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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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.
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.
A review of Professor Childs' recent book, Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti, appeared on H-France Reviews.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
Professor Angela Miller speaks at "Nature's Nation revisited – Visual Constructions of the American Landscape from the Civil War until Today,” Tübingen University, Germany.
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.