Professor Bass delivered a paper titled, "Portentous Nature: Frogs, Fossils, and Divine Disasters in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp" at a conference on "Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries" organized by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands.
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October 12, 2015
September 28, 2015
Prof. Elizabeth Childs received a "Classroom innovation and course development" grant from the College of Arts and Sciences, in support of her fall 2015 seminar, "Paris ca. 1900: Art, Leisure and Spectacle." The grant supports two guest speakers for the course, local fieldtrips to visit both private and museum collections, and aid for research and publication for an exhibition at the Kemper Museum on the same topic, tentatively scheduled for Spring 2017.
September 14, 2015
Ila Sheren will be in residence at the University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study for the 2015-2016 academic year.
September 14, 2015
Marisa Bass received an Honorable Mention from the Association of Print Scholars for her article, "Hieronymus Bosch and his Legacy as 'Inventor,'" which was published in her recent co-edited exhibition catalogue Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print (St. Louis Art Museum, 2015).
August 26, 2015
Professor O'Brien attended the 10th European Society for Oceanists conference, where she presented a paper entitled "Crimes and Retributions in the Western Solomon Islands: an examination of punitive raids in the shaping of the Arthur Mahaffy collection" for the panel 'Making Peace with the Past,' coordinated by Chris Ballard and Dario Di Rosa of the Australian National University.
May 28, 2015
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.
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
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 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 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.