NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Department of Art History

Dear Friends and Colleagues: NEWSLETTER It is my pleasure to highlight some pilot new initiatives including a of the recent accomplishments in the publication fund for faculty and Department of Art History and invite recent Ph.D. alumni, a dissertation 2013-14 you to enjoy a fuller summation in completion fellowship, and an the pages that follow. Our faculty undergraduate travel seminar. If you CONTENTS published articles and essays in an are interested in supporting any of array of venues. Special congratulations these initiatives or have ideas about are owed to Huey Copeland and others, please see the guidelines 2 Hannah Feldman, who published their about giving on the last page of this FACULTY NEWS first books, and to Stephen Eisenman, newsletter. who published his sixth and seventh. Among many faculty honors, one in The department received another 7 particular stands out: Ann Gunter substantial gift from the Andrew W. NEW FACULTY was named Bertha and Max Dressler Mellon Foundation to launch the Professor in the Humanities. Objects Study Initiative, a project envisioned in concert with 9 Graduate students garnered many fine the Art Institute of Chicago and the SUMMER SEMINAR awards for research, which they will University of Chicago. This project ABROAD conduct away from campus next year. will benefit graduate students Funding sources include the Kress and the department as a whole in Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, innovative ways as you can read 10 and the Henry Luce Foundation/ about on page 8. GRADUATE ACLS. Among our outstanding STUDENT NEWS undergraduate majors, six received In 2014-15, we will welcome Jun honors from the Weinberg College Hu as assistant professor in Asian of Arts and Sciences for their senior art history and Bilha Moor as a 14 theses. As a wonderful example postdoctoral fellow in Islamic art UNDERGRADUATE of the magic that can happen at and architecture. This past year, STUDENT NEWS Northwestern, two doctoral students— we welcomed two new affiliate Jill Bugajski and John Murphy—and faculty members: Kathleen Elliot Reichert, an undergraduate Bickford Berzock, Associate 15 alumnus, curated exhibitions at the Director for Curatorial Affairs at NORTHWESTERN Block Museum of Art. For these the Block Museum of Art, and ART REVIEW projects, they worked under the Lane Relyea, Associate Professor inspired mentorship of Lisa Corrin, in the Department of Art Theory & director of the Block and affiliate Practice. 16 faculty member in Art History. LECTURES & Please send news of your activities, EVENTS On behalf of the department, I want to and visit our website for up-to-date express sincere gratitude to Elizabeth departmental information. and Todd Warnock whose continued support for our programming was 16 augmented by a gift of $500,000 this Jesús Escobar ALUMNI NEWS spring. We will use these funds to Chair FACULTY NEWS

Hollis Clayson spent an invigorat- book with the University of Chicago ing academic year in Washington Press, Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, D.C. as the Samuel H. Kress Pro- and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural fessor in the Center for Advanced America, which has already garnered Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) positive press from the likes of Artforum at the National Gallery of Art. Her and Choice. With an eye toward future membership in the CASVA com- projects examining black expressive munity pushed her scholarship in the Lusophone world, into new territory and nudged her Copeland began studying Portuguese onto new social terrain. Mentoring and planning an exploratory trip to Professor Clayson lectured at the CASVA predoctoral fellows in Brazil. Over the course of the academic Vanderbuilt University. Pictured residence, an aspect of the Kress Profes- year, he also completed shorter pieces with Kevin Murphy (Ph.D. 1992). sorship portfolio, was also a pleasure. on Gardar Eide Einarsson, Theaster At the same time, it was a busy year for Gates, Adler Guerrier, African American travel away from D.C. She keynoted art in the 1990s, and transnational the Nineteenth-Century French Studies African diasporic collaborative practice; Conference in Richmond VA, presented this last essay appeared in “Black work at NU-Q in Doha, keynoted the Collectivities,” a special issue of Nka: Boston University Graduate Student Journal of Contemporary African Art, Conference, “See the Light,” lectured in co-edited with Naomi Beckwith, the the Art History Department at Vander- Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at bilt University, delivered the Wayne the Museum of Contemporary Art Craven Lecture at the University of Chicago. Copeland shared his work at Delaware, and presented a paper in the venues across the country, including “Impressionism and Politics” confer- the Hammer Museum; the Institute ence in Giverny, . At the National of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Gallery, she lectured three times: “Epi- ; the Renaissance Professor Copeland co-edited sodes from the Visual of the Society at the University of Chicago; “Black Collectivities,” a special issue of Nka: Journal of Contemporary City of Light,” “Marville’s Streetlamps,” and his alma mater, the University African Art. and “Mary Cassatt’s Radical Monstrosi- of California, Berkeley, where he ties.” She has four essays due during presented his work on jazz icon Sun the fall of 2014. Her advisee, Liza Oli- Ra and celebrated the release of Bound ver, defended her dissertation and will to Appear. Next fall, he looks forward be a 2014-15 Postdoctoral Fellow at the to returning to teaching full-time. His Metropolitan Museum of Art. new courses include the department’s Introduction to Contemporary Art During his 2013-14 sabbatical, survey, as well as the Summer Seminar sponsored by a fellowship from the Abroad, which he will co-teach in Cape American Council of Learned Societies, Town, South Africa with his colleague Huey Copeland made significant and frequent collaborator, Krista strides toward the completion of his Thompson. new manuscript, currently entitled In the Arms of the Negress: Race, Gender, In 2014, Stephen Eisenman published and the Undoing of Modern Art, while his new book, The Ghost of our Meat Professor Eisenman published his he continued to refine a companion (The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College/ new book, The Ghost of Our Meat (D.A.P, 2014) volume focused on figurations of black D.A.P). He has lectured on the topics masculinity in contemporary American of animal art and animal liberation aesthetic practice. In November, he at The University of Chicago, Oxford welcomed the publication of his first University, and Sheffield University.

2 In November, Eisenman spoke at the tentatively entitled Petite Planète: Siting Chicago Humanities Festival on the Revolution in the Postcolony and Beyond. subject of another recent book, The Cry Research from this and other projects of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal was also presented at the University Rights (University of Chicago Press, of Chicago and at the University of 2013). He also served as Chair of the Rochester. This spring-summer, she Faculty Senate. was awarded a fellowship as a Scholar in Residence at the Canadian Centre In 2013-14, Jesús Escobar began a for Architecture in Montreal, and was second term as Department Chair. He further honored by an invitation to taught the undergraduate Introduction serve on the Comité scientifique of an to European Art survey with a terrific international research project that aims team of five graduate student teaching to consider the contemporary artistic assistants and a graduate seminar exchange between France, , and on art and architecture at the court the Maghreb. The project, spearheaded of Philip IV in Madrid, in addition by Dominique Jarrassé out of the Professor Escobar’s article, “Map as to advising Kate Wollman’s senior Louvre, will lead to a yearlong series of Tapestry: Science and Art in Pedro thesis on the Park Güell in Barcelona. seminars and invitational conferences Teixeira’s 1656 Representation of Madrid” appeared in The Art Beyond campus, Escobar delivered to be held in , Rome, and Tunis. Bulletin, March 2014. papers at Harvard University, Penn Feldman was also invited to present her State University, and the annual work and lead a seminar at the Institut meeting of the Association for national d’histoire d’art in Paris. She Spanish and Portuguese Historical was extremely proud to see several Studies in Modena, Italy. This year, he students she met in her first years at published two articles for the Lexikon Northwestern defend their dissertations of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of this spring, and wishes to congratulate a Transatlantic Cultural Transfer, edited Angelina Lucento, David Calder (of by Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills Theatre), and Jill Bugajski. (University of Texas Press, 2013), and the article “Map as Tapestry: Science Ann Gunter completed her third and and Art in Pedro Teixeira’s 1656 final year as Chair of Classics and Representation of Madrid” in The continued to teach in Art History, Art Bulletin. Escobar will be on leave Classics, and Humanities. She taught next year and intends to complete the two new courses in Art History: an writing for his book project, Baroque undergraduate course titled “Art and Madrid: Architecture, Space, and the in the ” and a Spanish Habsburgs. graduate seminar on “The Reception of Antiquity.” In November, she served as Hannah Feldman enjoyed a busy but respondent for the Melammu Project’s productive year that included serving Seventh Symposium, held in Ober- as Director of Undergraduate Studies gurgl, , which was devoted to in the department as well as a WCAS the theme “ in the Ancient first year advisor. Feldman was also World: Impact, Continuity, Parallels.” elected to a Faculty Affiliate fellowship She contributed an essay to an exhibi- at the Humanities Institute for the tion catalogue for a major show that second time. In February, her book, will open at the Metropolitan Museum From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and of Art in Fall 2014, titled “From Hannah Feldman, From a Nation Representation in France, 1945-1962, was to Iberia: Crossing Continents at the Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962 released by Duke University Press in Dawn of the Classical Age.” She also (Duke University Press, 2014). time for the CAA Annual Conference wrote a chapter for the forthcoming A in Chicago. At the conference, she Companion to the Etruscans (Blackwell). presented work from a new book This summer she will complete the

3 work of editing twenty-seven contribu- Christina Lodder, renowned art histo- tions to A Companion to the Art of the rian of Russian Constructivism. In June, Ancient Near East, which will she traveled to Riga to lecture on “The be published by Blackwell. New Woman of Socialist Realism” at the kim? Contemporary Art Centre, which Christina Kiaer taught an was commemorating the 125th anniver- undergraduate Museums sary of Soviet sculptor Vera Mukhina; Seminar in Fall 2013 on she also participated in a symposium “Radical Art in the 1930s” with contemporary artists whose com- in collaboration with the missioned project, Little Vera, confront- Block Museum, as it pre- ed Mukhina’s legacy. Kiaer wishes to pared for its Left Front: congratulate her advisees Jill Bugajski Radical Art in the “Red and Angelina Lucento, who successfully Professor Gunter (left-center) at her Decade,” 1929-1940 exhibi- defended their dissertations during the investiture as the Bertha and Max tion that opened in January 2014. Her spring quarter. Dressler Professor of Humanities. seminar students curated their own related show, WORK PRINT PROTEST Rob Linrothe spent Summer 2013 in REPEAT, in the Block’s Katz Gallery, Kashmir and the Indian Himalayas, which juxtaposed prints by Depression- including trekking for 49 days with era activist artists with works by more a horseman and three horses to carry contemporary political artists, all from their gear. He was fortunate to locate the Block collection. The seminar staged and document a cache of 18th-century a big public event, “Collective Voices,” scroll paintings by an artist famous for at the museum, where they presented his murals. In Kashmir , he worked their research papers or gallery talks. on the Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art Kiaer also participated in another Left of Kashmir and Its Legacies exhibition, Front event, presenting on the “Soviet which will open at the Block Museum Artists’ Union of the 1930s” at the Block in January 2015 and then travel to Museum’s Artists’ Congress in May. She the Rubin Museum of Art in New was also elected to a three-year term York. In October, he was invited to on the WCAS Tenure Committee. Her present the 16th Annual Nelson Wu essay “Lyrical Socialist Realism,” based Memorial Lecture at the Saint Louis Art on her book project on Soviet Socialist Museum. In December, Linrothe went Realism, was published in to Ghent, Belgium, to deliver a paper October 2014, and this year at the Centre for Buddhist Studies she gave talks at UVA and Conference, entitled “Noise Along Stanford from a new project the Network: A Set of Chinese Ming she is beginning on im- Embroidered Thangkas in the Indian ages of African-Americans Himalaya,” based on some discoveries in Soviet visual culture. In he made during his summer trekking January, she gave a talk at expeditions. He organized and chaired a the symposium “Aftermath double panel at the Himalayan Studies and Afterlife of the Rus- Conference on photography, entitled sian Avant-Garde,” held in “Beyond Documentation: Photography Professor Kiaer (right-center) conjunction with the exhibi- in the Field,” held at Yale University with artist Ella Kruglyanskaya tion, Kazimir Malevich and the Russian in March, where he also delivered his (left), art historian Alise Tīfentāle (left-center), and artist Sanya Avant-garde, at the Stedelijk Museum own paper, “Drawing the Line: Painted Kantarovsky (right) at the kim? in Amsterdam. In May, she lectured Photographs in Ladakh and Zangskar.” Contemporary Art Centre. at the Manege Museum in Moscow in In April, the Department and the WCAS the program “Projections of the Avant- Dean’s Office generously supported a Garde,” as part of a double bill with symposium at Northwestern on “The

4 Date of the Alchi Sumtsek Murals: Claudia Swan was on research 11th or 13th Century?” including leave in 2013-14, and spent participants from Austria, Great the academic year in Berlin Britain, Italy, Switzerland and the U.S., where she was a Senior Fellow which he organized with the help of at the Max Planck Institute Luke Fidler and Anthony Opal. The for the History of Science. following week, he gave the 8th Annual While there, she continued Distinguished Lecture on South and work on the digitization and Southeast Asian Art at the Los Angeles study of a cache of 17th- County Museum of Art. After his century notebooks compiled lecture, “The Three-Story ‘Heap of by Ernst Brinck, and gave Jewels’: A Buddhist Shrine at Alchi in two colloquia on the contents the Western Himalayas,” he was able to of his notebooks. She also examine in storage the nine objects— completed a book manuscript, In Summer 2013, Professor Linrothe traveled to the Indian Himalayas, paintings, sculptures and manuscript the working title of which is “Rarities of where he took this photograph illuminations—he is borrowing from these Lands”: Encounters with the Exotic of a villager in Shadé, Zangeskar, LACMA for the Collecting Paradise and the Formation of the Dutch Republic. holding a metal sculpture (c. 16th- century) from his home shrine. exhibition. An undergraduate course A related essay, “Lost in Translation: in the fall and a graduate seminar in Exoticism in Early Modern Holland” the winter were geared toward the was published in September, in exhibition, and in Spring 2014, Linrothe Sehnsucht Persien, the catalogue of an taught a new undergraduate seminar exhibition at the Museum Rietberg in on early photography in India and the Zürich on early modern and modern Himalayas. European-Persian/Iranian artistic encounters. “Exotica on the Move: Christina Normore taught both Birds of Paradise in Early Modern the undergraduate and graduate Holland” will appear in a special methods seminars this year, as well issue of Art History on “Early Modern as an undergraduate course in Gothic Objects on the Move,” co-edited by art and a graduate seminar on late Daniela Bleichmar and Meredith medieval patronage. She contributed Martin. Another essay, “Counterfeit an entry on medieval dining imagery Chimeras: Early Modern Theories of to The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its the Imagination and the Work of Art” Reception (de Gruyter) and gave lectures will appear in a forthcoming volume on her recent research at the Ohio on “Vision and Its Instruments,” edited State University, Pembroke College, by Alina Payne (Penn State Press). Cambridge, the University of Notre Swan is also co-editing a volume on Dame and Northwestern’s medieval “Image, Imagination, Cognition in Early colloquium. Her first book,A Feast for Modern Europe” that will be published the Eyes: Art, Performance and the Late by Brill; completing an essay on early Medieval Banquet, will be published modern diplomatic gifts of exotica; and by the University of Chicago Press in writing about Dürer’s satyrs and early early 2015. In February 2014, Normore modern reliquaries. She serves on two fell victim to the winter with a broken editorial boards – Values of Culture, a Professor Normore presented ankle; subsequently, she enjoyed new series published by the University “Between the Dishes and What experimenting with the teaching of Amsterdam Press; and Nijmegen Courtiers Found There” at the “Feast and Famine in the Middle potential of Skype. She is grateful for Studies in Humanities. During the Ages and Renaissance” conference the patience and aid offered her by course of the year in Berlin, she gave at Ohio State University. colleagues, office staff and students lectures in Berlin, London, Hamburg, alike during her healing process. and at Brown University – and co- organized a reading group on Global

5 History. In addition, she began to Thompson presented nine scholarly prepare a Kaplan Humanities Scholars papers (including an opening plenary Program course on “Measurement and address at the Smithsonian American the Humanities,” which she will co- Art Museum), published three articles, teach in Fall 2014. and organized the symposium, “Photography and the Archive in the Over the last year, Krista Thompson African Diaspora.” finished the book manuscript,Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African David Van Zanten’s year started Diasporic Photographic Practice (now with the Block Museum exhibition, in press at Duke University Press). Drawing the Future, which displayed She received the Andy Warhol drawings for and projects reacting Foundation’s prestigious Creative to Chicago’s great (and forgotten) Capital Arts Writers Grant to support contribution to modern architecture, the book’s production. This fall, the design of the capital of Australia, Thompson was a fellow at the Alice Canberra. Van Zanten gave a number Professor Swan wrote the essay, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities of lectures locally, most devolving “Lost in Translation: Exoticism in Early Modern Holland,” for the ex- and she started researching and from the Canberra project. He traveled hibition catalog, Sehnsucht Persien. writing two new books: The Evidence to Europe in October to deliver of Things Not Photographed, a book that the keynote for a symposium on examines notions of photographic “World Architecture at the Height absence and disappearance in of Colonialism, c. 1900,” a moveable colonial and postcolonial Jamaica, feast meeting in both Paris and and Black Light, a manuscript about London using the convenience of the electronic light and its archival “Chunnel.” New projects will be taking recovery in African American art. him back to Europe for a symposium photography the archive Further, Thompson (along with co- in Paris on the “Grand Paris Plans, c. in the & AFRICAN DIASPORA curator, Claire Tancons) received 1919” and another in Darmstadt on a curatorial grant from the Warhol the design strategies of Louis Kahn. Foundation to support the exhibition, The emphasis of these projects on En Mas’: Carnival and Performance enthusiasm for design in the years Art of the Caribbean. The exhibition, 1890-1914 has put Van Zanten’s own which opens at the Contemporary research into an interesting perspective Arts Center in New Orleans in by making it clear that using Paris as March 2015, broadens conventional a model for urbanist transformation understandings of performance art and is largely a turn-of-the-century may 22nd 2014 BLOCK MUSEUM, 40 Arts Circle Drive, examines the importance of carnival construction and myth. EVANSTON, IL,60208 1:00pm-8:00pm and public forms of protest across eight postcolonial Caribbean societies Professor Thompson organized the and in the metropolitan cities with symposium, “Photography and the Archive in the African Diaspora.” vibrant carnival cultures like Brooklyn, Nottinghill, and New Orleans.

CONGRATULATIONS The department congratulates Hollis Clayson, named a “Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques” (Knight in the Order of Academic Palms) by the French Ministry of Education for her contribution to French culture.

6 NEW FACULTY Jun Hu (Ph.D. expected September cosmographies. It shows that 2014, Princeton University) will teach these manuscripts served as courses in East Asian art history. encyclopedias of the natural His current research interest is the and the supernatural worlds, religious art and architecture of but also as manuals of popular East Asia, particularly of the early medicine and divination towards medieval period. His dissertation, the end of the first Muslim titled “Embracing the Circle: Domical millennium. She is currently Architecture in East Asia (c. 200-750 revising the dissertation for CE),” is the first in-depth study of the publication in book form, and subject in any language. Through three continuing her research on the discrete and yet related case studies, illustrated manuscripts of ‘Aja which range from Buddhist cave ‘ib al-Makhluqat (Wonders of temples in Dunhuang, northwest China Creation), ca. 1550-1700. to timber buildings in Nara, Japan, he Jun Hu brings into sharp focus the changing Upon completing her dissertation, Assistant Professor expressions of religious impulse as Moor studied early Islamic Arabic reflected in the construction of domical epigraphy in the Negev Desert spaces in China and Japan. (southern Israel), and has published the undated Arabic Prior to his studies at Princeton, Hu inscriptions found at the mosque received an M.A. in Sinology from and the north church of the the School of Oriental and African town Shivta in Jerusalem Studies Studies, University of London, where in Arabic and (2013). This he developed an interest in print study sheds light on the period culture. His next project, tentatively of transition between Byzantine titled “Impressions of Modernity and and Islamic rule, and argues that the Rhetoric of Style,” explores the the inscriptions at the mosque role of mechanical replication in the comprise a uniquely large and development of painting practice and early corpus of Qur’anic verses, theory in 17th-century China and Japan. second only to the Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (72 Bilha Moor (Ph.D. 2011, The Hebrew AH/691-2 CE). Formerly, Moor Bilha Moor University of Jerusalem) will be the was a Rothschild postdoctoral fellow Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London, and a of Islamic Art and Architecture, with research associate with the Shahnama a concentration on Islamic illustrated Project at the University of Cambridge. manuscripts and Arabic epigraphy. Her She taught courses on the art and dissertation, titled “Popular Medicine, architecture of the Islamic lands, and Divination, and Sacred Geography: on Arabic at the University of Sixteenth-Century Illustrations to Haifa, and at the Hebrew University of Tusi’s ‘Aja ‘ib al-Makhluqat,” examines Jerusalem. provincial Ottoman and Persian

NEW LOCATION The Department of Art History has moved to a new address while Kresge Centennial Hall is being renovated. We will be located in downtown Evanston through 2016, at 1800 Sherman Avenue, Suite 4400, Evanston, IL 60201.

7 CHICAGO OBJECTS STUDY INITIATIVE This spring, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded nearly $1.3 million to Northwestern, the University of Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago to support innovative object-based studies in art history beginning in 2014-15. The four-year, inter-institutional pilot program known as the Chicago Objects Study Initiative (COSI) was created to address a disciplinary and professional need for broadening instruction, with an emphasis on curatorial practice, objects-based research, and technical art history, including conservation and conservation science approaches to objects and materials. COSI will impact the Department of Art History in a number of ways. Most significantly, it includes a new required course for first-year graduate students to be team-taught by faculty from both art history departments at the Art Institute, thereby drawing on the expertise of Northwestern and University of the museum’s professional staff and providing increased access to Chicago students gather in the conservation examination room objects drawn from the museum’s permanent holdings. Additionally, the initiative at the Art Institute as part of the formalizes a pre-existing internship arrangement with the creation of a year-long Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chicago Objects Study Initiative Mellon Curatorial Internship to be held by a graduate student in the second, third, (photo courtesy of the Art Institute or fourth year of study, and it creates a year-long Mellon Curatorial Research of Chicago) . Fellowship for a graduate student in the completion stages of dissertation writing. The Research Fellow will be in residence at the Art Institute and, along with fellows from the University of Chicago, research objects in the museum’s collection. COSI also includes scholarly programming that aims to encourage dialogue and collegiality among graduate students, faculty, and curators from the three institutions and the greater Chicago region. DEPARTMENT STAFF Luke Fidler thanks the students, faculty, and staff for an enjoyable two years at Northwestern. The past year he gave talks at Northwestern, the CAA Annual Conference, and the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Fidler continued to publish critical writing, with pieces appearing in The Atlantic, TriQuarterly, and The Volta; he also had an article accepted for publication in postmedieval. He looks forward to beginning his Ph.D. in art history at the University of Chicago in the fall.

Anthony Opal thanks the faculty and staff—especially Jesús Escobar and Luke Fidler— for another enjoyable and fulfilling year. Highlights include Opal’s Anthony Opal (left) with Luke first full-length collection of poems being accepted for publication by Punctum Fidler (right). Books, as well as individual pieces being published in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Five Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. Completing his M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) here at , Anthony’s thesis manuscript, “OTHERS,” won the program’s Distinguished Thesis Award. Most notable, however, is the birth of his lovely daughter, Eleanor.

During the past year, Opal and Fidler launched the experimental journal TAG (tagjournal.com). In June, the department welcomed a new Program Assistant, Mel Keiser. Keiser is a visual artist; her work can be seen at melkeiser.com.

8 2013 SUMMER SEMINAR ABROAD: PARIS

Professor Clayson and students outside the Lumière de l’Oeil.

The summer seminar for first-year former Louvre curator, Régis Michel, graduate students took place in Paris to discuss “Wither Art History?” at the Professor Clayson and students on and Giverny. Organized and taught by Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art. Monet’s bridge in Giverny. Hollis Clayson, the subject was “Paris: We toured the newly renovated Centre Capital of the Nineteenth Century” and Allemand de l’Histoire de l’Art with the seminar’s specific focus developed its director, Andreas Bayer. For our from the spring graduate seminar, “The final joint venture, we boarded the Interior as Space and Image,” in which train in the Gare St. Lazare to join the Photo above left: Professor Clayson and students standing on Daniel all members of the Paris seminar had Terra Summer Residency graduate Buren’s Les Deux Plateaux, in the participated. seminar, run by the Terra Foundation courtyard of the Palais Royal. in Giverny (Normandy). While there, In the French capital city, the group we also visited Claude Monet’s home, began by juxtaposing two spectacularly the prosperous artist’s interior, and divergent Paris interiors: the Sewers gardens. Students standing in the Parc and the Opéra (le Palais Garnier). Monceau. In the coming days, they visited the The department wishes to key museum displays of the interior thank the Weinberg College including the Musée Nissim de of Arts and Sciences, and Camondo, the Imperial Apartments The Graduate School for (of Napoléon III and Eugénie) in the their robust support of Musée du Louvre, the Musée des Arts the seminar. Gratitude Décoratifs, and the Musée de la Chasse. also goes to the German Students studied photographs of the and History Departments interior by Eugène Atget and others in for their support of Ph.D. the collections of the Musée Carnavalet students who joined the art with the chief curator of photography, history group in France. Françoise Reynaud. We met with

99 GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS Elizabeth Benjamin work, “Feminist Theory at the Barnes is a 2013-2015 Foundation,” at American University Presidential Fellow. in Washington, D.C. and “The Visible In Fall 2013, she and Invisible: Circulating Images of the presented work from Barnes Foundation Collection” at the her dissertation at conference, “Images of the Art Museum: “Object Emotions,” Connecting Gaze and Discourse in an interdisciplinary the History of Museology,” at the conference at UC Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Berkeley. In Spring Italy. She is continuing her research 2014, she traveled to with a short-term fellowship at the Paris for dissertation Wintherthur Research Program this research, and had the summer. pleasure of visiting Opening night at the Block fellow graduate Jill Bugajski completed her dissertation, Museum. Pictured are co-curators of The Left Front: Radical Art in students Emma Chubb in Morocco and “Totalitarian Aesthetics and the the “Red Decade,” 1929-1940: John Tera Lee Hedrick in . She plans Democratic Imagination in the United Murphy (left) and Jill Bugajski to finish her dissertation, “Caillebotte’s States, 1937–47,” this spring as a Henry (right). In the center, Elliot Reichert (B.A. 2010), curator of Steichen/ Things: People and Possessions Luce Foundation/ACLS Fellow in Warhol: Picturing Fame. Entangled,” in the coming year. American Art. With fellow graduate student, John Murphy, she also co- In 2013-14, Emilie Boone advanced curated The Left Front: Radical Art in her dissertation as a CIC/Smithsonian the “Red Decade,” 1929–40 for the Block Fellow at the National Portrait Gallery Museum. The exhibition won a funding and presented her research on James award from the Terra Foundation for Van Der Zee at the American Art and a 2014 Award of Merit 16th ACASA Triennial from the American Association for State Symposium on and Local History. It will travel to its African Art. She was second venue at the Grey Art Gallery at awarded the 2014 New York University, to open in 2015. Terra Foundation for American Art Summer During 2013-14, Antawan I. Byrd Residency. During successfully completed his qualifying 2014-15, she will exams and dissertation prospectus continue working on colloquium, and will begin dissertation her dissertation as a research in New York in Summer 2014 fellow at the Center on a Shanley Travel Fellowship. During for Photography at 2014-15, Byrd will serve as a Graduate Woodstock and the Fellow at the Block Museum of Art, and Smithsonian’s National also participate in the Searle Teaching Portrait Gallery. Certificate Program. Alison Boyd spent 2013-14 in Philadelphia A 2013-14 American Institute for Faye Gleisser’s review of McArthur doing research and Maghrib Studies Fellow, Emma Chubb Binion’s exhibition at Kavi Gupta was published in Artforum, writing for her dissertation, “Ensemble spent the academic year in Morocco November 2013. Modernism: Orchestrating Art and where she conducted dissertation People at the Barnes Foundation.” research in Tangier, Rabat, Tetouan, She also presented two papers on this and the Rif Mountains. She presented

10 papers in French and English at the Curatorial Practice in New York. Tangier American Legation Museum, L’appartement 22 in Rabat, the École In Summer 2013, des hautes études en sciences sociales Faye Gleisser taught in Paris, and Columbia University. an undergraduate In addition, she published reviews survey, in Art.es, Nafas Art Magazine, and “Contemporary Art on L’appartement 22’s website, and and Its Institutions,” contributed entries to the bilingual and facilitated an Encyclopedia of Modern Art and the Arab independent study World, an initiative of Mathaf, at the as an instructor in Arab Museum of Modern Art. She also Continuing Studies curated Graft/Trellis/Tame, an exhibition at Northwestern. of new work by Mohssin Harraki at During the academic L’appartement 22 that opened in June year, she completed 2014. dissertation research in New York, Los Emma Chubb curated Graft/Trellis/ In Fall 2013, Grace Deveney was the Angeles, and San Francisco, with the Tame at L’appartement 22, Morocco. Eliza Dangler Curatorial Fellow in the support of a Henry Luce Foundation/ Photography Department of the Art ACLS Fellowship in American Art, and Institute of Chicago. Additionally, in spoke in the Smart Museum’s education Winter 2014, she contributed research series, “Objective/Subjective.” In to the exhibition catalog, Kandinsky: A November, her review of McArthur Retrospective, for the Milwaukee Art Binion’s work at Kavi Gupta Gallery Museum (Yale University Press, 2014). was published in Artforum. In addition During 2014-15, she will serve as the to her academic studies and writing Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow pursuits, Faye served as a Searle at the Museum of Contemporary Art Center Graduate Teaching Fellow Chicago. during 2013-14, organizing a series of discipline specific During summer 2013, Ashley Dunn workshops titled “Dealing with conducted dissertation research in the Difficult Images.” print room at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris through a Shanley Stephanie Glickman spent 2013- Travel Fellowship. This year, she 14 in The Netherlands, where she presented her work at the University conducted dissertation research as of British Columbia’s Art History a Kress Foundation Institutional Graduate Symposium in Vancouver Fellow in affiliation with Leiden and the 49th Annual Graduate Student University. Her dissertation, “For Seminar at the Art Institute of Chicago Profit and Power: The Dutch with her paper “Medium and Memory East India Company (VOC) and in A.P. Martial’s Ancien Paris, (1862- the Art of Trade, c. 1600-50,” 6).” With fellow graduate students, investigates the art and cultural Erin Reitz, Antawan Byrd, and Grace artefacts commissioned and Deveney, she organized a symposium collected by global tradesmen. In Grace Deveney contributed on curatorial careers funded by a May, Stephanie presented two papers research to the Milwaukee Art Professional Development Grant from on aspects of her research: “The Optics museum’s exhibition, Kandinsky: A The Graduate School, with additional of Possession: The Dutch East India Retrospective. support from the department. In June, Company (VOC) and the Art of Trade Dunn participated in the inaugural in Amsterdam, c. 1640-1670” at the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in University of Amsterdam’s Art History

11 Ph.D. Seminar, and “Conquered Places Museum. In February, he delivered and Captured Faces in the Art of Dutch his paper “Vulnerable to Violence: Global Trade” at Leiden University’s Jeff Donaldson’s Ala Shango: and the interdisciplinary conference, Erasure of Diasporic Difference,” at the “Legal Bodies: Corpus/Persona/ CAA Annual Conference in Chicago. He Communitas.” plans to remain in Washington D.C. for the next academic year as he completes After completing her comprehensive his dissertation. exams, Xinran Guo started drafting her dissertation prospectus on Scott Miller was awarded a Shanley contemporary Chinese art of Travel Fellowship to study late the 2000s. In July, she will give a medieval sites and artifacts connected presentation on Chinese artist Gu with the Dukes of Burgundy. In June, Dexin’s participation in “Magiciens he attended the “Buildings and the de la terre in 1989” at Centre Body” symposium at the University of Pompidou, Paris. Guo will carry out Southampton, where he presented his archival research for her dissertation current research on the lost automata in in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou the early 15th-century castle of Hesdin. for the rest of the summer. In 2014-15, he will be co-chairing a

Stephanie Glickman presented session at the International Conference her paper at Leiden University’s Tera Lee Hedrick spent the academic for Medieval Studies at Western conference, “Legal Bodies: Corpus/ year as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Michigan University. Persona/Communitas.” American Research Center in , Bulgaria. She had the opportunity to In 2014, John Murphy co-curated The present material from her dissertation Left Front: Radical Art in the ‘Red Decade’ at local conferences, as well as with Jill Bugajski at the Mary and Leigh to travel extensively throughout Block Museum of Art. He spent the the Balkans. A highlight from her spring quarter conducting dissertation travel was a two-week research research at the Winterthur Museum and trip with her co-adviser, Richard Library in Delaware as a Luce/ACLS Kieckehefer, affiliate faculty member Dissertation Fellow in American Art. and Professor of Studies. She also continued to write her In April, Cassie Olien presented at dissertation, “The Power of Objects: Northwestern’s first Classical Receptions Ars Sacra and the Negotiation of the workshop with the University of Sacred in Late Byzantium,” which Michigan about the reception and she plans to complete next year. display of Cypriot sculptural fragments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nicholas Miller spent the academic In May, she gave a paper at University year in Washington D.C. completing of California, Riverside’s third annual his second year as a Predoctoral graduate student conference, “Exchange: Fellow at the Smithsonian American Assimilation and Appropriation in Art Museum. In October, he the Arts,” where she discussed the delivered the paper, “’To Paint His Cypriot “Amathus” sarcophagus in its Own People’: William H. Johnson’s complicated web of social, religious, Nicholas Miller presented a paper at Avant-Garde Gambits and the and political contexts. She was awarded the Terra Foundation’s conference, Orientalized Black Female Body,” a Shanley Travel Fellowship which “American Art in Dialogue with Africa and its Diaspora.” at the Terra Foundation-sponsored enabled her to travel to Berlin to begin conference “American Art in Dialogue dissertation research. She will be based with Africa and its Diaspora,” held in Berlin and London for 2014-15. at the Smithsonian American Art In 2013-14, Julia Oswald was awarded

12 a Shanley Travel Fellowship to begin dissertation research abroad. During Maureen Warren spent the academic 2014-15, she will continue preliminary year writing her dissertation in dissertation research, co-organize a Chicago after two years abroad panel at the International Congress conducting research. She gave of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo papers at the Sixteenth Century College, and undertake the Searle Society Conference in San Juan, Teaching Certificate Program. Puerto Rico, and the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference Erin Reitz spent the academic year in Boston. For a Summer 2014 as a fellow in the Northwestern Paris research trip to The Netherlands, Program in Critical Theory, conducting she was awarded a Walter Read dissertation research on the films and Hovey Memorial Fellowship from internationalism of the Black Panther the Pittsburg Foundation and a Party. This spring, she also researched Scaliger Fellowship from Leiden in archives in Berlin, Hamburg, and University. Her essay, “A Shameful Frankfurt. Although looking forward to Spectacle: Claes Jansz Visscher’s upcoming research trips to Stockholm 1623 News Prints of Executed and San Francisco, she is excited to Dutch ‘Arminians’”, will appear Cassie Olien presented a paper return to Chicago for the 2014-15 in a volume entitled Death, Torture at University of California, academic year. and the Broken Body in European Art, Riverside’s conference, “Exchange: 1300–1650 (Ashgate, 2014). Assimilation and Appropriation in the Arts.” Kate Tahk received a Council of Library and Information Resources Mellon The department admitted five students Fellowship for Dissertation Research in who will begin their studies in Fall 2014: Original Sources to conduct dissertation Adrienn Kácsor, Sandra Racek, Alissa research in Latvia and Russia next year, Schapiro, Talia Shabtay, and Thomas as well a Title VIII Summer Fellowship Witschonke. to Russia.

CONGRATULATIONS Angelina Lucento, “Painting for Liza Oliver, “Mercantile Aesthetics: Jill Bugajski, “Totalitarian the Collective: Art, Politics, and Art, Science, and Diplomacy in Aesthetics and the Democratic Communication in Russia, 1918- French India (1664-1761).” Imagination in the United States, 1932.” 1937-1947.” Primary advisor: Christina Kiaer. Primary advisor: Holly Clayson. Primary advisor: Christina Kiaer.

David Shterenberg, The Agitator, 1927. Boris Iofan (architect), Soviet Pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, 1939.

13 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

Claire Dillon giving a presentation of her research at the Senior Thesis Seminar, held in the Pick-Laudati Auditorium, Block Museum of Art.

The department enrolled over 463 undergraduate students in Art History courses this academic year, with 44 students holding majors and 13 students holding minors in the department. Courses explored a wide range of topics and included a special Museums Seminar taught by Christina Kiaer which resulted in an exhibition in the Block Museum of Art. Along with the Provost’s Hannah Kleinman giving a Office and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the department offered presentation in conjunction with WORK PRINT PROTEST REPEAT, a number of awards and honors to many fine undergraduates. This past year, an exhibition curated by students Peter Adams, a sophomore in the Medill School of Journalism, was awarded in Professor Kiaer’s fall Museums Seminar. the 2014 Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing for an essay on Rodin composed for the Introduction to Modernism survey. Sinéad Lopez was recognized with the Outstanding Junior Art History Major award and she also received a Warnock Travel Grant to carry out research related to a future senior thesis.

Six seniors received honors for theses they wrote on topics ranging from architecture and urbanism in Barcelona, installation art in Venice, and painting in 20th-century Brazil. The group of exemplary students included Isaac Alpert, Elise Chagas, Claire Dillon, Hannah Lee, Maris O’Tierney, and Kate Wollman. For her thesis on the Cuban artist Félix González Torres, Claire Dillon received the department’s highest honor, the J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis.

14 NORTHWESTERN ART REVIEW Northwestern Art Review This spring brought another first- (NAR) thrived in its sixth year. ever: a NAR and Mayfest Productions The organization strengthened Dillo Day collaboration that invited its namesake—the bi-annually students to submit art for the chance published academic journal— to have their work shared with a while also expanding its staff crowd of 10,000 at the nation’s largest and campus collaboration. From student-run music festival. On Dillo student organization partnerships Day, the south Lakefill featured a to emblematic venues, NAR made student-created, student-curated art visual culture vibrant within the installation enjoyed by the masses. NAR, Journal #11 (Winter 2014), Northwestern community. “Constructing Reality.” NAR ended the year strong with the Under the leadership of President publication of its twelfth issue of Nancy DaSilva, NAR’s most popular Northwestern Art Review thanks to the events reached new heights. We hosted journal’s fearless leader, Editor-in- our fourth annual Art Jobs Career Chief Kathryn Watts. With “Art in the Panel this fall. The panel provided an Time of War,” NAR explored violence, open conversation on the opportunity ideological conflict, and political and versatility that Art History and Art turmoil through art. Moving forward, Theory & Practice majors bring to the NAR will take our exploration professional world. NAR continued further. This year saw the launch of its signature Abandoned Art Market our Instagram and a re-invigorated to great success. We invited students website, and in the year to come, we to purchase hidden gems donated plan to continue collaboration and by previous AT&P students at Norris content creation that share visual Center, which served as the perfect culture like never before. hub for a truly engaging on-campus NAR curated an exhibition of event. Here’s to a vibrant year! undergraduate student work at the Keg of Evanston. Just when we thought the Keg Aileen McGraw of Evanston was a dream of the President, Northwestern Art Review past, NAR brought it back for one night only at our annual spring For more information, visit: exhibition of student work. Building www.northwesternartreview.org NAR, Journal #12 (Spring 2014), “Art off of last year’s apartment pop-up in the Time of War.” venue success, NAR events staff transformed the former Keg of Evanston into a NAR-curated gallery that showcased pieces created by fellow Northwestern undergraduates across various schools and majors. For the first time, this pop-up gallery featured video work from both individual students and Northwestern art collectives.

15 ALUMNI NEWS Department Lectures & Sarah Betzer (Ph.D. 2003) received a grant Events from the American Philosophical Society for her project, “Picturing Antiquity and the Body after Archaeology.” She will spend the 2014-15 Fall 2013 Winter 2013 academic year as a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. October 9 January 8 Warnock Lecture Series: Medieval Colloquium Beverly Louise Brown (Ph.D. 1978) continues Zainab Bahriani Co-sponsored Lecture: to live and work in London as an independent Columbia University Christina Normore scholar. This past year she gave a paper at a The Double: Difference and When Love was a Battlefield conference at the National Gallery, London Repetition in Assyrian Art on the Titian’s Flight into Egypt. For another January 22 conference at the National Gallery on October 10 Warnock Lecture Series: “Imagining Architecture,” she presented a Department Colloquium: Robert Bagley paper with Charles Robertson on the varied Chris Bell Princeton University sources Renaissance painters drew upon for the Picturing Emancipation: Styles, Periods, and the Life Spectacle and the Street in Cycle of the Goblin architectural backdrops in their pictures. Brown Civil War Philadelphia also gave a paper at the conference “Light, February 10 Colour, Veils” held at the Courtauld Institute of November 6 Ming Tiampo Art, London. This paper, “Seeing Red: Was Titian Alice Kaplan Institute Too Young to Know Better?” is now in press. In for the Humanities Wartime Avant-Garde Art in addition, Brown helped to organize and write the Co-sponsored Artist in Japan catalogue for an exhibition about Titian’s Jacopo Residence Lecture: Pesaro and Alexander VI Before Saint Peter. John Neff March 7 She wrote a small book on a newly discovered Pleasures and Disciplines of Graduate Student Lecture painting by Dosso Dossi and wrote catalogue Daily Life Series: James Smalls entries for the corresponding Veronese exhibition Afromodernism Embodied: The November 7 Legacy and Agency of Féral that will be held in Verona, July-October 2014. Graduate Student Lecture Benga Brown’s two articles on Bellini’s use of sculpture Series: D. Fairchild Ruggles in paintings come out this year. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sheila Crane (Ph.D. 2001) received tenure at From Concubine to Queen the University of Virginia in May 2013 and in 13th-Century Egypt: The was honored with an All-University Teaching Extraordinary Reign of ‘Tree Award in May 2014. She is looking forward to of Pearls’ spending Spring 2015 as a Fellow at the Clark Art Institute where she will be working on a book November 14 Richard Meyer project tentatively titled, “Inventing Informality.” Stanford University Recent publications include “The Shantytown Elizabeth Taylor’s Closets of Algiers and the Colonization of Everyday Life,” in Use Matters: An Alternative History of November 21 Architecture (Routledge, 2014), and “Material Tanya Tiffany Occupations,” in Otherwise Occupied: Bashir University of Wisconsin- Makhoul and Aissa Deebi (Palestinian Art Court- al Milwaukee Hoash, 2013). Before Velázquez Came to Court: The ‘Waterseller of Justine De Young (Ph.D. 2003) continues to Seville’ and the Artist’s Early teach writing-intensive art history seminars Career at Harvard as part of the Writing Program

16161616 faculty. She has forthcoming essays in Bourgeois Femininity and Public Space in May 1 19th-Century European Visual Culture Medieval Colloquium (Ashgate, 2014), Getting the Picture: The Co-sponsored Lecture: History and Visual Culture of the News Marvin Trachtenberg (Bloomsbury, 2015), A Cultural History New York University Tektonikon and Surfacescape: of Dress and Fashion: The Age of Empire Architecture and the Body in the 1800-1920 (Bloomsbury, 2015), and Premodern Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century Home: Modern Art and the Decorative Impulse May 8 (Ashgate, 2015). She is the editor of Latin American and the forthcoming book, Re-Examining Caribbean Studies Fashion in European Art, 1775-1925, Co-sponsored Lecture: to which she will also contribute an John López introduction and chapter. University of Chicago Indigenous Commentary on Julia Detchon (B.A. 2011) will be Sixteenth-Century Mexico City leaving her job as a Curatorial Assistant Spring 2013 May 9 at the National Gallery of Art in Myers Symposium: Washington D.C. to start a Ph.D. in Defining “Foreignness” Latin American art at University of April 4-5 in the Early Iron Age Texas at Austin in the fall. Myers Symposium: Mediterranean The Date of the Alchi Organized by Ann Gunter David Getsy (Ph.D. 2002) published Sumtsek Murals: 11th or 13th Century? articles in GLQ, Criticism, TSQ, and Speakers: Johannes Haubold, Organized by Rob Linrothe The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics in 2013- Erick von Dongen, Persis Berlekamp, Catherine Saint- 14, including a conversation with Speakers: Chiara Bellini, Jennifer Doyle in Art Journal. He Pierre Hoffman, Panagiotis Philip Denwood, Amy Heller, Kousoulis, Carolina López-Ruiz was the inaugural Pamela Simpson Gerald Kozicz, Rob Linrothe, Lecturer in Art History at Washington Christian Luczantis May 22 & Lee University and began his term Myers Symposium: as Chair of the Editorial Board of April 10 Photography, Performance, The Art Bulletin. In late 2014, his co- Department Colloquium: and the Archive in African edited special issue of the journal, TSQ Richard Kieckhefer Diaspora will appear and in Spring 2015, Yale Parish Church Architecture: Organized by Krista Thompson Comparative Perspectives and University Press will publish his book, the Limits of Explanation Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Speakers: Tina Campt, Leslie Expanded Field of Gender. Hewitt, Saidiya Hartman, April 17 Roshini Kempadoo, Jacqueline What Objects Want: On Stewart Mary Haderlein (B.A. 1980) is currently Museums and Curatorial a member of the Woman’s Board at the Careers Art Institute of Chicago. Organized by Antawan Byrd , Grace Deveney, Ashley Dunn, Sharon Irish (Ph.D., 1985) just returned and Erin Reitz;, co-sponsored from a two-month appointment at by Alice Kaplan Institute the University of Bristol as a Colston for the Humanities and The Graduate School Research Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies. At Bristol, Sharon April 30 worked with the Department of Film Warnock Lecture Series: and Television on several media arts Kerry James Marshall projects, including the University of The Image is Everything Local Knowledge, an archive of short

17171717 videos created with residents Matthew Kluk (B.A. 2011) recently of Knowle West, a housing completed his M.A. in Art History estate in South Bristol. Now through the Graduate Program at back at the University of Williams College. His qualifying paper Illinois, she will continue was on William Henry Fox Talbot. In to collaborate with Bristol September, he will join the J. Paul Getty colleagues. Museum’s Department of Photographs as their Graduate Intern for 2014-15. Jennifer Jolly (Ph.D. 2003) was the recipient of a 2013 Donny Meyer (B.A. 2000), works National Endowment for as a Program Officer in the Fellows the Humanities Research Program at the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship to support the in Chicago where he specializes in the writing of her book manuscript arts. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate on art, tourism, and nation in the History of Art at Yale University, building in Mexico under where his research focuses on the President Lázaro Cárdenas. concept of refinement in the art and steel of Pittsburgh at the turn of the 20th During 2013-14, Jessica century. Immediately prior to his joining Keating (Ph.D. 2010) the MacArthur Foundation in 2013, completed the final year of he worked for the Whitney Museum Sheila Crane contributed an essay to Use Matters: An Alternative her Andrew W. Mellon USC- of American Art, New York, where he History of Architecture (Routledge, Huntington Early Modern Studies served as the Project Researcher for the Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Collection Documentation Initiative for in Early Modern Visual Culture. In painting and sculpture. From 2011 to September, she co- 2012 he was the Rose Herrick Jackson organized (with Sean Graduate Curatorial Intern at the Roberts Alexander Yale University Art Gallery, where he Marr) a two-day helped prepare for a major forthcoming international travelling exhibition, Coney Island: conference, entitled Visions of an American Dreamland 1861- “Ephemerality and 2008, which is scheduled to open in 2015 Durability in Early at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Modern Visual and of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. Before Material Culture” matriculating at Yale, Donny was held at USC’s Sidney a Senior Researcher at the Dedalus Harman Academy for Foundation in New York, where he Polymathic Study. In worked on the Robert Motherwell addition to teaching Catalogue Raisonné (Yale University courses on the Press, 2012). Northern Renaissance, Keating also put the In May 2013, Erin Colley Monroe (B.A. finishing touches on 2000) became the Robert H. Schutz, Jr., her book manuscript Assistant Curator of American Paintings entitled, “All Wound and Sculpture at the Wadsworth Up: Automata, the Atheneum Museum of Art, where Holy Roman Empire, she has worked since 2007. She most David Getsy contributed a and the Early Modern recently curated, Andrew Wyeth: Looking conversation with Jennifer Doyle in Art Journal (Winter 2013). World.” In September 2014, she will Beyond, which explored the artist’s use begin her new position of Assistant of doors and windows as symbolic Professor of Early Modern European Art passages and reexamined scholarly and Architecture at Carleton College. interpretations of his work.

1818 Kevin D. Murphy (Ph.D. 1992) is now from his book, Franz Radziwill and the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the the Contradictions of Humanities and Professor of History of German Art History Art at Vanderbilt University. 1919-1945, which appeared in the Hector Reyes (Ph.D. 2010) will begin series, “Social History, his new position as Assistant Professor Popular Culture, of Teaching at University of Southern and Politics in California in Fall 2014. In addition ” (University to revising the draft of his book on of Michigan Press, French history painting, he is currently 2010), he has recently completing a co-authored book project published a number of on the afterlife of Stoic physics in articles, chapters, and painting and artistic theory. catalog essays. Among them are: “Something Julie D. Taylor, Hon. AIA/LA, (BA New on Nolde,

1982) will celebrate the 20th anniversary National Socialism, Alumni Erin Colley Monroe curated of her boutique public relations firm this and the SS,” in Kunstchronik, 2012; Andrew Wyeth: Looking Beyond, at September. Taylor & Company creates “Felixmüller’s Failure: Painting and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum global communications plans expressly Poverty,” in Beyond Glitter and Doom: of Art. for professionals, institutions, and New Perspectives of the Weimar Republic, organizations involved in architecture, 2012; “Otto Dix’ Volkstümlichkeit,” in design, landscape, furnishings, and the Das Auge der Welt: Otto Dix und die Neue betterment of the built environment. She Sachlichkeit 1920-1945, an exhibition is currently serving a three-year term on catalog for the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the National Board of Directors of the 2012; “Ernst Barlach and the AIA/American Institute of Architects Conservative Revolution,” (only two non-architects reside on the in the German Studies Review, Board). In April, Julie was the guest May 2013; and “Torture speaker for the NZIA/New Zealand and Masculinity in George Institute of Architects business program, Grosz’s Interregnum,” in giving the talk “Now, More Than Ever: the New German Critique, Public Relations and Marketing for Summer 2013. Forthcoming Architects” to an audience of more than is an article entitled, “Erasure 500 architects in five cities throughout and Jewishness in Otto Dix’s the country. Portrait of the Lawyer Hugo Simons,” for Re/New Marxist Ming Tiampo’s (Ph.D. 2003) exhibition, Art History: Essays in Honor of which she co-curated with Alexandra Andrew Hemingway. Munroe at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Gutai: Splendid Playground, won the AICA (International We welcome any and all news Association of Art Critics) prize for Best about the accomplishments Thematic Exhibition in New York for of our alumni. If you would 2013. like to reconnect, or to be included in future editions of James A. van Dyke (Ph.D. 1996) was the newsletter, please contact promoted to the rank of Associate Mel Keiser at art-history@ Ming Tiampo co-curated the Professor with tenure at the University northwestern.edu. We look forward to Guggenheim Museum exhibition, of Missouri-Columbia in June 2013 and hearing from you. Gutai: Splendid Playground. is now serving as the department’s Director of Graduate Studies. Aside

1919 GIVING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY

As a department, we accomplish a great deal in thanks to an ongoing gift from the Shanley family partnership with campus friends such as the Block that is augmented by donations made by other Museum of Art, Alice Kaplan Institute for the individuals. If you would like to make a gift to Humanities, University Library, Weinberg College the department, the easiest way to do so is to give of Arts and Sciences, and The Graduate School. online at the following URL: Additionally, we are grateful to alumni and friends of the department who make individual www.giving.northwestern.edu/nu/wcas contributions to support our programming, from lectures and symposia to undergraduate and You may designate the Department of Art History graduate research travel. As an example of the as the direct recipient of your gift; these funds will latter, Barbara Smith Shanley Graduate Travel be used wholly for the benefit of our students. Fellowships are awarded yearly to graduate Thank you for your continued support of the students in the second and third year of study Department of Art History.

UPCOMING EVENTS 2014-15

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February 25-26 Winter 2014 Trinh T. Minh-ha Visual Public Spheres: Art and Media University of California, Berkeley in the Middle East and North Africa, Topic TBD 2001-2011 Organized by Hannah Feldman May 20-21 Christopher Wood April 24 New York University Naturalia-Arteficialia Topic TBD Organized by Claudia Swan

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