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Anne Higgonet was awarded a Radcliffe Institute fellowship for 2019-20 and will spend the year at Harvard University. The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program annually selects and supports 50 leading artists and scholars who have both exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments.
Zainab Bahrani has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Bahrani is the first Columbia University faculty member to win this prestigious Fellowship. Each year the Andrew Carnegie Fellows program awards grants to a select group of extraordinary scholars and writers whose groundbreaking work decodes some of the world’s most intractable problems. Bahrani has focused her work in the area of monument preservation, conservation, and the politics of cultural heritage. Since 2003, Bahrani has written widely on the destruction of the cultural heritage of Iraq.
Kellie Jones was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as part of its 239th class. Membership in the Academy honors the outstanding achievements of individuals in academia, the arts, business, government, and public affairs. According to David W. Oxtoby, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, "With the election of these members, the Academy upholds the ideals of research and scholarship, creativity and imagination, intellectual exchange and civil discourse, and the relentless pursuit of knowledge in all its forms."
Learn more about the The Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship here.
The College Art Association announced today the recipients and finalists of the 2019 Awards for Distinction. Zeynep Çelik Alexander's book, Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design, will be awarded the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award at the convocation of the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York, Wednesday, February 13.
Avinoam Shalem has been named a Getty Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute during the Spring 2019 semester. Every year since 1985 the Research Institute has invited scholars, artists, and other cultural figures from around the world to work in residence at the Institute on projects that bear upon its annual research theme; the 2018-19 academic year will be devoted to "monumentality." While in residence, Scholars pursue their own research projects, make use of Getty collections, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty Center and the Getty Villa…
Barry Bergdoll (Columbia University) and Jean-Philippe Garric (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) were selected as grantees in the Alliance Program's 2018 call for Joint Projects for their project “Overlapping perspectives on an artistic correspondence: editing the Roman letters of Léon and A.L.T. Vaudoyer (1826-32)”.
Their project aims to prepare a critical edition of this correspondence by bringing together a scholarly world as vibrant and interdisciplinary as the world’s described by the Vaudoyers. Historians of architecture, of archaeology, of language,…
David Freedberg received the Sigillum Magnum of the University of Bologna, the highest honour of the Alma Mater, from Rector Francesco Ubertini on October 10, 2018. The event is presented in collaboration with Genus Bononiae - Musei nella Città and the Accademia Nazionale di Agricoltura di Bologna, which will give him the title of Honorary Academician.
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In Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media, Elcott explores how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, and addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production - such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories - and their sites of reception. Artificial Darkness won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award and was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize.
Jones will be a senior consultant to the recently-announced African American Art History Initiative, through the Getty Research Institute. The Initiative's first major acquisition is the papers of assemblage artist Betye Saar.
“The Getty is telling the world, through its actions, that American art has many facets,” said Jones. “The Getty has set out to create benchmarks and expand the field of art history. This initiative and its focus on archives is another approach to embracing a bigger idea of what art history is, by creating an important repository that will greatly impact the…
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
For more information, visit MA in Art History Presents.