Our Spring Visiting Lecturer Series continues this evening at 5pm in Room 3416 with a talk by Juliet Koss of Scripps College, entitled “Model Snapshots.” The talk will be followed by a reception in the lounge.
Please note that due to limited space, this event will only be open to students and faculty in the Art History Program!
This lively symposium accompanies Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art in the Graduate Center’s James Gallery. Curated by prominent philosopher, art critic, and media theorist Boris Groys, the exhibition explores the ways contemporary Russian artists have responded to the utopian vision of the October Revolution and Russian avant-garde art, while grappling with the violent realities of a post-Communist state. Artists Keti Chukhrov,Arseny Zhilyaev, and Dmitry Vilensky, in conversation with Groys, Kate Fowle of the Garage art space in Moscow, Graduate Center Art History Professor Claire Bishop, and James Gallery curator Katherine Carl, will discuss how they have dealt with the heritage of Communism in their work.
For more details, click here.
This symposium and the exhibition Specters of Communism is organized in collaboration with e-flux.
Cosponsored by Public Programs and the PhD Program in Theatre.
We’re excited to begin our Spring Visiting Lecturer Series this evening at 5pm in Room 3416 with a talk by André Dombrowski of University of Pennsylvania entitled “Instantaneity Delayed: Monet and Reaction Time.”
Please note that due to limited space, the lecture will only be open to students and faculty in the Art History Program!
We’re happy to see that Professor Romy Golan in October‘s newly-released special issue on artist-designed exhibitions. Entitled Vitalità del negativo/Negativo della vitalità, Golan’s article examines a 1970-71 exhibition that revived an ideologically loaded site in Rome under the mantle of contemporary art. Admittedly, the whole issue looks fantastic, so we encourage anyone interested in the field of exhibition history to peruse!
On a related note, Professor Golan will be participating in the upcoming conference “The State of Postwar Italian Art History Today,” with the talk “Switchbacks in Italian Art of the 1960s.” The conference will be held at Italian Modern Art center in New York on February 9 – 10, 2015. Click here for the full schedule and to register!
Also, Professor Siona Wilson recently contributed to the Brooklyn Rail’s ongoing Held Essays on Visual Art Series with “Troubled Sleep, Sugar High,” an article that considers Kara Walker’s recent installation at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory in relation to questions of labor and digital image economies.
Students participating in this year’s CAA conference will present their papers to colleagues this Friday, January 30th from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm in room 3421.
Andrew Cappetta
“Reconstructing Douglas Huebler”
1:00 – 1:20 pm
Session: Preserving the Artistic Legacies of the 1960s and 1970s
Michelle Fisher, Karen Shelby
“Building Community/Valuing Pedagogy: Art History Teaching Resources”
1:30 – 1:50 pm
Francesco Guzzetti
“Mapping a Discovery: Medardo Rosso and the United States since 1963”
2:00 – 2:20 pm
Session: Rosso reconsidered
Amanda Wasielewski
“Lurking Within Reach: Stereoscopic Photomicrography in the 1860s”
2:30 – 2:50 pm
Session: Science is Measurement: Nineteenth-Century Science, Art and Visual Culture, Part II
Below is the schedule for our upcoming Spring 2015 Visiting Lecturer Series, which is also listed on our events calendar.
Please note that due to limited space, the lectures are only open to students and faculty in the Art History Program!
André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, February 6, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Room 3416
Juliet Koss, Scripps College
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Room 3416
Meredith Martin, New York University
Friday, February 20, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Room 3416
Devin Fore, Princeton University
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Room 3416
We’re excited to see that Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, will curate an exhibition on the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri at the Guggenheim this coming fall (October 9, 2015 – January 6, 2016). The exhibition highlights Burri’s process-based works, and positions the artist as a central figure in the field of post–World War II art. Beyond his Sacchi (sacks), which are well-known to American audiences, the exhibition will feature other series including his Catrami (tars), Muffe (molds) and Combustioni plastiche (plastic combustions).
More information on the exhibition can be found on the Guggenheim website and via the New York Times.
The spring semester is poised to begin, and we’d like to quickly round-up a few recent news items:
For the first time, our annual alumnae/i newsletter has been hosted online as a PDF – take a look here!
The Program will be hosting a couple CAA-related events over the coming weeks: next Friday between 1:00 – 4:00 pm, students participating in the annual conference will present their papers to faculty and fellow students in the Art History Lounge. And on Thursday February 12th, alumnae/i, current and prospective students are invited to the Program’s annual CAA Breakfast in the East Suite, on the 4th floor of the New York Hilton, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, from 7.30 to 9:00 am.
Upcoming conference “The City is Ours, The Body is Mine: Urban Spatial Practices in Contemporary Latin America,” organized by Liz Donato, Mya Dosch, and Luisa Valle now has a website. Take a look: citybody.commons.gc.cuny.edu.
Finally, our own Commons website is now officially mobile-friendly, so be sure to visit from your phone or ipad in the future!
Art History PhD students Matilde Guidelli Guidi, Sydney Stutterheim and Jonathan Patkowski have organized a conference in collaboration with Professor David Joselit on speculative realism, accelerationism and aesthetics that will be held at The Graduate Center on March 27th, 2015 – Interested parties are invited to submit a paper abstract of 300-500 words along with a CV to speculateaccelerate@gmail.com by January 15th, 2014.
Full CFP details below!
In a global context marked by widespread financial speculation, data circulation, ecological catastrophe and political paralysis, speculative realism and accelerationism have emerged as significant challenges to modes of thought and action grounded in the experience of human subjects. By focusing on ontology rather than epistemology, speculative realists consider modes of existence and agency of things beyond anthropocentric frameworks. Accelerationism refuses nostalgic modes of Leftist resistance to imagine the progressive potential hidden within capitalist technologies that appear to shatter traditional forms of identity.
We invite artists, curators, scholars and graduate students to examine the implications of accelerationism and speculative realism for artistic and curatorial practice, as well as the opportunities and limitations of non-anthropocentric aesthetico-critical strategies.
Papers may address both historical and contemporary subjects in the visual arts, architecture and performance, and consider such questions as:
This daylong conference will feature international speakers including Anselm Franke and Miguel Abreu.
Conference funding provided by the John Rewald Endowment of the Ph.D. Program in Art History, and The James Gallery at The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Contact details (address, e-mail, and telephone number) and academic affiliation should be provided along with CV and abstract. Selected speakers will be notified by January 30, 2015.
As the fall semester winds down, we want to highlight a couple of new student publications: Alison Weaver has article on Nam June Paik in Afterimage and in Frieze, William Simmons reviews the Art Institute of Chicago’s current exhibition on Pictures-generation artist Sarah Charlesworth.
Click through the links for PDFs!
And be sure to visit the Paik retrospective at the Asia Society before it closes on January 4th.
