2016-17 NEWSLETTER

Dear Friends and Colleagues: office staff and posted on our website, I encourage you to have a look. It is my pleasure to highlight some of Programming in the form of lectures, the past year’s accomplishments in the exhibitions, and symposia this year was Department of Art History and invite robust and often entailed cross-institu- you to enjoy a fuller summation in the tional collaboration, especially via the pages that follow. Among many faculty Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded honors, kudos go first to Huey Copeland, Chicago Objects Study Initiative (COSI), recipient of the 2017 Absolut Art Writing now entering its fourth year. This year’s Award. Also, Christina Normore was newsletter highlights undergradu- awarded the E. Leroy Hall Award for ate initiatives in partnership with the Excellence in Teaching, the highest Block Museum, collaborations with the teaching honor given by Weinberg Northwestern University/Art Institute of College of Arts and Sciences. The de- Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in partment conducted a search for a new the Arts (NU-ACCESS), and ongoing ben- faculty member in architectural history efits to the department made possible and looks forward to welcoming Ayala by the Elizabeth and Todd Warnock Gift. Levin to campus in Winter 2018. It was the department’s great fortune to Our newsletter reports many outstand- see Mel Keiser promoted to the position ing achievements of undergraduate of Department Assistant. As always, and graduate students. To mention a her work—including the design of this few, five students completed the Ph.D. newsletter—has been exemplary. Enjoy and, interestingly, the majority hold or the news of our department’s activities are about to enter museum positions. and please stay in touch. This includes Emma Chubb, who will be inaugural curator of contemporary art at the Smith College Museum of Art. Jesús Escobar Current graduate students continue to Department Chair garner prestigious awards including fellowships from the Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory, the Kress and FACULTY NEWS 2 Mellon Foundations, and two Fulbrights. EVENTS 12 Additionally, a number of undergrad- STAFF NEWS 14 uate students are headed to advanced PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 15 study in art history. It is a special plea- GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS 17 UNDERGRADUATE NEWS 23 sure to include here a report of the many ALUMNI NEWS 25 accomplishments of our alumni. If you UPCOMING EVENTS 28 have not seen the survey of alumni placement since 2000 prepared by the of Contents Table Faculty News Faculty News

S. Hollis Clayson Stephen Eisenman

Holly Clayson’s book, Illuminated (French Culture, History and Politics) Stephen F. Eisenman had a busy Eisenman has just finished a major Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in at Sciences Po, lectured at Dartmouth year team teaching with professors article on “Black Ops in Art and History” the Belle Époque, entered the review College (in the Art History Department Holly Clayson and David van Zanten, which deals in part with Francisco Goya process, and she has begun a new book and the Humanities Center), co-chaired a as well as teaching a graduate seminar and William Blake’s images of torture, (supported by the Center for Advanced session in Washington D.C. at the annual on art and political activism. He has prisoners, slavery and emancipation. Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA)), The meeting of French Historical Studies on also been an activist. Among other (He is writing a book on the same Inescapability of the Eiffel Tower. Research “The Musée d’Orsay on its 30th Birthday,” things, he co-founded a non-profit subject.) His exhibition William Blake on the latter began during a busy and reviewed the Humanities Institute called Anthropocene Alliance that and the Age of Aquarius opens at the spring trip to Paris where she lectured and Center at University of Wisconsin, helps communities combat global Block Museum of Art on September on the modernity of Paris to a group Madison. Even measured against the warming. Climate change was also the 23. He is the principle author of the of Chinese scholars at the Deutsche benchmark of a long teaching career, subject of several articles he published accompanying book, published by Forum für Kunstgeschichte; lectured this was a rousing year for pedagogy: this year—one for the catalogue of Princeton University Press. Finally, (“La Nuit Américaine”) and participated teaching a Fall first-year seminar an Impressionist exhibition held at Eisenman is also completing a book in two workshops at the annual Festival coincided with the launch of a notable the Museum Barberini in Berlin, and written in collaboration with the artist de l’histoire de l’art which drew 43,000 experiment. Eisenman, Van Zanten and several more for Newcity, Chicago. (Not Sue Coe on the history of zoos. attendees this year (held at the Château I (“The Three Tenors”) co-taught 19th- committee was an honor, a pleasure, and surprisingly, artists saw it coming!) de Fontainebleau); and lectured on century European art and architecture for a success. the Eiffel Tower at a Terra Foundation two quarters: path-breaking, intriguing, Europe colloquium on “Circulation.” exhausting, never to be repeated. Hollis Clayson’s lecture at the Jesús Escobar Earlier in the year, she lectured in Paris Serving this year on the global modern 2017 Festival de l’histoire de l’art in as part of the Northwestern program and contemporary architecture search Fontainebleau. While wrapping up a second term editorship. He intends to submit a book as Department Chair, Jesús Escobar manuscript devoted to architecture and Huey Copeland taught a graduate seminar on archi- government in seventeenth-century tecture in the early modern Spanish Madrid to a very patient editor this Habsburg world and, for the first summer. In the meantime, he pub- Cluster in Critical Theory. In the coming American Art World in Twentieth- time, Introduction to Latin American lished an article on Spanish Habsburg year, Copeland looks forward to working Century Washington D.C.,” Copeland Art, which attracted 50 undergradu- architecture in the Journal of the Society more closely with Northwestern’s Black presented his work at venues such as the ate students. He delivered papers at of Architectural Historians; a chapter Arts Initiative and completing his book of San Francisco Art Institute, Musée du the Art of Architecture symposium on baroque architecture in Seville and collected essays, Touched by the Mother: On Quai Branly, Museum of Contemporary at the University of Notre Dame, the Santiago de Compostela in Renaissance Black Men and Artistic Practice, 1966-2016, Art Detroit, Carnegie Mellon University, Architecture Research Forum at the and Baroque Architecture, ed. Alina Payne which garnered him the 2017 Absolut and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017); and “Philip II Art Writing Award, intended to support where he delivered a lecture from Early Urban Transatlanticism sympo- and El Escorial” for Oxford Bibliographies work by the world’s most creative talent. Touched by the Mother as his contribution sium at Penn State. On campus, Escobar in Art History, ed. Thomas DaCosta Huey Copeland enjoyed another This honor, announced at the opening of to a celebration of Chicago-based artist chaired a successful search for a new Kaufmann (Oxford University Press, successful year as Associate Dean the Venice Biennale, was the highlight of Kerry James Marshall. Copeland also faculty member in global modern and 2017). He will begin a three-year term for Academic Affairs in The Graduate a banner academic year: Copeland was penned two essays stemming from his contemporary architecture and, in on the National Committee for the School, where he continued to provide also nominated for the David C. Driskell third book project, In the Shadow of the Chicagoland, worked with colleagues History of Art on July 1. leadership for doctoral, master’s, Prize in African American Art and Art Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic to enhance programming for COSI and certificate, and cluster programs, History and featured as a commentator Practice, that are slated to appear in NU-ACCESS. This past year, he served while also spearheading several new in Kader Attia’s award-winning film the 30th anniversary issue of American again on the Nominating Committee initiatives, including dissertation Reflecting Memory (2016). In 2017, he Art and the exhibition catalogue for the CAA Board of Directors, con- proposal development trainings funded completed the Academic Leadership documenting the Brooklyn Museum’s We tinued his work as Editorial Board by a multi-year grant from the Social Program, coordinated by the Big Ten Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women, Member for the Grove Encyclopedia of Science Research Council. He will step Professor Stephen Eisenman (above) Academic Alliance, as well as the first 1965-1985. Latin American Art, and saw the pub- down from his post on August 31, 2017 and Professor Jesús Escobar (below) year of his term as a member of the lication of the sixth title in the book and return to the faculty ranks, now as an photographed at their relatively new CASVA Board of Advisors. In addition to series Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies homes in Chicago. affiliate of the Department of Art Theory participating in CASVA’s historic Wyeth Still from Kader Attia, Reflecting (Penn State University Press) under his & Practice and the Interdisciplinary Foundation conference, “The African- Memory, 2016.

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Hannah Feldman Jun Hu Rob Linrothe

In 2016-17 Hannah Feldman was on and participated in conferences on The highlights of Jun Hu’s year were teach the summer seminar “Beijing as Robert Linrothe was on an leave completing the final year of Middle Eastern and North African art two trips to the Huntington Library Palimpsest.” American Institute of Indian her Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New at Whitechapel Gallery in London, in California. In November, he presented Studies funded research leave to Eastern Directions Fellowship. As per the fellow- Northwestern University, University of “A Panoply of Metaphors: Painting and India (Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal) ship’s aim to help newly tenured scholars British Columbia, University of North Intermediality in the Late Ming” at a to document sponsor figures on 8th to pursue training in a second field that is Carolina at Chapel Hill, CAA Annual conference there on Chinese woodblock 13th century Buddhist, Brahmanical and necessary to a new research project, she Meeting, and the Core Program in prints. In April, he gave a lecture on Jaina sculptures, and visit museums, took graduate anthropology courses at Conjunction with Rice University and octagonal memorial halls in 8th-century village shrines, archaeological sites, and University of Chicago, where she focused the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Japan and the construction of local living temples. on secularity and governmentality in She completed her tenure as a juror religious memory. At Northwestern, Jun the Middle East and North Africa. She for the SSRC Dissertation Fellowship, Hu taught two new classes, a graduate spent summer 2016 in Beirut, conduct- and continued her work as an advisor seminar titled “Space, Time, and ing research, cultivating her colloquial to the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Chinese Architecture” and a thematic Arabic, and developing the groundwork upcoming exhibition, In Many Tongues: introduction to Chinese and Japanese for a future institutional relationship Art, Revolution, and Language in the Middle architecture at the undergraduate than proud to see three of her Ph.D. with the Arab Image Foundation. She East and Southeast Asia. Invitations to level. In the meantime, he continued advisees, Brynn Hatton, Erin Reitz, and also traveled to Palestine, Cuba, and contribute creative work in the form of to work on his book manuscript The Emma Chubb receive their Ph.D.s, and London to conduct research related text based art to two exhibitions, The Perturbed Circle: Chinese Architecture and two advisees, Thomas Love and Talia to her new book about temporality, New Normal (Beirut, Istanbul) and The Its Periphery. In August, he will travel to Shabtay advance to candidacy. Above: Professor Hu at the Huntington Library. Right: transnational exchange, art, and urban Dangerous Professors (Chicago) allowed Beijing to team up with Rob Linrothe to Professor Linrothe at Mahanta Matha examining the space in contemporary Middle Eastern her to explore her scholarly interests ca. 10th century sculptures. art and urban design. She gave lectures in new contexts. In June, she was more Professor Feldman taking a break from Documenta on the Acropolis. Christina Kiaer

Ann Gunter 1917, she has been by Dziga Vertov; and contemporary busy with museum artworks on the continuing experience exhibitions on of revolution, including a commission Ann Gunter began the year with the Assyrian History (State Archives of the Ancient Near East (Wiley-Blackwell), that theme. She by Cauleen Smith. Kiaer is co-editing the summer seminar in Oxford. This Assyria Studies, Helsinki University a reference work with contributions by participated in catalog, Revolution Every Day: A Calendar, year she taught undergraduate courses Press); “Animal Friezes in Orientalizing twenty-six authors. symposia for 1917-2017, in the small-scale format of a in Art History and Humanities, including Greek Art. Issues in Transmission and the exhibition tear-off calendar organized by date, and the new “Monsters, Art, and Civilization,” Meaning,” for Animals in Mesopotamia: A Revolutionary including diary entries and other primary and a graduate seminar. She had the Their Relations to Gods, Humans, and Impulse: The Rise of documents from the early Soviet years pleasure of supervising Art History Things (Studies in Universal and Cultural the Russian Avant- as well as multiple curatorial essays. major Linnea Hodge’s senior thesis on History, Springer); “Beyond a series of Garde at MoMA, This year she also published an essay on the exhibition of Native American art at ecstatic moments”? Achaemenid Art at and for Revolution: Aleksandr Rodchenko and Aleksandr the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962, which the International Exhibitions of Persian Russian Art 1917- Deineka in the principal Russian art was awarded the J. Carson Webster Prize Art in London (1931) and New York Christina Kiaer has been learning 1932 at the Royal history journal Iskusstvoznanie. for Distinguished Honors Thesis. (1940)” for The Persian Empire: Reception, Academy of Arts, London. She consulted In 2016-17 she published “Contemplating Appropriation and Argumentation from the ropes of her new position as Director of Graduate Studies, and has on Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet an Empire: Artistic Responses to the Antiquity to the Present Day (University Art Put to the Test, opening at the AIC in Neo-Assyrian World,” in Assyria to of Kassel); and “‘Egyptian’ and enjoyed getting to know the Ph.D. students better. She developed a new October 2017, and wrote for the catalog, Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age ‘Egyptianizing’: Style and Agency in the which appeared in June. She is co-curator (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016) Iron Age Mediterranean,” for Beyond undergraduate seminar on “Picasso,” which traveled to Madrid in May for of the exhibition Revolution Every Day and completed four papers delivered Egyptomania: Objects, Style, and Agency opening at the Smart Museum at the at international conferences in the (Kunst und Wirkmacht/Art & Agency, the exhibition Pity and Terror: The Path Professor Kiaer presenting at A to Guernica, with generous funding University of Chicago in September, previous year: “Art History and Neo- DeGruyter). In July she will submit the which combines early Soviet posters Revolutionary Impulse: The from the Warnock Gift. With the 100th Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde confer- Assyrian History,” for Writing Neo- manuscript for A Companion to the Art of Professor Gunter teaching the of and by women; little-known films summer seminar in Oxford. anniversary of the Russian Revolution of ence at Museum of Modern Art.

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Christina Normore Adrian Randolph

Christina Normore was deeply lectures on work in progress at the Since arriving at Northwestern in centuries category. He offered some touched to be awarded the University of Chicago, the International 2015, Adrian Randolph has devoted thoughts on Donatello’s Mary Magdalen Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Conference of Medieval Studies, and most of his time to his administrative at Northwestern’s Early Modern E. Leroy Hall Award for Excellence the Renaissance Society of America. She role as Dean of Weinberg College Colloquium, and spoke on that artist’s in Teaching for 2016-17. In addition joined the editorial board of a new of Arts and Sciences. 2016 did see Madonna of the Clouds at the Renaissance to continuing in her role as the series published by MIP Press, Ludic the publication of his contribution Society of America annual conference department’s Director of Undergraduate Cultures, 1100-1700 and served as the “Sculpture, Gender and Niches in Early which took place in Chicago this April. He Studies, she taught three classes this vice president of the Illinois Medieval Renaissance Florence” in the collection continues to edit, with Mark J. Williams, year: an undergraduate lecture course Association. In the latter role, she Vivere con le statue: La scultura a Firenze the book series Interfaces: Studies in Visual on Gothic art, the graduate Chicago worked with her colleagues David nel XV secolo e le sue funzioni nello spazio Culture; the series saw volumes appear Object Study Initiative seminar (with Jill Shyovitz (History) and Christopher urbano (Louvré Editions, 2016). Moreover addressing the work of Horace Vernet, Bugajski and Marty Ward), and a new Davis (French & Italian) to organize his book, Touching Objects: Intimate astronomy and Marcel Duchamp, 1970s undergraduate seminar on the medieval the IMA’s annual conference at Experiences of Italian Renaissance Art (Yale video art, and digital aesthetics. trans-Saharan trade (with Kathleen Northwestern in February 2017, on University Press, 2014) was reviewed Bickford Berzock). On the research front, the topic of “Medieval Environments.” in caareviews, The Burlington Magazine, she published book chapters related to Kunstkronik and The Sculpture Journal. her previous work on feasting (“Mixed The book also won first prize in the 2016 Senses at Medieval Feasts”) and her American Association for Italian Studies newer research on late medieval warfare Book Award competition, recognized Professor Christina Normore. Dean of the Weinberg College of Arts (“Depicting Defeat in the Grandes and Sciences and Professor of Art History, as the most distinguished critical study chroniques de France”). She presented Adrian Randolph. of Italian literature, history and culture in the Renaissance, 18th, and 19th

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The department warmly welcomes Ayala Levin, who will join us as Assistant Professor in Winter 2018. Dr. Levin began her Levin’s first book project examines Israeli architects and planners at work in training at Tel Aviv University, where she received a B.A. in the Multidisciplinary Program in the Arts, comprising Art History Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast in the 1960s and 70s. She will incor- and Film Studies as well as General and Comparative Literature. She went on to study comparative world architecture at Leiden porate aspects of this research in her teaching of global modern and contemporary University while earning a Master’s of Arts degree in Cultural Studies from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2015, she architectural history at Northwestern, and also bring a breadth of knowledge on completed a Ph.D. in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University with a disserta- canonical Modernism to the classroom. We look forward to her contributions. tion entitled, “Exporting Zionism: Architectural Modernism in Israeli-African Technical Cooperation, 1958-1973.” It was a very competitive year for jobs in the history of architecture and the de- Levin has been the recipient of prestigious awards from the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, partment acknowledges the hard work of the search committee: Emma Chubb, the Social Science Research Council, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in conjunction with Princeton University, where Holly Clayson, Jesús Escobar, and Hannah Feldman, in addition to Kate Baldwin, she held the title of Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer at the Princeton University School of Architecture in 2016- Professor of Communication Studies. 17. An active member of the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative, Levin has published in a number of venues including exhibition catalogs, edited volumes, and journals such as Architecture Beyond Europe and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

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Claudia Swan David Van Zanten

Baroque art, Swan gave lectures this year Nature in Early Modern Europe (Brepols David Van Zanten will be retiring wonderful teaching assistants Aisha on ongoing research on early modern art Press). She is completing her forthcoming at the end of the coming academic Motlani, Jake Leveton, and Tamar and material culture at the Art Institute book on early modern Dutch global year, 2017-18, and will teach two parallel Kharatishvili, and made exciting by of Chicago; Cambridge University; the culture, “Rarities of these Lands”: Encounters courses Fall Quarter examining the two an enthusiastic classful of students. Getty Research Institute; the NIAS, with the Exotic in Early Modern Holland. fundamental questions he has explored During this last year he contributed to Amsterdam; The Warburg Haus, In winter, Swan was a Visiting Fellow at in architectural history for decades. One a project analyzing and publishing the Hamburg; and Carleton College. She the Netherlands Institute for Advanced being just where and how architects drawings of Louis Kahn at the University published essays on “Dutch Diplomacy Study in Amsterdam. She is the recipient fit in Western civilization and the part of Pennsylvania and a parallel project and Trade in Rariteyten: Episodes in the of a Faculty Research Grant to support played by their skill in drawing (Art on French architectural drawing at the History of Material Culture of the Dutch research on “Mesoamerican Wonders in History 395), and the second being how Musée d’Orsay. He was pleased to see Republic”; “Fortunes at Sea. Mediated Europe: Wunderkammer Collecting and time works in this enterprise—where a series of essays through writing and Goods And Dutch Trade Ca. 1600”; and Art Historical Obscurity” and continues to one can stand in the Pantheon in Rome, galleys on Hittorff, Semper, Sullivan, on “Wunderkammern,” in Barock. Nur write review essays for the Times Literary Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Saint Peter’s Wright, Kahn and the planned city schöner Schein? (Schnell & Steiner, 2016) Supplement. She remains dedicated to in Rome, or Wright’s Guggenheim of Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, and After teaching the Methods graduate Forthcoming publications include Image, the Science in Human Culture program, Museum in New York and see, basically, saw an important essay out, “What seminar in the winter, Claudia Swan Imagination, Cognition, co-edited with Paul profiled in the Spring + Summer 2017 the same thing (Art History 232). The American Architects Learned in Paris” in traveled to New York with the first-year Bakker, Christoph Lüthy, and Claus Zittel issue of Northwestern Research Magazine. great event of the last year was the Nineteenth-Century Architecture (Wiley- students; in the Spring she taught a (Brill Press); Tribute to David A. Freedberg: unique course on 19th-century art Blackwell, 2017). Henri Labrouste, student project for a graduate seminar on Aby Warburg. In The Powers of Images (Harvey Miller); that Holly Clayson, Stephen Eisenman theatre building, c. 1820. addition to teaching Global Baroque Early Modern Geometries, special issue of and Van Zanten taught together Fall and an Introduction to Renaissance and Nuncius; and an edited volume on Art and Professor Claudia Swan. and Winter Quarters, backed by the

Krista Thompson Rebecca Zorach

Much of Rebecca Zorach’s time this Cultural Center on the mural. Working research on the Black Arts Movement in This past year, Krista Thompson year was spent on projects timed with undergraduate students in her Chicago, which involves a book project received the Gordon K. and Sybil Thompson, along with Huey Copeland, to coincide with the 50th anniversary first-year seminar, she also curated an and an upcoming exhibition. Zorach Lewis Award from the Caribbean worked on a number of articles related of the Wall of Respect, an important exhibition in the Block Museum’s Katz also published two essays on the art Studies Association given for “the best to the concept of Afrotropes for Art mural painted on the South Side of Gallery. We Are Revolutionaries: The Wall of classical antiquity in its relationship book about the Caribbean published Journal and October. The exhibition Chicago in 1967 by the Organization of of Respect and Chicago’s Mural Movement with early modern European art and over the previous two years in Spanish, she co-curated with Claire Tancons, Black American Culture. She completed explored the Wall, its relationship to contemporary visual culture: a catalogue English, French, or Dutch” for Shine: En Mas’:Carnival and Performance Art of work on a co-authored book entitled the surrounding community, and the essay for the Smart Museum’s Classicisms The Visual Economy of Light in African the Caribbean, opened at the DuSable The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black public mural movement of the 1960s exhibition; and a closing commentary Diasporic Photographic Practice (Duke, Museum in Chicago in May 2017. Liberation in 1960s Chicago (forthcoming and 70s. The course and exhibition for The Frame in Greek and Roman Art: A 2015). She continued work on two new this fall from Northwestern University drew on a digital project documenting Cultural History, eds. Verity Platt and book projects. The first, The Evidence Press). Together with her co-authors, the mural movement, “Chicago Mural Michael Squire (Cambridge University of Things Not Photographed, examines Abdul Alkalimat and Romi Crawford, Movement,” produced with the Media Press). She enjoyed teaching a graduate notions of photographic absence she curated an exhibition at the Chicago and Design Studio at Northwestern. The seminar on theories of intentionality, the and disappearance in colonial and site, http://madstudio.northwestern. prospectus seminar for third-year Ph.D. postcolonial Jamaica. A chapter of the edu/ChicagoMuralMovement, launched students, and an undergraduate seminar, book is slated for publication in Art concurrently with the exhibition. A “Art, Ecology, and Politics,” for which she Journal, Winter 2017. The second project, conference at the Block, Art, Publics, led a field trip to rural southern Illinois. Black Light, explores electronic light and Politics: Legacies of the Wall of Respect, its archival recovery in African American brought together emerging and mid- art. Students in Art, Ecology, and Politics on a visit Krista Thompson and Claire Tacons, En career artists whose work is inspired Mas’:Carnival and Performance Art of the to an impoundment structure (artificial hill Caribbean (D.A.P., 2016). by the Wall or shares similar political created to store toxic strip-mining tailings) concerns with it. These projects are during their field trip to Southern Illinois, closely connected to Zorach’s current May 2017..

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Richard Kieckhefer Hamid Naficy Lane Relyea Museum as a launching point. Next Bilha Moor Professor, Department of Religious Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Art fall he will teach another seminar, this Postdoctoral Fellow Studies Department of Radio, Television, and Theory & Practice time in collaboration with the Classics Film Department, on the portraiture of Moor taught two new undergraduate Kieckhefer published his latest book, In April 2017, Relyea’s essay “Realism’s Roman Egypt. The content generated courses: History and Fantasy in Islamic Hazards of the Dark Arts: Advice for In 2016, Naficy received the Alumnus of Pencil Tip and How Easily It Breaks” from this course lays the foundation for Painting, and a seminar on Art and Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic the Year award from the Department appeared in the exhibition catalogue a Winter 2018 exhibition at the Block Architecture of the Ottomans, Safavids, (Penn State University Press, 2017) in the of Film, Television and Digital Media, Adam McEwen: I Think I’m in Love (Aspen Museum, Paint the Eyes Softer: Mummy and Mughals. In February, she presented Magic in History Sourcebooks Series. It UCLA School of Theater, Film and Art Museum, 2017). Also that month he Portraits from Roman Egypt. Walton also a paper at the Illinois Medieval includes translations of two works, both Television. The Persian translation of his delivered the keynote address for the organized the first Cultural Heritage Association 34th Annual Conference, by Germans who studied in Italy, came book, A Social History of Iranian Cinema: symposium “Res Publica, Public Thing,” Research in the Netherlands trip, an titled “From Byzantium to Islam: Arabic back to Germany, entered into service in Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941, by organized by the University of Illinois international research experience Architectural Inscriptions in the Negev the territorial princes, and wrote their Mohammad Shahba, [entitled Tarikh-e Chicago Art History Graduate Student for U.S. undergraduate and graduate Desert.” At present, Bilha continues work advice literature for the princes. The first Ejtemai-ye Sinema-ye Iran, Volume 1, Association. students who work scientifically within on her book, tentatively titled: The World work is Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of All Tolid-e Kargahi (1276-1320)], won the the Rijksmuseum and the University of in Muslim Eyes: Illustrated Encyclopaedias Forbidden Arts (1456). The second is Ulrich “best translation” cinema book award at Amsterdam on projects about cultural 1550-1700. Molitoris’s On Witches and Pythonesses the 5th Annual Cinema Book Awards in heritage. (1489). The latter was reprinted many Tehran, Iran. His publications this year Editor’s Note: The department expresses Professor Berzock at a café in Rissani, Morocco while doing research for her times along with the more famous included Iranian Postrevolution Cinema: Below: Professor Moor teaching in its sincere gratitude to Bilha Moor for next exhibition. Malleus maleficarum. But Molitoris’s work A Rising Global Cinema (International Deering Library. her outstanding contributions these is also important because it provided Institute of Social History); “The Politics Left: Professor Relyea contributed past three years as teacher and woodcuts illustrating the activities of and Poetics of Iranian Art-House to Adam McEwen: I Think I’m in Love colleague. We wish her all the best in the Kathleen Bickford Berzock witchcraft—the first fully developed Cinema,” Inside the Islamic Republic: (Aspen Art Museum, 2017). years to come. Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, cycle of such representations. The press Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran, Block Museum reproduced all the woodcuts as full-page ed. Mahmood Monshipouri (Hurst plates, in positions corresponding to & Company); and “Lured by the East: Berzock co-curated the exhibition those of the original. Ethnographic and Expedition Films Kader Attia: Reflecting Memory with Art about Nomadic Tribes—the Case of History Ph.D. candidate Antawan Byrd Grass (1924), in The Documentary Film and Block Museum curator Janet Dees. Reader: History, Theory, Criticism, ed. The exhibition was on view at the Block Jonathan Kahana (Oxford University during Fall Quarter 2016. The museum Press). He co-curated with Michelle received a National Endowment for Puetz the poster exhibition Salaam the Humanities Planning Grant for Cinema! 50 Years of Iranian Movie Posters, Marc Walton Berzock’s forthcoming exhibition, exhibited at the Block, September Research Associate Professor, Senior Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, 17-December 11, 2016. An Iranian Scientist at the Center for Scientific Culture, and Medieval Trans-Saharan Trade, cinephilia film series and an Iranian film Studies in the Arts, McCormick School of which will open at the Block in January symposium that featured international Engineering and Applied Science 2019. The grant provided resources for scholars and Iranian filmmakers were two meetings of an international and also featured. Walton began the academic year by interdisciplinary scientific committee hosting an international conference at that is advising on the project, as well the AIC entitled “Synchrotron Radiation as travel to the United Kingdom, Mali, in Art and Archaeology.” In addition, Morocco, and Nigeria to meet with he taught the undergraduate seminar, colleagues, undertake research, and Materiality of Art and Archaeology, at review potential exhibition loans. In Hazards of the Dark Arts: Advice for the interface of art and science. This Winter Quarter, she and Christina Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic, seminar brought together students from Normore co-taught a 300-level seminar, translated by Richard Kieckhefer (Penn State University Press, 2017). the McCormick School of Engineering “Expanding Medieval: West Africa as well as from the Department of Art and Trans-Saharan Trade,” which was History to tackle issues surrounding informed in part by this work. materiality, often using hands-on examination of works at the Block

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OCTOBER 5 NOVEMBER 16 APRIL 28-29 Elizabeth and Todd Warnock Lecture Series Yates McKee, Cooper Union, Elizabeth and Todd Warnock “Art, Public, Politics: Legacies of “Contemporary Art, #Black Lives Lecture: Jennifer Roberts, Harvard the Wall of Respect.” Featuring THE SIFT: PURCHASED BY L. SICK- UP TO THE ANTIPODES: Mater, and the Decolonization Debt University presentations by Adeola Enigbokan, SCREENPRINTING AND THE ART OF ON ARTISTIC ORIGINS, COMPARI- Resistance”” Desi Mundo, Alexis Salas, Dread MAN IN PEKING “The Sift: Screenprinting and THE 1960S SIX SONS, AND CONJECTURES IN THE Scott, and Cauleen Smith EARLY MODERN WORLDS Department lecture co-sponsored with the the Art of the 1960s “ Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University Marsha Haufler, University of Kansas Symposium organized by Rebecca Zorach in Alessandra Russo, Columbia University JANUARY 6 conjunction with student-curated exhibi- OCTOBER 10 tion, co-sponsored with the Block Museum Chad Elias, Dartmouth College, Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross, School “Images of Futures Past: The MAY 1 of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Lebanese Rocket Society” Faranak Miraftab, University of Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department Winter Social Presentations by undergraduates Vanessa “Translocal Materialities,” Gao, Linnea Hodge, and Julia Poppy organized by Rebecca Zorach JANUARY 18 Elizabeth and Todd Warnock MAY 10 OCTOBER 14 Lecture: Marsha Haufler, University of Kansas Adriana Zavala, Tufts University, Caroline Arscott, Courtauld Institute “Latinx Artists. Unsettling Brown Screenprinting was everywhere in In the early 1930s a young man Between the late 15th and the mid- “Purchased by L. Sickman in Peking” of Art; Mark Crinson, Birkbeck and Black” the 1960s. But because the process has named Laurence Sickman, who 17th centuries, in the context of the College; and André Dombrowski, Department lecture co-sponsored been so persistently associated with subsequently became the first curator Iberian expansion, the presence and University of Pennsylvania FEBRUARY 9 with the Latina/o Studies Program scholarly narratives of deskilling, it has of Oriental Art at the newly established observation of unexpected artistic tended to be treated in purely negative Nelson Gallery (now the Nelson-Atkins forms, media, and monuments helped “Writing the History of 19th-Century Adrian Randolph, “Donatello’s Mary terms, as an evacuation of traditional Museum) in Kansas City, was engaged shape a new space of inquiry. Novel ob- European Art and Architecture Magdalen and Sculptural Askesis” MAY 16 Today” artistic techniques. Examining the work by Gallery trustees as a purchasing jects, surfaces, architectures, materials, Department lecture co-sponsored Phillip Bloom, University of Indiana- of Andy Warhol, Corita Kent, Ed Ruscha agent in Beijing. On their behalf, and ideas about artistry were observed Myers Foundations symposium with the Early Modern Colloquium Bloomington, “Collected by Clouds’: and others, Roberts’ talk on November he acquired an array of objects that in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and organized by S. Hollis Clayson, Stephen Facts and Fantasies in the Daitokuji 16 explored the scientific, material, subsequently became very famous. Europe. They traveled between conti- Eisenman, and David Van Zanten FEBRUARY 16 Five Hundred Arhats” historical, and conceptual qualities of Little known, however, are the thangkas nents in physical and textual forms, as the screenprinting medium, including he sent back to Missouri at this time. proof of new territories or collected as OCTOBER 20 CAA Reunion Reception its origins in the sifting and gauging In her lecture on January 18, Haufler unique treasures, and were described, Benoit Bistro, New York MAY 24 introduced Sickman’s thangkas and uses Meredith Cohen, University of processes of industrial milling, the compared, and analyzed in letters, California-Los Angeles, “The Doors Elizabeth and Todd Warnock material and political implications of its them to illuminate not only his engage- histories or inventories. As a result, transparent screen matrix, and its ment with this type of art, but also the missionaries, travelers, historians, and of the Chapel and the Keys of the FEBRUARY 25 Lecture: Alessandra Russo, Palace of Louis IX” Columbia University complex interface with other screen- trade in such objects in pre-war Beijing artists felt the power of novel creations “Generation 00: Cultural Practices and grid-based reproductive media of and their reception in American art prompting audacious revisions of his- Department lecture co-sponsored “Up to the Antipodes: On Artistic Before the Middle East Uprisings” the period. museums. torical, art historical, and geographical with the Medieval Colloquium Origins, Comparisons and Conjectures in the Early Modern Worlds” narratives. Observing and writing about Multi-disciplinary colloquium co-spon- the arts with new spatial coordinates OCTOBER 28 sored with the Block Museum and Middle also faced the pressing issue of defining East and North African Studies Program JUNE 2 origins and originality. At the spring Department Colloquium: Jun Hu and John Murphy End of Year Social lecture on May 24, Russo offered some APRIL 18 conceptual keys with which to engage a Sharon Hayes, University of remarkable archive and understand its Pennsylvania, “In My Little Corner crucial role in the transformation of the of the World and Other Queer study of art history. Publicities” Professor Russo at the Spring Graduate Student Lecture Series, Warnock Lecture co-sponsored with Art Theory & Practice

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WRITING THE HISTORY OF 19TH- Undergraduate Students and the Block Museum CENTURY EUROPEAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE TODAY

Organized by S. Hollis Clayson, Stephen Eisenman, and David Van Zanten

This event was planned to coincide with the unique situation of a two-quarter, undergraduate course on 19th-Century European art and architecture team-taught by the symposium organizers—Professors Clayson, Eisenman, and Van Zanten—in Fall 2016 and Winter 2017. The October symposium brought together three leading scholars, one chosen by each faculty member. Mark Crinson (Birkbeck College, London) displayed his talent at making architecture that a new preoccupation with regularized time keeping in Block Museum debuts an important and integral part of art history with a lecture on the culture underlay the temporalities of instantaneity in curatorial summer internship program for undergraduates the Town Hall of Manchester, England. Caroline Arscott painting, seen most vividly in Claude Monet’s Gare St. Lazare (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) spoke on theoretical and series of 1877. A “study day” followed on October 15, including and continues to serve as a close collaborator artistic concerns surrounding the work of the Dutch-born, an architectural walk in Chicago pivoting on the work of Mies British painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema. André Dombrowski van der Rohe as well as the galleries of the Art Institute of During academic year 2016-17, the Block Museum of Art In summer 2016, the Block debuted a new initiative to (University of Pennsylvania) presented a compelling lecture Chicago. and the department continued to foster a close relationship increase the museum’s engagement with undergraduates. centered on Paris-based Impressionist painting that argued through exhibitions, programs, and student learning. In collaboration with the Department of Art History and Collaboration between faculty and students and Block WCAS, the Block Museum conceived a pilot project for an Museum staff on exhibitions is a staple of this partnership. annual curatorial internship program for undergraduates Staff News In 2016-17, this included work for William Blake in the Age of from across the university with coursework in art history. The Aquarius, curated by Stephen Eisenman, which will open in Block Undergraduate Curatorial Internship provides valuable, fall 2017. It also included the exhibition We Are Revolutionaries: hands-on experience for students interested in pursuing a Mel Keiser, Department Assistant The Wall of Respect and Chicago’s Mural Movement, collectively museum career or desiring an insider’s look at how a museum During 2016, Keiser’s work was included in the two-person exhibition A hole’s made of organized by Rebecca Zorach’s first year seminar. Additionally, functions. The museum awarded paid, full-time internships itself at Filter Gallery in Chicago, with Priya Kambli (Truman State University). In 2017, Talia Shabtay, the 2016-17 Block Fellow, curated Mining to art history majors Mari Morsch (B.A. 2017) and Cristobal she was the Doing/Thinking resident at Wedge Projects with Matt Martin (Northwestern Pictures: Stories from Above and Below Ground, featuring work Alday (B.A. 2018) for the summer term. Under the supervision ATP), where she delivered the performance lecture “The Life and Deaths of The Mels: from the Block’s permanent collection and Northwestern of curatorial staff, the interns gained exposure to curatorial An Introduction” as her alter-ego, researcher Melga Blank. This performance lecture University Libraries. Undergraduate Art History majors Linnea practice and the daily life of the museum. Morsch and Alday was also included in Danny Volk’s Submissive Exhibitions project at THE SUB-MISSION, Hodge (B.A. 2017) and Julia Poppy (B.A. 2017) also curated conducted directed research on works of art in the collection, and delivered as part of the Segal Design Institute’s Designing Your Life course with exhibitions of work drawn from the Block’s collection with resulting in a small installation with accompanying gallery Pam Daniels (Clinical Assistant Professor and Design Innovator in Residence) and the mentorship of museum staff. Hodge’s research and work labels, online content, and presentations on their research Bruce Ankenman (Co-Director, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management was profiled in a May 2017 Northwestern News article, “Art to museum staff and supporters. Interns also took part in Sciences). An exhibition of Melga Blank’s research materials was on display at the Segal history major finds a home base at the Block Museum.” a weekly Museum Seminar, which included meetings with Design Institute through the month of June. In the spring, Keiser received a grant from representatives from different departments within the mu- Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, which will support her Each year, the Block Museum trains a group of undergraduate seum, to gain insights into all aspects of museum work, and ongoing multifaceted project, The Life and Deaths of The Mels. In conjunction with this students within its docent program to facilitate in-gallery to integrate them into the museum’s work environment. This grant, Keiser will collaborate with 3D designer Ian Nakamoto and the Rapid Prototyping learning experiences. During academic year 2016-17, seven art successful pilot program resulted in a renewal of the initiative Lab at Northwestern’s Segal Design Institute to memorialize past versions of herself, history majors participated in the Block’s docent program, and for a second year. 2017 Block Curatorial Summer Internships creating effigies of them which will be buried in local cemeteries. After a promotion in led a series of tours which engaged the full breadth of Block were awarded to rising sophomores Isabella Ko and Nicholas Fall 2016, Keiser now serves as Department Assistant. audiences, including university students and faculty coming Liou, whose work will include producing didactic materials for class visits related to their courses of study, adults from for the museum’s newly reinstalled sculpture garden. Hana Thomson, Program Assistant neighboring communities, and Pre-K-12 students. To support them in their role, docents received in-depth training on Thomson joined the Department of Art History in November 2016. She moved to Chicago from New York, where she exhibitions as well as facilitation and teaching methodologies. worked in the Diamond District at a small jewelry company. She was an Art History major at Dickinson College and has a Master’s degree in History of Decorative Arts and Design from Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt. Her specialty is American Isabella Ko and Nicholas Liou at the Block’s sculpture garden and European jewelry from 1850 to 1950 and American silver design from the same period. She has really enjoyed her time (left); Linnea Hodge at the museum’s entrance (right). at Northwestern but will be leaving for an opportunity with a jewelry company based in Chicago at the end of July.

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Warnock Gift 2016 Summer Seminar Abroad

The Elizabeth and Todd Warnock Gift to Art History continued Professor Ann Gunter and five graduate students travel to Oxford, Cambridge, to enhance the department’s programming and scholarly and London endeavors in its third year. The gift funded a fall faculty retreat at the AIC as well as student travel with Professor and Cambridge, Oxford provided Swan to New York and Professor Zorach to Carbondale. In the spring, thirteen an exceptional opportunity to visit students ranging from first-years to seniors in Professor Kiaer’s undergraduate national, public, private, and university seminar on Picasso—taught as part of the “Global Humanities Lab” run by the museums, and to compare the ways in Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities—traveled to Madrid, Spain over which their collections were assembled, the Memorial Day weekend to see the exhibition Pity and Terror: The Path to housed, and displayed. These museums Guernica at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, organized for the ranged from well-established university 80th anniversary of the painting’s creation in 1937. The trip was made possible museums (Ashmolean Museum and through the Warnock Gift, with additional funding from the WCAS Dean’s Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; Fitzwilliam Office and the Kaplan Institute. Professor Kiaer and the seminar students were Francesca Casadio, co-director, Museum, Cambridge) to some of the NU-ACCESS. joined by intrepid course assistant Alissa Schapiro, a third-year Ph.D. student world’s largest encyclopedic collections in the department specializing in modern art, and visited the Prado and other (British Museum and Victoria & Albert museums in Madrid in addition to intensive study and presentations at the The 2016 Art History Summer Seminar Museum, London). Sir John Sloane’s Conversations with curators, directors, Guernica exhibition while also enjoying a few group meals in a great food city. Art History + Science Abroad included four second-year Museum, London, houses the famous and other museum professionals graduate students (Anna Dumont, architect’s collections of architectural offered a chance to visit storerooms, This year, the Warnock Publication Fund awarded $30,000 in subventions Sarah Estrela, Laurel Garber, and Tamar models, casts, and classical antiquities, learn about future exhibitions, and for faculty and alumni publications. Chad Elias (Ph.D. 2011), Assistant The department’s ongoing Kharatashvili) and one third-year which he set up as a museum in the discuss how institutions are grappling Professor at Dartmouth College, received a subvention last year and was collaboration with NU-ACCESS led to an student (Sandra Racek). Our base at early 19th century. Oxford’s Ashmolean with physical, pedagogical, and other the headline speaker at the department’s Winter Social in January. illuminating Open House in December Magdalen College, Oxford—a city Museum was a focus of our seminar: challenges of representing the past that brought together faculty, that is home to the oldest public as a final writing assignment, students and its connections to the present. postdoctoral fellows, and graduate museum—was an ideal setting for selected an object, described its current James Fraser, curator in the Department students from Art History and Materials studying the history of museums, display, and proposed an imaginary re- of the Middle East, British Museum, Science and Engineering. The event collecting, and display of antiquities. installation (on site or elsewhere). showed the group a relief sculpture included tours of laboratories and Professor Kiaer and her students at the Prado Museum with Goya’s Family of Charles IV Combined with day trips to London now in storage for which he is planning in the background. presentations of research and pedagogy, a single-object display, and discussed plus socializing. Also in the fall, our the use of new imagining technologies. affiliate faculty member Marc Walton Alice Stephenson, director of the Petrie taught a second iteration of a popular Museum of Archaeology, University seminar on materials in art and College London, described the archaeology featuring research on challenges of limited physical space and artworks in the Block Museum’s extensive conservation requirements, collection. In winter and spring, NU- along with the museum’s efforts to ACCESS co-directors Francesca Casadio, engage new audiences for Egyptian Senior Conservation Scientist at the AIC, antiquities. and Mónica Olvera de la Cruz, Professor of Materials Science, worked with Ann Gunter Professor Escobar on creating a roadmap for further collaboration with an eye ultimately to a faculty hire shared between departments in WCAS and the Top: Group listening to Paul Collins, McCormick School of Engineering and assistant keeper of Near Eastern Applied Science. These developments Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum. Left: Group at Radcliffe Observatory, speak to the Department of Art History’s Green Templeton College, Oxford. ambition to expand the limits of Above: The group in Oxford. our discipline.

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Algerian artist Kader Attia and History conferences. In July 2017, samaritain. This year Taking a moment away from the Northwestern faculty. This event she will begin her new position as she also presented a Venice Biennale, Thomas Love coincided with the opening of the the inaugural Charlotte Feng Ford paper at the Newberry admires Gentile Bellini’s Miracle of exhibition Kader Attia: Reflecting ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art at Library’s graduate the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo. Memory, which Byrd co-curated the Smith College Museum of Art in student conference with Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Northampton, Massachusetts. and served as graduate doing research in New York, Paris, Janet Dees at the Block Museum. He representative with and Madrid on her broader project contributed short articles to Aperture ANNA DUMONT Thomas Love.With concerning modernism, art, and Magazine’s special issue on African a Shanley Travel migration. She looks forward to Photography, Platform Africa (May This year, Anna Dumont continued to Fellowship, she will spending her third year as Graduate 2017), and published a short essay deepen her knowledge of textile work spend several weeks Curatorial Fellow at the Block in Recent Histories: Contemporary through her courses, and expanded a in France and the Museum. African Photography and Video Art from project on gender and Futurist textiles Netherlands this the Walther Collection (Steidl, 2017). into her second-year qualifying paper. summer for pre- In August, Byrd will participate Outside the classroom, she founded dissertation research. BRIAN LEAHY Jessy Bell at the Yerkes Observatory in on two panels at the Arts Council an interdepartmental feminist theory In the fall, she will be In addition to the first year of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. of the African Studies Association reading group, and participated in Andrew W. Mellon COSI coursework, Leahy presented a triennial symposium in Accra, Ghana. the Mellon Gender and Sexualities Curatorial intern in the paper at a graduate symposium He will return to Chicago in Fall Studies Cluster as a fellow. In Department of Prints JESSY BELL jumped right in as a co-curator for an on temporality in art organized by 2017 to pursue research in the AIC January, she presented a paper on exhibition celebrating the centenary and Drawings at the AIC. Rutgers University’s Department Bell works on 20th-century art and Photography Department as Andrew Mary Delany’s botanical embroideries of Auguste Rodin’s death, selecting of Art History that considered the architecture in Eastern Europe W. Mellon COSI Curatorial Research at the Newberry Library graduate and researching objects for a gallery ADRIENN KACSOR temporalities of glaciers in relation to with a focus on nationalism and Fellow. conference. She will spend the dedicated to his works on paper. Rodin projects by Olafur Eliasson and Trevor nation-building in public space summer in England, Italy, and France at The Met will open in September Kacsor successfully completed her Paglen. He continued his studio and visual culture. She was recently EMMA CHUBB doing pre-dissertation research 2017. third year, and she is very excited to practice, participating in exhibitions made Book Reviews Editor for the with the support of a Shanley Travel start her dissertation research this in Chicago and North Carolina. In peer-reviewed academic journal Chubb spent 2016-17 as a Fellowship. summer. With the generous support DOUGLAS GABRIEL July, he will travel to Dublin and Modernism/modernity. She is spending Northwestern University Presidential of a Shanley Travel Fellowship, she Belfast to begin archival research the summer in Madison, Wisconsin Fellow. She successfully defended ASHLEY DUNN In September 2016, Gabriel attended will spend the summer in Budapest on a new project investigating studying intensive Russian before the her dissertation, “Migration Forms: the 34th World Congress of Art and Moscow to conduct research on performance and conceptual art Summer Seminar Abroad in Beijing. Contemporary Art in and out of In 2016-17, Dunn settled into her new History in Beijing on a grant from Hungarian communist exiles who practices in Ireland and Northern Morocco, 1999-2012,” directed by role as an assistant curator at the moved to the Soviet Union in the ANTAWAN I. BYRD the National Committee for the Ireland from the late 1970s through Hannah Feldman, in April and she Metropolitan Museum of Art. She History of Art. During the academic 1920s and 30s. 1980s. Afterwards, he will meet his During 2016-17, Byrd continued was honored to celebrate her fellow year he was based in France, where cohort in Beijing for their summer to work on his dissertation, Art History graduates, Elizabeth he participated in the Paris Program TAMAR KHARATISHVILI seminar with Professors Hu and “Interferences: Sound, Technology, Benjamin, Emilie Boone, Brynn in Critical Theory. In addition to Linrothe. and the Politics of Listening in Afro- Hatton, Nicholas Miller, Erin Reitz, beginning archival research for Kharatishvili enjoyed a productive Atlantic Art,” writing and conducting and Xiao Yang, at the hooding his dissertation, he gave talks on second year in the department. In research in New York and Port of ceremony in June. She represented North Korean art and architecture May, she passed her qualifying paper, C.C. McKee giving a lecture at Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. Spain. In October, Byrd contributed the graduate students while serving at conferences and symposia at the “Printed Buildings: Tracing Power to a panel discussion at the on the department’s search committee Warsaw Academy of Sciences and and Social Experience in El Escorial “Beyond the Frame: Contemporary in global modern and contemporary the University of Chicago. His article and the Val-de-Grâce.” In Spring Photography from Africa and the architectural history. She was an on South Korean minjung art was Quarter, Tamar was also accepted Diaspora” symposium at Columbia invited speaker at Williams College, published in the Korean Journal of to her first international conference University. In January, he moderated Indiana University, and, closer to Modern Art in July 2017. — “Art and Cross-Cultural Dialogue: a panel discussion with the French- home, at Northwestern’s Society Identity and Cultural Diversity” — of Fellows, the Middle East and taking place in September at the North African Studies Program, LAUREL GARBER Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi. Emma Chubb, the inaugural and the Block Museum. She also There, she will present new work on Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Garber wrote her second-year Contemporary Art at the Smith presented papers at the annual CAA qualifying paper on Rodolphe exile and the work of the Franco- College Museum of Art. and Western Society for French Bresdin’s 1861 lithograph, Le Bon Ukrainian artist Sonia Delaunay- Terk. Tamar will spend the summer

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Era of Late Socialism and facilitated to begin a co-tutelle at the École des Sandra Racek (front row, second from the campus visit of performance Hautes-Études en Sciences Sociales left) at the University of Amsterdam Special Collections Library with her and video artist Sharon Hayes. He under the direction of Anne Lafont. Dutch summer language class. also presented at the annual AIC graduate student seminar. This AISHA MOTLANI summer, Love will begin working in handwritten 17th-century Dutch Berlin on his dissertation, which will This past academic year, Motlani has texts and working with primary focus on the aesthetics and politics been researching and writing her materials in the Nationaal Archief of queer subcultures in Germany dissertation. She also was a teaching and Stadsarchief in The Hague and from the 1970s-90s. This research is assistant for a two-quarter course Amsterdam. supported by a Dissertation Proposal on 19th-century art co-taught by AIC, he is curating an installation of W. Mellon COSI Curatorial Research Development grant from the Social Professors Clayson, Eisenman, and works from the permanent collection Fellow at the AIC. She made progress ERIN REITZ Science Research Council, which also Van Zanten. In the spring, Motlani by Ivan Albright (1897-1983), opening on her dissertation and learned more With the support of a 2016 Mellon/ includes proposal writing workshops participated in the 2017 Summer May 2018. He contributed an essay, about curatorial practice, specifically ACLS Dissertation Completion in June and September. In Fall 2017, Institute of Technical Studies in Art “Building Golgonooza in the Age of the long and laborious process of Fellowship, Reitz spent the year he is thrilled to begin a year in the at Harvard University. The two-week Aquarius,” to the exhibition catalogue, reinstallation. She delivered her first in New York researching and Paris Program in Critical Theory. course provided hands-on experience William Blake and the Age of Aquarius public gallery talk, “Reliquaries in writing on the art of the Black in different art mediums, including (Princeton UP, 2017), and gave a talk the Collection of the Art Institute,” Julia Oswald at Medieval Times. Panthers. She was also a Helena C.C. MCKEE etching, oil painting, and ceramics, based on the paper at the annual in the new Deering Family Galleries Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow as well as introducing participants Communal Studies Association of Medieval and Renaissance Art, of the Whitney Independent Study JAKE LEVETON McKee spent 2016-17 in Paris to a variety of art conservation and conference. An essay on lithographer Arms, and Armor. This summer, Program and presented research at performing dissertation research as curatorial practices through readings, Bolton Brown appeared in the July- Oswald will take part in the CCL/ Leveton enjoyed a happy fifth year the University of Barcelona, Florida part of Northwestern’s Paris Program presentations, and one-on-one August issue of Art in Print. Mellon Seminar in Curatorial Practice in the department. He completed State, Williams (at the invitation of in Critical Theory. McKee returned sessions in the conservation lab. and will conduct research in New work on his essay “William Blake alumna Brynn Hatton), Yale, Vrije to Evanston for the opening at the York and London with the support and Art against Surveillance” which CATHERINE OLIEN Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Block Museum, Keep the Shadow, Ere JOHN MURPHY of a Graduate Research Grant and a will appear in William Blake in the Whitney Museum. Reitz defended the Substance Fade: Mourning During Olien completed her first of two years research award from the Medieval Age Aquarius (Princeton UP, 2017). her dissertation in April and looks the AIDS Crisis, which he curated as During the past year, Murphy at the Institut national d’histoire de Studies Cluster. He continued to serve as chair for forward to returning to campus the 2015-16 Graduate Fellow. McKee defended his dissertation, “Back l’art in Paris on a Kress Institutional the North American Society for this fall to teach an undergraduate was also invited to give a lecture on to the Garden: The Woodstock Art Fellowship. In April, she presented the Study of Romanticism. Over SANDRA RACEK seminar in the department. “The Body as Art Historical Method” Colony,” and began working as a paper, “Between Classicism and He also worked as an Educational at the Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. Research Associate in the Department Orientalism: The French View of This year Racek successfully Teaching Technologies Fellow at ALISSA SCHAPIRO McKee will remain in Paris next year of American Art at the AIC. For the Ancient Cyprus in the Nineteenth completed qualifying exams and Northwestern and took part in the Century,” at the French Society for began preliminary research toward During the 2016-17 academic year Animal/Nonhuman Workshop at the Historical Studies Annual Meeting her dissertation on 17th-century Schapiro began her graduate University of Chicago. In October, in Washington D.C. In June, she Dutch art. During the summer, he traveled to Colorado College to traveled to Cyprus with the support of with the support of a Shanley present work at the International the Helena Wylde Swiny and Stuart Travel Fellowship, Racek will Alissa Schapiro with her dissertation Conference on Romanticism. Leveton prospectus after passing her thesis Swiny Fellowship, where she spent conduct two weeks of research in will be a 2018 Visiting Residential colloquium. three weeks in residence at the Cyprus The Netherlands, at the Museum Scholar at the Yale Center for British American Archaeological Research Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Art. Institute. During her stay, she Netherlands Institute for Art History, visited museums and archaeological as well as The Frits Lugt Collection THOMAS LOVE sites relevant to her dissertation, at the Foundation Custodia in Paris. “The Reception of Ancient Cypriot Racek was also awarded a Summer This year, Love organized a screening Sculpture, 1860-1900: A European Language Grant from The Graduate series at the Block Cinema titled Perspective.” School to support her language study “The Gay Left”: Homosexuality in the through the Dutch Summer Language JULIA OSWALD Program at Columbia University. Catherine Olien in the A.G. Leventis Through the course, Racek completed Gallery of Cypriot Antiquities in the Oswald spent this year as Andrew training for reading printed and British Museum.

20 21 Graduate Student News Undergraduate News assistantship at the Holocaust W. Mellon COSI Curatorial Intern Educational Foundation at at the AIC, where she worked in the Eight new students Northwestern Art Review Northwestern, successfully completed Department of European Painting her Dissertation Prospectus and Sculpture with Associate Curator will begin graduate Colloquium, and accompanied Rebecca Long on a future El Greco studies in Fall 2017: Northwestern Art Review celebrates a successful close to Professor Kiaer and thirteen exhibition. This summer she will its eighth year and two new editions of its journal undergraduates on a trip to Madrid, continue her work at the AIC before MARYAM ATHARI As an academic organization dedicated to promoting the Spain. Schapiro is once again participating in Northwestern’s study of visual arts, Northwestern Art Review strove to bring M.A. History of Art, Spring 2017 issue of NAR, Art Her(story) spending this summer working for Summer Institute in Cologne. Wood new perspectives and ideas about the arts to the greater Universiy of Houston Princeton University on an exhibition has also been awarded a Fulbright Northwestern community in 2016-17. This year, we welcomed about Life magazine. Fellowship to Spain and will move to several new members into our organization, each bringing OLIVIA DILL Madrid in the fall to pursue archival diverse backgrounds and interests in the arts that enabled rich B.A. History of Art and TALIA SHABTAY research for her dissertation on the conversations. NAR also presented a career panel of profes- Physics, U.C. Berkeley artistic and political connections sionals in the art world during Winter Quarter, moderated by Shabtay spent her third year as the between the Habsburgs and the Professor Clayson and titled, “Art Job: Not an Oxymoron.” Our Block Museum Graduate Fellow, Medici during the reign of Philip II. CAITLIN DIMARTINO dedication to publishing undergraduate essays on art history where she curated an exhibition M.A. Art History, and contemporary art trends continued with the publication that examines how artists have VERENA ZIEGLER University of Texas-Austin of our Spring 2017 journal, Art (Her)story, which comprised of constructed narratives about industry essays from students across the globe. The colorful represen- and labor from the 1890s through the Ziegler works on Indian and Tibetan tations in this 17th issue of the NAR are part of a much-needed BENJAMIN JONES 1960s. With the support of a Shanley Buddhist narrative arts (10th-17th initiative to reimagine art and an unabashed celebration of B.A. History and Theory of Travel Fellowship, she will travel to centuries C.E.), with a focus on female artists and female representations. At this journal’s Contemporary Art, San Toronto, Washington D.C., and San wall paintings. She is spending her core is a spectrum of women throughout the world that have Francisco Art Institute Francisco to research the relationship summer in Ladakh, Northern India, participated in the visual arts in diverse and stimulating ways. between scientific experimentation studying intensive Tibetan, and As an organization, we are very proud of all our efforts this and models of vision that emerged continuing her research on the wall OZGE KARAGOZ year and are excited for everything that is yet to come next during the mid-20th century. Shabtay paintings of a Buddhist temple of the M.A. Visual and Critical year! is lead curatorial research assistant area, with the generous support of Studies, School of Art for the Block Museum’s upcoming a Shanley Travel Fellowship and the Institute of Chicago exhibition, Designers in Film: Avant- Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Asian Garde and Commercial Cinema in Mid- Studies. After that she will attend the Century Chicago, part of the Terra Summer Seminar Abroad in Beijing. RISA PULEO Congratulations to the following graduate students for successfully Foundation’s city-wide initiative Art M.A. Curatorial Studies, Design Chicago. Bard College defending their dissertations during 2016-17: Talia Shabtay giving a tour for the M.A. Art History, Hunter EMILY WOOD exhibition she curated, Mining Pictures: College Stories From Above and Below Ground ELIZABETH BENJAMIN “The Unhomely Home: Caillebotte’s Interior Paris.” This year, Wood was the Andrew (2017) at the Block Museum. MCKENZIE STUPICA Primary advisor: S. Hollis Clayson B.A. Art History and German Studies, EMMA CHUBB “Migration Forms: Contemporary Art in and out of Morocco, 1999-2012.” University of Minnesota Primary advisor: Hannah Feldman

HAMED YOUSEFI JOHN MURPHY “Back to the Garden: The Woodstock Art Colony” KOUPAI Primary advisor: Stephen Eisenman M.A. Social Sciences, “Radical Aesthetics: The Art of the Black Panthers, 1966-1982.” Esfahan University, Iran ERIN REITZ Primary advisor: Hannah Feldman M.A. Cultural Studies, Allameh Tabatuba’i XIAO YANG “Between National Imagination and Social Critique: Female University, Iran Figurations in Pang Xunqin and Fu Baoshi’s Wartime Chinese Painting (1930s-1940s).” Primary advisor: Ann Gunter/Sarah Fraser

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David S. Areford (Ph.D. 2001) Development” symposium organized published La nave e lo scheletro: Le by Ayala Levin (see New Faculty, p. 6) stampe di Jacopo Rubieri alla Biblioteca as part of the Princeton-Mellon Classense di Ravenna (Bononia Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, Undergraduates provide many reasons to celebrate University Press, 2017). The book is an and the Humanities. She is enjoying Italian translation of “The Ship and her ongoing work as a Book Reviews 2016-17 was another impressive year for under- the Skeleton: The Prints of Jacopo Editor for the Journal of the Society of graduate achievements in art history. 625 under- Rubieri,” chapter three of The Viewer Architectural Historians, with the graduate students participated in 25 departmental courses and the Printed Image in Late Medieval expansive remit of Europe, Africa, that spanned the gamut from ancient “Monsters, Art and Europe (Ashgate, 2010). and Asia from 1750. Civilization” to “New Media Art.” A special standout among these was the beloved 19th-century sequence, for this Sarah Betzer (Ph.D. 2003) is co- David Getsy (Ph.D. 2002) was year only jointly taught by the “Three Tenors”–Professors directing a pilot of a new general Interim Dean of Graduate Studies at Clayson, Eisenman and Van Zanten. Ever eager to give our education curriculum at the the School of the Art Institute of students the opportunity to encounter works of art in per- University of Virginia, to be launched Chicago in 2016-17. Subsequently, he son, our courses included field trips to locales as exotic as in Fall 2017. In January, she organized was Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Madrid, Spain and as unexpected as Carbondale, Illinois. a Summit on Liberal Arts & Sciences Queen Mary University of London Education for the 21st Century at and Honorary Visiting Professor at With the support of the Provost’s Office, WCAS, and the University of Virginia, which brought Alums Paul Jaskot, Sarah Betzer, and the University of York. He published Elizabeth and Todd Warnock Gift, the department was together prominent thinkers on Sheila Crane in Ireland. essays on Slava Mogutin, Michelle pleased to honor some of the accomplishments of both undergraduate curriculum reform Grabner, and queer formalisms, and our majors and the larger student body. Yucheng Zhu, a from Barnard, Duke, Harvard, he gave the Edwin L. Weisl Lecture in double major in art history and economics, was recognized Stanford, and William & Mary. In Research Travel Grant for archival the Arts at Carleton College. His 2016 as the Outstanding Junior Art History Major for 2016-17. Spring 2017 she co-organized “Joan of and collections study in Moscow and collection of artists’ writings, Queer, Steven Norwalk and Emily Moon were this year’s winners Arc: Afterlives,” a symposium St. Petersburg towards completion of was named a finalist for the 2017 of the Elizabeth and Todd Warnock Prize in Art Historical featuring keynotes by Terry Castle her book manuscript, which is based Lambda Literary Award for “Best Writing at the 200- and 300-levels respectively. Inje Hwang (Stanford), Françoise Meltzer on her dissertation and tentatively LGBTQ Anthology.”. was awarded a highly competitive summer Undergraduate (University of Chicago) and Robin titled A Fragile Friendship: Soviet Art in Research Grant to pursue research for his undergrad- Blaetz (Mount Holyoke). Among the the American Imagination, 1933–47. In uate thesis. Three seniors, Vanessa Gao, Linnea Hodge Portraits of Human Monsters panelists on her 2017 CAA panel, “Why addition, Bugajski is collaborating on in the Renaissance and Julia Poppy, completed innovative theses and were Dwarves, Hirsutes, and Castrati Print?” was Paul Jaskot (Ph.D. 1993). a second book manuscript with John as Idealized Anatomical Anomalies awarded departmental honors. Hodge’s thesis–“Exhibition were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Murphy (Ph.D. 2017) on American Touba Ghadessi Practices in ‘Northwest Coast Indian Art’ at the Century 21 Jill Bugajski (Ph.D. 2014) was visual arts activism in the 1930s. Exposition: Native Phantasmagoria and Seattle’s ‘Cultural Our warm congratulations also to our former majors who promoted in spring 2017 to Executive Heritage”–was awarded the 2017 J. Carson Webster Prize for will continue to pursue their art historical studies beyond Director of a newly designed Sheila Crane (Ph.D. 2001) spent Distinguished Honors Thesis. Additionally, Gao and Hodge Northwestern this upcoming fall. Claire Dillon (B.A. 2015) department, Academic Engagement 2016-17 as a Mellon Fellow at the and Y.L. Lucy Wang (B.A. 2016) will enter the MA/PhD pro- and Research at the AIC. Under University of Virginia’s Institute for gram at Columbia. Sophie Jenkins (B.A. 2013) will pursue a Curatorial Affairs, AER works to the Humanities and Global Cultures, dual MA in Modern & Contemporary Art History and Arts advance interdisciplinary, exploratory participating in interdisciplinary Administration & Policy at the School of the Art Institute. research on the museum’s collections humanities labs on the Global South Graduating senior Julia Poppy (B.A. 2017) will enter the MA and supports collaborations between and African Urbanisms. In April, her course at the Courtauld Institute of Art. We look forward to professors, students, scholars, artists, essay, “Housing as Battleground: seeing what they, and all our undergraduate alumni, will and museum staff, including Targeting the City in the Battles of continue to achieve in the years to come. fellowship programs and scholarly Algiers,” was published in City and initiatives. Also in 2017, Jill co-curated Society as part of a special issue on (with Kate Nesin) the exhibition Go — “The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern Left: Professor Hu with undergraduate Art History majors Julia on the theme of acceleration, City.” This year she gave papers at the MONSTERS, PRODIGIES, AND DEMONS Poppy, Linnea Hodge, and Vanessa Gao at the WCAS Convocation. technology and Modernism — for the “Theory’s History, 196X–199X” Above: Students from Professor Kiaer’s Picasso course in Retiro Art Institute’s Abbott Galleries. The conference in Brussels, in the Park, Madrid (from left to right: Nicholas Liou, Katie Rothstein, Terra Foundation for American Art Architecture lecture series at Cornell Tuuli Sandvold, Sky Swanson, Alissa Schapiro, Meghan Considine). Touba Ghadessi’s forthcoming book awarded Bugajski an International University, and in the “Landscapes of Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaisssance.

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her book on human monsters in the Sophie Jenkins (B.A. 2013) will Morgan Library & Museum, New York Renaissance is forthcoming (ARC pursue a dual M.A. in Modern & in June 2018, which will travel to the We encourage you Humanities Press/MIP) and she is Contemporary Art History/ Arts Cleveland Museum of Art and then the to share announce- grateful to the Department of Art Administration & Policy at the School Blanton Museum, Austin, Texas (2019). ments of new positions History for supporting her scholarly of the Art Institute of Chicago She has also co-authored the and publications with work with a book subvention from the beginning this August. She will be forthcoming publication accompanying the department Warnock Publication Fund. moving back to the Chicago area after the exhibit. Her recent publications throughout the year. four years of working for a private art include “The Iconography of Gender,” in Please send these Jeffery Howe (Ph.D. 1979) is advisory firm in New York. The Routledge Companion to Medieval updates and any curating the exhibition Nature’s Iconography, ed. Colum Hourihane changes to your mailing Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Min Kyung Lee (Ph.D. 2012) will (Routledge, 2017); and “Masculinist Landscape and editing the catalog take up a tenure-track position in the Devotion: Flaying and Flagellation in or email address to: (Boston College, McMullen Museum interdisciplinary department of the the Belles Heures,” in Down to the Skin: of Art, 2017). Previously, Howe Growth and Structure of Cities at Images of Flaying in the Middle Ages, ed. art-history@ curated the exhibition John La Farge Bryn Mawr College beginning in Larissa Tracy (Boydell and Brewer, northwestern.edu. and the Recovery of The Sacred (Boston August. She will teach courses in 2017). College, McMullen Museum of Art, modern architectural history and Jeffery Howe’s catalog John La Farge 2015). Howe has taught at Boston urbanism. Nina Rowe (Ph.D. 2002) was and the Recovery of The Sacred (Boston College since 1978. awarded twelve-month fellowships College, McMullen Museum of Art, Sherry C.M. Lindquist (Ph.D. for 2016-17 from the National “City/Nature: Urban Environmental 2015). Humanities.” She is newly the field Left: André Cadere at Pol Bury opening, Roger Hull (Ph.D. 1970) taught 1995) has been named the Dorothy Endowment for the Humanities and 1972. from Lily Woodruff’s forthcoming art history at Willamette University Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence from the American Council of editor for exhibitions in the Midwest book Disordering the Establishment: Touba Ghadessi (Ph.D. 2007) for forty years, retiring in 2010. In the in Art History at the University of Learned Societies for her study of late region for caa.reviews. Participatory Art and Institutional Critique ended her fourth year as chair of the 1990s, he envisioned and helped Memphis 2017-18. She recently delivered medieval, Middle High German in France, 1958-1981. Art History program at Wheaton establish the Hallie Ford Museum of the Elizabeth Allen Visiting Lecture in illuminated manuscripts known as Below: Professors Feldman, Escobar, College, Massachusetts in June 2017. Art at Willamette. He remains Art History, “The Body and the Book of World Chronicles (Weltchroniken). and Thompson with 2017 graduates In the fall, she was invited to present associated with the museum as the Hours: Somaesthetics, Posthumanism Emilie Boone, Brynn Hatton, Emma her research on gender fluidity and senior faculty curator. His most and the Uncanny Valley” (March 2017). Lily Woodruff (Ph.D. 2012) Chubb, and Erin Reitz at The Graduate School Hooding Ceremony. alternate epistemologies recent project was organizing a sixty- With Asa Mittman, she is co-curating just completed her fifth year as an implemented by French Valois rulers year retrospective exhibition of work the exhibit, Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Assistant Professor at Michigan State at the Mahindra Center for the by the Oregon modernist painter and Aliens and Wonders to open at the University, where she teaches and Humanities at Harvard and at the printmaker, Louis Bunce (1907-81), conducts research on contemporary Renaissance Seminar at Wesleyan. In and writing the monograph Louis art history. This year, her first 2012, Ghadessi co-founded the Bunce: Dialogue with Modernism manuscript titled Disordering the Sherry C.M. Lindquist. Wheaton Institute for the (distributed by University of Establishment: Participatory Art and Interdisciplinary Humanities and her Washington Press, 2017), published Institutional Critique in France, 1958- work as an advocate for the on the occasion of the show. 1981, was accepted for publication humanities expanded this year—she with Duke University Press, and is now the vice chair of the board of Paul Jaskot (Ph.D. 1993) was the awarded a subvention from the the Rhode Island Council for the co-director of the faculty seminar on Warnock Publication Fund by the Humanities. In that capacity, she “Visualizing the Holocaust and the Department of Art History. She went to Washington, D.C. to lobby Use of Digital Humanities in the completed the first draft of her with senators and representatives and Classroom” at the U.S. Holocaust book thanks, in part, to a MSU was pleased to be quoted on the floor Memorial Museum this summer. In Humanities and Arts Research of the House in a session defending Fall 2017, he will begin a new Program grant which allowed her funding for the National Endowment appointment in Duke University’s to take a leave from teaching in Fall for the Humanities in the spring. She Department of Art, Art History, and 2016. She is completing revisions continues in her position as the co- Visual Studies, where he will also be to the manuscript during summer president of the New England the Director of their “Wired!” digital 2017, and participating in a National Renaissance Conference and as a art history lab. Endowment for the Humanities board member of the Providence Summer Institute at the University Athenaeum. Ghadessi is thrilled that of Washington in Seattle titled

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ELIZABETH AND TODD WARNOCK LECTURE SERIES

NOVEMBER 1 JEAN-LOUIS COHEN, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University “Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture”

JANUARY 25 JEANETTE KOHL, University of California-Riverside “Facing Objects: Renaissance Bust Portraits and the Case of Simon of Trent”

MAY 2 JILL CASKEY, University of Toronto

MYERS FOUNDATIONS SYMPOSIA

FEBRUARY 8 GRADUATE STUDENT BIANNUAL SYMPOSIUM “At Work: Art, Labor, Social Life”

MAY 17-18 “ENTANGLED URBANISMS: HISTORY, PLACE, AND THE SHAPING OF CITIES” Organized by Jesús Escobar, Jun Hu, and Ayala Levin

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