Collection of Elie Humanities, where Radical Marble: Architectural Innovation from Antiquity to the and Viola Nadelman, she coordinates Present, coedited by Nick Napoli *03 coauthored with and curates a and William Tronzo Margaret K. Hofer (D. diverse program of Giles Ltd., 2015) has exhibitions, public received additional art, and community honors, including engagement projects. the 2017 Frick Center Her essay “Strange for the History of Addition” appeared Collecting Book in the catalogue for Prize. Her latest the exhibition The book, Cosmos: The Roberta Olson *76 and Jay M. Pasachoff,Cosmos: Nature of Arp at the The Art and Science of the Universe Art and Science of the Nasher Sculpture Universe, coauthored with Jay M. Pasachoff Center in Dallas, which then traveled to the (Reaktion Books), was published in June Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice 2019. After years of planning, Roberta’s in spring/summer 2019. Her article “Hans curatorial project Audubon’s Birds of America Arp’s Counter-typography” appeared in opened in 2018 at the New-York Historical the February 2019 issue of Art History. She Society, where she is curator of drawings. continues to work on her book manuscript Announcement for the exhibition Each month it features a different watercolor Definite Means: Modernism’s Cut-Outs, on Ripped & Torn: Punk at the model for The Birds of America paired with the cut-out practices of Auguste Rodin, Intersection, curated by Tessa its corresponding plate from the double- Hans (Jean) Arp, and Henri Matisse. In April, Paneth-Pollak *16 and Kate Birdsall elephant-folio series engraved she gave a talk based on material from Havell edition, together with her book project on Arp’s wood reliefs Auduboniana and birdcalls from at the U.K. Association for Art History’s the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Annual Conference in Brighton. She also Her most recent articles include continues her work with the Feminist Art “Rara Avis: Piero di Cosimo and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC), and the Birds He Painted,” with whom she published the collaborative in Piero di Cosimo: Painter experimental manifesto “To Manifest” in of Faith and Fable, edited by Harvard Design Magazine 46: No Sweat (fall/ Dennis Geronimus and Michael winter 2018). In summer 2019, she pursued Kwakkelstein (Brill, 2019); research on Matisse’s cut-outs in Paris and “Audubon: The Franco-American Cateau-Cambrésis, France. [[email protected]] Leonardo; An Exploration of Todor Petev *14 has been working for the the Artist’s Innovative Drawing last five years on developing the educational Techniques,” in Jean-Jacques capacity and social relevance of museums Audubon, 1785–1851: Dessins de and heritage sites in Bulgaria, launching jeunesse; Catalogue raisonné, the an NGO, the My Museum Foundation, catalogue of an exhibition at the which has established several museum Muséum de La Rochelle (Le Croît learning programs. The training workshops Vif, 2017); and, with Alexandra have included professionals from more Mazzitelli, “Audubon’s Grouse: than 40 museums, and the project has No More Grousing Around,” in received assistance from American and Master Drawings 55:4 (2017). European professionals, some of whom Roberta wrote the essay have come to Bulgaria to deliver seminars. “Audubon: America’s Legendary The Bulgarian-American Commission for 44 fall 2019

750026 Educational Exchange “Fulbright” has 2018). Links to both articles are been a valued partner for many of these available online, charlesscribner. projects. In 2019, the first volume ofManual com.[[email protected]] of the Museum Professional for Work with Nebojša Stanković *17 spent Audiences (in Bulgarian), which Todor the 2018–19 academic year in edited, was published; the second volume Istanbul as a post-doctoral fellow will be published later this year. This fall, in residence jointly at the Stavros he will introduce “Museums as Learning Niarchos Foundation Center Environments,” a required B.A. course for Late Antique and Byzantine for future elementary school teachers Studies (GABAM) and the Research studying at Sofia University. Bulgaria has an Center for Anatolian Civilizations amazingly rich cultural heritage, particularly (ANAMED) at Koç University. from ancient times. However, there is During the year, he presented much work to be done to help museums papers at three conferences: “An better understand their audiences and Unusual Triconchal Church in the communicate with them in meaningful, Vicinity of Svrljig (Manastirište engaging, and inspiring Svete Petke ways. Todor welcomes Rusalne): An questions, ideas, and Analysis of Its Charles Scribner ’73 *77 with suggestions. [t.petev@ Architecture, Original Bernini’s Corpus for King Philip IV moyatmuzey.org] in the restoration lab of the Royal Form, and Date of Palace, Madrid Maika Pollack *15 has Construction,” at the accepted a tenure-track international conference position at the University “Niš and Byzantium 17,” of Hawai’i and will relocate in Niš, Serbia (June 2018); from New York this fall. “Tradition, Innovation, Her title will be director and Individual Creation in and chief curator, John Monastic Architecture: The Young Museum of Art Case of St. Athanasius the and University Galleries, Athonite and the Katholikon and assistant professor of of His Great Lavra,” at the curatorial studies and art international conference history in the Department of Manual of the Museum Professional “Art of the Byzantine World: for Work with Audiences, edited by Art and Art History, University Todor Petev *14 Individuality of Artistic of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She Creativity,” organized invites Princeton alums and affiliates in in honor of Olga S. Popova by the State Honolulu to get in touch. Institute for Art Studies and the Faculty [[email protected]] of History of Lomonosov Moscow State Margaret Rose Vendryes *97 et al., Charles Scribner ’73 *77 published the University, in Moscow (November 2018); and “Accommodating Monastics, Laity, Art after Stonewall: Sexual Identity article “Imago Christi: Bernini Saviours, and Politics, 1969–1989 Lost and Found,” about two recent Bernini and Royals: The Narthexes of attributions and controversies, in time for the Pantokratōr Monastery (Zeyrek catalogue and scholarly discussion attending Camii) in Constantinople,” at the last year’s Bernini retrospective at the ANAMED Fellows’ Symposium at Galleria Borghese in Rome. His article, which Koç University in Istanbul (May appeared in the Italian art journal Valori Tattili 2019). The first two papers have 9 (2017), presents arguments and evidence been accepted for publication in that the bronze Corpus in Toronto’s Art conference proceedings, which are Gallery of Ontario is not Bernini’s long-lost due to appear later this year. crucifix made for himself but in fact a later [[email protected]] pastiche with no oversight by the maestro. Margaret Rose Vendryes *97 Confirming that the rediscoveredSalvator was promoted to full professor Mundi at San Sebastiano in Rome is Bernini’s of art history at York College, City autograph original of his final sculpture, University of New York, in fall his “beniamino,” and that the marble 2018 and will serve as chair of the bust at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Department of Performing and Virginia, is an awkward copy, he provides Fine Arts until 2021. Her recent a new interpretation and explanation for publications include “To Be Real,” its puzzling and much-debated gesture. an essay in the exhibition catalogue Returning to his Rubens roots, he reviewed Art after Stonewall: Sexual Identity the exhibition and catalogue Rubens: The Oil and Politics, 1969–1989, edited by Sketches (Madrid and Rotterdam) for the Jonathan Weinberg (Columbus Historians of Netherlandish Art Review (July, Museum of Art, 2019). Her art fall 2019 45

750026 Kristen Windmuller-Luna *16 is the Sills Family Consulting Curator of African Arts at the Brooklyn Museum, a position she started in April 2018. After graduation, she also worked at the Princeton University Art Museum and lectured at Columbia University. At the Brooklyn Museum she has focused on broadening access to the collection through exhibitions and initiatives to welcome artists, scholars, and students into the reserves. On February 8, 2019, she opened the exhibition One: Egúngún. Focusing on a highlight from the museum’s renowned collection of historical African arts, the exhibition considers the life story of a 20th-century Yorùbá egúngún (a masquerade costume linked to ancestral reverence), from its origins in Ògbómọ̀ ṣọ́, Nigeria, to its current home in Brooklyn. The presentation Kristen Windmuller-Luna *16 (at exhibition Standing Ovation: The African Diva includes photographs and footage of Yorùbá right) with Professor Adedoyin Project was awarded an ArtSite grant by the masquerade festivals, related textiles, and Teriba *16 and his Pratt Institute Queens Council on the Arts; a temporary “Contemporary African Arts” a documentary featuring interviews with public display of a selection of figures students at the Brooklyn Museum Nigerian scholars, contemporary artists, and from her original oil paintings fabricated (photo: Meghan Bill) masquerade practitioners. The Brooklyn to life size, the show was on display at the Museum’s first bilingual exhibition in an Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Queens, African language, its text was translated from January 17 through March 25, 2019. into Yorùbá by Adedoyin Teriba *16. For In January 2019, Margaret gave the guest more about the new research behind lecture “Discovering Africa in Art Deco this exhibition, see “Brooklyn Museum’s Design and Beyond,” at “Deco: Luxury to Detective Work Reveals Original Owners Mass Market,” an event organized by the of African Mask,” in The Art Newspaper Miami Design Preservation League and the (February 7, 2019). Kristen’s article on the Wolfsonian-Florida International University. history of the African arts collections at [[email protected]] the Princeton University Art Museum was Gennifer Weisenfeld *07 was reappointed published in African Arts 52:1 (spring 2019). to a second three-year term as dean of the Justin Wolff *99 co-curated Rufus Porter’s humanities for Trinity College of Arts and Curious World: Art and Invention in America, Sciences at Duke University. 1815–1860, an exhibition that was on display The egúngún masquerade costume [[email protected]] featured in Kristen Windmuller-Luna at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art *16’s Brooklyn Museum exhibition from December 12, 2019, through May 31, (photo: Jonathan Dorado) 2020. He is coediting and contributing to the accompanying catalogue, which will be published by Penn State University Press. Once called the “Yankee Da Vinci,” Rufus Porter (1792–1884) was an itinerant portrait painter and muralist, a publisher and author, an inventor of mechanical improvements, and an impresario who engineered an airship that promised to fly Gold Rush prospectors from New York to California in three days. Through his diverse interests in painting, mechanics, aeronautics, and publishing, Porter helped transform art and science in early America—as much as his more his famous peers Samuel F. B. Morse and Robert Fulton. The exhibition and catalogue present Porter as a spatial thinker who innovated across disciplines in ways that are surprisingly relevant to the digital networks of our own era. Justin also guest edited a special section of the spring 2019 issue of Panorama, the journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Titled “Amateurism and

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750026 American Visual Culture,” the five essays in conversation about what role the section examine how 20th-century artists the arts can play in a diverse and critics deployed the practices and tropes 21st-century democracy, and of amateurism for various purposes. Justin to produce a final report has been teaching at the University of Maine that will serve as a center since 2008 and this year was promoted to of gravity for the national professor of art history. conversation. Other civic [[email protected]] and professional volunteer Jay Jie Xu *08 celebrated his tenth work that Jay recently took anniversary as director and CEO of the Asian on includes membership on Art Museum of San Francisco in June 2018, the department’s advisory and is currently presiding over an expansion council (since July 2018), the and renovation of the museum due to be governing board of the Terra completed in late 2019. Besides his work at Foundation for American Art the Asian Art Museum, Jay was appointed (since March 2019), and the senior visiting professor in art history and advisory board of the P.Y. and museology at the College of Liberal Arts Kinmay W. Tang Center for Silk at Shanghai University, his undergraduate Road Studies at the University Justin Wolff *99 et al., Rufus Porter’s alma mater, in June 2018. Elected to the of California, Berkeley (since February 2017). Curious World Art and Invention in American Academy of Arts and Sciences in He appeared as a commentator in three America, 1815–1860 2015, he was invited to join the Academy’s episodes of Civilisations, the 2018 British newly formed Commission on the Arts in art-history television documentary series November 2018. The commission’s mission produced by the BBC in association with PBS A Quick Quiz! is to bring together a group of artists, as a follow-up to the original landmark 1969 arts leaders, philanthropists, educators, series Civilisation by Kenneth Clark. Send answers to and scholars to reframe the national [[email protected]] [email protected] to be entered into a drawing for a Department of Art and Archaeology gift Find us on the internet and on social media 1) In this issue, which image is used twice? Associated Websites 2) Identify the five images artandarchaeology.princeton.edu in this issue which also visualresources.princeton.edu appear in last year’s issue (artandarchaeology. researchphotographs.princeton.edu princeton.edu/whats-on/ tang.princeton.edu newsletter). ima.princeton.edu 3) Find this detail in one of the images in this issue: artmuseum.princeton.edu abydos.org scholar.princeton.edu/mtap

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