DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH FINE ARTS CENTER 826 FALL 2009 schermerhorn new faculty from the chairman’s office Kaira Cabañas The academic year that has just passed was marked by conferences and symposia that brought visitors to Schermerhorn Hall who became, at least for a short while, members of our shared intellectual enterprise. In The Department is pleased to welcome October, a conference organized by former students of David Rosand— Kaira Cabañas as Lecturer and Director a “Rosand Fest” as it was known informally—honored his final year of of the MA in Modern Art: Critical and teaching, and attracted a distinguished audience of art historians from Curatorial Studies. Cabañas, no stranger to the New York area and beyond. A major student-organized conference the Department, was a Mellon Postdoctoral on the visual culture of the nineteenth century held in April capped the Teaching Fellow from 2007 to 2009 after year with a two-day event at which Professor Jonathan Crary delivered completing a PhD in art history at Princeton University in the closing address. Other symposia organized by students explored the spring of 2007. Currently, she is preparing her first topics as varied as Chinese stone inscriptions and the relationship monograph, Performative Realisms: The Politics of Art and between contemporary art and media. Culture in France 1945–1962. Cabañas has also engaged Giving our students the opportunity to conceive and plan such extensively with modern and contemporary art in interna- ambitious events enriches their experience of being at Columbia. tional contexts. Most recently, she edited the book Seven Another initiative begun in the Department this past year, featured Circles / Seven Sounds: Lothar Baumgarten (2009), published on p. 4, has sought to sharpen the visual skills of undergraduate and in conjunction with the artist’s exhibition earlier this year at graduate students, whatever their fields of specialization, and to deepen the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Her writings have appeared in Grey their insights into artistic processes by encouraging them to study life Room, Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, Parachute, drawing. Since last fall, the Department has offered free tuition for and Art Journal, as well as in various international catalogues graduate students for classes with Minerva Durham at Spring Studio such as Yves Klein: Corps, couleur, immatériel (Centre Georges in Lower Manhattan, where several members of the faculty also have Pompidou, 2006) and the forthcoming MACBA Collection become regulars. Special thanks go to our Academic Department (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2009). Administrator, Emily Gabor, herself a talented artist, who first put me in touch with Ms. Durham. In June, one of our PhD students, Kori Lisa Yee Litt, participated in the Drawing Marathon at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, with generous support from the School arranged by the Dean and founder of the Marathon, Graham Nickson, and Jeffrey Hoffeld (’73 M Phil), Associate Dean and member of our Advisory Council. Although few will attain the skill in draftsmanship possessed by their illustrious predecessor, Meyer Schapiro (’35 PhD), students in the Department, as well as members of the faculty, can find inspiration in Schapiro’s example of making drawing an integral part of his art histori- cal research and an ongoing form of engagement with the visual world. In a remarkable lecture titled “Art Schools: Drawing from the Figure,” which he delivered at the Studio School in 1967, Schapiro spoke of the self-fulfillment that can come from producing a work of art: Lothar Baumgarten, Verlorene Früchte (Lost fruits), 1969, courtesy of It must give you a feeling of growth, of increase of your own powers. the artist. It must be something that you enjoy even though it is painful at many times, even though it is discouraging and full of struggles. It is better than other things because it brings you into a fuller action as A Symposium in Honor of an individual, it brings into play desires, impulses, perceptions, and qualities which are part of yourself and your dignity as an individual.1 Natalie Boymel Kampen Saturday, October 24, 2009 It is hard to imagine a more life-enhancing goal than achieving “fuller action as an individual,” in spite of the struggles this requires, whether Professor Tally Kampen will be honored at a one-day symposium by making art or, as for most of us in Schermerhorn Hall, by thinking to be held at Barnard College on Saturday, October 24, 2009. and teaching and writing about it. The event will bring together Professor Kampen’s colleagues and former graduate students to present research and personal Robert E. Harrist, Jr. reflections on the occasion of her retirement. Organized by 1. From “Drawing from the Figure, given as a lecture on May 22, 1967 at the Rebecca Molholt (’08 PhD), Jim Frakes (’02 PhD) and Elizabeth New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture,” in Meyer Schapiro: Marlowe (’04 PhD), the symposium will feature a keynote His Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, New York, p. 44. address by Professor Elaine Gazda of the University of Michigan, and papers on a wide variety of topics related to Professor Cover: Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons, Kampen’s research and teaching. Speakers will include Laura ca. A.D. 260–270, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Auricchio, Herica Valladares, Pamela Fletcher, and several others.
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carroll’s life and work were char- on columbus day in 1911, a Native acterized by oppositions: between American artist named Angel DeCora whimsy and formality, humour stepped up to a podium to tell an and reason, nonsense and logic, audience of other progressive, educated spontaneity and ritual and, in our Indian people about the importance post-Freudian age, we could add of art to their struggle for political and another - between unconscious and cultural recognition. As she told her lis- conscious. In his daily and profes- teners, “[The Indian’s] art like himself sional life, Carroll abided by rules is indigenous to the soil of his country, and regularity. In his imaginative where, with the survival of his latent creations, he invoked rules in order abilities, he bravely offers the best pro- to play with them, and to subvert ductions of his mind and hand which them. The camera must have appealed to Carroll because it turned the shall be a permanent record of the race.” In her works and her writings, world upside down on its lens, just as, in his books, his humor turned DeCora saw Native art made in both ‘traditional’ and ‘nontraditional’ everything upside down, inside out, and backwards. “‘Living backwards!’ genres as a means for Indian people to negotiate their relationship to Alice repeated in great astonishment, ‘I never heard of such a thing!’ their changing historical circumstances. Borrowing from the socially ‘—but there’s one great advantage in it, that one’s memory works both oriented aesthetics that dominated the American art world of the time, ways,’” Carroll wrote in Through the Looking-Glass. The looking-glass, she also described art as a potentially rich site for transcultural exchange which is the camera, turns the world backwards in another way, too, by and national cultural development. As she said, “The Indian in his rendering the world as negatives, then using a kind of chemical magic native dress is a thing of the past, but his art that is inborn shall endure. to turn the world back into positive images. He may shed his outer skin, but his markings lie below that and should show up only the brighter.” —Excerpt from Anne Higonnet’s Lewis Carroll (Phaidon, London, 2008) p. 11. —Excerpt from Elizabeth Hutchinson’s The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism and Transculturation in Native American Art, 1890–1915 (Duke University Press, Durham, 2009) p.1.
replete with fanciful imagery, most elite roman families seem the poem’s representation of the strange to me, a modern Western wizard’s journey to find Yang product of the suburban nuclear fam- Guifei’s spirit in the land of the ily, which is why I began work on this immortals presented the painter book in the first place. Sometimes they with particular challenges beyond are strange by any criterion, as when, in those posed by the requisites the first chapter, the widowed empress of portraying the concrete, if Livia appears on a gem, not only as exotic, environments of palace a widow but as the mortal widow of interiors and Chinese mountains. a god whose cult she honors, as her Commencing with a close-up view husband’s adopted daughter, and as of the emperor consulting with the the mother of the emperor’s adopted wizard, the scroll opens into its most arresting passage, the seemingly successor. A world in which political marriages, adoptions, deifications, endless expanse of a seascape and distant mountains through which the and other transmogrifications shaped the imperial family could indeed wizard journeys. Sansetsu manipulates our perceptions of space as we be strange even to “locals.” unroll the scroll towards its conclusion by showing the wizard three times— hurdling on a cloud into the sky, submerged beneath the surface of the —Excerpt from Natalie Boymel Kampen’s Family Fictions in Roman sea and finally as a tiny figure riding the wind into the distance. Art (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009) p. 3–4.
—Excerpt from Matthew McKelway’s Chinese Romance from a Japanese Brush: Kano Sansetsu’s Chogonka Scrolls in the Chester Beatty Library, co-authored with Shane McCausland (Editions Scala, Paris, 2009) p. 140.
3 Life Drawing for Art Historians at Columbia
As these short essays and illustrations show, the Department is finding new ways to make drawing a part of art historical training, founded on the belief, as one art historian has put it, that drawing is a process through which the hand teaches the eye to see. Thanks to the support of alumni, members of our Advisory Council, and other friends of the Department, we were able to fund life drawing classes for a number of our students and hope to expand this initiative in the coming academic year. —Robert E. Harrist, Jr. the department of art history and archaeology has a a fundamental idea that we try to teach our students is that any distinguished legacy of nourishing the relationship between the history work of art is the product of a series of decisions made by the artist. While and practice of art through the example of Meyer Schapiro and others this is simple in theory, applying it to the physical act of making an on the faculty who were serious, if amateur, artists themselves. In image is more difficult, as I found when I recently began life drawing 2008–2009 Columbia began an experiment with this approach to classes downtown. The history of Japanese painting, my area of expertise, hand/eye coordination for a limited number of students. In my course, is marked by significant achievements in depictions of the human figure, “Topics in Early Renaissance Sculpture,” my primary goal was to help such as the orchestration of large groups of figures in narrative handscrolls students learn to look at sculpture three-dimensionally, or through and genre screens, or Utamaro’s explorations in physiognomy. Yet accu- the body. Graduate students in the course were required to study life rate rendering of the human anatomy—specifically the nude figure— drawing with the remarkable Minerva Durham, whose Spring Studio played virtually no role in Japanese painting before the late nineteenth in SoHo has long been a center of academic life drawing in New York. century. It had been years since I last confronted the mechanics of drawing I repeated this exercise for the undergraduates in my spring seminar on a human figure. I soon realized that life drawing, built on time-tested the male nude. Both groups of students supported the exercise enthusi- methods and systematic rules, intensifies visual awareness and heightens astically, and I hope to continue using Spring Studio in the future. sensitization to artistic process in ways that passive observation never could. There are many reasons why a student of art history should study —Matthew McKelway, Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Associate Professor academic drawing from the figure, but here I offer only two. First, of Japanese Art taking such classes is an extremely effective method of helping students focus on what is purely visual information, that which cannot be trans- over the two weeks, one of the most valuable lessons I learned was lated into words. According to the students themselves, a second major that I had to let go of how I thought I was supposed to draw and let the benefit is that life drawing develops a kind of motor sympathy with forms remain open, unfinished, and (to a certain extent) inaccurate. These artists that they cannot experience any other way. They discover that forms actually corresponded more to my visual experience and in the end the human body is not only difficult to draw; its ineluctable relation- were more convincing than those that I created when I was actually ship with the forces around it—gravity, light, space, etc.—creates a focusing on the forms. I found that my drawings, while clearly the most microcosm in which art historians at any stage of their careers can begin amateur, were often the most helpful to the entire class during the critique. to grasp the kinds of visual synthetic thinking that characterize the Because I made the many mistakes that a person with no experience tends thought process of any artist in any time or place. I am extremely grate- to make when first attempting to draw from life (such as representing ful to have been able to expose my students to this way of learning and things symbolically or forgetting to use a perspectival view), the instructor hope that others may join me in this rewarding pedagogical enterprise. was able to use my drawings as clear examples for the benefit of everyone. —William Hood, Professor of Art History —Excerpt from doctoral student Kori Lisa Yee Litt’s NYSS Drawing Marathon Journal, June 2009
Drawing from Spring Studio by a member of Professor William Acrylic drawing by PhD student Kori Hood’s undergraduate seminar, “The Male Nude,” spring, 2009. Lisa Yee Litt done at the Drawing Marathon, New York Studio School for Minerva Durham teaching at Spring Studio. Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, 2009.
4 James Dell Cort Conlon Judith Lee Stronach Center
This summer the Department began construction on the Judith Lee Stronach Center at the east end of the 8th floor of Schermerhorn Hall. The project is funded by a generous bequest from the Estate of Judith Lee Stronach (’69 MA), an alumna and a great supporter of the arts and Columbia. Professor Francesco Benelli and doctoral candidate Carolyn Yerkes, both architects as well as architectural historians, created the conceptual design for the space. As a nod to the Department’s illustrious past, the entryway will showcase books and journals from Meyer Schapiro’s library, in handsome oak and glass bookcases. A clerestory will allow natural light from the original oversized McKim, Mead and White windows to fill the entire Center. To enhance graduate student pedagogy, two glass-enclosed rooms will enable meetings with students individually, or in small groups. The Department’s computer lab, equipped with scanners and a printer, James Conlon in Al Ghurfa, Yemen, 2004. will be adjacent to these rooms so that teaching fellows can prepare their classes and collaborate with their peers. The Department mourns the loss of James Dell Cort Conlon, The south side of the space is now an open common area to who died after a brief illness on July 17, 2009. James was encourage faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates to interact Director of the Visual Media Center for Art History, Archaeology, in an informal social setting. The additions of a coffee service area, and Historic Preservation at Columbia University. After comfortable seating, and wi-fi access will provide ample inducements completing his BA in Classics and Religion at the University of to make this the social hub of the Department. The common area Rochester and a year in Jordan as a Fulbright Fellow, he earned will double as a reception space for gatherings with guest speakers an MA in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana after lectures, as well as a place that student groups, such as the University and a postgraduate certificate in the preservation of Graduate Student Colloquium and the Film Federation, can use Archaeological Sites and Historic Buildings from Columbia for informal panel talks and screenings. With all of these elements University. While directing the VMC, James participated in coming together in a harmonious design, the Judith Lee Stronach conservation projects across the Near East, taught courses in Center will give teaching fellows, as well as other graduate students, preservation, and explored new ways to recover and preserve faculty, and undergraduate majors, a space that will stimulate the the relationship between heritage sites and local communities. intellectual and social life of the Department. He was also an active member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), an organization of profes- sionals dedicated to the conservation of the world’s historic monuments. As a tribute to James, contributions can be made for the relief of flood victims in Yemen. Checks should be made out to the Yemen Red Crescent Society sent in care of the Department to 826 Schermerhorn Hall, MC 5517; 1190 Amsterdam Avenue; New York, NY 10027. A memorial gathering will be held in the Department in the fall.
Computer renderings of the Judith Lee Stronach Center, eastwall (top) and bird’s James Conlon, Cassy Juhl and Pilar Abuin working on Mapping Venice, a eye view (bottom). Visual Media Center project in Venice, 2007.
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curator’s corner at the wallach
Debra Diamond (’00 PhD), Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur The New Acropolis Museum M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington October 6 through December 12, 2009 D.C. Debra Diamond’s exhibition Garden and Cosmos: Curator: Ioannis Mylonopoulos The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur opened at the Sackler in October 2008 and will also be shown at Seattle Art Museum, he Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery the British Museum, the Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney) Twill host an exhibition, organized by Professor and the National Museum of India (New Delhi). Ioannis Mylonopoulos, dedicated to the architec- ture and collections of the New Acropolis Museum Garden and Cosmos grew out of my dissertation “The politics and aesthetics of citation: in Athens. The New Acropolis Museum, which Nath painting in Jodhpur, 1803–1843.” But, whereas the dissertation focused on opened in June 2009, is a stunning structure, a single reign, the exhibition presents paintings from three reigns, each engaged strategically sited to be in visual dialogue with the differently with the shifting political and cultural landscapes of northern India over Sacred Rock of the Athenian Acropolis to emphasize the course of two centuries. The broader timespan enabled me to include many the close association between the displayed objects previously unknown paintings and to construct a revised history of Jodhpur court and their original context. For the first time, all painting around the thematic and aesthetic tropes of “garden” (18th Century) and significant archaeological finds from this area can “cosmos” (19th Century). Since exhibitions are intrinsically different from written be consolidated into one, state-of-the art museum, texts, I switched many of the dissertation’s paintings for visually compelling works highlighting the importance of the site in shaping that would create meaning and narratives through juxtapositions on gallery walls. artistic expression in Greco-Roman antiquity and in G&C was the first international loan exhibition with catalogue that I oversaw from continuing to influence perceptions of Greek art. conception through realization. If the dissertation emerged successfully through For Columbia, the exhibition has special signifi- the guidance and superb input of my supervisors, faculty, dissertation group and cance. Bernard Tschumi, the architect of the New my fellow graduate student readers, the exhibition and catalog were truly collab- Acropolis Museum, is a professor at the Graduate orative—and very carefully crafted with a dual address towards both scholars and School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, general audiences. The Sackler co-organized the exhibition with the Mehrangarh where he was dean from 1988 to 2003. Tschumi’s Museum Trust, where the ancestral Jodhpur collection is housed, and Karni Singh firm is lending original drawings, computer- Jasol and Catherine Glynn joined the team as co-curators and catalogue contributors. generated designs, and models, which illustrate the G&C has received stellar reviews in publications ranging from Burlington Magazine to Time; the International Herald Tribune generously called it “the great Asian exhi- bition of the year.” Since I was always slightly embarrassed, like all graduate students, by how long it took me to write my dissertation, I am particularly amused that the press loves the fact that I have spent over twelve years—from the Columbia art history Drawings of Ed Koren summer study grant to find a topic to the exhibition’s opening—on this project! April 27 through June 12, 2010 I am currently working on two Tibetan exhibitions for spring 2010 that address Curators: DianA Fane and David Rosand the problematic of sacred space within museums. I’ve also begun a second major international loan exhibition and catalog with a team of South Asianists from the n the spring of 2010 the Wallach Art Gallery will fields of anthropology, religion, sociology, and history entitledYoga: The Art of Ifeature an exhibition of the drawings and prints Transformation. It will open at the Sackler Gallery in October 2013. of Ed Koren, honoring a distinguished Columbia alumnus. Best known for his cartoons and covers for The New Yorker, Koren began his career as art editor of The Jester of Columbia. David Rosand, co-curator of the exhibition with Diana Fane (’93 PhD) was a fellow Jester artist. It was in the pages of that college humor magazine that Koren created the character type known to his colleagues as the “furry booby”; the line he discovered then has remained a funda- mental and animating quality of his art. Koren has illustrated many books, including, most recently, Pet Peeves: Or Whatever Happened to Doctor Rawff by George Plimpton and Thelonius Monster’s Sky-High Fly Pie. He has written and illustrated two of his own books for children, Behind the Wheel and Very Hairy Harry, and is currently working on illus- trations for a collection of poetry by Alan Katz. Upon graduating from Columbia College in Nagaur, Celebration of Holi, ca. 1729–32, Mehrangarh Museum Trust, RJS 2033. 1957, Koren went to Paris to study printmaking
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intellectual process underlying the conception of the museum. The exhibition will also illuminate the career of William Bell Dinsmoor, Executive Officer of Columbia University’s Department of Fine Arts between 1933 and 1955. Dinsmoor dedicated his life to the study of Athenian architecture and was one of the few foreign scholars allowed to conduct excavations on the Sacred Rock. Thus, the exhibition, while focusing on the New Acropolis Museum and the integration of the art and culture of ancient Athens with the present day, will also illustrate Columbia’s past involvement in and ongoing commitment to the study of the art and archaeology of Greece.
Views of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, courtesy of the Museum.
Photographs by Thomas Roma January 19 through March 27, 2010 Curator: Susan Kismaric with S. W. Hayter at Atelier 17; he returned to receive his MFA his winter the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery will degree from Pratt Institute. He taught at Brown University for Tprovide an opportunity to see exhibition prints and limited- many years and now lives in Vermont, where he is captain of the edition, hand-bound books of American photographer Thomas Brookfield Volunteer Fire Department. In 2007 he received the Roma. Many of Roma’s photographs describe daily life in his native Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. borough, Brooklyn: neighborhood gardens, passengers riding the elevated subway train, façades of storefront churches and synagogues, religious services in small African-American churches, and portraits of people waiting in the corridors of Brooklyn’s criminal court. Viewed as a whole, the photographs are a chronicle of urban life as it is lived by ordinary residents, a description of their aspirations and hopes, and a record of their successes and failures. In several projects, Roma has extended his concerns to communities outside New York, such as the landscape and life of people in small villages in his ancestral Sicily. In a recent project, he photographed the New Jersey houses of patients visited by the poet and physician William Carlos Williams. Thomas Roma has exhibited widely, both nationally and interna- tionally, and his work is in numerous public and private collections. Twice the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he is on the faculty of the Division of Visual Arts in the School of the Arts at Columbia. The exhibition is organized by Susan Kismaric, Curator, Department Edward Koren, Me, Pen and India ink on bond paper, 1976. of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Alexander Alberro published breaking attendance and was listed exhibit traveled to the Chazen Wittkower Visiting Professor at “The Gap between Film and in The Art Newspaper as one of Museum, University of Wisconsin the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Installation Art” in Art and the the top ten exhibitions of 2008. at Madison where it will be on Rome, and as a Visiting Fellow of Moving Image (Tate/Afterall, Bauhaus 1919–1938: Workshops view until October 2009. Dehejia the Wissenschaftskolleg—Institute London, 2008), “Periodising for Modernity, co-curated with also published The Body Adorned: for Advanced Study in Berlin. He Contemporary Art” in Crossing Leah Dickerman (’97 PhD), Dissolving Boundaries between gave a number of distinguished Cultures (Melbourne UP, will run from November 2009 Sacred and Profane in India’s Art lectures in Europe and the US— Melbourne, 2009) and “Interview to January 2010 and is accompa- (Columbia University Press, at the University of Amsterdam, with Carlos Cruz-Diez” in Carlos nied by a major catalogue with New York, 2009). the Prado, at the Inauguration of Cruz-Diez (Americas Society, essays by both curators. Bergdoll the Fondazione Zeri in Bologna, New York, 2009). His “Beauty was the keynote speaker at the In the fall, Vittoria Di Palma and the annual Bennett Lecture Knows No Pain” (2004) bi-annual meeting of Docomomo returned from four months of the Renaissance Society of was republished in Beauty (Documentation and Conservation spent at the Canadian Centre for America in Los Angeles (at the (Whitechapel/MIT, Cambridge, of the Modern Movement) in Architecture in Montréal, where Getty Villa). He should have been 2009). He lectured in Zurich, Rotterdam and in Frankfurt he she had been working on her devoting his time to concluding Faenza, Oslo, Madrid, Pamplona, gave an address on the future of current book project, Wasteland. his book on the relevance of the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the skyscraper at the invitation Her co-edited volume, Intimate new neurosciences for the under- New York. of the city’s mayor. Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the standing of art. Modern City, which includes the Zainab Bahrani curated the Francesco de Angelis worked chapter “Zoom: Google Earth and Robert E. Harrist, Jr. continues exhibition Modernism and Iraq on the completion of a book on Global Intimacy,” was published to serve as Department Chairman. which was on view at the Miriam the imagery of Etruscan funerary by Routledge in September. Over the past year he conducted and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery urns and an edited volume on research at Villa I Tatti, where he from January to March 2009, and the Spaces of Justice in Ancient Noam Elcott completed his first was hosted by former colleague Joe published a catalogue by the same Rome. He was awarded a year of teaching at Columbia and Connors, visited the University of title. A website on modern Iraqi Humboldt Fellowship, which presented new work at venues Hong Kong as special consultant art can now be accessed on the he is spending in Heidelberg. including the Tate Modern, London; for the Department of Fine Arts, department website at http:// He also was the recipient of a Light Industry at X, New York; the and gave lectures at the University www.learn.columbia.edu/mod- Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Bauhaus Universität, Weimar; and of Heidelberg and New York ernism_iraq/. In March, Bahrani Faculty Award (see p.10). He the Graduiertenkolleg of the HfG, University. presented a paper at the Institute gave lectures at the Universities Karlsruhe, where he led a group of of Advanced Studies, Princeton of Chicago, Pisa, Salerno, Columbia graduate students in the Anne Higonnet published a University, in the context of their Heidelberg, and participated conference “At the Boundaries of book on Lewis Carroll’s photog- lecture series, Exploring Art as in conferences in Rome and the Image.” An essay on Christian raphy with Phaidon and a piece Knowledge. Bahrani continues Los Angeles. Marclay will appear later this year on recent court decisions about to excavate at Tell Leilan in Syria as part of a MAMCO catalogue. pictures of children in Index on and to work on the conservation Jonathan Crary’s publications Censorship. She finished design- of Babylon in Iraq. include an essay for the catalog Cordula Grewe was awarded ing an MA dual degree program of the Bridget Riley retrospective an Alexander von Humboldt with the Université de Paris and Francesco Benelli organized the at the Musée de l’art moderne in Research Fellowship and was received a grant from the Andrew international conference “The Paris last fall. Among his public named a founding board mem- W. Mellon Foundation to launch Palladio Project” at the Italian lectures were a presentation on ber of the newly established a series of undergraduate classes Academy for Advanced Studies perspective at the 2008 Chicago Internationales Zentrum für in and about museums. Her work in America, Columbia University Humanities Festival and the Klassikforschung in Weimar, a was honored with a Barnard and will edit the proceedings. He closing address at our graduate city famously associated with Presidential Research Award. published essays on Francesco student-organized conference Goethe and Schiller. Besides Di Giorgio Martini and military “Multiplying the Visual in preparing her book Painting the Inspired by the students in architecture and on Rudolph the Nineteenth Century” in Sacred in the Age of Romanticism his seminar on the male nude, Wittkower’s studies of Palladio’s April 2009. for publication in the fall, she Bill Hood has been writing villas. He lectured in Padua, pushed ahead with her book Made Men: Afterlives of the Rome, Venice, Vicenza, Bologna, Vidya Dehejia, with Dipti Khera, project on the religious aesthetics Male Nude. A synthetic over- Paris and New York. He is the Yuthika Sharma, and Wynyard of German Romanticism and view of the male nude, it looks editor of the exhibition section Wilkinson, published Delight in published several articles in back at classical antiquity and for the European Association of Design: Indian Silver for the Raj English, German, and French. the Middle Ages through the Architectural Historians Newsletter. (Mapin Publications, Ahmedabad, She lectured in New York, lens of Renaissance sculpture, 2008), which accompanied the Dresden, Munich, and Paris. and then tracks the fortunes of Barry Bergdoll’s MoMA exhibi- exhibition of the same title shown Renaissance nudes forward to tion, Home Delivery: Fabricating at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach David Freedberg was on sabbati- the 20th Century. the Modern Dwelling, had record Art Gallery in fall 2008. The cal in 2009–2010 as the Rudolf
8 With the publication of her Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag in database developed in collabora- of popular theories about the book The Indian Craze (Duke Marburg and is co-curator of the tion with Vassar College with the origins of American Indian art University Press, Durham, 2009) exhibition, Matter of Faith: Relics support of the Andrew W. Mellon entitled Aliens and Fakes. Elizabeth Hutchinson has begun and Reliquaries in the Middle Foundation. In September 2008 to focus on her next research Ages, which will be held at the he delivered the Claflin lecture David Rosand’s retirement was project, Eadweard Muybridge’s Cleveland Museum of Art, the at Vassar College and a lecture celebrated by an embarrassing photographs of the Pacific Coast. Walters Art Museum, and the at the University of Athens at number of events in 2008–2009, She presented work at numerous British Museum in 2010–2011. Georgia in the Visiting Artist and all of which he greatly appreci- venues, including two conferences Scholar series. He was a panelist ated—even though his official devoted to exploring the relation- Rosalind Krauss has assembled in a debate about digital scholar- retirement does not occur until ship between art and the natural a second edition of collected ship sponsored by the Council on June 30, 2010. On sabbatical sciences: “Gender on Ice” and essays and criticism—Perpetual Library and Information Resources leave in 2009–2010, he intends “The Hudson Since Henry: A Inventory—which MIT Press in Washington. He published to devote his time to completing Natural and Unnatural History.” will publish this fall. Her most several articles and was co-author his book on Veronese, developing She continues to direct the Visual current book, Under Blue Cup, in a book, Companion to the Casa Muraro in Venice, and Culture Caucus of the American which explores what she calls Medieval World. continuing to supervise twenty Studies Association and co-chair “the post-medium condition” or so dissertations. the Columbia University Seminar is also scheduled by MIT Press Ioannis Mylonopoulos is await- in American Studies. to appear early in 2010. ing publication this November Simon Schama delivered the of the volume Divine Images and Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Kellie Jones was named an Matthew McKelway was granted Human Imaginations in Ancient Humanities at Bard College Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellow tenure in the early spring. His Greece and Rome, from Brill. He in December 2008 on “The for 2008, in recognition of her book, Chinese Romance from a published articles on attributes in Impossibility of the Contemporary writing on visual art. Japanese Brush: Kano Sansetsu’s Greek imagery, Greek cult statues, in British Art.” His four part Chogonka Scrolls in the Chester the dynamics of ritual spaces, the television series The American Branden W. Joseph was Beatty Library, co-authored with architecture of Greek temples, and Future: A History aired on BBC appointed the Frank Gallipoli Shane McCausland (Editions the concept of nature as architec- America in January 2009 and won Professor of Modern and Scala, Paris, 2009) is due out in ture. He delivered papers at the the Broadcast Press Guild prize for Contemporary Art and was September 2009. He published Universities of Heidelberg and best documentary series. A book also the recipient of a Creative the article “Screens for a Young Göttingen (Germany), Reading of the same title was published in Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Warrior” in Impressions (2009) and Durham (United Kingdom), May 2009. Writers’ Grant for his forthcom- and lectured at the National as well as at Johns Hopkins ing project on conceptual artist Research Institute for Cultural University and Bryn Mawr. He Z. S. Strother received the Sylvan Lee Lozano. His book Beyond the Properties, Tokyo, Yale University, was invited to act as the expert and Pamela Coleman Memorial Dream Syndicate was listed by University of Pennsylvania and on Greek art for the Oxford Fellowship at the Metropolitan Daniel Birnbaum (Director of University of Kansas. University Press’ “Bibliographies Museum of Art and a the 2009 Venice Biennial) in Online” project. Collaborative Research Fellowship Artforum as one of the top ten Keith Moxey’s books The Practice from the American Council of best art events of 2008 and by of Persuasion (2001) and The Esther Pasztory wrote a review Learned Societies to support aca- contemporary artist Carol Bove Practice of Theory (1994) were of the Peruvian Featherwork demic leave, 2009–2010. She will in Frieze as one of the books translated into Korean. “Visual exhibition at the Metropolitan be writing a book called Iconoclasm that has most influenced her. Studies and the Iconic Turn,” Museum of Art in 2008 entitled in Africa with Elisabeth Cameron Journal of Visual Culture 7 (2008) Rare Ancient Featherwork for the from UC, Santa Cruz. Natalie Kampen, Barbara was translated into Spanish online edition of the American Novak ’50 Professor of Art in Estudios Visuales 6 (2009) Journal of Archaeology. Her article, Susan Vogel completed research History and Professor of and will appear in French in “The Nature of Teotihuacan and shooting in Nigeria for her Women’s Studies (almost Intermédialités as well as in Representation,” will appear analytical documentary on El emerita) has recently published Estonian. Moxey lectured in in the catalogue of the major Anatsui, and wrote articles about Family Fictions in Roman Art Bergen and at Williams College, Teotihuacan exhibition at the him and the Senegalese modernist with Cambridge University and served as a commentator for Quai Branly Museum in Paris. Iba N’Diaye. She participated in Press. She has just returned from “At the Boundaries of the Image,” Her just published memoir, the “Tropenmuseum for Change a month as visiting professor in a collaboration of department Remove Trouble from your Heart, Expert Meetings” in Amsterdam, Gothenburg, Sweden, and is graduate students with those at has had a good reception in read- and finalized a comprehensive about to move to Rhode Island the Hochschule für Gestaltung, ings. She is currently seeing the database of over 6,000 objects to live a bucolic life. Karlsruhe. book The Exotic and the Classical published from 1800 to1920 at in Mexico: Jean Frederic Waldeck the Ross Archive of African Images Holger A. Klein recently co-orga- Stephen Murray continued 1766–1875 through the press at Yale University. nized a Forum for German and work on “Mapping Gothic (University of New Mexico). American medievalists at the XXX. France,” an interactive, web-borne She is working on a new book
9 Dissertation Jeffrey Miller “The Building Francesco de Angelis Honored Program of Walter de Gray: Fellowship Awards Architectural Production and Francesco de Angelis was a recipient of a Distinguished for 2009–10 Reform in the Archdiocese Columbia Faculty Award. Funded through the generosity of York” of Columbia trustee Gerry Lenfest (’58 LAW), the award American Institute of recognizes faculty who demonstrate unusual merit as teachers Indian Studies Junior Travel Fellowship from of undergraduate and graduate students as well as outstand- Research Fellowship the Kress Foundation ing scholarship and service to the university. This is the Dipti Khera “Urban Imaginings Carolyn Yerkes “The Paradox of fourth year in a row that a member of the Department of Between Empires: Mapping from Precision: Architectural Drawing Art History and Archaeology received the award: Meyer Udaipur to Jaipur, 1707–1832” between Ancients and Moderns” Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Jonathan
Crary (’75 CC, ’87 PhD) was honored in 2006, Robert E. CASVA Ittleson Fellowship Yale Center for British Art Dipti Khera (see above) Harrist, Jr. (’80 MA), Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor Graduate Summer Seminar of Chinese Art History, in 2007, and Zainab Bahrani, Fellowship CASVA Robert H. and Dipti Khera (see above) Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Clarice Smith Fellowship Archaeology, in 2008. Professor de Angelis also received a Sonja Drimmer “The Visual Columbia University Language of Vernacular Humboldt Fellowship. Fellowships Manuscript Illumination: John Richard Anderson “Industries Gower’s Confessio amantis of Realism: History, Theory, (Pierpont Morgan MS M126)” and Technology in Soviet Architecture, 1930–1941” Chester Dale Fellowship at the Columbia-Karlsruhe Jessamyn Conrad (see above) Metropolitan Museum of Art Graduate Symposium Meredith Fluke “Building Across Patrick Crowley (see above) the Sacred Landscape: The Andrew Finegold “The Art of This year the Department co-hosted the symposium, Romanesque Churches of Verona War: Depictions of Conflict in At the Boundaries of the Image, with the University of Arts in their Urban Context” Mesoamerican Murals” and Design/ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Sessions were Katherine Kasdorf “From held in January at Columbia and in June in Karlsruhe. The Getty Foundation Library Dorasamudra to Halebid:¯ Research Grant Columbia delegation was led by co-chairs Tina Rivers and Hoysala Temples in Context” Colby Chamberlain and advised by Professor Noam Elcott. Christina Ferando “Staging Risham Majeed “Romanesque Columbia students Emerson Bowyer, Thomas Campbell, Neoclassicism: Exhibitions of Antonio Canova’s Sculptures” and Republic; Ethnography and Huffa Frobes-Cross, Patrick Crowley, Sonja Drimmer, Evan Empire. Exhibiting Medieval Neely, Sarah Schaefer and Lee Ullmann offered papers, and Jerrold Seigel Summer and African Art in the Age of Professor Keith Moxey was a prominent faculty presence Fellowship in Intellectual Colonialism, 1878–1937” at both sessions. Papers were extremely well received by and Cultural History Aimee Ng (see above) both audiences and lively exchanges between Columbia and Patrick Crowley “Forms of Karlsruhe students continued even after official sessions had Spectrality in Ancient Rome” Elizabeth Perkins “Antonello da ended. For more information about papers presented please Messina and the Independent Portrait in Fifteenth-Century see the events section of the Department website. The Joan Tisch Teaching Venice” Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art Olivia Powell “The Choreographic Emily Liebert “The Work of Imagination in Renaissance Art” Humor in Conceptual Art” Anna Ratner “Melancholy Holland Cotter awarded Illusions: From Bosch to Titian” Lemmermann Foundation Marla Redcorn-Miller “Forging Research Grant 2009 Pulitzer Prize a Modern Kiowa Cultural Leader: Aimee Ng “Painting, Trauma, The Artistic Legacy of Stephen Holland Cotter (’03 M Phil) was awarded a 2009 Pulitzer and the Sack of Rome” Mopope” Prize for his wide ranging reviews of art marked by acute observation, luminous writing and dramatic storytelling. A Medieval-Renaissance Anna Seastrand “Tamil Area staff critic at the New York Times, Cotter writes about art in Institute Summer Fellowship Mural Painting and Politics of the NYC. His subjects range from Italian Renaissance painting Jessamyn Conrad Nayaka Period (ca.1500–1800)” to street-based communal work by artist collectives, and he “Contextualizing Duccio’s Maestà Lee Ullmann “Merging the and the Trecento Altars in the has written widely about non-Western art and culture. He Natural and Constructed Sienese Duomo’s Crossing” received his M Phil in early Buddhist art from Columbia Landscape of the Hittites” University, where he studied Sanskrit and taught Indian and Mark Watson “After Images Paul Mellon Centre for Islamic art. of Power: Historical Memory British Art Research in Contemporary Native Support Grant American Art” Dipti Khera (see above)
10 Dissertations Rebecca Molholt alumni news “On Stepping Stones: The Completed Historical Experience of May 2007–May 2009 Roman Mosaics” Lucy A. Adams ’86 M Phil is back Lilian Armstrong ’66 PhD pub- at the Metropolitan Museum of lished several articles including Lara Allison Sarah Roland Art in the Education Department “Gli incunaboli illustrate con “Perception and Pedagogy: “Corinth and the Birth of giving gallery talks on various xilografie nella Biblioteca del Design, Advertising and Figural Representation in Greek subjects. Her granddaughter, Seminario Vescovile” and Education in Chicago, Monumental Architecture” c. 1935–1955” Eliza Adams Butler entered the “Triumphal Processions in Italian Art History Department’s PhD Renaissance Book Illumination Nadja Rottner program in September 2008. and Further Sources for Andrea Renzo Baldasso “A Theater of Vision: Claes “Illustrating the Book of Nature She is the fourth generation of Mantegna’s Triumph of Caesar,” Oldenburg and the Emergence her family to attend Columbia. Manuscripta. in the Renaissance: Drawing, of the Happening” Painting, and Printing Geometric Diagrams and Scientific Figures” Moni Adams ’67 PhD recently Laura Auricchio ’00 PhD Christine Sciacca published three articles and published her first book,Adelaide “The Gradual and Sacramentary curated the exhibition, Masked Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Jordan Bear of Hainricus Sacrista (Pierpont Festivals in Canton Bo Southwest Revolution (J. Paul Getty Museum, “Without a Trace: Early British Morgan Library, M. 711): Ivory Coast, West Africa at the Los Angeles, 2009). Photography and the History of Liturgy, Devotion, and Patronage Peabody Museum, Harvard Visual Objectivity” at Weingarten Abbey” University. It runs from May Stephanie Barron ’72 BA, ’74 2009 to March 2010. MA curated Art of Two Germanys/ Colleen Becker Phoebe Segal at the Los “Competing Representation “Soaring Votives: Anathemata in Cold War Cultures The ‘Volk’ in German Visual Archaic and Greek Sanctuaries” Jonathan Allen ’97 BA is Angeles County Museum of Art. Culture, 1890–1900” currently exhibiting work in Following Los Angeles it tours New York and Copenhagen, to the Germanisches National Lee Stewart Alexander Bortolot “Judging by Appearances: and in June he exhibited a Museum in Nuremberg and “A Language for Change: How Physiognomy Influenced new painting at the Whitney then the Deutsches Historisches Creativity and Power in Nineteenth-Century French Museum’s Art Party. His work Museum, Berlin. She also Mozambican Makonde Portraiture” has been shown in many galleries published a book to go with Masked Performance, around the region, and has been the exhibition. circa 1900–2004” Margaret Sundell covered by NY Arts Magazine “From Fine Art to Fashion: Man and A Wrinkle in Time. Frances Beatty ’80 PhD curated Chelsea Foxwell Ray’s Ambivalent Avant-Garde” Ray Johnson... Dali/Warhol/and “Kano Hogai¯ (1828–88) Anthony Alofsin ’87 PhD has others... ‘Main Ray, Ducham, and the Making of Modern Abigail Susik published two books in 2009 A Openheim, Pikabia…’ at Richard Japanese Painting” “The Vertigo of the Modern: Modernist Museum in Perspective: L. Feigen & Co, which revealed Surrealism and the Outmoded” The East Building, National Gallery the connections between Ray Paul Galvez of Art (Studies in the History of Johnson, Salvador Dali, and “Gustave Courbet and the Veronica White Art Series) for which he was editor Andy Warhol, and the artists’ Origins of Modern Painting “Serio Ludere: Baroque and an essayist (Yale University exploration of common themes— 1862–1870” Invenzione and the Development Press and National Gallery of Art) celebrity, gender ambiguity, of the Capriccio” and Halflife, a fictive memoir. and religion. Sarah Beth Hinderliter His book When Buildings Speak: “The Space of Painting: Kurt Architecture as Language in the One of Colleen Becker’s ’08 Schwitters and El Lissitzky” Undergraduate Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, PhD short stories appeared in the 1867–1933, which won the Vasari anthology Tales of the DeCongested, Kyle Killian Awards and Prizes Award from the Dallas Museum vol. 2, a collection culled from “The Landscapes of Saint-Pierre The Department awarded its of Art, appeared in a paperback the monthly reading event at d’Orbais: An Anthropology of senior thesis prize to Peter edition from the University of Foyle’s bookshop in London. Monastic Architecture” Gallotta for “The Architecture Chicago Press in 2008. She presented two interrelated of Protest: University Campus fictions under the title “Some Amity Law Planning and Spaces of Resistance.” ’03 PhD, Things Are Better Left Unsaid” “Generating Identity through Drew Armstrong Undergraduate travel fellowships Director of Architectural Studies at the Tate Modern’s “Shortness” Plan and Architecture: Barcelona went to Carmen Ferreyra to do in the Department of History event. She expects her firstborn Cathedral, Gothic Drawing and research in Argentina for her senior of Art and Architecture at the the Crown of Aragon” (a boy) on Aug. 1. thesis, “The Art of Postproduction University of Pittsburgh, was a in Buenos Aires,” and to James visiting scholar at the Canadian Adrienne Baxter Bell ’05 PhD is Juan Ledezma DeWille who will visit the “Objects of a Visual Politics: Centre for Architecture in Assistant Professor of Art History Atelier SOTO in Paris to study Montage and the Refigurations Montreal from July through at Marymount Manhattan College. the works of the late Venezuelan of Collective Vision in Early September 2009. In August 2008, she was Visiting artist Jesus-Rafael Soto. Stalinist Russia (1927–1932)” Professor of Art History at the
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Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo. Egon Schiele, were reissued with Theodore Feder’s ’75 PhD at the University of Texas at El She received a Sokol Grant and a new forewords this summer. Last recent article “Solomon, Socrates Paso, where he will specialize in Junior Leave from Marymount summer Sunstone Press reissued and Aristotle” was published in medieval and Renaissance art. for the spring 2010 semester. her book The Changing Image of the September/October 2008 issue He is leaving his lecture positions Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking, of Biblical Archaeology Review. at San Jose State University and In December 2007 Annette also with a new foreword. She Stanford permanently. He and Blaugrund ’87 PhD left as continues to give lectures around Nancy Fee ’00 PhD edited and his wife Sondra are very excited Director of the National Academy the country and abroad; such translated Virtues of the Indian/ about starting a new life together Museum after eleven years. She is activities may be found on her Virtudes del indio: An Annotated in a small and affordable city. now writing a book and consulting website: alessandracomini.com. Translation by Bishop Juan de with museums around the country. Palafox y Mendoza (Rowman and Piri Halasz ’76 MA, ’82 PhD Cary D’Alo Place ’05 BA com- Littlefield, Lanham, 2008). published A Memoir of Creativity: Susan Braunstein ’98 PhD pleted a Masters of Architecture at abstract painting, politics & the curated The Dead Sea Scrolls: the Rice School of Architecture in Chelsea Foxwell ’08 PhD will media, 1956–2008 (iUniverse, Mysteries of the Ancient World Houston, TX in January 2009. be joining the Department of Art New York, 2009). His online at The Jewish Museum in New History, University of Chicago, column of art criticism and York, which ran from September University of California Press in the fall of 2009 as an assistant art comment From the Mayor’s 2008 to January 2009. recently published John Davis’s professor of Japanese art and archi- Doorstep, is now in its 13th year ’91 PhD book (co-authored with tecture. During the 2008–2009 of publication. During the coming months, Sarah Burns): American Art to academic year she was a post- Molly Brunson ’00 BA will 1900: A Documentary History. doctoral fellow at the Reischauer Jeffrey Hoffeld ’73 M Phil was finish her dissertation on 19th Institute of Japanese Studies, elected as a fellow of the New Century Russian literature and Meredith Davis ’05 PhD gave a Harvard University. York Institute for the Humanities painting and receive her PhD paper titled “Hogarth in Flight” at at NYU. in Slavic literature from UC the conference “Art and Commerce Alexander Gartenfeld ’08 BA Berkeley. In the fall, she will be in Great Britain, XVIIIth–XXIst has written and co-edited a 300- Michael A. Jacobsen’s ’76 PhD joining Yale’s Department of Centuries,” organized by the page title called Queer Zines, a article “The Place of MG in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Research Group ACE at Rennes history of queer independent History of Automotive Styling” as an assistant professor. 2 University, France. publishing, put out by Printed was published in the June issue Matter. It was the catalogue for of Classic MG Magazine. It is his Angel Chang ’04 MA is happy Mary D. Edwards ’86 PhD, an exhibition of the same name, third article in this journal in as to announce that she will be in Adjunct Professor with tenure at which debuted at the New York many years. His wife Rebecca a new television show on Bravo Pratt Institute, co-chaired with Art Book in October. He has Jacobsen has retired from her called The Fashion Show. She is Elizabeth Bailey, Professor of Art written exhibition reviews for position as Neuropsychologist not sure what being on reality TV History at Wesleyan College, the artforum.com and Art Papers. with the Veteran’s Administration says about her art history educa- session “Gravity and Levity in He is web editor and a writer after 30 years. tion, but it was a fun project to do. Art” at the annual meeting of the for Interview Magazine. College Art Association in Los Irma B. Jaffe ’66 PhD writes: Andrea Cherkerzian ’01 BA Angeles in February. In March Amy Golahny ’84 PhD, contributed My most recent book, Zelotti’s moved to NYC in the fall of 2008, Professor Edwards was the “Rembrandt and Italy: Beyond Epic Frescoes at Cataio, was pub- after spending time in Armenia resident scholar of art history the disegno/colore paradigm,” to lished in March, 2008 by and Russia, where she has been at Wesleyan College. the Berlin Jahrbuch volume on Fordham University Press. This honing her kitchen and restau- Rembrandt (Jahrbuch der Berliner was my eighteenth full length rant skills at Jean Georges and From Mary Emeny: Hunter Museen, vol. 51, 2009), and is book publication and will be Balthazar. She is now planning Ingalls ’68 PhD passed away May Vice President of the Historians my last at 92 years of age. Short her own Armenian-focused 27, 2008. The legacy he left here of Netherlandish Art. articles from now on! I’m feeling food business. in Amarillo, TX is huge in his fine, thank you! promotion of local artists, young Michiko Simanjuntak Grasso In November, Liz Childs ’89 poets and a general appreciation of ’97 BA is Associate Director Lewis Kachur ’89 PhD curated PhD received a Distinguished all things creative. Over 700 came of Development of Aperture Past Pop: Robert Rauschenberg and Faculty Award from Washington to celebrate his life in a love fest of Foundation, a nonprofit organi- James Rosenquist Graphics of the University, where she is associate art, music and poetry. zation dedicated to promoting 1970s, at Kean University and professor and Chair of the photography. wrote the essay for the catalogue, Department of Art History and Patricia A. Emison’s ’85 PhD The http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/. Archaeology. Shaping of Art History: Meditations Grace Cohen Grossman’s ’70 He also published “Clarence John on a Discipline (Pennsylvania State MA book, Jewish Museums of the Laughlin, Regionalist Surrealist,” David Christman ’66 MA retired University Press, University Park, World: Masterpieces of Judaica, in The Journal of Surrealism as Special Professor Emeritus from 2008) is out in paperback as well has been issued in a new edition and the Americas and presented Hofstra University. as hardback. She has several new by Universe Books, 2008. papers at the National Portrait articles in press. Gallery, Brandeis University, Two of Alessandra Comini’s Max Grossman ’06 PhD has and the College Art Association ’69 PhD books, Gustav Klimt and accepted a tenure track position conference.
12 During 2008 Eloise Quiñones in Rome and can be reached at Professional Development Fund, Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Keber ’84 PhD presented papers [email protected]. she was in London for part of the Prize as the best book associated and chaired sessions on Aztec summer working on a monograph with an exhibition during the past art and Mexican colonial art at Amity Law ’07 PhD is a about the development of art criti- two years. the College Art Association, the 2009–2010 Postdoctoral Fellow cism in Britain. Renaissance Society of America, in the Aga Khan Program for Donald A. Rosenthal’s ’78 PhD The University of North Carolina Islamic Architecture at Harvard Debby Nevins ’76 M Phil writes book, The Photographs of Frederick at Charlotte, and the International University. that her current most exciting Rolfe, Baron Corvo (1860–1913), Congress of Americanists in project is working on the 40 acre was published in 2008. Mexico City. Susan Laxton ’04 PhD has been park with Renzo Piano for the awarded a 2009–2010 fellowship Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center Daphne Lange Rosenzweig ’73 William B. Keller ’81 MA at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Athens, Greece. PhD is a full-time professor in the received the PhD in Art History Princeton, where she will be finish- Liberal Arts Program, Ringling from the University of Delaware in ing her book on play strategies in In July 2008 Lucy Oakley ’95 College of Art and Design, teach- 2007. He continues as Fine Arts Surrealism. Following that she will PhD began a three-year term as ing courses on Chinese, Japanese, Librarian, University of Pennsylvania. become the Assistant Professor Editor-in-Chief of caa.reviews, the Buddhist and Islamic art and In 2008 he co-presented for the of the History of Photography, College Art Association’s online culture. She delivered a lecture Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture, University of California, Riverside. review journal. She is also Head for the NEH on “The Pleasures Yale University Art Gallery. Keller of Education and Programs at of Collecting Japanese Prints” appeared in the filmThe Rape of Mary Lublin ’89 PhD contributed the Grey Art Gallery, New York and is currently editing a fifth Europa, a documentary treatment an essay to the catalogue of the University. edition of “The Appraisal of of the repatriation of artworks exhibition titled George de Forest Japanese Prints” text. during and after World War II. Brush: The Indian Paintings, which Noelle King O’Connor ’85 MA was organized by the National gave a paper at the “NY State Julia de Roulet ’04 BA had a baby Michael Klein ’71 PhD delivered Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Conference on Asian Studies” at boy, Henry Hertz de Roulet, on a paper, “Willem de Kooning: and traveled to the Seattle Art Hamilton College in the fall. December 8, 2008. Some Consideration of Popular Museum. She continues to work Visual Sources and their as an art dealer, concentrating on Judith Ostrowitz’s ’96 PhD Karen S. Rubinson ’76 PhD is Significance” at the Southeastern 19th and 20th Century American new book, Interventions: Native President of the new American College Art Conference in New watercolors and drawings. American Art for Far-Flung Research Institute of the South Orleans in September 2008 and Territories (University of Caucasus. She edited Are All at the meeting of the Midwest Annika Marie ’96 MA has been Washington Press, Seattle, 2009) Warriors Male? Gender Roles Art History Society in Kansas appointed assistant professor of examines how members of on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe City in April 2009. art history at Columbia College Native American and Canadian (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Chicago. First Nations groups situate 2008) and Ceramics in Transitions: Juliet Koss ’90 BA spent the their art in contemporary global Chalcolithic through Iron Age in the spring 2009 semester as a Fellow In 2008 James H. Marrow ’75 environments. Highlands of the Southern Caucasus at the American Academy PhD, Professor Emeritus of Art and Anatolia (Peeters Press, in Berlin. History at Princeton, published In February 2009, Barbara Porter Dudley, 2008). a monograph on a previously ’01 PhD, who is the director of Jonathan Kuhn ’83 MA curated unknown book of hours illumi- the American Center of Oriental Patricia Joan Sarro ’95 PhD has Celebratory Greensward: The Plan nated in Bruges, ca. 1510–20 by Research in Amman, Jordan, been promoted to the rank of full for Central Park, 1858–2008 (the Simon Bening and associates: received the Annual Merit Award professor in the Department of show at the Arsenal Gallery in Das Stundenbuch der Doña Isabel: for Contributions to Jordanian Art, Youngstown State University Central Park included Olmstead Sammlung Renate König VI; in Archaeology from the Friends of in Ohio. and Vaux’s famous plan) and over- April 2009, he was elected a Archaeology and Heritage (FoAH). saw the conservation of Richard member of the Austrian Academy Libby W. Seaberg’s ’64 MA most Hunt’s sculpture on 125th St. of Sciences. Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts recent art can be seen on her newest entitled Harlem Hybrid. ’91 PhD became a professor in web site, www.libbyseaberg.net. Megan McCarthy ’04 BA was UCLA’s Department of World In 2009 Cornelia Lauf ’92 PhD married in spring 2008 and is Arts and Cultures. She was David Shapiro ’01 BA published was the curator of several exhibi- enjoying her second year as a PhD awarded a Curatorial Grant from three volumes of Museo, which tions, including one on the relation candidate in the Department. the College Art Association for included interviews with artists between craft and contemporary Continental Rifts: Contemporary Omer Fast, Jonah Freeman, Dan art at the Galleria Civica di Marjorie Munsterberg ’83 Time-Based Works of Africa, named Graham, and Erwin Wurm. He Modena. She edits books with PhD succeeded Lucy Oakley as the CAA Annual Exhibition for interviewed Vanessa Beecroft for contemporary artists such as the Field Editor for Nineteenth- 2009. Inscribing Meaning: Writing the ninth volume of the journal Haim Steinbach and Tobias Century Art at caa.reviews. In and Graphic Systems in African Art and edited Zilvinas Kempinas’s Rehberger for Three Star Books, addition, she teaches at The City (2007), which she co-curated and catalogue interview for the 53rd Paris, and was nominated full College of New York, as she has co-authored with UCLA’s Fowler Venice Biennale. professor at the IUAV, University been for some years. With the help Museum and the Smithsonian of Venice. She lives with her family of a grant from the PSC-CUNY Institution, was awarded the
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Ellen Shortell ’00 PhD edited Sam Sweet ’77 BA has been Chief presentation titled “The Languet University in June 2009. A session The Four Modes of Seeing: Essays Operating Officer at Corcoran de Gergy Tomb: Visible and in her honor was organized at the on Medieval Imagery in Honor of Gallery of Art/Corcoran College of Invisible Components,” at the annual meetings of the American Madeline Harrison Caviness, along Art and Design in Washington DC College Art Association annual Schools of Oriental Research with Evelyn Staudinger Lane and since January 2008. meeting, 2009. (ASOR) in November and two Elizabeth Carson Pastan (Ashgate volumes of her collected essays will Press, Burlington, 2009). Leopold Swergold ’62 BA Dave Weinstein ’73 BA published be published by Brill in the spring. writes that the exhibition his newest book, It Came from Jeffrey Chipps Smith ’79 PhD, Treasure Rediscovered: Chinese Berkeley: How Berkeley Changed the Susan Wood ’79 PhD had a sab- Kay Fortson Chair in European Stone Sculpture from the Sackler World, a cultural and social history. batical in the fall of 2008, which Art at the University of Texas at Collections at Columbia University A writer and preservationist in allowed her to write “Caracalla Austin, has been awarded a Berlin traveled to the Ringling Museum Northern California, he initiated the and the French Revolution: a Prize at the American Academy in in Sarasota where it was on view successful effort to restore the his- Roman Tyrant in 18th Century Berlin for 2010. Several articles on from February to May 2009. toric Cerrito Theater in El Cerrito. Iconography” to appear in the Dürer, Nuremberg, and historio- Amazingly, the museum reports Memoirs of the American Academy graphic topics appeared this year. that the exhibition was visited by Barbara White ’65 PhD is in Rome in 2010. “Who was Diva Smith presented talks at CAA (in over 40,000 people. The next stop completing a Renoir biography. Domitilla? Some thoughts on the David Rosand’s session), RSA, on the tour will be the University public images of Flavian women” St. Petersburg (FL), University of of Michigan Museum in Ann Irene Winter ’73 PhD retired has been accepted by the American Arkansas, Bonn, Wolfenbüttel, Arbor. from the Department of History Journal of Archaeology pending and Castelen bei Basel. of Art and Architecture, Harvard revisions. Joni Todd ’05 MA accepted a Alison G. Stewart ’86 PhD pub- position at Volunteer Lawyers for lished Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham the Arts, New York office. The and the Origin of Peasant Festival nonprofit provides pro bono legal Alumni Profile Imagery (Ashgate, Burlington, services, mediation services, and 2008) as well as several articles and educational programs to the Pippa Murray ’96 BA pieces together ancient history, modern catalogue essays. She also delivered New York arts community. design and traditional craft with plenty of manual labor in her life as “Women Drink Sometimes, Too” a professional mosaicist. Columbia’s first dual Art History/Visual Arts at the “Fifteenth Annual Group Alan Wallach ’63 BA, ’73 PhD major, Pippa grew up both making art and exploring it historically for Early Modern Cultural Studies was the Robert Sterling Clark beside her father Professor Stephen Murray. She found her final Conference” in Philadelphia, 2008. Distinguished Visiting Professor calling while working on a Minoan archaeological excavation, then in the Williams College Graduate earned her Masters in Classical Archaeology from the University of Emily Stolfo ’06 BA is currently Program in the History of Art in enrolled in the Masters in fall 2008. Edinburgh, specializing in Greco-Roman technique and design. She Museology program at l’Ecole du has gone on to complete thousands of square feet of her own design, Louvre. She has taken classes with Barbara Weinberg ’72 PhD including an 800- foot mosaic for the Bay Area Discovery Museum some of France’s best experts in the organized and was the principal in Sausalito called The Gathering Place. For more information see fields of conservation and restora- author of the catalogue for www.pippamurray.com tion. She writes that plunging into American Impressionism and the French education system was Realism: A Landmark Exhibition not easy, but she can attribute from the Met, The Metropolitan her interest in cultural exchanges Museum of Art, for the Queensland and in challenging herself to Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Columbia’s inspiring professors. (May 29 to September 20, 2009). She co-curated and co-authored Bettina Sulser ’96 BA recently the catalogue for American produced the critically acclaimed Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, feature documentary Our City 1765–1915, The Metropolitan Dreams depicting the lives of five Museum of Art (October 5, 2009 female artists. The film had its to January 24, 2010; Los Angeles theatrical debut at New York’s County Museum of Art, February Film Forum in February of 28 to May 23, 2010). 2009. On April 25, 2009 Bettina wed MoMA Trustee, Donald Anne Betty Weinshenker ’62 L. Bryant, Jr., at their vineyard PhD is currently Professor of (Bryant Family Vineyard) in St. Art History at Montclair State Helena, CA. She currently oversees University, Montclair, New Jersey. their collection of post war and She published A God or a Bench: contemporary art. Sculpture as a Problematic Art Pippa Murray working During the Ancien Régime (Peter on a pebble mosaic Lang, Oxford, 2008) and gave a in Palaikastro, Crete, courtesy of the artist.
14 With Thanks Columbia Art History and Archaeology The strength and renown of Columbia’s Department of Art History and Archaeology derive not only Advisory Council from the expertise and dedication of the faculty, but also from alumni and friends who carry forward the intellectual mission of the Department and who provide financial support for professorships, fellowships, Philip E. Aarons, Esq. symposia, and an array of programs and projects that enhance our core offerings. Armand Bartos, Jr. We are deeply grateful to the following individuals, foundations, corporations, as well as those who have wished to remain anonymous, who have given generously in the fiscal year 2008–2009: Frances Beatty
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2009 2010 September 21 October 24 November 30 January 19–March27 March 29 The Bettman Lectures Working Woman: The Bettman Lectures Photographs by Thomas Roma The Bettman Lectures Greg Levine A Symposium in Honor of Wu Hung Susan Kismaric, curator Sarah McPhee University of California, Natalie Boymel Kampen University of Chicago Wallach Art Gallery Emory University Berkeley October 26 December 3 January 25 April 27–June 12 October 1 The Bettman Lectures Seminar in the Arts of The Bettman Lectures Drawings of Edward Koren Seminar in the Arts of Andrea Giunta Africa, Oceania and Susan Alcock Diana Fane and David Africa, Oceania and University of Texas, Austin the Americas Brown University Rosand, curators the Americas Wallach Art Gallery October 28 February 22 October 6–December 12 Seminar in the Arts of The Bettman Lectures The New Acropolis Museum Africa, Oceania and Mitch Merback Editor: Emily Ann Gabor Ioannis Mylonopoulos, curator the Americas Johns Hopkins University Design: Florio Design Wallach Art Gallery
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