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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH FINE ARTS CENTER FALL 2020 Dear students, colleagues, and friends,
Had I written this text in February, it would have been guided by the same celebratory spirit as those in the past. There has indeed been much to be grateful for in the department. During the 2019–20 academic year, we received extraordinary gifts that allowed the endowment of no fewer than four new professorships. One, from an anonymous donor, honors the legacy of Howard McP. Davis, a famously great teacher of Renaissance art. Messages sent to me from his former students testify to the profound impact he had on them, and I am thrilled that we can commemorate a predecessor in my own field in this way. A second gift, from the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust, supports teaching and scholarship in the field of modern American or European art. Our distinguished colleague Kellie Jones has been appointed the inaugural chairholder. A third, donated by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and named in honor of the foundation’s former president, Walter Burke, will likewise go to a scholar of early modern European art. A search is underway for the first chairholder. Finally, a gift this spring allowed us to complete fundraising for the new Mary Griggs Burke Professorship in East Asian Buddhist Art History. A search for that position will take place next year. Beyond these four new chairs, the department also has two new chairholders: Holger Klein has completed his first year as Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History, and Noam Elcott is the inaugural Sobel– Dunn Chair, a title that will henceforth be held by the chair of Art Humanities.
Another major departmental achievement was the revision of the curriculum of Art Humanities itself, to place art by women and people of color newly at its center. Noam led this process, which involved enormous work and extensive conversations among instructors across the department; it represents the first major overhaul of the course since it became part of the Core Curriculum in 1947. Other highlights of the last year included the gathering Noam co-organized in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art Pictured from left to right, top to on the photographer August Sander and the standing-room-only symposium Zoë Strother and David bottom: Noam M. Elcott, Michael J. Waters, Stefaan Van Liefferinge, Freedberg put together around the question of whether works of African art should be restituted to Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Elizabeth their countries of origin. Zainab Bahrani and Kellie Jones were both elected to the American Academy W. Hutchinson, Meredith Gamer, of Arts and Sciences. Z. S. Strother, Branden W. Joseph, Francesco de Angelis, Diane Bodart, Gregory Bryda, Zainab Bahrani, Like everything else, however, the department has been affected by the pandemic. In the spring, our Michael Cole, Barry Bergdoll, courses all shifted online. Most of us are still teaching remotely. For the first time in the department’s Eleonora Pistis, Anne Higonnet, MODA Curates Matthew McKelway, Alexander history, it appears that we will pass an entire year without an in-person gathering of faculty, students, A Bottomless Silence Alberro, Lisa Trever, Jonathan friends, and alumni. As a result of the attendant economic crisis, moreover, we will accept only a Reframing the Passport Photo Crary, Holger A. Klein, Frédérique Baumgartner, David Freedberg, handful of PhD students in 2021 and 2022. This year’s protests against anti-Black racism have also Zeynep Çelik Alexander. compelled us to undertake difficult conversations across the department, and to reexamine many Offered annually by the Miriam and Ira .D Wallach Art Gallery and the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial September 6–November 4, 2018 Government of Japan, the exhibit drew of our traditional practices. Studies program, this curatorial opportunity, awarded to students with outstanding exhibition proposals based on their theses, Full-time faculty not pictured: from collections in Japan, Europe, and the Vidya Dehejia, Rosalyn Deutsche, featured online exhibits this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A Bottomless Silence, curated by Rotana Shaker, borrows its name The first retrospective exhibition of United States. Most notably, it included Robert E. Harrist Jr., Kellie Jones, We appreciate that these times call for institutional change. Seeing my colleagues working together from a text by anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Reflecting on his thesis of power and its dissemination through the act of Rosalind Krauss, Janet Kraynak, Nagasawa Rosetsu’s painting outside a full-scale reconstruction of the interior on these things leaves me hopeful about the future, even amidst all the present uncertainties. recording, the exhibit looks to the work of contemporary artists Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Jumana Manna, and Walid Raad to interrogate Jonathan Reynolds, Simon Schama, Japan was held last fall at the Museum of the Main Hall (Hondo¯) of the temple Avinoam Shalem. the ways we know, experience, and build meaning around the past. Reframing the Passport Photo, curated by Hannah Morse, uses Rietberg in Zürich. Curated by Professor Muryo¯ji, the best preserved of a group With best wishes for the holiday season, the passport as a lens through which to viewMatthew contemporary McKelway issues and associated Dr. Khanh with Trinh the globalizedof temples world: for whichmigration, Rosetsu nationalism, produced Cover: Clara Peeters, Still Life access, belonging, and personhood. Featuring(Museum four artists Rietberg), whose andwork co-sponsored references the passportinterior photo—Martina paintings in 1786–1787. Bacigalupo, with Cheeses, Almonds, and Sheng Qi, Tomoko Sawada, and Stephanie Syjuco—the exhibit explores the premises that underlie modern identification practices, Pretzels (detail), ca. 1615. Oil on panel. Mauritshuis, The Hague. exposing the growing gaps between personal identity and state-sanctioned identification. Opposite: Tomoko Sawada, ID Michael Cole 400 #101–200, 1998. Gelatin silver prints. Department Chair
2 826 schermerhorn ART HUMANITIES Instructor Perspectives ART HUMANITIES: Transitioning Art Humanities into a fully online course was a demanding task, but one with many silver linings. In preparation for teaching this summer, I collaborated online with A CURRICULUM fellow instructors and contributed to a community of creative thinkers to design a course that offered enriching REFORMED learning experiences. The summer also brought with it the opportunity For the first time since its founding over seventy they will unpack how this legacy was confronted to explore online tools that offered years ago, Art Humanities has undergone a and reimagined in the collages of Romare Bearden new approaches to the curriculum. comprehensive curricular reform. Under the and the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Once Teaching virtually during a pandemic leadership of Noam Elcott, Sobel–Dunn Chair for arguably the most conservative course in the Core and a period of ongoing social outrage Art Humanities, faculty and graduate students Curriculum, Art Humanities now engages with the posed many challenges, yet it also worked for over two years to conceive, debate, most timely and urgent questions asked by the generated more connectivity. Members and ratify a new curriculum that includes—for Columbia community and the world. of the Core community and students the first time—women artists and artists of color. communicated openly, cultivating a The Parthenon, Amiens Cathedral, Michelangelo, In addition to the curricular reform, Art sense of togetherness in troubling Rembrandt, Le Corbusier, Picasso, and other Humanities has undertaken a pedagogic times, while inventively and critically pillars of the syllabus remain, but the curriculum reorganization to ensure that its instructors are engaging with the curriculum. has been reconceived to place the experiences the best trained and its students the best served. and art of women and people of color at its center. To keep the course intellectually vital, the Art JOEY WOLDMAN Guided by dedicated instructors, undergraduates Humanities Seminars series has been founded as a PhD Candidate will now compare representations of women as forum for instructors to read and discuss current abstractions, such as Raphael’s Sistine Madonna scholarship on art and culture with those scholars, (1512) or Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills who this year include Elizabeth Alexander, Kwame Over the course of the summer, I was (1977–80), with representations of women as Anthony Appiah, Whitney Davis, and Griselda continually surprised by the quality individuals with unique physiognomies and Pollock. Despite the considerable difficulties Below left: Cindy Sherman, of the conversation sustained while Untitled Film Still #21, 1978. personalities, such as in Sofonisba Anguissola’s imposed by a global pandemic and the ensuing teaching Art Humanities online. Above: Mary Cassatt, Gelatin silver print. Below Chess Game (1555) or Berthe Morisot’s Mother and shift to online education, Art Humanities brims In the Loge, 1878. Oil right: Romare Bearden, One advantage of Zoom is that it Sister of the Artist (1869–70). They will explore how with intellectual energy among instructors and on canvas. Museum Patchwork Quilt, 1970. caters to different comfort levels with global trade, colonialism, and slavery undergirded students alike. To get a taste of the revamped of Fine Arts, Boston. Cut-and-pasted cloth and participation, enabling normally quiet Left: Sofonisba paper with acrylic on board. the still lifes of seventeenth-century artist Clara curriculum, visit
EMMA LE POUÉSARD PhD Candidate
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DEPARTMENT STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY 12 June 2020 ART X SOCIAL The recent social protests call upon us all to advocate for justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Sean Monterrosa, Ahmaud Arbery, JUSTICE David McAtee, and the many, many other victims of anti-Black violence in this country. The Columbia Department of Art History and Archaeology mourns AXSJ organized “Art from Within,” a series of their deaths and stands against bi-weekly art workshops for men incarcerated at racism. We condemn violence, bias, the Rikers Island correctional facility. Together and the marginalization of Black, with Mia Ruyter, education and outreach manager Indigenous, and all peoples of color and at the Heyman Center, and arts educator Laura discrimination based on race, ethnicity, Betancur from El Museo del Barrio, graduate Above: Introduction to gender, sexuality, nationality, citizenship students developed and implemented workshops Stories in Paper on the eighth status, religion, ability, socioeconomic for incarcerated participants to discuss works floor of Schermerhorn Hall. status, and the intersectionality of these from museum collections as well as create their Photograph by Lucy Wang. identities in society at large. We call for own art using materials brought into the facility. Right: Griffin, Justice, the dismantling of systemic forms of 2019. Middle: Group oppression. And we recognize that we In January 2020, some of the pieces created collaboration, Paper Quilt need to hold ourselves accountable to in these workshops were displayed in Stories Full of Love, Liberty, these values. in Paper: An Exhibition of Works by Incarcerated Joy, Challenge, Change, Vision, Peace, Community, Artists, on view in Schermerhorn Hall through Freedom, 2019. Bottom: As a community of teachers, scholars, December. The exhibit focused on works using Sean, New York, 2019. and curators, we understand the role paper—a material chosen primarily for its Photographs by that art and visual culture have always accessibility within the confines of the prison, Stefaan Van Liefferinge. played in shaping and spreading but also yet which yielded an amazingly rich set of speaking back to structural inequality, as collages, sculptures, and textiles. As the program well as in envisioning alternative futures. organizers noted in the exhibition text, “Through As a department, we promote critical experimental textures, forms, and colors, the engagement with artistic traditions workshop participants created an aesthetic world from across the globe and the span of Curator Zoë Dostal and 2019–20 saw the commencement of Art X Social radically different from the one in which they live.” history. We hold our scholarship to the attendees at the exhibition Justice, a new program in the department created highest standards and we are proud of opening of Stories in Paper. by PhD candidates Nicholas Croggon and Zoë Since the establishment of the program, the the impact our faculty and students have Photograph by Lucy Wang. Dostal that aims to foster a space for students, calls for the abolition of mass incarceration have had on the field. Yet these times call for faculty, and staff to work collaboratively on social continued to grow louder in the worlds of art, a deeper commitment to institutional justice projects as well as to connect them to philanthropy, and beyond. In the coming year, change. This effort requires our sincere related programs within the University, such AXSJ plans to offer a remote, asynchronous art and ongoing work. as the Heyman Center’s Justice-in-Education history course to incarcerated students and hopes Initiative. to receive funding that will enable it to continue We echo and support the statements developing the skills, networks, and expertise from the broader Columbia community, In its inaugural year, AXSJ confronted the issue of needed to carry out social justice work. and from our partner organizations and mass incarceration, one of the defining civil rights institutions, about the particular role to issues of our time. As is well understood today, be played by the arts and humanities the carceral system in the United States is without in the social transformations that are parallel, controlling about 6.6 million people NICHOLAS CROGGON needed, and their recognition that now (or about 1 in every 38 persons in the country) PhD Candidate is not a time for empty gestures. In through incarceration, probation, or parole, a our own attempts to think beyond our figure that disproportionately affects communities ZOË DOSTAL historic modes of operation, we connect of color, people living in poverty, and immigrants. PhD Candidate with the broader call for advocacy of equity and racial justice.
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TRAVEL SEMINAR:
Top right: Barry Bergdoll and students at the reconstructed Monument to the March Dead in Weimar. Photograph by Rosie Hausmann. Top left: Henry van BAUHAUS de Velde exhibit at the Neues Museum, Weimar. Bottom: Original Bauhaus exhibit at the Berlinische Galerie. Ringing in the eventful centenary of one of the der Rohe’s Trinkhalle kiosk; and a dinner at Photographs by Tim Trombley. most influential design schools of the twentieth Kornhaus, a restaurant designed by Carl Fieger. century seemed like no easy feat, yet this was the We spent our second day in Dessau at the city's exact task taken up by our seminar Bauhaus and new Bauhaus museum, whose curatorial and Architecture, led by Barry Bergdoll, as we travelled exhibition practices proved to be a fan favorite to Germany in November 2019. Focusing on the with students. On our final day, we made our role of exhibitions in particular, we sought to way to Berlin to squeeze in one last exhibition, understand contemporary engagement with the Original Bauhaus, at the Berlinische Galerie. Bauhaus and its long afterlife. Taking a more conceptual approach than the other retrospectives, the exhibition was a perfect We began our journey in Weimar, where we ending to our trip, as it questioned the post- assessed the beginnings of the Bauhaus through Bauhaus legacy and prompted us to address visits to the original school building and Georg these tensions through our individual research Muche’s Haus Am Horn. Subsequent activities projects back in New York. included a survey of the newly renovated Bauhaus Museum as well as the Neues Museum’s Van The travel component of this seminar was a de Velde exhibit, which helped us contemplate remarkable experience that allowed us to engage the forward-thinking nature of Walter Gropius’s with the course material in immediate and Bauhaus school at its inception in 1919. The inspiring ways. Thank you to the Riggio Program highlight of the trip was our two-day visit to Fund for Undergraduate Support; Tim Trombley Left: Walter Gropius, Dessau, where we were immediately greeted by from the Media Center for photographing the trip Meisterhaus Kandinsky- the famed Bauhaus school building. We were and creating virtual reality programming for our Klee, Dessau, 1925–26. especially fortunate to take a day-long guided subsequent symposium; and PhD candidate Right: Installation view, tour of this institution along with additional site Lucy Wang for organizing the travel logistics. Bauhaus Museum, Weimar. Photographs by Tim visits to Gropius’s Arbeitsamt, Meisterhäuser, Trombley. and Siedlung Dessau-Törten; Ludwig Mies van THOMAS SAENZ, ‘21 BA
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COMPETING TRUTHS
In November 2019, the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America and the Frick Collection co-hosted the symposium Competing Truths: Art and the Objects of History After the Council of Trent. The two-day event, partially sponsored by the department and organized by Alessandra Di Croce ’17 PhD and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Hannah Friedman and Grace Harpster, brought together scholars and museum professionals to investigate how Italian art helped formulate contested truths in the post-Tridentine era, and how the THE RESTITUTION African museums address history. strategies of that time continue to affect our understanding DEBATE Daouda Keïta made the plea for of historical truth today. The symposium opened with a collaboration and dialogue in the roundtable discussion on methodology featuring scholars wake of devastating losses of cultural from a range of disciplinary perspectives who spoke on the Z. S. Strother and David Freedberg, heritage in 2012 from sectarian ethical and historical dimensions of constructing truth. with the Institute of African Studies violence. The second day brought these themes to bear on focused and the Italian Academy for Advanced research presentations that explored post-Tridentine Studies in America and generous Dissenting voices were provided by topics such as falsified origin stories, competing relics, support from the Andrew W. Mellon Alain Patrice Nganang and Paulin J. and the polemics of Christian archaeology. Through their Foundation, co-organized the October Hountondji. Nganang made a pas- contributions, participants revealed how art that has often 2019 day-long international symposium sionate call to value people more than been dismissed as propagandistic and derivative shaped The Restitution Debate: African Art objects, arguing that restitution was people’s beliefs during a time of deep political and spiritual Caravaggio, Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1601–2. Oil on canvas. Sanssouci, Potsdam. in a Global Society. Centered on the a smokescreen intended to disguise division. report prepared for French president French complicity in the oppression of Emmanuel Macron by Felwine Sarr Anglophone Cameroonians. As respon- GRACE HARPSTER and Bénédicte Savoy, entitled “The dent, Houtondji queried whether there Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: was not a disconnect from broader Toward a New Relational Ethics,” the audiences whose attitude might be de- meeting provided a venue for these scribed as je m’enfoutism (I don’t care). authors to introduce their work to an His compatriot, Marie-Cécile Zinsou, DIGITIZING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC American audience and for scholars passionately disagreed, arguing that and museum professionals to respond her organization had enjoyed marked COLLECTION from multiple perspectives. success in welcoming a young and media-savvy audience to exhibitions. With generous support from the Samuel H. Kress Sarr opened the symposium with an Addressing the American context, Pap Foundation, the Media Center has begun the eloquent reformulation of the goals of Ndiaye traced a “prehistory” for restitu- digitization and cataloging of the nearly 105,000 the report. He sought to address a year tion by recovering the interest of figures photographs of art and architecture stored in of debate on the subject and invited in the Harlem Renaissance. Strother the department’s collections, most of which are the audience to engage in a “shared, drew on the history of the implemen- currently housed offsite. The initiative aims to peaceful history.” Through the trope of tation of the Native American Graves make this splendid resource accessible once amnesia, Savoy queried why a push for Protection and Repatriation Act (1990) again to specialists as well as to the general restitution by Africans in the late 1970s to argue that learning to listen has the public. Until pausing for the campus closure in failed and was forgotten. Ugochukwu- potential to transform museums in March, graduate students carefully created high- Smooth Nzewi raised several concerns surprising and positive directions. resolution digital copies of the photos, which will Top right: Bénédicte Savoy speaking during and drew a lesson from the ancient be searchable through the Media Center’s online The Restitution Debate. Top left: Felwine Sarr. obelisk returned to Axum, Ethiopia, Recordings of most of the presenta- image database (https://mcid.mcah.columbia. Photographs by Barbara Alper. Middle left: edu). The Media Center also plans to work with Royal Statues from Abomey, seized in 1892 which is now remembered as the tions are available at:
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FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS BOOK EXCERPTin Among the essays recently published by given at the artist’s house in Catskill, and University Press, 2017) was named a 2019–2020 NOAM ELCOTT are “Material. Human. the conversation afterwards with local Best Book of the Decade by ArtNews. She Amilcare and Bianca did not Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen” Native people. While the pandemic has published the essays “The World Accord- approach the naming of their girls in Screen Genealogies; “The Master of held up some publications and opportu- ing to Z” in Senga Nengudi: Topologies ZAINAB BAHRANI was elected to the much differently from that of their Time: Jean Epstein’s Nonhuman Time nities, including a Senior Fellowship at as well as “Studio Museum in Harlem, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. boy. The ancient namesakes of Axis Manipulation” in Time Machine: the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Ancient to the Future” and “Interview She gave the C. Densmore Curtis Lecture Sofonisba, Elena, and Europa were Cinematic Temporalities; “Walead Beshty: her contribution to the volume Coloniza- with Thelma Golden” in Black Refractions: at Bryn Mawr College and the Walter S. all famous beauties, but then Livy The Aesthetics and Ethics of Materialist tion, Wilderness, and Spaces Between: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Cook Lecture at the Institute of Fine Arts had written of the most famous Transparency” in Walead Beshty; “Loops, Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting Harlem, celebrating the fiftieth anni- NYU. She published “Historical Destruc- ancient general Hasdrubal that he or The Wave” in Festschrift für Bernhard in Australia and the United States was versary of one of Columbia’s renowned tion in a Forgotten War” in the catalogue became the favorite of his father, Siegert; “Windows on an Absent World” recently published. neighboring cultural institutions. for Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars Hamilcar, “owing to his personal in Vera Lutter: Museum Pictures (LACMA); “Calder/Photography: Images in Limbo KELLIE JONES was elected to the BRANDEN W. JOSEPH published 1991–2011 (MoMA); “Crystal Words” beauty as a boy.” The girls’ names, and Nonhuman Perception” in Calder American Academy of Arts and Sciences. his eighth major essay on Andy Warhol, in the volume Seeking Transparency, meanwhile, pointed to expectations co-edited by Avinoam Shalem; and “The (Pace); and “Herbert Bayer, Exhibition She was named a Distinguished Scholar “Something One Recognizes Yet Can’t of learning and ambition, evident Stand for Electrical Company, 1924” in En- by the College Art Association and gave a See: Andy Warhol in and as Media,” in Parthian Rock Reliefs and Bahdinan Gate in the longer history of artists’ at Amadiya/Amedi” in the journal Iraq. gineer, Agitator, Constructor (MoMA). But lecture on Augusta Savage and the queer the Fall 2019 issue of Grey Room, as well names. Tellingly, most of the early the most important work he undertook for Harlem Renaissance to celebrate that as the article “HPSCHD en retrospectiva” modern Italian women who are the department was surely the coordina- lifetime achievement. In the spring, she in the volume A Quien le Interese: 5 Textos FRÉDÉRIQUE BAUMGARTNER was known to us today as painters were tion of the first major overhaul of the Art became the inaugural Hans Hofmann Fundamentales Sobre John Cage and an invited to contribute to a volume on the raised with famous names. Teodora Humanities curriculum since the course Professor of Modern Art. Her book South obituary of the pioneering feminist artist visual arts and secularization in the was founded in 1947 (see pp. 4–5). of Pico: African American Artists in Los Carolee Schneemann in the May 2019 modern period, for which she wrote an Danti may have been named after a saint, though her learned father, who had Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Duke issue of Artforum. essay entitled “Réorienter l’imagination: changed the family name from Rinaldi to Danti in honor of Dante Alighieri, Last fall, MEREDITH GAMER gave la mise en valeur du fond dans l’œuvre would surely have known the Greek hero Teodora as well. Giovanni Battista Ghisi a lecture at the Morgan Library & d’Hubert Robert.” The volume was gave his daughter the name of the mythical huntress and nature goddess Diana. Museum in conjunction with the exhibi- published by Éditions de la Sorbonne Irene di Spilimbergo was probably named for a Greek painter celebrated by tion Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor as well BOOK EXCERPT in September. both Boccaccio and Pliny. Lavinia Fontana was named after the wife of Aeneas, as the keynote address for “Hogarth’s founder of Rome, who governed an empire in her widowhood. The forebear of Moral Geography,” a workshop hosted A book neither about technology nor BARRY BERGDOLL contributed cata- Artemisia Gentileschi was a legendary patron of architecture, the inventor of the by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies logue essays for exhibitions on architects about a specific type of art that uses mausoleum. While the occasional male artist, too, received a secular name, there in British Art. In the spring, she co-led Lina Bo Bardi (São Paulo Museum of Art), the computer, digital applications, is nothing like this phenomenon. a masterclass organized around the Gio Ponti (MAXXI), and Thomas Jefferson or the internet as a medium, its exhibition Artful Nature: Fashion and (Chrysler Museum of Art), as well as for interests are more all-encompassing: Excerpt from Michael Cole’s Sofonisba’s Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work Theatricality, 1770–1830 at the Lewis the Merrill Berman collection at MoMA, examining the changing status of the (Princeton University Press, 2020). Walpole Library and co-chaired a panel where he also curated two architecture political public sphere and, ultimately, entitled “Past & Present: Britain and the galleries for the expanded museum. He the withering of democracy under Social History of Art” at CAA. In April, spoke at the Columbia/MoMA sympo- what it describes as the digitization her article “The Smugglerius, re-viewed” sium on the photographer August Sander, With Francesca Alberti, she is preparing Ankara as well as at Rice University, appeared in Sculpture Journal. of everyday life…this book argues that organized by Noam Elcott, and gave an exhibition on the art of scribbling for Washington University, and Yale these developments are paradoxically the keynote address for a symposium at the French Academy in Rome. University. related to the emergence of postwar the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston. ANNE HIGONNET spent the 2019–20 year at Harvard University as a Radcliffe digital utopianism, or the firm belief Lecture invitations took him to Bordeaux, GREGORY BRYDA presented a paper MICHAEL COLE’s book Sofonisba’s in the emancipatory possibilities Cologne, Seoul, and Tokyo before resort- on late medieval grisaille altarpieces Institute Fellow. There she wrote most Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work of computers and informational ing to Zoom for a masterclass “at” the at The Philosophical Image, a confer- appeared from Princeton University Press of a book on fashion during the period technologies, whose proponents Berlage Institute in Delft. ence held at Johns Hopkins University. in December. In January, he was named of the French Revolution, now under have long promoted the creation of Although the pandemic thwarted other Howard McP. Davis Professor of Art History. contract with Norton. In fall 2019, she DIANE BODART co-edited, with Jean speaking engagements, he was able For The Burlington Magazine, he wrote spoke at Memorial Acte in Guadeloupe, a more egalitarian society. With the Gribenski, the volume Le grand âge et ses to publish a review of Donna Saddler’s a survey of the books and exhibitions the last venue of the exhibition Le Modèle invention of electronic networks, œuvres ultimes (PU Rennes, 2020), which Touching the Passion in the journal that marked the 2019 Leonardo da Vinci Noir, curated by her student Denise this social model of computing… investigates the limits of the Romantic Speculum, make progress on his book quincentennial; this appeared in June. Murrell ’14 PhD, which started at the became more widespread, with a semiotic rewriting of the computer (and the archetype of the old genius from the manuscript, The Trees of the Cross, and, Wallach Gallery. digital) as symbolic modes. In light of subsequent history…this cyberutopic Renaissance onward following a compar- as chair of digital services, supervise JONATHAN CRARY’s book 24/7: Late rhetoric is being sorely tested, as the cultural realities of digitization have ative approach between arts, literature, the overhaul of the website for the Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Verso, One of ELIZABETH HUTCHINSON’s unfolded in strikingly counter terms, with increased political marginalization, real pleasures the past academic year was and music. In the journal Studiolo, she International Center of Medieval Art 2014) was the inspiration for a major exclusion, division, and political injustice, particularly in terms of race, gender, creating a public program at the Whitney published the essay “Los borrones de (medievalart.org). group exhibition last fall and winter sexuality, and ethnicity. As a result, society increasingly is threatening to slide Ticiano: the Venetian Brushstroke and at Somerset House in London. Over Museum that explored Indigenous perspectives on the exhibition Vida dangerously toward a form of illiberalism and anti-democracy, while unleashing its Spanish Translations,” which recon- ZEYNEP ÇELIK ALEXANDER co- fifty invited artists responded to Crary’s an unremitting expropriation of bodies and minds in the service of capital. siders the Spanish reception of Venetian edited, with John May, Design Technics: text with art works and installations for Americana with Rick Chavolla (Kumey- painting from a semantic and technical Archaeologies of Architectural Practice the show, 24/7: A Wake-Up Call for Our aay), a director at the American Indian Excerpt from Janet Kraynak’s Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday perspective. Invited as visiting professor (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Non-Stop World. His book is now in print Community House. Similarly rewarding Life (University of California Press, 2020). at the Scuola Superiore di Catania, she She gave lectures at the Hochschule für or forthcoming in twenty-two foreign was a talk about Thomas Cole’s represen- gave a series of lectures on court portrai- Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main language editions. tations of Haudenosaunee landscapes, ture in the Spanish Hapsburg Empire. and Middle East Technical University
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BOOK EXCERPT ELEONORA PISTIS spent the 2019–20 una antigüedad americana,” with Joanne Emeritus Professors year conducting archival research in Pillsbury, in Historia y Cultura, a journal NEW NAMED Like the sea, and the watery medium Rome and preparing the manuscript for published by the National Museum of In December 2019, STEPHEN MURRAY with which rock crystal is identified her second book, Antiquarian Fragments, Archaeology, Anthropology, and History was awarded an honorary doctorate from PROFESSORSHIPS in the Middle Ages, the history of its Making of Knowledge, and Missing in Peru. the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in production during the Middle Ages Architecture. She published a book review Amiens. The special ceremony, celebrat- AND CHAIRS ebbs and flows. From Late Antiquity in the June 2020 issue of the Journal of MICHAEL J. WATERS published the ing the fiftieth anniversary of the founding to the age of the great Portuguese the Society of Architectural Historians and article “Candelabra-Columns and the of the university, took place in the splen- This past year, the department Lombard Architecture of Sculptural expansion, specific knowledge about completed two articles: “Leggere con did auditorium designed by Renzo Piano was honored with two new named Assemblage” in the volume The Art of carving the hard material was kept a altri occhi: George Clarke e la biblioteca for the new campus located in the Citadel professorships. The first of these, Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy and the of Amiens. He was previously awarded closely guarded secret in just a few nella biblioteca” and “Rethinking Por- tability: Scipione Maffei and the Mobile essay “Architecture: Renaissance Building honorary citizenship of Amiens in 1978. endowed through a gift from an centers of production. All the while, Architecture.” Culture between Production and Place” in anonymous donor, is the Howard royal courts and wealthy churches were the Bloomsbury series A Cultural History ESTHER PASZTORY’s memoir, McP. Davis Professorship of eager patrons for the luxurious objects of Objects. In fall 2019, he presented a AVINOAM SHALEM co-organized Freedom Fighter, is forthcoming in 2021. Art History, which will support given that rock crystal was valued as the lecture series Disrupting Unity and paper on Hieronymus Cock’s prints of Her blog Interesting Times is available on one of the most desirable and precious Discerning Ruptures in conjunction with the Bath of Diocletian at a conference estherpasztory.net/news. an art historian of European art of all materials, ascribed mysterious the Center for the Study of Muslim in Oxford and another on Leonardo da and architecture in the period origins and powers, and renowned for Societies. He took part in a CAA panel Vinci and mimesis at a symposium in from 1300 to 1700. Michael Paris dedicated to the artist’s architec- both rarity and clarity. This collection of on global medieval art and gave a lecture Cole is the first holder of this essays reveals the global and cross- on mother of pearl souvenirs carved in tural work. He also gave talks at the Yale professorship, named in honor cultural histories of rock-crystal production in and even beyond the lands of Bethlehem at the Hamad bin Khalifa School of Architecture and the Graduate the Mediterranean Sea. It investigates many objects and varied aspects of rock Symposium on Islamic Art in Doha, Colloquium in the department. of the scholar of Renaissance crystal, such as the physical nature and legendary as well as actual origins of Qatar. He published several articles, art and longtime Columbia the material; its manufacturing techniques and affiliations to other luxurious including “Oil and Art: the Action-Packed BOOK EXCERPT faculty member, who is much Scene in Baku around 1900” in the objects; legends and traditions associated with its aesthetic qualities; as well as remembered for his extraordinary issues concerning its varied functions and historiography. catalogue for The Rise of Islamic Art 1869– Students and lovers of the great French 1939 (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum) dedication to teaching. With a Gothic cathedrals: Laon, Notre-Dame and “The Transformative Museum: Why generous gift from the Renate, Excerpt from Avinoam Shalem’s Seeking Transparency: Rock Crystals Across the Medieval of Paris, Soissons, Chartres, Bourges, We Need An Other Museum for the Arts Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust, Mediterranean, co-edited with Cynthia Hahn (Gebruder Mann Verlag, 2020). of Islam” in the volume Dynamis of the Reims, Beauvais and Amiens have, for Columbia University has also Image, among others. He co-edited, centuries, asked themselves, which with Cynthia Hahn, the volume Seeking is the most beautiful of them all? For established the Hans Hofmann Transparency. many, that distinction goes to Amiens. Professorship of Modern Art. HOLGER A. KLEIN concluded his term concerning the political events of the But how should we tell the story of Honoring the German-born summer of 2020, was featured on the Z. S. STROTHER co-organized the sym- this overwhelming masterpiece that as director of graduate studies on July 1, American Abstract Expressionist, though he continues to serve as faculty blog of the University of California Press. posium The Restitution Debate: African Art appears to link human creativity with the director of Casa Muraro and director of She is currently working on a new book in a Global Society in conjunction with the Divine? How can we hope to create a the endowed position supports a the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish project that distills some of the central Institute of African Studies and the Italian written structure to match the cathedral? faculty member whose teaching Studies. He published an op-ed in The themes of her just-published book for Academy for Advanced Studies in Ameri- Our book must recount the stories and research focus on modern Art Newspaper on the conversion of a general audience in relation to the ca (see p. 10). She gave keynote address- of a long-vanished past—while at the American or European art. Kellie Hagia Sophia and the Kariye Museum in shifting nature of the contemporary art es for the symposium Museum Collections same time embracing the continuing Jones is the inaugural incumbent. Istanbul into mosques and participated museum in light of recent controversies. in Motion, held in Cologne, as well as for physical presence of the cathedral in in a panel discussion on the topic hosted an online open course on plantations In addition, Holger A. Klein our own time and space, still inviting by Stanford University. He was named MATTHEW McKELWAY so far has and museums. She published the articles us to approach, to enter and to marvel. was recently appointed the Lisa a Distinguished Research Fellow at endured the coronavirus pandemic in “Iconoclastia por procuraçao” in Arte Não and Bernard Selz Professor of Sabancı University in Istanbul. New York City, his main home since Europeia: Conexões Historiográficas partir These are issues that I have reflected arriving to study at Columbia thirty years do Brasil and “The Role of Masks in the upon endlessly in the more-than-thirty years I spent teaching Art Humanities… Medieval Art History, a position After publishing her monograph Willem ago, occasionally meeting with former Eastern Pende Mukanda,” with Nzomba Lying at the very heart of the enterprise is the business of translating visual previously held by Stephen De Kooning Nonstop (University of Chica- graduate students Aaron Rio ’15 PhD and Dugo Kakema, in Congo as Fiction: Art perceptions of the work of art into verbal rhetoric, or ekphrasis. This process is Murray. Finally, through the triggered by the not-so-simple questions, “What can we see here…? And what go Press, 2016), ROSALIND KRAUSS Talia Andrei ’16 PhD. He saw the publica- Worlds Between Past and Present. support of Marcia Dunn and is writing her new book, Roland Barthes: tion of articles in English, Japanese, and cannot be seen…?” Multiple responses will result and fruitful disagreements Charms and Demons, to be published by French, and continues to work in isola- LISA TREVER was awarded an Explora- will be rehearsed. It is through such debate and disagreement that an individual Jonathan S. Sobel, the chair of Art the same press. tion on other projects. Since mid-summer tion Grant from the National Geographic may develop the ability to reach a coherent personal narrative—one where the Humanities has also been made he has been conducting weekly briefings Society for her archaeological and art affect and the meaning of the work of art may be understood by the viewer and an endowed position. The Sobel– JANET KRAYNAK published Contempo- for graduate student instructors of the historical project “Uncovering the Painted narrated to an audience. Dunn Chair, which will rotate rary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life survey Arts of China, Japan, and Korea, Stories of Pañamarca, Peru.” Excavations among faculty members every (University of California Press, 2020). Her an alternative to Art Humanities in which have been postponed due to the pandem- Excerpt from Stephen Murray’s Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic ic. She published the articles “A Moche three years, is currently held by article “The Storytellers” appeared in the increasing numbers of students are Cathedral (Columbia University Press, 2020). See also the attendant website September 2019 issue of Artforum and her opting to enroll. Riddle in Clay: Object Knowledge and Art
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DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP CHARLOTTE GORANT: “Reliefs DAVID SLEDGE: “Mediated Form, Race, Samuel H. Kress Fellowship 2020–22, Workshop: The Della Robbia Family and KATHRYN KREMNITZER: “Manet’s AWARDS 2020–2021 from the Bhārhut Stūpa: Re-evaluating and Visual Publics in American Modernist Center for the Advancement of the Italian Glazed Terracotta Sculpture, ca. Watercolors: Transition and Translation in Early Buddhist Narrative Art (ca. 200 Art, 1920–40” Visual Arts 1430–1566” (Michael Cole) the 1860s” (Anne Higonnet) ACLS/Luce Dissertation Fellowship in BCE–100 CE)” ISABELLA LORES-CHAVEZ: “Plaster American Art GWEN UNGER: “Other Selves: Casts in the Life and Art of Seventeenth- RAYMOND CARLSON: "Michelangelo NICHOLAS MORGAN: “Displaying MARY SUPERFINE: “Radical Touch: RATTANAMOL JOHAL: “Dissolving Critical Self-Portraiture in Cuba during Century Dutch Painters” between Florence and Rome: Art and Queerness: Art and Identity, 1989–1993” Performative Sculpture and Assemblage Margins: Indian Art in the Globalized the ‘Special Period in Time of Peace,’ Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy" (Alexander Alberro) in the 1970s” 1990s” 1989–1999” MA FELLOWSHIP AWARDS (Michael Cole)
MIKAEL MUEHLBAUER: “‘Bastions of American Research Institute in Turkey HAE YEUN KIM: “Unkoku Tōgan HEATHER WOOLLEY: “Miraculous Caleb Smith Memorial Fellowship LUKE COHEN: “Port of Flanders: the Cross’: Medieval Rock-Cut Cruciform Research Grant (1547–1618) and Painting in Early Modern Technologies: The Supernatural in 2019–20 Jef Geys and Belgium in the ’70s” Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia” (Stephen AYŞE ERCAN: “Fashioning a Medieval Western Japan” Modern Image Making, 1800–1900” MARINA RASTORFER ’20 MA (Rosalind Krauss) Murray) Capital: The Topography and Archaeology “Provenance Research and The of the Mangana Quarter in VALERIE ZINNER: “Sumiyoshi Gukei GSAS Teaching Scholars Fellowship Many Chasms: The Case of Gurlitt, SOPHIA D’ADDIO: “Painted Organ STEVEN NIEDBALA: “Techniques of Constantinople (843–1453 CE)” and Early Modern Yamato-e” OLIVIA CLEMENS: “Forming ‘Islamic an Ongoing Search” Shutters in Renaissance Italy” (Michael Art’ in the United States: Collecting Carceral Reproduction: Architecture and Cole) the Prison System in the United States, Ary Stillman Finishing Dissertation Eighth-Year Fellowship, Art Humanities and Exhibiting in the American Context, JEAN JO YEE WONG ’20 MA 1799–1978” (Barry Bergdoll) Fellowship SUSANNAH BLAIR: “Constantin Guys 1880–1940” “Resisting Isolation and Building YASMINE ESPERT: “The Cinema TIFFANY FLOYD: “Dreams of Ancient and Modern Life: 1840–1870” Community in Postwar Singapore — of Social Dreamers: Artists and Their ABBE SCHRIBER: “For a Politics of Times: Antiquity, Archaeology, and the DIANA MELLON: “Painting, Miracles, A Critical Study of Infrastructure, Imaginations Return to the Caribbean” Obscurity: David Hammons and Black Struggle for Contemporaneity in Modern Eighth-Year Fellowship, Italian and Vernacular Healthcare in the Early Surveillance Technology, and Educational (Kellie Jones) Experimentalism, 1974–1989” (Kellie Iraqi Art” Academy Italian Renaissance” Institutions in Ho Rui An’s DASH” Jones) ALEXIS WANG: “Intermedial Effects, DARIA FONER: “Collaborative Chester Dale Fellowship 2020–22, Sanctified Surfaces: Framing Devotional MoMA Museum Research Consortium Solomon B. Hayden Fellowship Endeavors in the Career of Andrea JACOB STAVIS: “The Formation of Center for the Advancement of the Objects in Italian Medieval Mural Fellowship ADEKOYEJO (KOJO) ABUDU ’22 MA del Sarto” (Michael Cole) Achaemenid Art: Beyond Iconography Visual Arts Decoration” PIPER MARSHALL: “Ericka Beckman: and Attribution” (Zainab Bahrani) ERHAN TAMUR: “Site-worlds: An Dreamwork and the Emergence of DISSERTATIONS DEPOSITED CHANGDUK KANG: “Before the Account of Material Lives from Tello Eighth-Year Fellowship, Mary Griggs Pictures” 2019–2020 Reality Effect: Wax Representations in ANDREA VÁZQUEZ DE ARTHUR: (ancient Girsu)” Burke Center for Japanese Art Eighteenth-Century France” “Clay Bodies, Powerful Pots: On the XIAOHAN DU: “Yishan Yining Paul Mellon Fellowship 2020–23, Center MARGOT BERNSTEIN: “Carmontelle’s (Anne Higonnet) Imagery and Ontology of Wari Faceneck C.V. Starr Finishing Dissertation (1247–1317) and the Development of for the Advancement of the Visual Arts Profile Pictures and the Things that Made Vessels” (Esther Pasztory) Fellowship Zen Calligraphy in Medieval Japan” CLEO NISSE: “Unraveling Canvas: Them Modern” (Anne Higonnet) CLARE KOBASA: “Sacred Impressions SEHER AGARWALA: “Strategies of Textile Supports and Venetian Painting in Seventeenth-Century Sicily” (Michael JULIA VÁZQUEZ: “The Artist as Presenting Text and Illustrations: Turning NINA HORISAKI-CHRISTENS: from Bellini to Tintoretto” RACHEL BOYD: “Invention, Collabora- Cole) Curator: Diego Velázquez, 1623–1660” the Pages of a Sixteenth-Century Book of “VIDEO HIROBA: Contingent Publics tion, and Authorship in the Renaissance (Diane Bodart) Wisdom” and Video Communication, 1966–1985” Pierre and Gaetana Matisse Finishing Dissertation Fellowship ALEXANDER EKSERDJIAN: “Immortal Grant, Robert C. Beyer COREY RATCH: “(Dis)assembly: The Bodies: The Sculptural Representation of COURTNEY FISKE: “Rethinking Post- Slaughtered Body in Interwar Art and Mortals and Gods in the Sanctuaries of Minimalism: Gordon Matta-Clark and Photography” Central Italy” the Cut c. 1970” Rudolf Wittkower Finishing Dissertation JEEWON KIM: “Decolonizing the Brush: GSAS Research Excellence Dissertation Fellowship The Problematics of ʻJapanese Color’ in Fellowship CAITLIN MILLER: “On Renaissance Modern Korean Painting” ANGEL JIANG: “Plateresque Fantasies: Attributes, 1440–1560” Architecture and Ornament in TARA KURUVILLA: “Disjecta Membra: Renaissance Spain” Rudolf Wittkower Research Excellence The Fragmentation of the India Museum Dissertation Fellowship and the Colonial Construction of EMMA LE POUÉSARD: “Contested RATTANAMOL JOHAL: “Dissolving Knowledge over the Long Nineteenth Sites of Feminine Agency: Ivory Margins: Indian Art in the Globalized Century” Grooming Implements in Late Medieval 1990s” Europe” CATHY ZHU: “Born in a Golden Light: DANIEL RALSTON: “Painting in Images of Omens and Imperial Ambition NATALIE McCANN: “Baroque Costume Spanish: Fortuny, Manet, and the Image in the Southern Song Dynasty” Portraits: Fashion in Seventeenth-Century of Spain in the Later Nineteenth Century” British Portraiture” C.V. Starr Research Excellence Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Fellowship SOPHIA MERKIN: “Collecting the Studies Finishing Fellowship MONICA BULGER: “Facing Forward: Pacific: Oceanic Art in Nineteenth- MATTHEW GILLMAN: “Medieval Glass Left to right: Diana Mellon examines Giovanni Bellini’s Transfiguration of Christ in the conservation studio at the Museo di Capodimonte in Menacing Frontality in the Archaic Century American Museums” and the Aesthetics of Simulation” Naples, where she conducted dissertation research. Teresa Soley documents the Portuguese monastery of Santa Maria in Leça do Balio Period” including the polychromed limestone tomb of friar Cristovão Cernache. Daniel Ralston and his advisor Anne Higonnet discuss The Choice of a Model in the exhibition Fortuny: Friends and Followers, which he helped organize at the Meadows Museum in Dallas.
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UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS EMMA BRUCKNER: “Solitude and TRINITY LESTER: “Reconsidering the ALUMNI NEWS Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good CARRIE CUSHMAN ’18 PhD AND PRIZES Surroundings, The Belfiore Studiolo Grid through the Work of Hilma af Klint” opened in February. She edited the curated Making, Not Taking: Portrait 2019–2020 and Cultural Exchange in Quattrocento (Branden W. Joseph) volume Culture as Catalyst (Skidmore Photography in the 19th Century and Ferrara” (Diane Bodart) NOIT BANAI ’07 PhD was visiting College/Tang Museum Press, 2020). Going Viral: Photography, Performance, Departmental Honors professor of contemporary art at the and the Everyday at the Davis Museum OWEN MONROE: “Gospel and Gossip: University of Applied Arts Vienna in ANNA BROCKWAY’s ’92 BA company at Wellesley College. She co-authored CLARA MARIA APOSTOLATOS HAENA CHU: “Lee Bul’s Architectural Francis Frith’s Photography Books of the spring 2020 and visiting professor of art Chairish announced a $33 million Series an essay in the Fall 2020 issue of Verge: Installations: How to Survive Modern Rhine and Hastings” (Meredith Gamer) HAENA CHU history at NYU Shanghai in fall 2020. She B funding raise. Studies in Global Asias and received a History in Korea” (Jonathan Reynolds) curated Sedimentations: Brushing History Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission JUNG KIM MIA NICENKO: “Interaction, Instruction, Against the Grain at the Martin Janda DAVID CAST ’70 PhD published the Grant. TRINITY LESTER ROSIE HAUSMANN: “Classicizing and ‘Influence’ in the Works of Catharina Gallery in Vienna. article “Poge the Florentyn” in Poggio OWEN MONROE Gothic: A Study of Architectural Fusion and Jan van Hemessen” (Michael Cole) Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of CHANCHAL DADLANI ’99 BA is at Saint-Eustache, Saint-Laurent of SHEILA C. BARKER ’02 PhD, repre- Antiquity (Firenze University Press, associate professor of art history at senting the Medici Archive Project, 2020). Wake Forest University. She received Senior Thesis Prize Nogent-sur-Seine, and Saint-Gervais- Riggio Summer Research Awards curated The Immensity of the Universe in the 2017 SAH/Mellon Author Award for HAENA CHU Saint-Protais” (Michael Waters) GRACE CORTON the Art of Giovanna Garzoni at the Palazzo LYNN F. CATTERSON ’02 PhD gave her book From Stone to Paper: Architecture Pitti in Florence and edited the accompa- talks in London at the Royal Academy, as History in the Late Mughal Empire Senior Thesis Writers BRYN EVANS JUNG KIM: “Anselm Kiefer’s nying catalogue. the Society for the History of Collecting, (Yale University Press, 2018), which CLARA MARIA APOSTOLATOS: Occupations: A Semantic Answer ALEX FOO and the V&A. She edited the volume was also shortlisted for CAA’s Charles “Remains: The Art of Teresa Margolles” to the Problem of Post-Holocaust KENNEDY ROESE CAITLIN BEACH ’18 PhD is an Andrew Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Rufus Morey Book Award and the (Rosalyn Deutsche) Representation” (Rosalyn Deutsche) W. Mellon Fellow in the Department of Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and Kenshur Prize. She was awarded an NEH THOMAS SAENZ European Sculpture and Decorative Arts their Social Networks (Brill, 2020). fellowship to support her second book, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Translating India: Mughal Art and French 2020–21. ANNE HUNNELL CHEN ’14 PhD Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century. is a postdoctoral associate at Yale’s COLLEEN BECKER ’08 PhD is a Archaia program, where she leads LILLIAN DAVIES ’02 BA published principal at Redsand Ventures and serves a digital humanities project aimed at several exhibition reviews and an on the advisory board of UK-based reassembling and digitally recontex- interview in Artforum. materials company Polysolar. tualizing artifacts excavated at the site of Dura-Europos (Syria). JOHN DAVIS ’91 PhD was appointed VIRTUAL GRADUATION NOGA BERNSTEIN ’10 MA is a Marie to the board of directors of CAA. With Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at BARB CHOIT’s ’04 MA newest public Michael Leja, he co-authored Art of the Last May, in response to a brand new set the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to art project, a thirty-foot neon glass United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources of extraordinary challenges due to the conduct research on textile art and design sculpture entitled Ravenous Appetite and (Terra Foundation for American Art, pandemic, the department gathered in Israel. Boundless Energy, was commissioned by 2020). the town of Oakville, Ontario. together online to celebrate graduation. SUZANNE PRESTON BLIER’s ’81 PhD MELISSA DE LA CRUZ ’93 BA is the The undergraduate ceremony, the first of book Picasso’s Demoiselles: The Untold HEATHER CLYDESDALE ’16 PhD founder and principal of Melissa de la these joyous occasions, featured several was appointed assistant professor in Cruz Studio at the Walt Disney Company. Story of a Modern Masterpiece (Duke faculty speakers who had been nominated by the Department of Art and Art History at University Press, 2019) received the graduating seniors along with remarks by Santa Clara University. Her article “Buried CONSTANCE HÉLÈNE DEDIEU- 2020 Robert Motherwell Book Award Haena Chu ’20 BA and Rosie Hausmann ’20 BA. Towers: Artistic Innovation on China’s GRASSET ’92 BA has published from the Dedalus Foundation. Frontier” was published in the second several illustrated books in recent Students appeared in front of a variety volume of Inner and Central Asian Art and years, including Avant la Nuit (2013), of festive, art historically–themed virtual BABETTE BOHN ’82 PhD received the Archaeology (Brepols, 2019). and exhibited a series of paintings in backgrounds created by the Media Center. Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Auvergne. The next day, the department assembled again Achievement as a Creative Teacher and LINDSAY COOK ’18 PhD was appointed to toast the eighteen graduating PhD students. Scholar at Texas Christian University. Her assistant teaching professor of art ELIZABETH VALDEZ DEL ALAMO This event included a speech by Jonathan book Women Artists, Their Patrons, and history in the School of Art at Ball State ’86 PhD published the articles “Cloister” Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna is University. She translated Notre Dame in Oxford Bibliographies: Architecture, Rosand, University Trustee and son of the late forthcoming from Penn State University Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History Planning, and Preservation (2020); “With David Rosand, commending the students’ Press. (Penn State University Press, 2020), Faithful Mind: the Pilgrimage to Santo achievements, and words of praise by Holger co-authored by Dany Sandron and the Domingo de Silos” in Romanesque A. Klein and dissertation sponsors. Graduates INESA BRASISKE ’17 MA was awarded late ANDREW TALLON ’07 PhD. Saints, Shrines, and Pilgrimages (British also took turns speaking and reminisced a Getty Library Research Grant to Archaeological Association/Routledge, about their journey in the program. In a time conduct research on Jonas Mekas for her PATRICK CROWLEY ’11 PhD was 2020); and “The Cloister, Heart of upcoming exhibition on the filmmaker at appointed associate curator of European Monastic Life” in Monastic Europe AD of crisis surrounded by so much uncertainty, the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius. art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford 1100–1700 (Brepols, 2019). both ceremonies proved deeply moving, University and was also named a Samuel a testament to the class of 2020 and the ISOLDE BRIELMAIER ’03 PhD was H. Kress Senior Fellow at CASVA. He SABINA DE CAVI ’07 PhD was strong bonds they made during their time appointed the inaugural Curator-at- published the monograph The Phantom appointed assistant professor in the at Columbia. Large at the International Center of Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome Department of Art History at NOVA Photography. Her exhibition Tyler (University of Chicago Press, 2019). University Lisbon.
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SONJA DRIMMER ’11 PhD was Department of Art History and the Garde Collecting in Midcentury LA (Getty CLARE MARIE SOMSEL KOBASA ’20 RICHARD MINER ’93 BA launched an ESZTER M. POLONYI ’17 PhD was awarded tenure at the University Department of Latino & Caribbean Research Institute, 2020). PhD is assistant curator and study room online spiritual community for the United appointed assistant professor of cultural of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her Studies. manager at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Palace of Spiritual Arts in New York. history and digital humanities at the monograph The Art of Allusion: DAVID EVERITT HOWE ’10 MA is a Research Center for Humanities at Illuminators and the Making of English ALEX GARTENFELD ’08 BA curator at Pioneer Works. He published ANI KODZHABASHEVA ’17 MPhil KATE MORRIS ’01 PhD was appointed University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. Literature, 1403–1476 (University of spearheaded the acquisition of over one exhibition reviews in Art in America and published three articles in Pastel Journal. vice provost of academic affairs at Santa Pennsylvania Press, 2018) received hundred works of art at the Institute of BOMB and wrote the essay “‘How Are Clara University. She published Shifting BARBARA PORTER ’01 PhD retired High Commendation in the pre-1600 Contemporary Art, Miami, this year. He You?’ Care and Remembrance in the Work YUMI KOH ’93 BA is a vice president at Grounds: Landscape in Contemporary after fourteen years as director of the category of the Historians of British curated surveys for artists Sterling Ruby, of Nan Goldin and Kathleen White” for J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Atlanta. Native American Art (University of American Center of Oriental Research Art Book Prize. She was a Pforzheimer held at ICA Boston, and Allan McCollum, Pioneer Works Broadcast. Washington Press, 2019). (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan. Fellow at the National Humanities currently on view in Miami. SUSAN A. LANDESMAN ’95 PhD Center in spring 2020. ERIKA MORAVEC JAEGGLI ’99 BA published The Tara Tantra: Tara’s MIKAEL MUEHLBAUER ’20 PhD DONALD MARTIN REYNOLDS ’74 AMY GOLAHNY ’84 PhD published exhibited the site-specific installation Fundamental Ritual Text (Tara-mula-kalpa) published the articles “An Italian PhD received the National Sculpture KEVIN D. DUMOUCHELLE ’17 PhD Rembrandt — Studies in his Varied Territorial with two other women artists at (Wisdom Publications, 2020). Renaissance Face on a ‘New Eritrea’” Society’s 2020 Sculpture House Annual curated Heroes: Principles of African Approaches to Italian Art (Brill, 2020). the Union Gallery in Denton, Texas. in the September 2019 issue of the Award. Greatness at the National Museum DREW LASH ’18 MA entered a doctoral Journal of the Society of Architectural of African Art and authored the DIANA GREENWALD ’11 BA was JACQUELINE JUNG ’02 PhD launched program in art history at the University of Historians and “The Rhinoceros Horn GAIL HARRISON ROMAN ’81 PhD is accompanying catalogue. The exhibition appointed assistant curator at the an introductory course at Yale entitled Art California, Los Angeles. Beakers of Menelik II of Ethiopia” in the preparing an exhibition of illustrations received a 2019 Smithsonian Award for Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Her and Architecture of the Sacred: A Global Spring–Summer 2019 issue of West 86th. from children’s books about animals. Excellence in Exhibitions. book Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Perspective, inspired by Barnard’s wide- JEN LEE ’14 BA works in the Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art is ranging survey, and published Eloquent cybersecurity industry in San Francisco. DENISE CONANAN NACU ’95 BA DONALD ROSENTHAL ’78 PhD MARY DOUGLAS EDWARDS ’86 PhD forthcoming from Princeton University Bodies: Movement, Expression, and the was appointed director of the College of published the articles “Art in the Wagner edited the volume Doppelgangers, Alter Press. Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture (Yale JILLIAN LERNER ’06 PhD published Computing and Digital Media at DePaul Memorial Album of 1884” (2019) and Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, University Press, 2020). her second book, Experimental Self- University, where she is also associate “John Singer Sargent, Wagnerite” (2020), 1840–2010: Critical Essays (McFarland, MAX E. GROSSMAN ’06 PhD co- Portraits in Early French Photography professor at the School of Design. both in Wagneriana. 2020), in which several of her essays edited, with PAOLO ALEI ’95 MA, the TOMOKO KANAMITSU ’11 MA is (Routledge, 2020). appear. volume Building Family Identity: The the Barbara and Stephan Vermut Director JONATHAN T. D. NEIL ’10 PhD DAPHNE ROSENZWEIG ’73 PhD is Orsini of Bracciano from Fiefdom to of Public Engagement at SFMOMA. KEVIN LOTERY ’05 BA was appointed established the Center for Business and professor emerita at Ringling College of PATRICIA EMISON ’85 PhD published Duchy (1470–1698) (Peter Lang, 2019). assistant professor of modern and Management of the Arts at Claremont Art and Design and a certified appraiser the article “Leonardo, After 500 Years” TRUDY S. KAWAMI ’83 PhD gave talks contemporary art at Boston College. He Graduate University. of Asian art. in the Winter 2019 issue of Aesthetic DAWNELISE HAMILTON ’95 BA is at the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah in Kuwait published The Long Front of Culture: The Investigations and participated in owner and lead designer at DawnElise City and the American Schools of Oriental Independent Group and Exhibition Design SYLVIA OBERWAGER ’18 BA is a JAMES RUBIN ’82 BA is a contributing “Renaissance Graces: A Round-Table Interiors International. Research annual meeting in San Diego. (October Books/MIT Press, 2020). senior analyst on the Alumni Relations editor at the Milken Institute and for Conversation” as part of the Durham team at Goldman Sachs. This year, she Vogue Business. Early Modern Conference. Forthcoming CHARLES WERNER HAXTHAUSEN HOLLYAMBER KENNEDY ’10 MA was DIANA LUBER ’18 BA completed an MA joined the Annual Fund Committee of are the essay “Ideas: Philosophy, Religion, ’76 PhD edited and translated the volume an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic art at the University of Texas at Columbia’s General Studies Alumni TOMOKO SAKOMURA ’07 PhD was History, 1450–1700” in A Cultural History A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Austin. She is the McDermott Graduate Association board. promoted to professor of art history and of Memory (Bloomsbury) and her book Art (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Harvard University for 2019–20. This fall, Intern for Islamic Art at the Dallas dean of students at Swarthmore College. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art He was a distinguished scholar at the she began a three-year fellowship at the Museum of Art. GIULIA PAOLETTI ’15 PhD is an ACLS/ History (Amsterdam University Press). Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Institute for the History and Theory of Getty Postdoctoral Fellow for 2020–21. ELMA BARNES SANDERS ’84 PhD Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum Architecture at ETH Zürich to continue CARRIE HOBART MARTIN ’01 BA is a was appointed editor of the American SHARON FLESCHER ’77 PhD, of Art for 2019–20. work on her manuscript, The World Island: travel advisor at Carrie Martin Travel. CLIFFORD PEARSON ’82 MA co- Journal of Archaeology. executive director of the International Architectures of Enclosure in an Age of authored, with A. Eugene Kohn, The Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) since WILLIAM HENNESSY ’78 PhD Empire. MEGAN K. McCARTHY ’04 BA, ’15 PhD World by Design: The Story of a Global JOEL SANDERS’s ’78 BA architectural 1998 and editor-in-chief of IFAR Journal, published Walking Broadway: Thirteen is vice president of major gifts at the Architecture Firm (Rosetta Books, 2019); firm JSA and design consultancy contributed chapters on provenance Miles of Architecture and History (The DIPTI KHERA ’13 PhD was awarded Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. wrote an op-ed essay on the topic of a MIXdesign were awarded grants from research to several books as well as a Monacelli Press, 2020). tenure at New York University. She COVID-19 memorial for The Architect’s the NEA and the Institute of Museum chapter on the topic of art restitution published The Place of Many Moods: ARATHI MENON ’19 PhD was Newspaper; and published a book review and Library Services for research on to Making Waves (Brepols, 2019). She MARIA GABRIELA MIZES HICKEY Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s appointed assistant professor of art in the September 2020 issue of Urban inclusive design in art museums. was featured in articles in the Financial ’93 BA curated LIGHT: A Sculptural Solar Eighteenth Century (Princeton University history at Hamilton College. She was an Studies Journal. Times, The Telegraph, and Fine Art Dance at the Sandy Spring Museum in Press, 2020), which had been awarded Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow DREW SAWYER ’16 PhD, curator at Connoisseur, as well as in a documentary Maryland. the 2019 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. with Smarthistory for 2019–20 and co- RICHARD PEGG ’01 PhD launched the Brooklyn Museum, received an on art fakes, and gave talks for the NYC Prize for manuscripts from American edits the bulletin of the American Council the website Mapping a World of Cities, Award for Excellence from the AAMC for Bar Association and NYU’s Grey Gallery, JEFFREY HOFFELD ’73 MPhil is in Institute of Indian Studies. of Southern Asian Art. published several articles, and presented Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989, which among others. She is writing a chapter his third year of psychoanalytic training lectures at Macau University in China and ARTnews ranked among the top ten for the catalogue for Manet and Astruc, on at the Institute for Contemporary ROBERT C. KLAPPER ’79 BA hosts CHRIS MIELE ’83 BA published articles AAS-in-Asia in Japan. most important exhibitions of the last view at the Kunsthalle Bremen in 2021. Psychotherapy. He is a board member of the ESPN podcast Weekend Warrior on William Morris and on Victorian decade. He was nominated for the Lucie the Woodman Family Foundation. and discusses connections between architecture. CHLOE PIENE’s ’93 BA drawings were Awards’ Curator/Exhibition of the Year TATIANA FLORES ’03 PhD was the seemingly diverse worlds of sports, shown in the exhibition Doubt, held at for Garry Winogrand: Color. His exhibition promoted to professor at Rutgers. She ELLEN HOOBLER ’11 PhD co-authored, art history, and medicine. the Sammlung-Hoffman in Berlin, and Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha traveled to the holds a joint appointment in the with Mark Nelson and William H. her original research was featured in the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. Sherman, Hollywood Arensberg: Avant- exhibition catalogue.
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JOHANNA SEASONWEIN ’10 PhD EMMA NATALYA STEIN ’03 BA was DAVE WEINSTEIN ’73 BA is president was appointed associate director of appointed assistant curator of South and of the El Cerrito Historical Society. With Thanks employer engagement at the University Southeast Asian art at the Smithsonian’s He writes about midcentury art and of Oregon Career Center. Freer and Sackler Galleries. architecture for several publications including Eichler Network’s CA-Modern. The strength of the Department of Art History and Archaeology derives not only from its faculty and SIDDHARTHA V. SHAH ’19 PhD was ALISON G. STEWART ’86 PhD retired students, but also from alumni, parents, and friends who carry forward the department’s intellectual appointed director of education and from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln ILA WEISS ’68 PhD is finishing a mission and provide financial support to enhance its core offerings. civic engagement at the Peabody Essex as Hixson-Lied Professor of Art History. critical biography of Candace Wheeler. Museum, where he is also curator of She co-edited the volume Crossroads: Indian and South Asian art, and elected Frankfurt am Main as Market for Northern MARJORIE WELISH ’68 BA published PATRONS to the board of the American Council for Art 1500–1800 (Michael Imhof Verlag, the article “MoMA Redux” in the March Frances Beatty Adler and Allen R. Adler • Ariel Aisiks • Anonymous (2) • Arete Foundation • Carnegie Southern Asian Art. 2019). 2020 issue of Art Monthly. Two experi- Corporation of New York • Department of State • Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation mental books she co-authored, Oaths? DAVID SHAPIRO ’01 BA, a senior ABIGAIL SUSIK ’09 PhD is associate Questions? (2009) and Between Sincerity Carol T. and John G. Finley • Ford Foundation • Paula L. Gerson • Hal Jackman Foundation • Estate of art appraiser and advisor with Victor professor of art history at Willamette and Irony (2019), were featured in Marian G. Harrison • Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) • The J. Paul Getty Trust • Michael Wiener Associates, LLC, co-organized University. Her monograph Surrealist exhibitions this year. Jacoff and Jeanne Vanecko • National Geographic Society • Melinda L. Parry • Renate, Hans and Maria Sabotage and the War on Work, as well and served as a panelist on the program Hofmann Trust • Robert A. M. Stern Family Foundation • Ellen Rosand • Eric and Sarah Rosand • Jonathan “Assessing Risk with COVID-19: as two edited volumes, are forthcoming LISA HAYES WILLIAMS ’12 MA was Museums, Galleries, and Private from Manchester University Press. promoted to associate curator at the M. Rosand and Judy L. Polacheck • Rubin-Ladd Foundation • Anne Tatlock • Caroline A. Wamsler and Collections” for ArtTable. New Britain Museum of American Art. DeWayne N. Phillips • John C. Weber • Hans Wertheimer • Gregory A. Wyatt CLAUDIA SWAN ’97 PhD was She curated Some Day is Now: Women, ANNIE SHAVER-CRANDELL ’74 PhD appointed the inaugural Mark S. Weil Art & Social Change and launched a exhibited her work in two solo shows: Professor of Early Modern Art History 2020–21 initiative dedicated to exclusively BENEFACTORS Colors of Spring: Paintings and Drawings, at Washington University in St. Louis. exhibiting the work of female-identifying Morton C. Abromson and Joan L. Nissman • Lilian A. Armstrong • Elizabeth Bartman and Andrew held at the Mulberry Street branch of the Her monograph Rarities of these Lands: artists, including Kara Walker, Anni Solomon • Annette and Stanley M. Blaugrund • Steven E. and Catherine Carlson • Heather D. Colburn New York Public Library, and Intuition Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Albers, and Shantell Martin, among Clydesdale • Sharon Flescher • Jane Garmey • Ellen Berland Gibbs • Jeffrey Hoffeld • Alina Renee Huo and Logic: Hand in Hand, held at the Republic is forthcoming from Princeton others. Salmagundi Art Club of New York. University Press. Sandrine Larrive-Bass • Min-Ah Lee • Carol F. Lewine • Edward Matthew Lewine and Megan Liberman CARTER WISEMAN ’72 MA published Mary Ann Lublin • Doralynn Pines • Lia G. Poorvu • Barbara and John Robinson • The Rose Marrow Fund SYDNEY SHEEHAN ’20 MA is a ERIN THOMPSON’s ’10 PhD Louis Kahn: A Life in Architecture Maria Catherine Ruvoldt and Jason Malamud • William Ryall • Allen Staley • Irina Tolstoy and John Gans preservation and curatorial intern at book Smashing Statues: The Rise and (University of Virginia Press, 2020). William Voelkle • Virginia Galston Walsh and John Walsh • Jonathan Weiss and Abigail Wolf • Gertrude the SS United States Conservancy. She Fall of America’s Public Monuments is co-founded The Coalition of Master’s forthcoming from Norton. An expanded CAROLYN YERKES ’12 PhD was Wilmers • Michael T. Yochum and Priscilla H.V. Otani • Zaleski Family Foundation Scholars on Material Culture, an version of the 2017 exhibition she awarded tenure at Princeton. With independent academic publication. curated, Ode to the Sea: Art from Heather Hyde Minor, she co-authored SPONSORS Guantánamo, will travel to Old Piranesi Unbound (Princeton University Eloise M. Angiola • Rosemary F. Argent • Kevin J. Avery • Virginia L. Beatty • Matthew Begun • Merrill C. KRISTIN S. SIMMONS ’12 BA Dominion University this spring. Press, 2020). exhibited her work in a solo show held Berman • Eliza A. Butler • James Buttenwieser • Elizabeth Currier • Constancio and Elizabeth Del Alamo jointly at Phillips Auction Gallery and 450 JENNIFER VON SCHWERIN ’04 PhD GILLIAN YOUNG ’18 PhD was Burton Dickey • Mary Douglas Edwards • Raymond Andrew Foery • William Geo Foulks • Suzanne S. Frank Park Avenue in New York. was a fellow at the Morphomata Center appointed assistant professor of art Susan Tumarkin Goodman • Ruth E. and David C. Green • Margery and Arthur Groten • Maeve C. and for Advanced Study in the Humanities history at Wofford College. Andrew Gyenes • Andrea Herbst and Jacques M. A. Paul • Alison L. Hilton • James A. Hoekema • Joyce ADAM SOKOL’s ’01 BA firm asap/ at the University of Cologne researching adam sokol architecture practice was portraiture in the visual culture of the MICHAEL YOUNG ’90 PhD published Anne Houston • Lewis Kachur • Caroline Anne King • Noelle King • Michael J. Knight • Jeff K. and Mary selected for Architectural Record’s Design ancient Americas. the article “Oskar Pollak reconsidered” Kowalski • Jane Kristof • Jonathan Kuhn • Jack Henry Kunin • Emmanuel Lemakis • Carla G. Lord • Sharon Vanguard 2019 and Architizer’s A+ List of in the June 2020 issue of The Journal C. Matthews • Courtenay C. McGowen • Helen Meltzer-Krim • Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen • Voichita Firms to Watch in 2020. of Art Historiography and presented papers at CAA in Chicago and SAH in Munteanu • Michael and Carolyn W. Newmark • Lucy A. Oakley • Jean O'Leary • Pamela J. Parry • Richard Providence. Anderson Pegg • Jeanette and Kirk Peterson • Barbara A. Porter • Olivia Shannon Powell • Sheila Marie Pozon • Helen A. Raye • Theodore F. Reff • Terry H. Robinson • Donald A. Rosenthal • Alexander D. Ross Alicia Schleifman • Marie L.* and Walter D. Schmitz • Richard J. Schwartz • Lee Stewart and Christopher Advisory Council Sharon Flescher Mary A. Lublin Leopold and Jane Swergold Sherry • Susan Brown Stoddard • Shaalini Stone • Virginia Bush Suttman • Leslie Tait • Lee Z. and Heidi Frank Gallipoli Philippa Feigen Malkin Dale C. Turza Ullmann • Verizon Foundation • Alan Wallach • Barbara E. and Leon S. White Philip E. Aarons, Esq. Kate Ganz Philippe de Montebello Caroline A. Wamsler Armand Bartos, Jr. Marian Goodman Amy D. Newman Mark S. Weil Frances Beatty Michael and Doralynn Pines H. Barbara Weinberg *Deceased Annette Blaugrund Georgia de Havenon Amy Greenberg Poster Gertrude Wilmers Nelson Blitz, Jr. and Frederick David Hill Louise Riggio Catherine Woodard Jeffrey M. Hoffeld Jonathan Rosand Contributions fund professorships and fellowships; student travel and research; conferences and lectures; Jean Magnano Bollinger Frederick Ilchman Terez Rowley editor: Michael J. Waters Media Center projects; and various other initiatives. This list reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019 and June copy editor: Emily Benjamin Fiona Donovan Steve Kossak Steven and Lauren Schwartz 30, 2020. We regret any errors or omissions. Theodore Feder Carol F. Lewine Bernard T. and Lisa Selz photo editor: Gabriel Rodriguez Carol T. Finley Glenn D. Lowry Robert B. Simon production: Faith Batidzirai, Sonia Sorrentini, and Satomi Tucker design: Florio Design 22 826 schermerhorn 23 Walter24 826 Gropius, schermerhorn Staircase, Bauhaus, Dessau, 1925–26. Photograph by Tim Trombley.