This May, the freshmen students in Professor Bass's Focus course "Going Dutch: Art, Science and Discovery in Amsterdam and Beyond" traveled together to the Netherlands as a culmination of their yearlong study of the Dutch Golden Age.
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April 28, 2015
Professor Nathaniel Jones delivered the paper "Greek Art in Augustan Rome: Discouse, Dedication, and Reflection" at the 25th annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, which was held this year at the University of Leicester, UK.
April 28, 2015
Professor Nathaniel Jones has been awarded the AIA/DAI Fellowship for Study in Berlin this summer. The fellowship is available to members of the Archaeological Institute of America to pursue research at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. While in Berlin Professor Jones will take advantage of the resources of the Institute's library and archive and the archaeological collections of the city's museums to conduct research for a book project exploring the relationships between perspectival constructions and narrative techniques in Roman art from the Republic to the late Empire.
April 17, 2015
Professor Ila Sheren a paper titled “Bears, Boundaries, and Biodiversity: The Human and the Non-human in Internet Art” at the Balance-Unbalance 2015 International Conference at Arizona State University, Tempe AZ.
April 15, 2015
Professor Kristina Kleutghen presented the Alumni Keynote address at the Fifth Annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities.
April 15, 2015
Professor Kristina Kleutghen presented a paper on the Japanese taste in Qing decorative arts at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual meeting.
April 15, 2015
Beyond Bosch, an exhibition of Boschian prints drawn almost exclusively from private collections and co-curated by Professor Marisa Bass and Saint Louis Art Museum Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Elizabeth Wycoff, opens Friday, April 17, at the Saint Louis Art Museum. For more information, visit http://slam.org/exhibitions/beyondbosch.php
April 15, 2015
Professor Marisa Bass delivered two papers in April: “Living Monuments: Bosschaert and the Origins of Flower Still-Life Painting,” at Renaissance Society of America (Berlin, March 26-28, 2015) and "Enlivening -- and Mortifying -- the Netherlandish Tomb: Genii and Transi in Sixteenth-Century Funerary Sculpture" at Netherlandish Sculpture Colloquium (Toronto, March 20-21, 2015).
April 15, 2015
Professor Kristina Kleutghen published Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces (Seattle: University of Washington Press), and was interviewed about the book on the New Books Network podcast series.
April 13, 2015
Angela Miller will be the 2015-2016 William C. Seitz Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Her project is: "Countermodernism: Reason and Magic in American Art at Mid-Century" on the intellectual and artistic worlds of Lincoln Kirstein and his circle.
March 19, 2015
Professor Childs contributed an essay and served as a consultant to the Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalogue Gauguin: Metamorphoses (editor, Starr Figura), which was just awarded the 2015 Prose Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Art Exhibition Catalogues, by the Association of American Publishers.
December 4, 2014
A review of Professor Childs' recent book, Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti, appeared on H-France Reviews.
October 24, 2014
John Klein will present aspects of his research on Matisse's paper cut-outs and moderate a panel in a conference at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
October 24, 2014
Professor John Klein interviewed on Matisse's paper cut-outs with Tyler Green for the podcast Modern Art Notes, in conjunction with the exhibition on this subject at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
October 20, 2014
Professor Elizabeth Childs delivered a lecture "Of Self and Others: Gauguin's Portraits" in the inaugural symposium for the exhibition "Faces of Impressionism" at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
September 25, 2014
Professor Emeritus Sarantis Symeonoglou's important monograph on Thebes will be reprinted by Princeton University Press. In a hallmark reposition in this era of quick-paced digital initiatives Princeton University Press launched the Princeton Legacy Library on July 14 of this year. The Library will reprint paper copies of 3,000 out-of-print titles from the many thousands published by Princeton Press since its inception in 1905. As announced recently, the initial launch of 1200 books includes Professor Symeonoglou’s Topography of Thebes from the Bronze Age to Modern Times (1985). These print editions will also be made available digitally around the world. A decision on e-book availability is pending.
September 19, 2014
The work of the late textiles historian Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, a distinguished alumna of the Department, anchors “Kimono: A Modern History,” an exhibition coming to the Met.
June 27, 2014
Alums, faculty, and graduate students in the Department of Art History and Archaeology were featured in a Washington Magazine article on the art auction business.
June 23, 2014
Two Americans in Paradise: Henry Adams and John La Farge on the Island of Tahiti, by Professor Elizabeth Childs, is a featured project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
June 23, 2014
Professor Ila Sheren will present at the International Conference on Street Art and Urban Creativity (urbancreativity.org) in Lisbon, Portugal. Her paper will discuss a new way to think about the question of whether the recent proliferation of open-air galleries and museums for street art constituted a radical departure from the medium’s ethos, or whether this could recapture the ethos of an earlier, anarchic time, but update it for the present day.