FALL 2005 826Schermerhorn Columbia in Venice from the Chair the Venetian House and Library of the Late Michelangelo Muraro, Distinguished Art Historian Sept

DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH FINE ARTS CENTER

FALL 2005 826schermerhorn Columbia in Venice from the chair The Venetian house and library of the late Michelangelo Muraro, distinguished art historian Sept. 2005 of Venice and the Veneto, have been left to Columbia University. A modest structure, the The Department is in metamorphosis in ways more dramatic than it has house is located near the Peggy Guggenheim been for over a generation. At home we are rebuilding, both our quarters Collection, just behind Ca’ Dario, an early in Schermerhorn and our faculty, with significant departures and new Renaissance palace on the Grand Canal. Once appointments in the offing. Abroad, we are forging new links that extend the facility is renovated for academic use, Casa opportunities for both students and faculty to connect with works of art Muraro will become the University’s Center for and architecture in situ and with other communities of art historians. We are enormously Study in Venice. proud and honored by Rosalind Krauss’s promotion to University Professor, but also The Muraro library contains over 7,000 saddened by the departures of Benjamin Buchloh and Melissa McCormick to Harvard. volumes, including many early printed sources, Rebuilding Modern Art and East Asian Art History, vital cores of our curriculum will and will offer an important resource for students preoccupy us in the next two years, as will searches for new appointments in Renaissance studying in Venice. Johanna Fassl (PhD ’04), who /Baroque architectural history and in African art. We are delighted already to welcome has been appointed director of Casa Muraro, taught Columbia’s first program in Venice this Francesco de Angelis in Roman art and archaeology, who comes to us from the Scuola past summer: Art and Architecture in Venice Normale Superiore in Pisa. (Art History S4430). With enrollment limited to Last fall a task force of faculty members and students worked with architect Scott fifteen, the course included both undergraduate Marble to develop a vision for new spaces for the vital teaching done daily by graduate and graduate students. Plans are already underway student fellows. Within a few years, fundraising permitting, we can complete the work for expanding the summer offerings to include begun towards this vision through the generosity of the Stronach Bequest: creating in the architecture and architectural preservation, as well former slide room a Teaching Center, a multi-purpose space that will provide spaces for as intensive language study; year-long programs graduate teaching fellows to work with undergraduates adjacent to a lounge/seminar room for study abroad are also being projected. where informal presentations, research work in progress, and conversations with visiting On another Venetian front, Columbia has just speakers and artists can all take place. To make way for this art history town square, the concluded an exchange agreement with Università slide collection will be moved to a stunning new room just completed at the heart of the IUAV (Istituto Universitario dell’Architettura faculty office suite on the ninth floor; an innovative and creative project that involves di Venezia), the most distinguished faculty of architecture and architectural history in Italy. students and faculty from planning to construction (see p. 6). This will offer Columbia PhD students the New relationships with art history and architecture programs abroad are creating new opportunity to pursue research in Venice, where horizons for exchange of students and faculty, as well as more opportunities for the study they will register for courses, attend seminars, and of art in situ that has been the aim of the travel seminars made possible through the gener- participate in the cultural life of IUAV. Doctoral ous support of our alumni and friends of the department, such as Philip Aarons (CC ‘73, students in architectural history from Venice LAW ‘76), chairman of our Advisory Council. Thanks to the unflagging determination will have the opportunity to study at Columbia, of resident Venetian David Rosand, this summer the first students were received in the participating in courses and taking advantage the townhouse in Venice, left to Columbia by the late Professor Michelangelo Muraro. The resources of Avery Library. Department has also entered into an agreement with the European Master’s in the History Discussions are also underway for an exchange of Architecture at the University of Rome to develop formal exchange and discussions are arrangement with the newly formed Masters underway with the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris and the Canadian Centre Program in architectural history at the University for Architecture in Montreal. Stephen Murray continues his innovative work in the of Roma (Roma III), directed by Professor Giorgio Ciucci. French Bourbonnais training students in methods of analyzing data on a vast corpus of monuments, and Clemente Marconi has developed plans to bring his research on Sicilian View of archaeology into both the curriculum and the Wallach Art Gallery. In the spring Vittoria Casa Muraro from Campiello Di Palma’s undergraduate seminar will travel to England to see at first hand the houses Barbaro, Venice and gardens, and Vidya Dehejia will lead a group of students (see p. 8) to explore the 7th and 8th-century temples at Mamalla-Puram in the South of India, visiting and studying monuments astoundingly revealed during the cataclysm of the Tsunami. We are grateful to alumni and friends, whose generosity to the Department undergirds all these efforts and look forward to seeing you this year in Schermerhorn, where the Bettman Lectures enter their second season.

Barry Bergdoll

Cover: Preliminary study of east wall (computer rendering), courtesy of Marble Fairbanks, 2005.

2 FACULTY BOOKSHELF

Rosalind Krauss Esther Pasztory Joanna Smith Co-authored with Yve-Alain Bois, Thinking with Things: Guide to Phlamoudhi Benjamin Buchloh, and Hal Foster Toward a New Vision in Art scholarly guide to the Wallach’s Art Since 1900: Modernism, (Texas: University of Texas Press, 2005 Phlamoudi Exhibition. Antimodernism, Postmodernism 2005). (New York: Miriam and Ira D. (London: Thames and Hudson, Wallach Art Gallery, 2005). 2005).

New Appointment in Roman Art Multiple Modernities History and Archaeology Members of the faculty teaching Non-western art have created a joint offering on Modern and Francesco de Angelis joins the Department as Contemporary art outside the West. This graduate lecture course will legitimize a field that has assistant professor of Roman art history and been in limbo between “Modern” art and “Ethnic” art for some time. Students are very inter- archaeology. de Angelis received his doctoral ested in this subject and museums have held an increasing number of exhibits in this area; but degree in 2003 from the Scuola Normale so far there has been little theoretical or academic discussion of it. The new course will be a Superiore, Pisa, with a dissertation on war and pioneering attempt to define and analyze the relationship of Western Modern art as a lingua myth in the tombs of Chiusi. franca in the creation of multiple modernities in the art of the rest of the world. It will consid- In addition to his work on Etruscan urns and er the ways that Non-western artists calibrate their traditions with an increasingly global inscriptions, his current projects included a study culture, how they relate to the mainstream as well as to their local contexts. It is expected that of the architecture and sculptural decoration of such an examination of the current globalization of art will have an interesting effect on our Roman villas of the Sorrento peninsula and an ideas of the classifications and interpretations of art history as a whole. edition, with translation and commentary, of the Esther Pasztory, who has given a similar seminar in the past, will introduce “Multiple Imagines of Philostratus. Modernities” with a theoretical framework illustrated by arts from different parts of the world. de Angelis is also a co-curator of the exhibition Keith Moxey will present relevant postcolonial theory as a part of this introduction. Area “La forza del bello: L’arte greca conquista Italia.” specialists will present aspects of their arts in greater depth. Dawn Delbanco and Robert Harrist will discuss Chinese artists, Vidya Dehejia Indian artists, Elizabeth Hutchinson Native American artists, Kishwar Rizvi Pakistani architecture, and Susan Vogel African artists. In addition, we are planning an artist’s panel, open to the Department as a whole, moderated by Susan Vogel, in which three artists from Non-western countries now working in New York will discuss these issues from their personal perspectives.

Richard Brilliant Honored at 2005 CAA

Richard Brilliant was honored at this year’s CAA meetings in Atlanta with the 2005 Distinguished Scholar Award. A panel of speakers paid tribute to his many intellectual and scholarly achievements; organized by former Brilliant student Bettina Bergmann, the panel also included Department members David Rosand and Jonathan Crary. Following the award ceremony, a dinner was held in Richard’s honor, sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

3 curator’s corner at the wallach:

Maria Morris Hambourg stepped down as Curator of the Department of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2005 and is now a Consultant Curator. She received her Columbia PhD in 1980 with a dissertation on “Eugène Atget, 1857–1927: The Structure of the Work.” She then co-authored, with John Szarkowski, the four- volumes of The Work of Atget; her subsequent publications have focused on the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon, among others.

Prior to the 1970s photographs had not been collected with the same ardor and discipline as the other arts. Despite some glorious prints given by Alfred Stieglitz in 1933 and a few other fine pockets, the Metropolitan Museum’s photography collection was a spotty affair, its library outdated; no catalog raisonné had yet been compiled. More could be learned consulting other sources: sages in the back rooms of galleries abroad and many collectors, auctioneers and dealers here in New York. As photographs emerged from attics and archives and brought their stories to light, so the habitués of the Rainer Ganahl, Rosalind Krauss, Bruce Nauman, Dia Art Foundation, New York, 2002 auction rooms became keepers of vast amounts of new knowledge.

If the public for photography was to be properly served at the Metropolitan, the Museum had to become the most complete library available and possible. It was a come-from-behind challenge. Without the luxury of several lifetimes for the piecemeal acquisitions necessary to achieve those ends, we elected instead to incorporate “Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the knowledge and collections of some of the most prescient collec- the Soviet Union, 1919–1935” Selections from tors of the day. Notable among them were John Waddell, who had the Collection of Stephen Garmey amassed some 500 modernist photographs made between the two APRIL 20–JUNE 11, 2005 world wars in Europe and America; Joyce Menschel, a specialist in photographic books; and Pierre Apraxine and Howard Gilman, his exhibition was the final of the 2004–05 exhibition season at whose Gilman Paper Company Collection covered the first century the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery. It was focused on of photography and constituted over a thousand masterpieces T the Soviet architectural press in the early twentieth century. During and many important albums containing several thousand more that era, the press became a forum for an extraordinary group of individual images. artists, designers, architects, and theorists in the Soviet Union, who converged in debate over the shape of their present and future built Our principal goal from the outset was the Gilman collection, but environment. The visually stunning and rhetorically innovative publi- it was still in active formation. While it matured, we acquired Mr. cations include major contributions by many the most brilliant artists Waddell’s collection and built up a viable library through Mrs. and graphic designers of the Russian and Soviet avant-garde: Aleksei Menschel’s agency. Many friends and colleagues worked to further Gan, Gustav Klutsis, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, the Stenberg enrich the Museum’s collection, for example through large gift/ brothers, Varvara Stepanova, and Solomon Telingater. Moreover, mag- purchase arrangements to secure the Walker Evans Archive, the leg- azines such as Sovremennaia arkhitekura (Contemporary Architecture) endary Rubel collection of 19th-century British photographs, and Stroitel’stvo Moskvy (Construction of Moscow) were the primary and several dozen portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. sites where many of the most important architects of the period— Finally, with the support of the trustees and many benefactors, that Moisei Ginzburg, Ivan Leonidov, Konstantin Melnikov, and the grand encyclopedia of photography the Gilman collection, came Vesnin brothers—developed their ideas and projects. home to the Museum in 2005. Turning that corner was a great relief As the principal artifacts of a turbulent phase in architectural for this curator, for the public’s needs now have a fine chance of history, the journals, magazines, books, and related ephemera gathered being met in a collection second to none for overall excellence. in this exhibition provided an opportunity to focus in unprecedented depth on the Soviet architectural press as an actively evolving field, My former assistants who now oversee the business of the defined by tense and shifting syntheses of avant-garde design and Department of Photographs have many projects for further political debate. The relation between the architectural press and expanding knowledge in this field and we have our eyes on several the broader field of print media not only reveals the centrality of additional collections, and I gravitate toward contemporary work architectural and constructivist imagery in early Soviet culture but where there are really nothing but questions and a history as yet also demonstrates the role of the press in the building of socialism. unwritten. Something in the lacunae and the challenge are not unlike the state of the photography collection at the Metropolitan twenty years ago... 4 “Please Teach Me”—Rainer Ganahl: Photographs, Videos and Other Documents SEPTEMBER 28–DECEMBER 10, 2005

ainer Ganahl has had numerous solo exhibitions in Europe and The exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery will include works R New York, and was selected as the Austrian representative to the from the varied artistic practices that Ganahl has undertaken over Venice Biennale in 1999. Although he now lives in New York as a US the past decade, specifically several ongoing series of distinct types: citizen, much of the work to be included in the exhibition has never Libraries, S/L (Seminar/Lectures), Readings, Studies, and Dialogs. been exhibited in this country; some has never been shown anywhere. These series—each of which examines a different aspect of the forma- William Kaizen, the exhibition curator, is a Ph. D. candidate in the tion of knowledge and is titled to reflect its concerns—comprise a Department, currently completing his dissertation, “The Immediate: variety of media, including photographs, videos, books, wall texts, Early Video Art and Mass-Media America, 1965–1975.” tapestries, and tiles. Two new works in the Readings series will be For more than ten years, Rainer Ganahl has produced work produced for this exhibition. A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue that operates at the junction of art and education. He offers a subtle will be published by the Wallach Art Gallery, with support from exploration of the points of overlap by engaging both as mutually the Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC; in addition to a critical study imbricated rather than mutually exclusive practices. Through the by the exhibition curator, William Kaizen, the publication will also examination of preexisting practices and the production of new ones, include an essay by Gayatri Spivak. he creates possibilities for image and knowledge production that partake of each other. Ganahl’s work is ideally suited for a university gallery, which also operates at the intersection of art and education.

Stephen Garmey’s extensive private collection served as an important resource for the curators’ research and was the source of most objects in the exhibition. The rich special collections of Columbia University Libraries, specifically the Avery Art and Architectural Library and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, provided supplementary materials. Richard Anderson and Kristin Romberg, both doctoral candidates in art history, served as co-curators of the exhibition. In addition to being primary authors of the exhibition catalogue, they played a major role in the design of the publication, planned the installation, and designed many of the graphics that accompanied the exhibition. Richard Anderson’s catalogue essay, “The Journal States its Aims: Partisanship and the Party Line in the Soviet Architectural Press,” addresses the material, cultural, and typographic production of three major Soviet architectural periodicals. Kristin Romberg, in “From Veshch’ to SA: Journal as Object,” examines the tensions between autonomous art object and mass media that are inherent in the evolution of the Soviet avant-garde journal as a form. The catalogue also contains a short introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen, the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; a collector’s statement by Stephen Garmey; and a comprehensive exhibition checklist. The 86-page book, illustrated with 80 color photographs and 16 black-and-white images, is available through the Wallach Art Gallery office.

Stroika (Construction), 1930, no. 11, collection of Stephen Garmey

5 Schermerhorn Renovations: Phase I

hanks to a generous bequest from Judith Lee Stronach One of the project’s many innovations is to evoke the objects that it (M.A.’69), major renovations will be taking place in will be housing. The architects have designed a translucent room that T Schermerhorn Hall over the next few years. Ultimately, the will capture light from the newly reopened and cleaned skylight and current slide library will be transformed into the Judith Lee Stronach glow like a magic lantern—the origins of slide projection. The walls Teaching Center, which will truly bring together undergraduate of the room are to be made of a set of laminated wood and glass majors and graduate students, as well as faculty. The Center will be a milled elements that are related both to the innovative material place for our Teaching Fellows to meet with undergraduates in small research that the firm has been working on for a number of years groups and individually, with state-of-the-art computer facilities and and to one of the major axes of work in the newly created materials resources for student teaching. It will also have a lounge area for laboratory which Dean Mark Wigley has established in the School Department social events, such as informal seminars, book parties, of Architecture. meetings with guest speakers, and alumni receptions. The project is not only architecturally innovative, but its very Work on the first phase—the precondition for the second—is execution is a pedagogical opportunity. Both graduate and under- now well underway. This entails creating a room in the center of the graduate students have participated in the realization of this space, faculty office area at the west end of the 9th floor that is currently which will not only become an important space in the daily life of little used. The large light well that has long been partially covered is the Department, but will also be a model architectural project, likely being opened up to bring natural light and life to this dreary space. accompanied by a small publication on its making. Under the close Marble Fairbanks Architects, the firm that recently designed the supervision of Marble Fairbanks Architecture and using on-campus Department’s Bettman Lecture mills, graduate students from the School of Architecture, under the Hall, has developed an leadership of project manager David Benjamin, are involved in the extraordinary design for this unique building project to create custom glass and panel walls for the ninth-floor space to house site, and Columbia College senior Darren Zhou has served as an intern our slide collection, freeing for the project. We are all very enthusiastic and grateful to the late up the main space on the Judith Lee Stronach for this generous bequest. 8th floor for the Judith Lee Please stop by and see for yourself when next on campus and join us Stronach Teaching Center. in the Fall when the architects and students involved in the project will present a seminar on the creation of this space.

Above: ninth floor Schermerhorn before renovation Below: new VMC library/conference room concept diagram (computer rendering), courtesy of Marble Fairbanks, 2005

6 Testimonial from David Benjamin Judith Lee Stronach Bequest Before I came to Columbia to start my Master of Architecture degree, I read a small article in Metropolis Magazine about Bill Massie a young Judith Lee Stronach M.A.’69, an avid patron of the arts architect who left New York City for Montana and and a social activist received her BA and Masters degrees set up a large office with a computer numerically from Columbia University. Generous and spirited, Ms controlled (CNC) milling machine. According to Stronach not only donated funds to organizations, but the article, Massie understood that many people in also volunteered her time and her creativity. She was a Montana wanted to buy a huge plot of land and human rights advocate who worked as a journalist for build a simple house on it. They often ordered a Amnesty International and served on their executive generic log cabin because it was the least expensive board, and she was a teacher, volunteering with the structure available. He proposed that a structure that homeless, the “I Had a Dream Program” in Oakland, CA, was less expensive and more complex and customized and the Martin Luther King and Willard School in with a new technology that translated directly Berkeley. She contributed to the Metropolitan Museum between a 3D computer model of a house and of Art, taught poetry to children, visited homeless shelters, full-scale building components without the usual, established back-to-school programs, cooked, danced, time- consuming steps of creating and interpreting explored nature, and spent time on many other independ- construction drawings. He was proposing to change ent projects. She met her husband Raymond Lifchez, the very process of architecture. now a Professor of Architecture at UC-Berkeley’s In May, I completed my M. Arch. degree and Department of Architecture and Environmental though my technical and conceptual capacities grew Design, when she was a student at Columbia and tremendously over three years, I have never lost my he was on the Columbia faculty. fascination for changing the process of architecture through CNC technology. Some of my student work Our project is being built as a tribute to her passion involved the prototyping of structurally and econom- and energy, and as her actions reached out and ically efficient structures through CNC milling, so touched many, we expect the Judith Lee Stronach I jumped at the chance to become involved with the Teaching Center to inspire future generations of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and students and teachers. Preservation’s (GSAPP’s) first major project with its new digital fabrication machines. Above: GSAPP students assembling laminated wall, August 2005. I am currently the GSAPP’s Project Manager Right: detail of glass and laminate wall. (photos courtesy of Annique Atwater GS ’07) for the new Art History Slide Library, and my responsibilities include the coordination of the schedule and the budget for the project. I interact Testimonial from Darren X Zhou, Project Intern with the architect, the contractor, the fabrication I didn’t know what to expect when I first began working on the Schermerhorn team, and external vendors such as the wood Renovation Project. Most students in the Columbia and Barnard Architecture finishing company. Program apply for internships at architecture firms where their jobs run the gamut Marble Fairbanks Architects is proposing to from administrative work to model building and simple drafting in a convivial change the process of architecture through the use office environment. And there I was, running a large CNC machine (essentially of CNC technology. All of the components of the a drill head capable of moving in three axes and mill 3-dimensional shapes) that new Slide Library are being fabricated digitally and screeched with every cut it made in the MCF (Medium Density Fiberboard). uniquely cataloged. Yet, I was taking it all in—the unbearably hot room, the deafening machine, For assembly, we are using new types of diagrams the sawdust, even the multitude of acronyms and terminology I had to learn. rather than complex construction drawings. The Yes there are gripes, but I couldn’t have asked for a better internship. project is requiring new types of relationships For one, the scale and scope are ideal. While architecture students work mainly between architects, contractors, finishers, and skilled with modes of representation such as drawings and models without seeing their and unskilled labor. In the end, the project will be efforts translate into actuality, this project has allowed me to follow the process an important experiment in the field of architecture through from drawing board to construction. Furthermore, the purity of the as well as a glowing new home for the Art History conceptual nature of the project from start to finish excites me. Department’s slides. More importantly, I feel personally invested in the project. Working with an excellent team has made me feel involved in the decision-making process more David Benjamin received his Master of Architecture than most interns can expect! Being invested means taking responsibility to make Degree from Columbia’s School of Architecture in things work. Being invested means analyzing mistakes and solving them. Being Spring 2005. invested means being passionate about the project. It is said that you learn more at internships than in school. I don’t know if this is true, but this has definitely been a unique learning experience for me.

Darren X Zhou, a Columbia College Senior majoring in Architecture, is from Singapore. He explains that his foray into architecture is serendipitous – having one day woken up and decided to become an architect. 7 Exploring a Riddle in Stone: 7th/8th-Century Mamalla-Puram

From left to right: Shore Temple, Great “Penance” Relief (100 by 50 feet), and the monoliths known as the Five Rathas, Mamalla Puram, Malla, India

Along the sandy coastline bordering the Bay of Bengal, some forty we know with certainty is that the site rose under the aegis of the miles south of Chennai (until recently Madras) is the enigmatic site of Pallava monarchs of south India whose rule extended from 580 to 728 Mamalla-puram (Town of Mamalla), that has thus far defied the CE. All else is open to speculation, and questions abound with no attempts of scholars who seek to understand its meaning and purpose. ready solutions. Was the site the result of concentrated work during the Cut into a great outcrop of hard gray granite, and dotted amid the reign of one single ruler? Is the site intended in any way to be a sacred wind-swept sands, are granite monuments of four distinct types— center? Could it have been a huge outdoor workshop, an architectural entire cliff faces transformed into sculpted tableaux; rock-cut and sculptural royal atelier, which remains petrified in stone? Why is monolithic shrines created out of individual granite boulders; rock-cut so much unfinished? Did some catastrophic event intervene? These caves with pillared facades; and structural temples built by piling stone were among the many questions that we examined in a Fall 2004 upon stone. Over half the monuments are unfinished. The one thing graduate seminar.

faculty highlights

Zainab Bahrani lectured at Bilgi She is curating a three-part exhibi- Second Annual Congress of Dutch Seattle, the ICA (Boston), Museum University in Istanbul, New York tion on Moses opening in 2006 architectural historians, held at of Fine Arts (Boston), Amherst University, and delivered the annual at the Wallach Art Gallery, the Leiden. He has also been busy with College and Bard (January–April, Sabbagh Lecture in Anthropology Museum of the City of New York Society of Architectural Historian 2005). He still writes articles and and Middle Eastern Studies at the and the Queens Museum. Ballon matters, including co-chairing reviews and was appointed as a University of Arizona, Tucson. has been chosen as the new editor the International Conference member of the Visiting Artist With Marc Van De Mieroop she of The Journal of the Society of “Changing Boundaries,” co-spon- Committee MFA Boston. He was co-edited Myth and Politics in Architectural Historians. sored by the Institut National recently elected a fellow of the Ancient Near Eastern Historiography, d'Histoire de l’Art in Paris in early American Academy of Arts and London: Continuum Press, 2004 Currently Jim Beck is working September. An essay on the archi- Sciences. and The Invention of Cuneiform: on two books, The Crisis of tectural photographer Lucien Writing at Sumer, (trans., Jean Connoisseurship and Raphael’s Hervé was published by the CIVA, Jonathan Crary served as Acting Jacques Glassner), Baltimore: The Revenge, the story of what Prof. Brussels, and on the natural scien- Chair for the Department in spring Johns Hopkins University Press, Beck considers the fake the tist Ernst Haeckel and the French 2005. He was a plenary speaker 2004. Her article, “The King’s National Gallery of London art nouveau in the catalogue accom- at the Visual Literacy conference Head” was published in D. Collon purchased last year for 65 panying the René Binet exhibition held at University College, Cork, and A. George eds., Nineveh. million dollars. (Musée de Sens). Ireland, in April 2005. He con- London, British School of tributed several entries to New Archaeology, 2004, pp. 115–119, Barry Bergdoll spent the spring Richard Brilliant was honored Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of and she has recently been elected semester as the J.P. Morgan Fellow at this year’s CAA meeting in Culture and Society (Blackwell, to the Editorial Board of the Art at the American Academy in Berlin Atlanta with the 2005 CAA 2005) and wrote a catalog essay Bulletin. working on a project on the inter- Distinguished Scholar Award. He on the work of Olafur Eliasson for connections between developments was a consultant to the president Olafur Eliasson: Minding the World, As a fellow at the Cullman Center in natural history and architectural and CEO of the New-York ARoS Aarhus Kunstmu-seum, for Scholars and Writers at the New thought in the early nineteenth cen- Historical Society in 2004/05 and Denmark, 2004. His essay York Public Library, Hilary Ballon tury. While in Germany he lectured recipient of the Distinguished “Conjurations of Security” was enjoyed a year-long immersion in at the Architekten-und Ingenieur Scholar Award from the College published in Interventions: research on her new project, a Verein and at the Freie Universität Art Association in Atlanta, February International Journal of Postcolo- reassessment of Robert Moses and in Berlin, the Technical Universität 2005. He gave lectures on histori- nial Studies, Vol. 6 no 3, 2004. his impact on modern New York. in Dresden, and spoke at the ography, Roman art, portraits etc in

8 One more issue exists that has generally been regarded as a red herring. Portuguese travelers sailing the coast during the 16th century named the site “Seven Pagodas;” yet only the two towers Rosalind Krauss Named University Professor belonging to the “Shore Temple” are visible from the sea. In 1810, the British poet laureate Robert Southey wrote a poem titled “The In January 2005, the University Trustees announced the promotion Curse of Kehema” that conjured up visions of Mamalla-puram of Rosalind Krauss to the rank of University Professor. This is the beneath the sea. Had the ocean indeed swallowed up the “missing” highest academic status that Columbia can confer on its faculty. five spires? Professor Krauss is one of eleven University Professors drawn December 26, 2004: The tsunami strikes this coastline. Tourists from all branches and campuses, including several Nobel Prize at the Shore Temple, scrambling to get out of harm’s way, were winners. She will continue to remain affiliated with the thunderstruck to see large stone structures along the ocean bed revealed by the extraordinary strength of the receding waves. Department and offer courses to our graduate students. To Reports of Indian Airlines pilots to the effect that they saw honor Professor Krauss and to show its appreciation for her many structures under the ocean were apparently not hallucinatory contributions to the Department, a reception was held on May 3, fabrications! Underwater archaeology in the past six months has 2005, attended by faculty, students, members of the Advisory revealed at least two more temples beneath the waters! Council, and President Lee Bollinger. Our trip to Mamalla-puram during the winter break of 2005–2006 aims to build on student seminar papers and ask a range of hard questions while examining the myriad details that a close examination of the site can reveal. We hope to identify specific areas that would repay further research, perhaps formulat- ing a project that might be funded by outside sources.

Vidya Dehejia reports that she has the program for the benefit of Romanticism in the new the Core Curriculum from spent a very fruitful, and enjoyable, departments in the University, the Cambridge journal Modern Columbia’s Heyman Center for the month at Bellagio, Italy, on a Academy Fellows this year included Intellectual History (August 2004). Humanities. Among his publica- Rockefeller Foundation Residency two art historians, Professor Klaus tions over the past year are articles Fellowship, completing her manu- Krueger from Berlin and Professor Anne Higonnet’s (co-authored) on men’s clothing in early twenti- script “The Body Adorned: Sacred Tanja Michalski from Frankfurt. introductory essay to Routledge’s eth-century China, copies and & Profane. Reflections on Indian When not engaged in transatlantic The Nineteenth Century Visual replicas in the history of Chinese Imagery.” diplomatic issues relating to the Culture Reader was published calligraphy, and stone inscriptions Academy, Freedberg returned to during the summer of 2004. of the sixth century in Shandong Vittoria Di Palma published work on his forthcoming book on During the fall semester she taught province. “Drinking Cider in Paradise: the relations between art history in Columbia’s Reid Hall program in Science, Improvement, and and the neurosciences. Paris, and in the spring she was on On leave this year, Elizabeth the Politics of Fruit Trees”, and co- leave from teaching with a Mellon Hutchinson gave invited talks at edited a selection of papers Cordula Grewe was the 2004-05 Foundation New Directions grant. CASVA and the British Museum on for AAFiles deriving from the Resident Academic Director of the In addition she spoke at the her work on the American “Indian Architectural Association conference Berlin Consortium, and served on Columbia Fellows Society, at the Craze.” She has spent most of the The Intimate Metropolis. She the board of the newly established University of Southern California year researching and writing in also presented “Color and the Berlin Center for Metropolitan in Los Angeles, at the National Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dissolution of the Surface: Herzog Studies (www.metropolitans Museum of Women in the Arts and De Meuron’s Laban” at CAA in tudies.de). She edited a volume in Washington D.C., at a Terra Natalie Kampen was honored Atlanta, and “Before ‘Natural’ Was “From Manhattan to Mainhattan: Foundation “Journée Pédgaogique” by Barnard College in 2005; she a Style: Landscape and Empiricism Architecture and Style as Trans- in Paris and at the Université became the inaugural Barbara in Eighteenth-Century England” at atlantic Dialogue, 1920–1970” Paris I, as a plenary speaker at the Novak ’50 Professor of Art History. SAH in Vancouver. to be published this year by the Cumberland Lodge Conference The endowed chair carries the German Historical Institute in in Windsor, England, and at the name of Professor Emerita Barbara In addition to his departmental Washington D.C., contributed to International Research Society Novak, who taught the history responsibilities, David Freedberg the celebrated anthology A New on Children’s Literature annual of American art at Barnard and continued as Director of the Italian History of German Literature (2004) meeting in Dublin, Ireland Columbia for more than 30 years. Academy for Advanced Studies in and to the catalogue of the hotly Kampen is celebrating the honor by America. Its Fellowship Program debated exhibition “Die Nazarener” Robert E. Harrist, Jr. is currently staying home to write a new book has brought scholars of ever-greater at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, serving as Director of Graduate on family imagery in Roman art. distinction to Columbia. In keeping and published an article on the Studies. In October he received an with Freedberg’s aim of developing reception of Goethe in late award for distinguished service to

9 2006 Undergraduate 2005 Undergraduate Department Memorial Prize in Travel Seminar Prize Winners Memory of Ingrid Muan

A generous gift from Philip In May, the Department awarded Earlier this year Ingrid Muan (PhD ‘01) died tragically in Aarons (College ‘73, Law ‘76), prizes to graduating senior Cambodia. To honor her memory, the faculty has created chairman of the Advisory Emily Beeny and rising senior the Ingrid Muan Memorial Prize, a fellowship to be Council, has enabled the Margaret Hayden. Beeny awarded to a graduate student whose work on his/her Department to fund an annual received the Department’s senior dissertation is deemed exceptional. undergraduate travel seminar thesis prize for her thesis on Ingrid Muan received her doctorate with a thesis through 2007. Previous seminars “Blood Spectacle: Gérôme in on relations between contemporary and traditional have traveled to Berlin and Sicily. the Arena.” Hayden received the Cambodian art. In only a few years, she became recog- In spring 2006 Professor Vittoria Department’s senior thesis travel nized as one of the most important scholars addressing Di Palma’s seminar, House and fellowship for her proposed Cambodian visual culture. She had been living in Phnom Garden in 18th-century England, project, “Exhibiting the Other: Penh, where she founded and co-directed the Reyum will visit great country houses Issues of Display in European Institute of Arts and Culture, which includes a gallery, an and parks such as Chiswick, Museums.” Her research took art school and a publishing house. She also taught at the Rousham, and Stowe to explore her in summer 2005 to the Royal University of Fine Arts. the development of English British Museum in London and The first recipient of the award is Emily Breault, for gardens and the rise of the the Picasso Museum in Paris. her dissertation “Mirror and Image in Colonial Peru.” landscape aesthetic.

faculty highlights

Christina Kiaer has two books Clemente Marconi has completed History, Visual Studies and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, he is appearing in the fall: Imagine No his volume on Archaic Greek Globalization” in Genre 36 (2003) at work on an ambitious interactive Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Temple Decoration, forthcoming in —appeared February 2005— database of Romanesque architecture Russian Constructivism (MIT Press), 2006 (Cambridge University Press). 429–448, “Estetica de la Cultura in central France. A new book on and, co-edited with Eric Naiman, He is now working on the publica- Visual en el Momento de la medieval preaching, A Gothic Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: tion of the metopes of temple F at Globalizacion” in Estudios Visuales: Sermon: Making a Contract with Taking the Revolution Inside (Indiana Selinus and on the sixth and final La Epistemologia de la Visualidad en the Mother of God, Saint Mary of University Press). volume of his series dedicated to the la Era de la Globalizacion ed. Jose Amiens (California, 2004), has history of the archaeology in Sicily Luis Brea (Madrid: Akal, 2005), appeared and Telling the Story of Holger A. Klein continues to be on during the 19th century. 25-37, “Impossible Distance: Past Gothic: Staking Out the Plot is in a leave of absence from Columbia and Present in the Study of Durer the works. to serve as the Robert P. Bergman Melissa McCormick returned to and Grunewald” Art Bulletin 86 Curator of Medieval Art at the teaching after giving birth to her (2004), 750–763. He offered Esther Pasztory gave several Cleveland Museum. In this capacity daughter Azusa in the spring of graduate seminars on “Art History lectures in connection with the he is currently preparing the re- 2004. In March of 2005 she After the ‘End’ of Art” at MIT, at “Aztec Empire” exhibit at the installation of the museum’s Early co-organized an international European Humanities University in Guggenheim Museum in the fall Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval conference at Columbia on The Minsk (Belarus) and lectured of ’04. At her students request she galleries, scheduled to re-open in Tale of Genji, the proceedings of at the First International Visual is giving a seminar on Aztec Art 2008. In the fall of 2004, his book which will be published next year. Culture Conference held in Madrid and sacrifice in ’05.Thinking with Byzanz, der Westen und das ‘wahre’ She was awarded a fellowship from and at the Institut National de Things (University of Texas Press) Kreuz, which examines the complex the American Council of Learned L’Histoire de L’Art in Paris as well has just been published. history of the relic of the True Cross Societies to research her book on as at the Learning from the and its precious containers, was ink-line drawings and female Guggenheim conference in Reno John Rajchman lectured at the published in Wiesbaden, Germany. authorship in premodern Japan. and at Dartmouth College. Getty Center and at Harvard University. His “What is Rosalind Krauss was awarded This year Keith Moxey published Stephen Murray returned to the Abstraction?” appeared as lead an honorary degree from the “Trialogue with Mark Cheetham Department after a year as Henry essay in Jaresring (DAAD-Berliner Courtauld Institute of London and Michael Ann Holly” in Journal Luce senior fellow at the National Kinsutlerprogram) on the topic. His University, and she was promoted of Visual Culture 4 (2005), 75–90, Humanities Center. In collabora- essay on “lightness” in architecture to University Professor Columbia’s “Disciplines of the Visual: Art tion with colleagues in Computer appeared in special issue of highest honor (page9). Science, Engineering, and Multitudes (Paris). Architecture, and with the support of

10 Faculty Highlights continued Kishwar Rizvi gave papers last Cambridge Companion to Titian Simon Schama published Hang- Joanna S. Smith received a year at Amherst College and the (2004). Activity on the lecture Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly) fellowship from the National International Society for Iranian circuit included: “Circa 1500,”at (BBC Books) in the UK last Endowment for the Humanities Studies on the subject of text-image a conference devoted to Die November. His latest history book, for a book on Artistic Exchange relationships in a 1605 Safavid Zeichnung: Grenz-und Fliessfigur Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves in the Bronze Age Mediterranean Shahnama (“Book of Kings,” at the anschaulichen Denkens at the and the American Revolution will be World. She is also publishing the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin) in which Internationales Forschung-szentrum published in the UK in September proceedings from the international she explored religious and mperial Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna; and the USA (Harper Collins) in symposium held in conjunction iconography during the reign of “The Passion of Venus and spring 2006. His eight-part televi- with her Wallach Art Gallery show, Shah ‘Abbas I. She also completed Adonis,” Museo del Prado, Madrid; sion series, for PBS and the BBC, Settlement and Sanctuary on an essay, “Capture and Catharsis: “Things Never Seen: Graphic The Power of Art, dealing with Cyprus. Writing gender and architecture at Fantasy and the Dreaming moments of conflict and crisis in the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Draftsman,” in conjunction with the work of eight different artists Susan Vogel organized a major in Sehwan, Pakistan,” for the exhibition “Comme le rêve le (from Caravaggio to Rothko) is symposium on Emerging Sexualized Spaces: Harems in History dessin” at the Musée du Louvre and currently in production and is Scholarship in African Art held and the Imagination, ed. Nasser Centre Pompidou, Paris. As project scheduled for broadcast in 2006. in April 2005 at Columbia. Rabbat (forthcoming). The latter director of Save Venice, Inc., Prof. He will be delivering the Mellon As the New York Times put it, was also presented at the Columbia Rosand has been actively engaged Lectures (Really Old Masters: on “speakers talked about African South Asia seminar. in the restoration of the art and debates about the relationship art as mutable, ephemeral, architecture of the Serenissima and between old age and inventiveness) time-based, kinetic, contingent and David Rosand’s “Inventing was in Venice in May for the inau- at the National Gallery in defined by fluid situations rather Mythologies: The Painter’s Poetry” guration of the most recent project: Washington in 2006. than by single, solid things.” She was his contribution to The the restoration of the façade of the spent four weeks in the ancient city Scuola Grande di San Marco. of Djenne shooting a documentary on architecture with the Musée National du Mali.

Dissertation Baroque Virtuosity: Rubens, Janet Cavallero “Photography Japan Foundation Fellowship His Copies, and His Copyists” and the Mass Subject in Chelsea Foxwell “Kano H¯ogai Fellowship Awards Robin L. Thomas II. “Charles Fascist Italy” (1828–88) and the Emergence for 2005–06 Bourbon’s Naples: Sara Beth Hinderliter “The of Nihonga Style” Architecture and Politics” Space of Painting: Kurt The Barnes Foundation Schwitters and El Lissitzky” The Library of Congress, Swan Mellon Fellowship CLIR Mellon Dissertation Scott Portnoy “Abstraction Foundation Fellowship Karen Butler “Jean Fautrier’s Fellowship in the Humanities Reduced: The Monochrome in Meredith Hale “Romeyn de “Commitment” and the in Original Sources American Painting, 1949–1963” Hooghe and the Birth of Representation of Resistance Andrew Manson “Architecture, Yasuko Tsuchikane “The Public Political Satire” in Twentieth Century France” Archaeology, and Urbanism in Art of Buddhism in Modern ‘La Grande Roma’: The Via Japan: Dômoto Inshô’s National Gallery of Art Chateaubriand Scholarship dell’Impero and the Palazzo Buddhist Temple Paintings” Fellowships Andrew Tallon “Experiments in del Littorio Competition” John Harwood “The Redesign Early Gothic Structure: The Departmental Rudolf of Design: Multi-National Flying Buttress” Departmental Dissertation Prize Wittkower Fellowships Corporations, Computers and in Memory of Ingrid Muan Sabina de Cavi “Spain in Naples: Design Logic, 1945–1976” Columbia University Emily Breault “Mirror and Building, Sculpting and Rebecca M. Molholt “On Fellowships Image in Colonial Peru” Painting for the Viceroys Stepping Stones: The Historical Christian K. Kleinbub “Vision (1585–1621)” Experience of Roman Mosaics” and the Visionary in Raphael” Departmental Pierre and Maria- Katherine Isard “Scritti secondo Amity Law “Generating Gaetana Matisse Fellowships Vitruvio: Vincenzo Scamozzi The Metropolitan Museum of Identity through Plan and Susanna Cole “Space out of and Reading as Architectural Art Fellowship Architecture: Barcelona Time: Landscape and Praxis in Sixteenth-century Veronica White “Senio Illudere”: Cathedral, Gothic Drawing Modernity in Nineteenth- Italy” The Development of the and the Crown of Aragón” century England” Sara Switzer “Correggio and the Cappriccio in Italian Baroque Jessica Marshall “Architecture Abigail Susik “Exhibiting the Sacred Image” Graphic Art” and Popular Religion: French Outmoded: Surrealist Collage Pilgrimage Churches of the Novels by Louis Aragon, Max German Academic Exchange Samuel H. Kress Foundation 19th and 20th Centuries” Ernst and André Breton” Service, DAAD, Fellowships Fellowships Kristin Romberg “Gan's Eric Anderson “German Theories Renzo Baldasso “Between Nature Constructivism” Departmental C.V. Starr of Domestic Architecture, and Mathematics: The Role of Nassim Rossi “Depicting the Foundation Fellowships 1871–1900” Visual Representation in the Sultan: Conflict and Colleen Becker “Acts of Colleen Becker “Acts of Early Stages of the Scientific Representation in Renaissance Representation: The Inception Representation: The Inception Revolution” Portraits of the Other” and Early Development of and Early Development of Victoria Sancho “Imitation and Kathe Kollwitz’s Career” Kathe Kollwitz’s Career”

11 Dissertations continued alumni news Andrew Tallon “Experiments in Early Gothic Structure: The Flying Buttress” Jennifer Ahlfeldt ’04 Ph.D., “The Lure of the Object” and Susan Braunstein ’98 Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Pre- the Seminar of Aesthetics at the the Curator of Archaeology and The Walters Art Museum, Columbian Art and Architecture in University of Oslo, Norway as Judaica at The Jewish Museum, New Carol Bates Fellowship the Department of Art and Art well as a lecture on Robert Smithson York. She recently published Five Christine Sciacca “The Gradual History at the University of New entitled “The Cinema Model” at the Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from and Sacramentary of Hainricus Mexico continues her research on Getty Center’s “Work-in-Progress” The Jewish Museum: A Catalogue Sacrista (Pierpont Morgan Maya Architecture in Mexico and series, which was published in a vol- Raisonné, Yale University Press, Library, M. 711) and the Central America. She led a field ume on Smithson’s Spiral Jetty by 2004. Liturgy of Weingarten Abbey” school on the Conservation and the Dia Center and the University of Analysis of Maya Architecture in California Press in summer 2005. Clifford M. Brown ’66 Ph.D. wrote Honduras in summer 2005. Isabella d’Este in the Ducal Palace in Dissertations Elizabeth Bartman ’84 Ph.D. won Mantua: An overview of her rooms in Completed Raquel Aragon ’02 B.A. is a an NEH Fellowship for 2005 for the Castello di San Giorgio and the May 2004–May 2005 member of Columbia’s Law “The Limits of Culture: Ethnic Corte Vecchia, in Europa delle Corti, School Class of 2007. Portraits in Roman Art.” During the Biblioteca del Cinquecento, vol. Adrienne Baxter Bell next two years she will divide her 116, Bulzoni, Rome, 2005. “George Inness: Painting Drew Armstrong ’03 Ph.D. will time between London and Rome. Philosophy” begin as an Assistant Professor in Eva Burmeister ’97 B.A. is a the Department of the History Jean-François Bédard ’03 Ph.D. violinist in the Gewandhaus Robert Charles Bradley of Art and Architecture at the has been appointed as Assistant Orchestra in Leipzig, Germany “The Architecture of Kuelap” University of Pittsburgh in fall 2005. Professor of Architecture in the where she has been a member since School of Architecture at Syracuse 2000. Eva tours regularly all over the Meredith Paige Davis Lilian Armstrong ’03 Ph.D., the University beginning in January world with the Gewandhaus. Two “Fool’s Gold: American Trompe Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of 2006. years ago she founded a string quar- l’oeil Painting in the Gilded Age” Art at Wellesley College, teaches tet, which had its Leipzig debut Italian Renaissance Art and Medieval Kenneth Bendiner ’79 Ph.D. concert at the Gewandhaus in May Terence Francis Dewsnap, Jr. Manuscript Illumination. A recent is Professor of Art History at the 2005. “The Romanesque Cathedral of publication is “Venetian and University of Wisconsin — Saint Mary at Lincoln and the Florentine Renaissance Woodcuts Milwaukee. His most recent book Norman W. Canedy ’64 Ph.D. Image of Reform” for Bibles, Liturgical Books and (2004) is Food in Painting from the a Professor Emeritus of the Devotional Books” in Heavenly Craft: Renaissance to the Present (London: department of Art History at the Kai Konstanty Gutschow the Woodcut in Early Printed Books, Reaktion Books, and Chicago: University of Minnesota, is complet- “The Culture of Criticism: Adolf Washington DC, Library of University of Chicago Press). ing a book on the iconography of Behne and the Development of Congress, 2004, pp 25–45. Raphael’s Vatican Loggia. Modern Architecture in Dr. Annette Blaugrund ’87 Ph.D., Germany, 1910–1914” Kevin J. Avery ’95 Ph.D., Associate Director of the National Academy Maria Ann Conelli ’92 Ph.D. Curator Dept. of American Museum & School of Fine Arts has been appointed Director of Celeste Lovette Guichard Paintings and Sculpture at the writes that the National Academy the American Folk Art Museum. “Travels and Traversals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has had on view Surrealism USA Previously she was the Dean of the Hellenistic Oracular Temples at organized a traveling exhibition and which along with its scholarly cata- School of Graduate Studies and the Klaros and Didyma” wrote the catalogue for the Olana logue and symposium has received Acting Dean of the School of Art State Historic Site, Hudson, New rave reviews. and Design at the Fashion Institute Terri Weissman York: “Treasures from Olana: of Technology. She has taught in “Supersight: The Realisms of Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Babette Bohn ’82 Ph.D. Her both the United States and Europe, Berenice Abbott” Church.” The exhibition opened book, Ludovico Carracci and the Art curated exhibitions focusing on at the Fennimore House in of Drawing, was published by architecture, fashion and decorative Sebastian Leonhardt Zeidler Cooperstown, New York in June, Harvey Miller, 2004. She was one of arts, and lectured widely on 16th “Defense of the Real: Carl moves to the National Academy of the organizers and catalogue authors and 17th century art, architecture Einstein’s History and Theory Design, New York City in the fall of Elisabetta Sirani pittrice eroina and landscape design. of Art” and will then travel to other muse- 1638–1665 (Bologna: Museo Civico ums around the country through Archeologico), and is currently Betsy Currier ’87 B.A. is 2006. organizing an exhibition for the the Director of Academic Uffizi Gallery of drawings by Guido Administration at Teachers College George Baker ’01 Ph.D. started Reni and his school. where she administers the Art teaching in fall 2004 in the art Education, Music Education, and history department at UCLA. He Amanda Z. Bowker ’04 M.A. is Arts Administration programs. Her recently presented a lecture entitled working at Robert Mann Gallery, a photography has been exhibited in “Photography’s Expanded Field” at photography gallery in Chelsea. group shows, including the Cornell the Clark Art Institute conference Medical Library in the Borough of Manhattan President’s offices in the Municipal Building.

12 Jadwiga Irena Daniec ’65 M.A., Suzanne Frank ’70 Ph.D., an Photographers and Dali’s Dream of GSAPP. He received a Columbia an independent researcher, con- independent scholar of 20th Venus in Feliz Fanes, ed. Dali Mass AQF grant with Patricia Culligan tributed articles and art book century architecture and city Culture, a major Spanish exhibition (SEAS) for architectural design and reviews to The Polish Review a planning, is awaiting the response to mark Dali’s centennial. engineering collaboration on prob- scholarly quarterly published by the of publishers for a book on the lems related to urban density. He Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences Institute for Architecture and Lila Kanner ’04 M.A. was hired also received a grant with SEAS of America, Inc. in New York City Urban Studies, and is working as the Associate Director of The from the NSF for similar work and and authored The Message of Faith on a book review for the JSAH. Fabric Workshop and Museum in pedagogy. He lectured at UPenn for and Symbol in European Medieval Philadelphia where she will oversee Ove Arup’s Cecil Balmond (Paul Bronze Church Doors (Rutledge, Danielle Gaier ’04 B.A. is a the traveling exhibition program, Cret Chair) seminar on Geometry Danbury, CT, 1999). Gallery Assistant in Contemporary publications and the museum’s and Matter. Art at Linda Hyman Fine Arts. permanent collection. Heather Duggan ’04 M.A. is Kathleen Madden ’00 M.A., ’92 working in development at Creative Christopher B. Garvey ’72 B.A. Kristina Kaufman ’99 B.A. BC started a new job at Phaidon Time, New York City. although primarily a patent lawyer, completed her Master’s thesis in Press, London as the new Commi- he represented the Libertarian Party Arts Administration at Columbia ssioning Editor for Contemporary Lee MacCormick Edwards ’84 in a case which changed NY State (Teacher’s College) while working at Art and continues research for her Ph.D. has been teaching art history Election Law. The Jewish Museum as Program PhD at the University of Wales, at Sarah Lawrence College for the Funding Coordinator. In February, Newport with Michael Corris past five years. Her research on Anthony Gerbino ’02 Ph.D. she began a new job at Parsons focusing on Conceptual art history Fredrick Walker and the Idyllist received fellowships from the School of Design as Coordinator of and networks of association School of Victorian Painters is NEH and the CCA, and also had Public Programs, which means she’ll between the US and the UK, ongoing. a visiting appointment at Vassar be putting together large program- using the 1969 exhibition, “When College. He will be the new Scott ming initiatives (lectures, symposia, Attitudes Become Form” as a case Mary Edwards ’86 Ph.D. was Opler Senior Research Fellow conferences) that come through the study. She is also co-organizing a awarded the 2004 Warren W. in Renaissance and Baroque Dean’s office and the Exhibitions conference and graduate student Wooden Award from Villanova Architecture at Worcester College, department. symposium taking place in University. Her publications and Oxford in fall 2005. September 2005 at Tate Modern conference papers include Michael Klein ’71 Ph.D., related to the exhibition “Open “Duccio’s Entry into Jerusalem: Grace Cohen Grossman ’70 Associate Professor, Western Systems: rethinking art c. 1970.” A New Reading,” in Studies in M.A. is the Senior Curator of Kentucky University, 19th and Iconography, XXV, 2004, pp. Judaica and Americana at the 20th century art, has given papers Maxine Maisels (Ziva Amishai- 47–88, “The Infancy Cycle in the Skirball Cultural Center in Los on J.M.W. Turner, Arnold Maisels) ’62 M.A. received the Oratory of St. George at Padua Angeles. Her most recent book Friedmand and most recently on “Israel Prize for Art History” in 1379–84” delivered at the Jewish Museums of the World was Meyer Schapiro at conferences of 2004. This is only the third time Southeastern Medieval Association the finalist in 2004 National Jewish the Midwest Art History Society. this highest of national awards has in Charleston and “Bosch’s Garden Book Award in the Visual Arts been awarded in art history. They of Earthly Delights Reseeded,” at Category. Jonathan Kuhn ’83 M.A., cited specifically her contribution to the International Congress on Director of Art & Antiquities at Modern Jewish Art and to the study Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. Julia Hertz ’04 B.A. is working as the New York City Department of of the influence of the Holocaust on the Assistant for Administration in Parks & Recreation, received an art (cf. her book: “Depiction and Nancy Fee ’00 Ph.D. published the Department of Photographs at award from both the New York Interpretation: The Influence of the “Rey versus reino(s): Palafox y los The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Landmarks Conservancy and the Holocaust on the Visual Art,” escudos de la Catedral de Puebla,” Greenwich Village Society for Oxford: Pergamon, 1993). in La pluma y el báculo. Juan de Michael Jacobsen ’76 Ph.D. Historic Preservation for the comple- Palafox y el mundo hispánico del retired in 2004 and is now tion of the Washington Square James Marrow ’75 Ph.D., seiscientos, Mexico: Instituto de las publishing on vintage automobiles Arch restoration. The Parks Professor Emeritus of Art History Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades and racing. Department received the Gari at Princeton University, in 2004–5 de la Benemérita Universidad Melchers Memorial Medal from was Honorary Keeper of Autónoma de Puebla, (2004): Bill Joseph ’68 B.A. In 1975 start- the Artists Fellowship for a “person Illuminated Manuscripts at the 56–103. She is currently working ed a state-wide advocacy group for or organization that has materially Fitzwilliam Museum and received a on an annotated translation of Las the arts in Ohio that now accounts furthered the interest of the profes- doctorate Honoris Causa from the Virtudes del Indio (The Virtues of for $12 million for the Ohio Arts sion of the fine arts.” Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille the Indian) which will be published Council annually. In addition, his 3. He published Pictorial Invention by Rowman and Littlefield. private practice has enabled him to Elliot Lum ’98 B.A. is now at MIT in Netherlandish Manuscript establish a lobbying effort for the Sloan School of Management get- Illumination of the Late Middle Ages: Jerome Feldman ’77 Ph.D. was arts, public television and radio in ting his MBA and will be working The Play of Illusion and Meaning, the Slade Visiting Professor in art Ohio. for Colgate-Palmolive in the mar- (Leuven, Peeters) and contributed history at Kings College Cambridge keting department after graduation. to the catalogues of two major exhi- for the Michaelmas (fall) semester. Lewis Kachur ’88 Ph.D., an bitions of illuminated manuscripts, He lectured on the arts of the Associate Professor and Coordinator Peter Macapia ’03 Ph.D. is The Cambridge Illuminations at the Pacific and Southeast Asia. of the Art History Program at Kean Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum University, published the essay Architecture, Columbia University, closing December 2005 and

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Splendor of the Word: Medieval and web site “Art & Architecture of Kate Rudy ’01 Ph.D. will be a Alison Stewart ’86 Ph.D. is an Renaissance Manuscripts at New New Jersey,” in conjunction with a Kress faculty fellow at the Warburg Associate Professor specializing in York Public Library, October 21, class on the art of the Garden State Institute next year where she plans Northern Renaissance art at the 2005 through February 2006. (www.artofnewjersey.net). to write a book about devotion and University of Nebraska, Lincoln. the supernatural, and give a gradu- She recently co-edited Saints, Megan McCarthy ’04 B.A. served Irene Papanestor ’99 M.A. ate seminar on devotional culture of Sinners, Sisters: Gender and as Masters Programs Coordinator Irene joined Pace/MacGill Gallery the late middle ages. Then she’ll be Northern Art in Medieval and in the Art History Department at (New York City) as an art dealer in Visiting Professor for a few weeks at Early Modern. Columbia through June 2005. She spring 2004. the University of Auckland. In 2006 and fellow alumnus David Pullins she will join the faculty at Portland Nancy Stula ’97 Ph.D. has been (’05 B.A.) will begin their graduate Bethany Pappalardo. ’04 M.A., State University. appointed Deputy Director and study at the Courtauld Institute of ’02, B.A, is working in development Curator at the Lyman Allyn Art in London this fall. at Creative Time, New York City. Mary B. Shepard ’90 Ph.D. was Art Museum in New London, elected to a three-year term as Connecticut. She was previously Otto Naumann ’73 M.A. is an art Sarah Whitaker Peters ’66 M.A. President of The International on the Art History Faculty at the dealer specializing in Dutch and is curating Georgia O’Keeffe: Color Center of Medieval Art. University of Hartford. Flemish paintings in NYC for the and Conservation for the Mississippi past 23 years. His son Tristan will Museum of Art scheduled to open Jeffrey Chipps Smith ’79 Ph.D. is Mary Vaccaro ’94 Ph.D. was enter Columbia as an undergradu- in spring 2006. Kay Fortson Chair in European Art elected to the scientific committee ate in fall 2005 in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, of the Fondazione Il Correggio in and chemical engineering. Barbara A. Porter ’01 Ph.D. was and continues as Articles Editor Correggio, Italy and she was a guest named Director of the American of Renaissance Quarterly. He serves lecturer at the University of Virginia Kathleen Nolan ’85 Ph.D., a Center of Oriental Research on the board of directors of the Art Museum in conjunction with a Professor of Art History at Hollins in Amman, Jordan, a private, Renaissance Society of America drawings exhibit from the Musée University specializing in Medieval non-profit academic institution and the Sixteenth Century Society des Beaux-Arts de Besançon. Art and General Studies was pro- dedicated to promoting research and Conference. His publications moted to full Professor in 2004. and publication in the fields of include The Northern Renaissance Marie-Hélène Weill ’42 B.A. is a She edited Capetian Women (2003) archaeology, anthropology, history, (Phaidon Press, 2004) and a histori- lecturer in the Asian department of published by Palgrave MacMillan languages, biblical studies, Arabic, ographic introduction to Erwin the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its New Middle Ages series. Islamic studies and other aspects of Panofsky’s The Life and Art of in Indian South East Asian and Near Eastern studies. Her appoint- Albrecht Durer (1943), which Chinese art and painting. Louise V. North ’64 M.A. co- ment begins in early spring 2006. Princeton University Press is authored with Landa M. Freeman re-issuing in September 2005 to Barbara Ehrlich White ‘65 Ph.D. (Mt. Holyoke) and Janet M. Wedge Steve Pulimood ’03 B.A. accepted celebrate the Press’s centenary. is writing a book about Renoir and (Barnard and Teacher’s College) a summer research assistantship his family. The Selected Letters of John Jay and with Lady Jane Roberts and David Sokolow ’70 B.A., ’71 Sarah Livingston Jay (published by Martin Clayton at the Royal M.A. has been appointed the first Susan Wood ’79 Ph.D. was mar- McFarland. January 2005) Library housed at Windsor Castle Director of Student Life at The ried last May 29, to Barney Bauer in preparation for an exhibition of University of Texas School of Law. of Rochester, MI. She is continuing Lucy Oakley ’95 Ph.D. was Italian Drawings selected from the to chair the Department of Art and appointed “caa.reviews” Field Editor Royal Collection (2007). He is a Romaine Somerville ’53 M.A. Art History at Oakland University for Nineteenth-Century European doctoral candidate in the History retired after fifty years in the and continues to work on volume Art and Museum News Forum of Art at Oxford University under museum and historic preservation 2 of her Imperial Women project. editor for “Nineteenth-Century Art Professor Martin Kemp’s supervi- fields. She has served as Curator of Worldwide,” the online scholarly sion. Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Melpomene Fotine Yale, ’98 journal of the Association of Museum of Art; Executive Director M.A., ’85 BC was awarded the Historians of Nineteenth-Century Judith Rodenbeck ’03 Ph.D. of the Baltimore City Commission Municipal honor of Moudros Art. Her essay “The Line, the has been awarded tenure at Sarah for Historical and Architectural Lemnos Greece (2004, 2005). Stitch, and the Wardrobe: Lawrence College. Preservation; Director of the She is currently doing independent Conjuring the Past in American Maryland Historical Society and research towards a PhD on the Mural Painting and Film at the Jane Mayo Roos ’81 Ph.D. Director of a Baltimore City historic emergence of human cognition Turn of the Twentieth Century” published “‘Faire vrai laisser dire’: waterfront preservation society. in the Palaeolithic Period of was published in the exhibition Nationalism, Community, and In retirement Mrs. Somerville is Greece and the Aegean based on catalogue of Moving Pictures: the Late Paintings of Manet,” President of the Baltimore City Palaeontological-Palaeoanthropological American Art and Early Film Hargrove and Neil McWilliam eds. Historical Society and a member of data, stone tools and art, and 1890–1910 which opened at the Nationalism and French Visual the (Baltimore) Mayor’s Task Force their influence throughout the Williams College Museum of Art Culture, 1870–1914. Washington: on Historic Preservation in addition Palaeo-anthropogeographic region in July 2005. CASVA, National Gallery of Art; to serving on the boards of Baltimore of Europe and the world. and New Haven: Yale University Heritage Inc, Friends of the Kate Nearpass Ogden ’92 Ph.D. Press, 2005: 129–51. Her publica- American Wing at the Baltimore Thomas Yanni ’86 B.A. opened a is Associate Professor of Art History tions in process include Rodin, Museum of Art, Friends of the contemporary art gallery in Palm at The Richard Stockton College of Phaidon Press, forthcoming 2005. H. L. Mencken House and Corpus Springs, CA in October 2004. New Jersey where she is creating a Christi Historical Trust.

14 With Thanks

The strength and renown of Columbia’s Department of Art History and Archaeology derive not only 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, symposia, and an array of programs and projects that enhance our core offerings. We are deeply grateful to the following individuals, foundations, corporations, as well as those who have wished to remain anonymous, who have given most generously in fiscal year 2004-2005:

Philip E. Aarons • Charles M. Adelman • Victoria Al-Din • A.G. Leventis Foundation • Lewis B. Andrews • Eloise Angiola • Raquel Aragon • Rosemary Argent • Lilian Armstrong • Kevin Avery • John Bancroft • James H. Beck c/o Artwatch International Incorporated • Barry Bergdoll • Celia J. Bergoffen • Judith E. Bernstock • Annette Blaugrund • Phyllis Braff • Joan Brauchle-Cruz • Susan Braunstein • Nancy Houghton Brown • Barbara C. Buenger • Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burke • Jessica Burns • Lucy R. Cadogan • Norman W. Canedy • Lynn Catterson- Columbia Art Silver • William A. P. Childs • David C. Christman • Petra Chu • Claire G. Cohen • James Cohen • Christine History and Collins • Maria Ann Conelli • Joseph Connors • Mary M. Cope • Jadwiga Daniec • Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dasaro Archaeology • Sally S. Dunham • Mr. and Mrs. Gianna and Jeffrey Durso-Finley • Sheila Edmunds • Lee MacCormick Advisory Council Edwards • Mary D. Edwards • Estate of Judith Stronach • Barbara Fields • Lisa Florman • Sharon Flescher • Helene P. Foley • Ilene Forsyth • William G. Foulks • Nicholas Fox-Weber c/o Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Philip E. Aarons, Chairman • Suzanne S. Frank • Bryna M. Freyer • Pamela Gaber • Joseph Gaier • Terence Garvey • Lawrence Geraty • Allan Armand Bartos Jr. S. Gilbert • Grace Gliedman • Amy Golahny • Susan T. Goodman • Annette Grob • Grace Cohen Grossman • Frances Beatty Piri Halasz • Barbara R. Hamilton • Evelyn B. Harrison • Dimitri Hazzikostas • Morrison Heckscher • Theresa Annette Blaugrund L. Hersh • Frederick D. Hill • Jeffrey Hoffeld c/o Jeffrey Hoffeld & Company Inc. • Mr. and Mrs. David J. Catherine Woodard and Horowitz • IBM International Foundation • Michael Jacobsen • Joukowsky Family Foundation • Lewis C. Kachur Nelson Blitz Jr. Jean Magnano Bollinger • Janet A. Kaplan • Karl Katz • Priscilla F. Keswani • Caroline A. King • Michael Klein • Beatrice Kornblatt • Alice Fiona Donovan Kramer c/o The Arthur & Alice Kramer Foundation • Samuel H. Kress Foundation • Lara Krieger • Jane Kristof Lee MacCormick Edwards • Jonathan L. Kuhn • Jack H. Kunin • Eric Lapp • Chauncey D. Leak, Jr. • Lindsay A. Leard c/o Lindsay L. and Linda S. Ferber Charles A. Coolidge III Charitable Trust of the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund • Jeffrey Lee • Leo & Kate Ganz Karen Gutmann Foundation • Carol F. Lewine • Christine Lilyquist • Carla Lord • Carol A. Lorenz • Mary Lubin Marian Goodman c/o Mary Lublin Fine Arts, Inc. • Bonnie Magness-Gardiner • Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan R. Malkin • Nina A. Michael and Georgia de Havenon Mallory • Clemente Marconi • John C. Markowitz • James H. Marrow c/o The Rose Marrow Fund • Ruth C. Frederick David Hill Maynard • Helen Meltzer-Krim • Pauline C. Metcalf c/o The Felicia Fund, Inc. • Julia Miller • Denise M. Murrell Jeffrey M. Hoffeld • Otto Naumann, Ltd. • David Netto • Amy D. Newman • Michael E. Newmark • Murray & Grace Nissman Steve Kossak Foundation • Kathleen D. Nolan • Mr. and Mrs. Mario G. Norbis • Mr. and Mrs. James North • Lucy Oakley • Carol F. Lewine Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation • Martha S. Page • Samuel M. Paley • Melinda Parry • Pamela Glenn D. Lowry Parry • Francesco Passanti • Andrea Herbst Paul • Sarah Peters • Jeanette F. Peterson • Doralynn S. Pines • Holly Mary A. Lublin Philippa Feigen Malkin Pittman • Jerome Pollitt • Barbara A. Porter • Elisabeth Porter • Eloise Quiñones-Keber • Donald Reynolds • Philippe de Montebello Louise Rice • David Rosand • Donald A. Rosenthal • Terry H. Robinson • Anna Roosevelt • Jonathan P. Rosen Amy. D. Newman c/o Joseph Rosen Foundation • Alexander Ross • Karen Rubinson • Charles C. Savage • Marie L. Schmitz • John Amy Greenberg Poster F. Scott • Bernard Selz c/o Selz Foundation, Inc. • Rebecca Sender • Helen M. Shannon • Carol R. Shapiro • Lydie Terez Rowley T. Shufro • Robert B. Simon • Shelley E. Smith • Doreen Spitzer • Allen Staley • Sharon R. Steadman • Alison Steven and Lauren Schwartz Stewart • Howard M. Stoner • Virginia B. Suttman • Helena Wylde Swiny • Thomas F. Tartaron • Silvia Bernard T. and Lisa Selz Robert B. Simon Tennenbaum • Jonathan Ullmann • Mary J. Wallach c/o Mary and James Wallach Foundation • The Walsh Leopold and Jane Swergold Charitable Fund of the Ayco Charitable Foundation • Mark S. Weil c/o University Lane Foundation • Marie- Dale C. Turza Hélène Weill • Barbara E. White • F. Bryan Wilkins • Ann L. Willard • Elizabeth Williams • Gertrude Wilmers • Miriam Wallach Irene Winter • Susan Wood • Mark J. Zucker Mark S. Weil Marie-Hélène Weill Adam Weinberg H. Barbara Weinberg We regret any errors in or omissions from this list. Contributions from the above individuals help fund the following initiatives: Gertrude Wilmers Wallach Art Gallery exhibitions, Judith Lee Stronach and Bettman Hall renovations, Media Center for Art History, Archaeology and Historic Preservation projects and resources, the Phlamoudi Archaeology Project in Cyprus, and funding for student projects and fellowships.

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September 26th October 24th December 9th March 27th The Bettman Lectures The Bettman Lectures Symposium The Bettman Lectures What was Contemporary Art? From Theory to Attribution: Departmental Graduate To be announced Richard Meyer How “Crusader Art” and Student Symposium Irene Winter Associate Professor of Art History, Byzantium Can Change William Dorr Boardman University of Southern California Your Art History February 27th Professor of Fine Arts, Robin Cormack The Bettman Lectures Harvard University September 27th Professor, Courtauld Staging Antifascism: The Brown Exhibition Opening Institute of Art Book of the Hitler-Terror and April 24th “Please Teach Me”—Rainer the Reichstag Fire Conspiracy The Bettman Lectures Ganahl: Photographs, Videos November 28th Anson Rabinbach Ordering the World as Image — and Other Documents, The Bettman Lectures Professor of History, Director Narration and Communication in Wallach Art Gallery Finding Spaces: Strategies of of European Cultural Studies Art from the Mughal Courts 5:00–7:00 P.M. the Commentator in Chinese Art Princeton University Monica Juneja Lothar Ledderose Professor, Department of History, Professor and Chair, South Asia Institute History of East Asian art, University of Heidelberg Heidelberg University

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