Curated by Ada Berktay, Yixu Chen, Nina Elizondo Garza, Makiko Kawada, Wanshi Ma, Amanda Morrow, Allyson Richardson, Euan Wall, Cydney Williams, and Mo Zhang, candidates in the MA in Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, under the guidance of Frédérique Baumgartner, director of the MA in Art History, and Roberto C. Ferrari, curator of Art Properties.
September 24-December 14, 2018
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
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Michael Waters has been named as a 2018/2019 I Tatti Fellow. His current project examines the multifaceted relationship between printed images and Renaissance architecture through an object-based approach.
Branden Joseph has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. His current project, tentatively titled Forms of Life, examines the works of punk poet Kathy Acker, underground filmmaker Jack Smith, conceptual artist Lee Lozano, and visual artist Carolee Schneemann.
Kellie Jones received an honorary doctorate as an influential leader in the field of Art History from her alma mater Amherst College. Jones received the honor during the 197th Commencement on Sunday, May 20, 2018.
As part of the series New Work in the Arts & Humanities: East and West, taking place at the American Academy in Rome on 18 May, Avinoam Shalem sets the methodological and historiographic stage for the symposium. His keynote lecture, Through the Backdoor: The Histories of 'Islamic' Art and Architecture in Italy, will be livestreamed here.
Anne Higonnet will be delivering a three-part series of talks inspired by the collection at the Met, titled The Better Angels of Our Wardrobes: Art, Clothing, and the Catholic Imagination, showing how painters from Hieronymus Bosch to Fra Angelico provided inspiration for some of the most astonishing and thought provoking fashions.
Higonnet was also interviewed by The Guardian and Elle Magazine about the art behind the fashions in the exhibit and on the red carpet.
A Symposium on the history of art, science, and religion in Jesuit China
Two Postdoctoral Research Scholarships/Lectureships will be offered by the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University for a period of two years beginning July 1, 2018. Ph.D. or equivalent required. The degree must have been awarded between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2018. Specialization may be in any field of the history of Japanese, Chinese, or Korean art. In addition to conducting their own research, Fellows teach Art Humanities: Masterpieces of East Asian Art, or Art Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Art. In the second…
MODA Curates is an annual opportunity offered by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies program (MODA) for outstanding curatorial proposals related to students' theses. The sixth iteration of this series is presented for the first time alongside the First-Year MFA Exhibition, in the spacious new Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. It features two exhibitions exploring pioneering, experimental artistic practices.
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The lectures in 612 Schermerhorn Hall are open to the public. The number of participants in the afternoon workshop at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library is restricted. For this reason, we kindly ask you to confirm your attendance for one or both of the sessions. Please email [email protected] by March 20th. If you have any questions, please email Eleonora Pistis.
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The exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 B.C.—200 A.D., co-curated by Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, on view at the Onassis Cultural Center New York from March 9 to June 24, 2017 and at the Acropolis Museum in Athens from July 18 to November 19 2017, has won the Global Fine Art Awards' 2017 Youniversal Award, the audience award determined by popular vote. The show received the highest number of votes in the four-year history of the award. Almost 100,000 visitors saw the exhibition in New York and Athens. The 85 nominees…
The inaugural MODA Alumni Craft Talks will take place on Tuesday, February 27th, 2018. The event will begin at 6:30pm in 612 Schermerhorn Hall for Craft Talks by MODA graduates who will speak about their work as it relates to the intersection of critical thought and art world praxes. The four speakers are:
Simon Castets, Director of The Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art
Susan Thompson, Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Geneva Viralam, Director of Luhring Augustine
Doris Zhao, Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem
Due to a limited…
The exhibition accompanies the restoration of the original facade of Mies van der Rohe's McCormick House, previously hidden for over 20 years. Read more about the restoration at dailyherald.com.
Aaron Rio
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Curator of Japanese and Korean Art
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
Curated by Sarah Bigler, Pauline Delmar, Amy Hummerstone, Drew Lash, Elizabeth Lightfoot, Mark Paul, Julia Reynolds, Tori Schmitt and Hanna Wiegers, candidates in the MA in Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, under the guidance of Frédérique Baumgartner, director of the MA in Art History, and Roberto C. Ferrari, curator of Art Properties.
February 12-May 18, 2018
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
The show, rebooting the 1960s classic, looks at human creativity across cultures and around the world. Schama speaks more about the show in The Guardian and The Times.
The second episode in the series will feature Professor Emerita, Esther Pastzory.
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Best Books of 2017 - Artforum
Best Art Books of 2017 - The New York Times
One of the most magnificent medieval textiles in the Mediterranean region is the Chasuble of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered by the knights of King Henry II and canonized three years later by decree of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Cathedral of Fermo, which holds the chasuble, the embroidered blue silk vestment was donated to Fermo by Bishop Presbitero in the twelfth century. But despite its importance, its outstanding preservation, and the presence of Arabic inscriptions, the chasuble has never been the subject of a comprehensive study.
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Three Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships/Lectureships will be offered in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University for a period of two years beginning July 1, 2018. PhD or equivalent required. The degree must have been awarded between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2018. Specialization may be in any field of art history. In addition to conducting their own research, Mellon Fellows/Lecturers teach Art Humanities. In the second year, they have the option of teaching an undergraduate seminar in their own field of specialization in lieu of one semester of Art Humanities…
Two Post Doctoral Research Scholarships/Lectureships will be offered by the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University for a period of two years beginning July 1, 2016. Ph.D. or equivalent required. The degree must have been awarded between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2016. Specialization may be in any field of the history of Japanese, Chinese, or Korean art. In addition to conducting their own research, Postdocs teach Art Humanities: Masterpieces of East Asian Art, or Art Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Art. In…