ART BULL the Newsletter of Boston University’S Department of History of Art and Architecture

ART BULL The Newsletter of Boston University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture

2013-2014

Welcome to the 2013-2014 publication of Art BUll! It was another exciting year in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Congratulations to all on the many the personal and professional achievements this year and thank you to everyone for contributing to this newsletter and to the success of our department! Thank you as well to Professor Alice Tseng who served as the advisor for Art BUll.

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FACULTY Professor Cynthia Becker has been awarded Professor Qianshen Bai published an article a Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research entitled “Antiquarianism in a Time of Crisis: Fellowship from the BU Humanities On the Collecting Practices of Late Qing Center. The fellowship releases her from Government Officials, 1861-1911,” in Traces, teaching in fall 2014 to complete her Collections, and Ruins: Towards a book, Gnawa: Visual Art and the Performance Comparative History of Antiquarianism: of Blackness in Morocco. During the summer Comparative Perspective, ed. by Alain months, she will travel to Senegal to attend Schnapp with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Peter Dak'Art: the 11th Biennial of Contemporary N. Miller, and Tim Murray, and a review of African Art. She will also present a paper in Shana Brown’s “Pastimes: From Art and Algeria at the conference "Saharan Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese Crossroads: Views from the Desert Edge." Historiography” in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. In February, Qianshen gave a talk This year, Professor Jodi Cranston has been entitled “Wu Dacheng and the Modern Fate of on research leave with partial support from a Chinese Literati Culture” at the Institute of Henderson Senior Fellowship from the BU Fine Art, New York University. Invited by the Center for the Humanities. In addition to Australian National University, Canberra, he writing some chapters of her next book, co-led the workshop “Research Training in tentatively entitled The Green Worlds of Chinese Paleography” from to Dec. 16 to Dec. Renaissance Venice, she has written several 22, 2013. In August, he co-led a one-week essays for various publications. These include workshop on Chinese calligraphy at the an exhibition catalogue for a previously Metropolitan Museum of Art, sponsored by unknown self-portrait drawing by Titian now the Mellon Foundation. on view at the Museo Correr in Venice, an

1 introduction to an anthology on portraiture, an current research about the nineteenth-century essay on the steady departure of paintings Anglo-American origins of architectural and from 17th-century Venice, and an essay on the landscape preservation came out: “Plunder or performativity of beauty in Renaissance Preservation? Contesting the Anglo-American painting, among others. She received a major Heritage in the Later Nineteenth Century,” in grant from the Kress Foundation to develop a From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and web application for mapping and visualizing the Heritage of Empire c.1800-1940, edited by the movement of artworks. Her work on a Peter Mandler and Astrid Swenson, and specific section of the application, "Mapping “American Tourists in Wordsworthshire: Titian," will be discussed this summer at the From ‘National Property’ to ‘National Park’”, Getty Research Institute. She hopes to in The Making of a Cultural Landscape: the develop a more extensive version that will be English Lake District as Tourist Destination, called “Mapping Artworks,” which will allow 1750-2010, edited by John K. Walton and scholars a template from which they can map Jason Wood. Melanie reviewed three the “lives” of any set of artworks—whether interesting books on preservation delimited by artist, material, etc. “Mapping themes: Heritage in the Context of Titian” is not officially up and running (there Globalization. Europe and the are still some bugs and holes in the data), but Americas edited by Peter F. Biehl and can be accessed at this address: Christopher Prescott for the Journal of www.mappingtitian.org. This summer, Jodi Anthropological Research; The Fragile will be participating in a conference in Venice Monument: On Conservation and on portraiture (someone has to do it!), as well Modernity by Thordis Arrhenius, and Materan as wrapping up some research and writing Contradictions: Architecture, Preservation before returning to teaching this fall. and Politics by Anne Parmly Toxey for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Professor Emine Fetvaci was on leave in the Historians. She also reviewed essays for fall. In the spring she taught AH 220: publication for the International Journal of Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture, Heritage Studies. Summer 2013 was spent and AH 541: Ottoman Art and Architecture. enjoyably visiting museums, exhibitions and She gave a number of talks this year, at the archives in London and elsewhere in the UK, University of Washington, The Seattle Asian and presenting a conference paper, Art Museum, MFA Boston, and Yale “Preserving Thomas Carlyle’s House as an University. She also presented papers at CAA Anglo-American ‘Literary Embassy’” at the and the Renaissance Society of America Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Annual Conference. Her review of the new Conference, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. During Islamic Art galleries at the Met appeared in the fall semester, she spoke to Boston caa.reviews this year, and her edited University’s Graduate School of Painting and volume Writing History at the Ottoman Sculpture MFA program about “Artists, Art Court appeared last summer. She received and Museums” and, in the spring semester, to tenure and was promoted to associate the undergraduate Art History Association’s professor at the end of the spring semester. “Boston Arts Career Night” along with two She is looking forward to research in Florence alumni, Krista Dahl Kusuma, now Visitor and Istanbul this summer. Experience Manager at Boston’s ICA, and John Colasacco, now head of Fine Jewelry Professor Melanie Hall had a productive and Department at Skinner Inc. and a recent enjoyable 2013-14. Two chapters on her contributor to PBS’s Antiques Road Show.

2 Forward news – she is planning another with the 2013-2014 Faculty Award. Professor symposium with the Nichols House Museum Hills will continue guiding her doctoral on the use of technology in small house students and being engaged in her scholarship museums called “In the House and On the on the nineteenth-century American painter Web” to be held at Boston’s Athenaeum in Eastman Johnson and also 1930s artists. Fall 2014. During the fall 2013 semester, she gave talks at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Academy of Design Museum in New York, and Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, and she will continue lecturing as occasions arise.

Professor Fred Kleiner is looking forward to returning to full-time teaching and having more time for his own research and writing after completing his fifth (and third consecutive) term as HAA Chair on June 30. This summer he will be putting the finishing touches on the 15th edition of Gardner's Art Bridget Hanson, Naomi Slipp, Professor Patricia Hills, through the Ages, a 1,200-page tome with a Jordan Karney and Emily Voelker manuscript many times longer and, between trips to Chichen Itza, Teotihuacan, Paris, Professor Patricia Hills is retiring at the end Rome, and San Francisco this summer, of the spring 2014 semester. She was deeply turning his attention to Art and Politics in gratified that there was a Symposium in her Imperial Rome for Cambridge University honor, "American Visual Culture in Context," Press. held at the University on Saturday, April 26, organized by Professor William Moore, Dr. In April, Professor Keith Morgan had the Charlotte Emans Moore, Professor Keith N. pleasure of reading the citation at the Society Morgan, and Professor Kim Sichel. The of Architectural Historians’ annual meeting in symposium was funded by the Dean of CAS, Austin, Texas, when Professor Emerita Naomi alumni and current students, the Boston Miller was honored as a Fellow of the Society. University Center for the Humanities, the With his research partners, Elizabeth Hope Department of History of Art & Architecture, Cushing and Roger Reed, he recently received the American & New England Studies the good news that their book published in Program, and the African American Studies 2013, Community by Design: The Olmsted Program. Eight of her former students gave Firm and the Development of Brookline, papers on their recent research, and ten other Massachusetts, had been selected to receive colleagues spoke. Professor Alice Tseng read the Ruth Emery Prize of the Victorian Society a statement by Professor Fred Kleiner. Pat is in America. He will appear as commentator in deeply grateful to her many colleagues in the “Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing Department and in the African American America,” a production of Florentine Films Studies Program and the American and New that will be aired on PBS nationally in June. England Studies Program with whom she has He lectured at the Boston Architectural shared the joys of teaching, mentoring, and College in January, at the annual meeting of developing new programs for students. On the Vernacular Architecture Forum/New April 23 GSHAAA presented Professor Hills

3 England Chapter in March, and will give papers this summer at the Shelburne Museum in June and the Museum of Fine Arts in July. He served as the chair of the America art search committee and was a member of the Preservation Studies Program director search committee this semester as well.

Since the end of the 2012-13 academic year, Professor Paolo Scrivano had two essays included in collective publications in France and Italy: the first, “‘Comprendre’ l’architecture moderne: la position de Michel Ragon au sein de l’historiographie de l’architecture des années 1950 et 1960,” in the volume Michel Ragon. Critique d’art et d’architecture (Richard Leeman and Hélène Jannière, eds.: Presses Universitaires de This year, Professor Kim Sichel is publishing Rennes); the second, “Architettura, design e three articles: “Lee Friedlander, The American paesaggio nella costruzione delle infrastrutture Monument, and Eakins Press,” in di servizio stradale e autostradale: una breve Exposure 47.1 (Spring 2014); “‘Contortions of storia italo-americana,” in the catalogue Technique’: Germaine Krull’s Montages and Energy. Architettura e reti del petrolio e del the Complexity of Urban Modernism” post-petrolio (MAXXI Museo nazionale delle in OBJECT: PHOTO (New York: Museum of arti del XXI secolo, Rome). He also received Modern Art, 2014), in press; and “Germaine an Arts Grant from The BU Arts Initiative to Krull’s War Photographs: From Africa to support student research in preparation for an Alsace, 1942 to 1944” in Fotogeschichte exhibition on José Luis Sert at Boston Wien (summer 2014), in press. In March, she University, scheduled to open at the BU Art gave a lecture: “Photography on the Road,” at Gallery in the fall 2015. His most important Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is also achievement, however, was the publication of continuing work on her current book project, his new book Building Transatlantic Italy: Making Strange: Modernism and the Architectural Dialogues with Postwar Construction of French Photographic Books America, which appeared last November. 1925-1960.

Professor Alice Tseng started the fall semester with a long flight but brief stay in Singapore, where she presented a paper at the symposium “Is Asian One?” hosted by the Asian Civilizations Museum. For the rest of fall she remained on land in the Boston area, serving as a discussant for the interdisciplinary colloquium “(Un)Building Colonial Space in Korea, 1910-1945” held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a participant in the faculty roundtable at the

4 Symposium on Teaching the History of the Krebber,” at the annual conference of the Built Environment organized by the New College Art Association in Chicago. He looks England Chapter of the Society of forward to a summer of research in Germany Architectural Historians. In the spring as he completes an essay on Franz Erhard semester, Alice presented at the annual Walther for a forthcoming book published by meetings of the Association for Asian Studies the Dia Art Foundation. in Philadelphia and the Society of Architectural Historians in Austin. At the end Professor Michael Zell presented a number of April, she was invited to give the 25th of talks on aspects of Rembrandt's art this annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture in Art academic year: "Rembrandt's Art as Gift" at History and Humanities at Case Western the Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam in July; Reserve University to coincide with a "Actor-Network-Theory and Rembrandt's traveling exhibition of modern Japanese art Gifts" at a Queen's University Conference in from the Tokyo National Museum at the Herstmonceux, England, also in Cleveland Museum of Art. For the past four July; “Rembrandt and the Gift in Seventeenth- years, Alice has organized an annual lecture Century Holland” at Tufts University in on Asian art and architecture with the co- November; and “Graphic Images: sponsorship of the Boston University Center Rembrandt’s Printed Nudes” at the for the Study of Asia (BUCSA); this year Renaissance Society of America Conference, Professor Ken Oshima of University of New York in March. In June he also led the Washington was invited to speak on the seminar “Dutch Art, Patrons, and Markets" for conceptualization of Japanese urban space in the Council of Independent Colleges-Kress the 1960s. In between the teaching and Seminar at the High Museum of Art, traveling, she worked with co-editor Morgan Atlanta, in conjunction with the Pitelka (University of North Carolina at exhibition Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Chapel Hill) to put the finishing touches on a Paintings from the Mauritshuis. Professor Zell book manuscript on Kyoto cultural is now immersed in coordinating the 2014 renaissances in the 17th and 19th centuries. conference of the Historians of Netherlandish Right after commencement, Alice embarks on Art, which takes place at Boston her research trip to Japan to gather material University June 5-7, and plans to devote the for writing chapter two of her Kyoto rest of his time this summer to writing his next monuments book on imperial weddings and book, For the Love of Art: Rembrandt, coronations in the early 20th century. Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. During the current academic year Professor Gregory Williams has published an essay in a book about the German painter Florian Meisenberg as well as three exhibition reviews in Artforum. He took part in fall conferences of the German Studies Association in Denver and the Transcultural Exchange in Boston, and delivered a gallery talk on the painter Amy Sillman at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. In February he presented a paper, “Critical Delay: The International Reception of Michael Professor Kim Sichel, Professor Greg Williams, Antien Knaap, David Silvernail

5 GRADUATE STUDENTS to Cairo and carry out dissertation fieldwork for ten months. This year Lindsay Alberts began writing her dissertation and taught at both UMass Boston Leslie K. Brown took her qualifying exams and BU. She presented a paper based on the this past May and completed her prospectus second chapter of her dissertation at the over the summer. She is delighted to be ABD Brown University Interdisciplinary Grad and thanks her advisors, committee, and the Student Conference in April. This summer department for their efforts and support. In the she will be conducting archival research for fall, she traveled multiple times to Rochester, her dissertation in Florence, partially NY for research; submitted grant and supported by a GSHAAA Travel Grant. She fellowship applications; and assisted Professor is looking forward to sole, vino, e gelato- and Hills with compiling and editing the Alumni of course, many many Medici documents! Newsletter, which cast a wide net in honor of her retirement. The digital interactive artist’s book for which she wrote an essay, Psychometry: Photographs by Carol Golemboski, was selected as one of the twelve Outstanding Books of 2013 by the Independent Publisher Book Awards out of over 5,000 entries, winning an "IPPY" for Outstanding eBook Achievement. In October, she co-moderated a panel and enjoyed catching up with BU alums at the second annual FOCUS conference of emerging photohistorians and photocurators hosted by the New Orleans Museum of Art. In Erin McKeller, Naomi Slipp and Lindsey Alberts November, she presented a paper as a part of the symposium "Poignant Prospects: Lara Ayad is in the process of finalizing her Landscape and the Environment in American dissertation prospectus on modern Egyptian Visual Culture, 1750-1890" at the American art. She presented her research on mid-20th- Antiquarian Society's Center for Historic century Egyptian painting and sculpture at two American Visual Culture. In March, she was conferences this past March: the 16th invited to moderate a panel on “Itinerant Triennial of the Arts Council of the African Photography,” in conjunction with the Studies Association (ACASA) in New York; exhibition BRINK v1 at the Boston Center for and the 22nd Annual Graduate Student the Arts' Mills Gallery. This semester, she Conference at the African Studies Center, very much enjoyed working as a Teaching Boston University. In addition to being Fellow, along with AMNESP's Sam Shupe, awarded a long-term Graduate Research for Professor Scrivano's AH205: Architecture: Abroad Fellowship for the 2014-2015 An Introduction. This spring, she was honored academic year, Lara published her book and grateful to receive support from the Beaze review of Hamid Irbouh's Art in the Service of and Harry Adelson Travel Fund, the Colonialism: French Art Education in departmental Outstanding Teaching Fellow Morocco, 1912-1956 in African Studies Award, and a Graduate Award from the BU Quarterly. Her research plans for this fall Center for Humanities. After a busy semester include using her GRAF award to travel interrupted by an appendectomy, Leslie looks

6 forward to a summer filled with researching, the second year in a row). Next fall, Elisa traveling, thinking, and writing. looks forward to serving as a teaching fellow for AH 111 "Introduction to Art History I: Antiquity to the Middle Ages."

Tessa Hite is pleased to have completed her MA. In the spring, she presented “A State of Evolué: Photographs of 1950s Belgian Congo,” at the Boston University 22nd Annual Student Conference in African Studies. Tessa enjoyed serving as a teaching fellow for Professor Sichel’s AH295: History of Photography and as the GSHAAA Forum Coordinator with Naomi Slipp. Tessa’s essay “Into the Archive: ‘My Own Mad BU photohistory participants included (from left to Conscientiousness’” and a chronology she right): Leslie K. Brown, Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw, compiled will be published in Magnum Dalia Habib Linssen, Julia Dolan, Rebecca Senf, Kate Legacy: Eve Arnold by Janine di Giovanni Palmer Albers. Additional BU alumni members include Laura Muir and Lisa Sutcliffe. Photo by Todd J. (Prestel 2015), in press. This summer, she will Tubutis. be conducting research in Bruce Davidson’s archives for the next Magnum Legacy Heidi Effenberger completed her MA publication. She looks forward to serving as scholarly paper on the architecture and the GSHAAA vice president next year. landscape of Balboa Park, and she presented her findings at UC Santa Barbara's 39th This academic year Erin Hyde Nolan passed Annual Art History Graduate Symposium in her orals and completed her dissertation April. In the fall, she worked for the prospectus. In the fall, she co-chaired a panel Photographic Resource Center. During the with Martina Tanga on “The Multi-Temporal spring semester, Heidi interned for the City” at the South Eastern College Art Architecture and Design department at the Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina. In MIT Museum, conducting research on the the spring, Erin presented a paper entitled Bauhaus Archive in Berlin and the German "You are What you Wear: Dress and Cultural architect Hans Scharoun. After graduation, Identity in Les Costumes Populaires de la Heidi will be writing a history of the Turquie en 1873" at the interdisciplinary Shelburne Museum in Vermont. conference The Disciplined Past: Critical Reflections on the Study of the Middle East at Elisa Germán is excited to have completed the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard her final semester of coursework in her first University. Most recently, she completed a year as a PhD student. Her summer plans catalogue essay for the exhibition include studying for her oral exams, taking Undercurrent, which includes images of the part in the Summer Institute in Technical Art sea by contemporary photographer History (SITAH) at New York University, Shoshannah White, at the Maine Center for whose focus for this year's program is on “The Contemporary Art. This coming year Erin Artist’s Book: Materials and Processes,” in looks forward to intensive dissertation addition to serving as the GSHAAA MA research abroad in Turkey, France, England Comprehensive Exam Prep Coordinator (for and Austria thanks to a long-term GRAF. She

7 will also travel to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles with the support of a Getty Library Research Grant. On a personal note, Erin and her husband Chris welcomed a new addition to their family this past January - a daughter named Elise Adele Nolan!

Michael Pagan, Emily Voelker, Professor Kim Sichel, Professor Patricia Hills, Jordan Karney with Guest Scholar, BU Alumna, Carol Payne.

In the fall of 2013, Anjuli Lebowitz commenced dissertation research in Paris funded by a Graduate Research Abroad Erin Hyde Nolan and Elise with Carrie Anderson and Fellowship and the Kate and Hall Peterson Natalie. Fund from Boston University. In the spring of 2014 she continued her research of the Jordan Karney is looking forward to summer photographer Auguste Salzmann as a Library after a busy academic year. In addition to Grant Recipient at the Getty Research completing her MA, she presented her Institute. This summer she will participate in paper, "The Presence of Absence: The the Mellon Summer Institute in Technical Art Disappearance of the Body in Ana History at the Institute of Fine Arts of New Mendieta’s Siluetas" at The Graduate Center, York University and also attend the French CUNY's interdisciplinary Language School at Middlebury College with conference Disappearance: Spatial and the support of a Samuel H. Kress Art History Temporal Horizons in November, and Fellowship. In 2014-2015 she will be a Jane moderated the afternoon panel of HAA’s own and Morgan Whitney Fellow in the graduate symposium, See the Light in March. Department of Photographs at the Along with Michael Pagan she organized a Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, successful series of GSHAAA Guest Scholar where she will begin drafting her dissertation. Lectures. This summer she is excited to travel to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Erin McKellar spent the 2013-2014 academic the Archives of American art for research with year teaching courses on the history of interior the help of a GSHAAA travel grant. She is design in the CAS Writing Program and at the looking forward to being a teaching fellow Boston Architectural College and serving as next year, and serving as the next GSHAAA GSHAAA president. During the fall semester, president. she traveled to Greensboro, NC to present a paper entitled “‘A Better Environment for Today’s Living’: MoMA’s Organic Design in Home Furnishings” at the annual Southeastern College Art Conference. In February she organized the New England Chapter of the

8 Society of Architectural Historians’ 36th Capital in Sheila Hicks’s Air France Annual Student Symposium, which was held Tapestries” at a conference titled “Threads of at the Harvard University Graduate School of Circulation” at Ohio State University. Sarah’s Design. Most recently, she published a review summer plans include teaching “Introduction of The Blitz and its Legacy in a special issue to Art History II: Renaissance to Today” at of Planning Perspectives devoted to the Boston University and continuing her transatlantic culture of planning after the dissertation research with support from the Second World War. In May she will head to Beaze and Harry Adelson Travel and London to conduct research to advance her Research Fund. dissertation, “Tomorrow on Display: British and American Housing Exhibitions, 1940- 1955.” She will return to Boston at the end of June to once again teach “Introduction to Architecture” for BU Summer Term.

Catherine O'Reilly completed her course work this year and plans to take her qualifying exams in the fall. She recently represented the department at the IFA-Frick Symposium where she presented her paper "Venus on Balance: Botticelli’s Venus and Mars and the Crux of the Female Nude in the Italian Renaissance". Over the summer, in addition to preparing for exams, she plans to teach AH Susan Rice and Joseph Saravo 111 in the second session and continue her work as the Curatorial Division Research Joseph Saravo continues in his role this Associate at the Museum of Fine Arts, summer as Senior Cataloguer at the Isabella Boston. Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. He has been working since last summer on an access During the Fall 2013 semester, Sarah Parrish to the collections project, a joint effort of the continued her position as a Mellon Research curatorial, archives, and registration Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary departments that aims to improve online Art/Boston. In this role, she assisted Senior access to the museum's holdings for both Curator Jenelle Porter with the research for internal use as well as for public and scholarly her upcoming exhibition Fiber: Sculpture audiences. 1960-Present and wrote all 33 artists texts for the accompanying catalogue. After concluding Margaret Shortle continues to work on her her fellowship, Sarah taught “The History of dissertation as part of the Emmy Noether- Mixed-Media” during Lesley University Junior Research Group Kosmos/Ornatus, College of Art and Design’s January term. At Ornament in Persia and France in Lesley she also advised an undergraduate on Comparison, ca. 1400 in Berlin, Germany. his senior thesis and tutored graduate students Her appointment with the group has been on their MFA theses. This spring she taught extended, and she will remain in Germany for “Women, Art, and Society” at Suffolk at least one additional year. The research University and presented her paper group kindly supported her research at various “Materializing Global Networks: Craft and libraries and collections throughout Europe over the past summer, and she navigated

9 successfully (with the help of a kind Turkish conferences in Ann Arbor and Philadelphia in friend) the rare books library at Istanbul the fall to give papers on Byzantium and University and the Suleymaniye Library. Venice. She also attended several conferences Now that the Topkapi Palace Library has in Boston and New York. She continued reopened, she hopes to schedule a second trip teaching Byzantine art and architecture at to Istanbul before leaving Europe. MassArt and working at the MFA. This Additionally, Margaret will present her summer she is looking forward to visiting research in August and October at the Istanbul and then working in Rome and International Society for Iranian Studies Venice. Conference in Montreal and the Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Ginger Elliott Smith happily reports that she Hamburg. is in the final stages of writing her dissertation, "Practicing Big Science: Art, This year as a Horowitz Foundation Technology, and Institutions in 1960s and Dissertation Fellow, Naomi Slipp completed 1970s Southern California." She was awarded research and began drafting her dissertation. a 2014 CAA Travel Grant to attend the 102nd Between October and June, she presented Annual Conference in Chicago this year and it papers at Florida State University, the was a real treat to simply enjoy the conference University of Liverpool, UK, Oxford and to catch up with friends and colleagues. University, UK, the University of Southern Ginger is also thrilled to announce that she California, Wellesley College, the Eastern been accepted into the 2014 Summer Institute American Studies Association, and the Henry for Technical Art History (SITAH), organized Moore Institute in Leeds, UK. In addition, she by the Conservation Center at the Institute of has an essay forthcoming in Athanor 32, along Fine Arts (June 9-20, 2014). Her hope is that with entries for the Routledge Encyclopedia of the topics and debates staged at this year's Modernism and the MFA’s forthcoming SITAH, "The Artist’s Book: Materials and publication on black artists in the Americas. Processes," will strengthen her approach to She also began a two-year term as book technical art history and improve the total review co-editor for AHAA’s new journal contribution that her dissertation makes to our Panorama. During the summer, she will be discipline. Finally, Ginger will be using this teaching AH112 for BU’s Summer Term II. In summer to complete comprehensive rewrites September, she returns to Philadelphia with and edits of her dissertation draft, in her husband (they lived there from 2005-8) to anticipation of a defense in the fall. assume a nine-month Barra Foundation Curatorial Fellowship at the Philadelphia This past year Deb Stein has taught two Museum of Art, hosted by the Center for courses at BU that have not only been great American Art. At the PMA she will work for teaching experiences but have been thought the American Art Department on upcoming provoking in terms of her dissertation project. exhibitions and curatorial projects while also She taught The Early Italian Renaissance in continuing work on the dissertation. With all Metropolitan College in the fall and this of this ahead, she is looking forward to a quiet spring she has taught The Arts in America in and productive summer spent in Boston and CAS. As her project assesses American mid- on Cape Cod! nineteenth century "past looking," with particular emphasis on the Early Italian Lana Sloutsky had another busy and Renaissance, this sequence of courses has productive academic year. She traveled to proven fruitful. Dissertation research and

10 writing have continued, albeit slowly, in Martina also co-chaired, with Erin Nolan, a concert with the teaching. If all goes panel entitled “The Multi-Temporal City” at according to plan, Deb will focus this summer the 2013 Southeastern College Art Conference on archival research in Boston and in in October. This year she served as chair of other sites in New England and New York. In the Society of Contemporary Art Historian addition, she will present a paper, "Text and Graduate Advocacy Committee (SCAHGrad) Image: The Early Italian Renaissance and together with other graduate students in Sculptural Collections of Two Nineteenth- the Boston area she co-authored a syllabus of Century Bostonians," at the mid-June annual 19th and 20th century art and architecture with meeting of the Society of Medieval and a feminist pedagogical methodological Renaissance Studies at St. Louis University in approach. Lastly, on a personal note, Martina St. Louis, Missouri. She will also offer is proud to announce the birth of her daughter, gallery talks at the MFA, Boston. A life of Olivia Beatrice Entis, on October 16, 2013. art history continues to be a wondrous thing! She is a beautiful happy baby girl!

Thanks to the American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship, Martina Tanga has been able to dedicate this academic year to writing her dissertation, Acts of Disengagement: Italian Art in the 1970s. She presented material from her dissertation at various conferences this spring. In February, she participated in the panel entitled “Time and Space Concepts in Postwar Art,” co-chaired by Larisa Dryansky and Melissa Warak, with the paper entitled “Urban Rhythms: Ugo La Pietra’s Artistic Investigations in 1970s Italy” at the CAA’s 102nd Annual Conference. Additionally, in April she presented a talk entitled “The 1974 Martina Tanga, Jonathan and Olivia Beatrice Entis and 1976 Venice Biennale Exhibitions: Social engagement and institutional decentralization During the past academic year Emily Voelker of the arts” at the panel “But how does it passed her oral exams and wrote her work? Clarifying the Rhetoric Surrounding dissertation prospectus while serving as a Social Value in the Arts,” co-chaired by Graduate Writing Fellow in the CAS Writing Charlotte Bonham-Carter and Nicola Mann, at th Program. As a GWF she taught WR100 in the the Association of Art Historian’s (AAH) 40 fall and WR150 in the spring, both designed Annual Conference in London. Furthermore, as topic-based seminars entitled, Framing Martina is pleased that she will receive this Encounters: Intersections between Art & spring the Boston University Center for the Travel. In addition, she presented on a Humanities Student Award for work on her photographic album that forms one of her thesis. As well as working on her dissertation, dissertation chapters in October at the Western Martina published a review of the exhibition Society for French History, on a panel entitled “Loïs Mailou Jones,” at the Museum of Fine The American West in the French Arts, Boston, in the International Review of Imagination. This summer she will attend the African American Art (IRAAA) winter issue. French language immersion program at

11 Middlebury College in Vermont before pursuing her dissertation research over the next academic year in Washington D.C. and Paris with support from The Raymond and Margaret Horowitz Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Her project focuses on photographs of Native Americans made under the direction of early anthropology institutions in the United States and France between 1870 and 1890, and their exchange and circulation in transatlantic exhibition culture during this period. Amanda Lett, Joseph Saravo, Maggie Finnegan, Nicole Ford

Jordan Karney, Alex Yen, Beatrice Chan, Steven Burges Stacey Leonard, Kelsey Gustin, Olivia Kiers

Michael Pagan, Ewa Matyczyk, Bridget Hanson

GSHAAA: Tina Barouti, Lynne Cooney, Kelsey Gustin, Sam Toabe, Emily Voelker, Jordan Karney, Ariel Green, Naomi Slipp, Lindsey Alberts and Maggie Finnegan

American Visual Culture in Context: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Patricia Hills.

Professor Kim Sichel, Kevin Whitfield, Kelsey Gustin, Mr. and Mrs. Gustin, Amanda Lett, Sam Toabe, Professor Patricia Hills, Abigail MacGibeny, Elisa German, Rachel Kopelman, Jordan Karney, Alex Chaim, Naomi Slipp.

Professor S. Hollis Clayson delivering the keynote address, "Episodes From the Visual Culture of the Electrified City of Light" for "See the Light": The 30th Annual Graduate Symposium on the History of Art and Architecture. The lecture was held at the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery on February 28, 2014. Photo courtesy of Leslie K. Brown.