Professor Kristina Kleutghen presented a paper on the Japanese taste in Qing decorative arts at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual meeting.
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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.
May 13, 2014
Professor Marisa Bass has received a Research Seed Grant from the Humanities Center to fund her research in Munich this August for her new project entitled 'Forged by Misfortune: The Art of Joris Hoefnagel in the Wake of the Dutch Revolt."
May 13, 2014
Professor Marisa Bass has received a Teaching Innovation Grant to support the development of her new Focus program and upcoming course in Spring 2015, "Going Dutch: Art, Science, and Discovery in Amsterdam and Beyond," which she will begin preparing during a research trip to Amsterdam this June.
May 13, 2014
Professor Ila N. Sheren has received a Research Seed Grant from the Humanities Center to fund her research this June in New York and Cambridge for a book project tentatively titled "Apocalypse Online: Digital Art and Environmental Crisis."
May 1, 2014
Professor Marisa Bass is the recipient of a grant from the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, to work on her project "Daniel Rogers, Joris Hoefnagel, and the Humanist Art of Friendship." She will be in residence in July.
May 1, 2014
Professor Wallace will be on sabbatical leave for the calendar year 2014. In the spring, he will be a Visiting Senior Scholar in residence at Villa I tatti, Harvard University's Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, and in the fall, he will be associated with the American Academy in Rome.
May 1, 2014
Professor Elizabeth Childs is co-chairing the panel "On Collecting in Saint Louis" with Kristina Van Dyke of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. http://www.pulitzerarts.org/events/public-programs/oct2/
May 1, 2014
Professor Angela Miller speaks at "Nature's Nation revisited – Visual Constructions of the American Landscape from the Civil War until Today,” Tübingen University, Germany.
May 1, 2014
Professor Angela Miller spoke at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, for a symposium jointly sponsored by the d'Orsay and the New-York Historical Society, in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Armory Show.