On Tuesday, November 25th at 6:30 pm, join Gwendolyn Shaw, Ph.D Program in Art History, for a gallery tour and conversation about Yevgeniy Fiks’ exhibition “The Lenin Museum.” History, subjectivity, and social recognition rely on issues of visibility and legibility. This visibility often relies on the invisibility of others whose tacit absence gives meaning to larger structures of organization and power. This tour will address the ways resistance is possible – and most effective – through the strategic deployment of presence and absence, occupying space and affect.

More information on this and other programs associated with “The Lenin Museum” can be found here.

Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History; CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies; and Public Science Project.

On Wednesday evening at 6 pm, join artist Yevgeniy Fiks for the opening reception of The Lenin Museum, an exhibition at The Graduate Center’s James Gallery, curated by Katherine Carl.

The Lenin Museum reflects on the historical contradictions and complexities of intersections between Communism and anti-Communism as well as ideology and sexual identity.

For more on the exhibition, click here. A list of related upcoming public programming, including two tours by Art History PhD students, can be found here. We’ll have more information on the tours soon!

On Wednesday November 19 at 7:00 pm, Michael Leja will deliver a talk at Hunter College’s Kossak Lecture Hall (Room 1527 North Building).

Leja is professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp and Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s. The lecture is drawn from his current research on the industrialization of picture production and the development of a mass market for images in the mid-nineteenth century.

 

 

More information on Leja’s work can be found here.

Professor Cynthia Hahn will deliver a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin on Friday, November 21st  at 4:30 pm entitled “The Making of the Crown of Thorns:  A Relic and its Presentation.”

“The Crown of Thorns is one of the most famous relics of Christendom, yet was little noticed before the tenth century. It was with the Crusades and Louis IX’s acquisition of the relic for France that it came to prominence. The king’s coordinated program of relic promotion—using ceremony, architecture, reliquaries, and the distribution of relics—solidified both the fame of the relic and the French king’s status as “the most Christian king.”

More information on the lecture here!

Next semester’s descriptions are now available!

All recent course descriptions can be accessed on the left-hand side of the homepage.

Professor Anna Chave will speak at Dia:Beacon on November 15th in conjunction with Dia’s Carl Andre retrospective Sculpture as Place: 1958-2010, which is on display until March 2nd, 2015. Her talk is tentatively entitled “Grave Matters: Positioning Carl Andre at Career’s End.”

Professor Chave is widely known for her revisionist readings of Minimalism, including the essays “Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power” (1990), “Minimalism and Biography” (2000), and “Revaluing Minimalism: Patronage, Aura, and Place” (2008).

Click here to reserve a seat (museum admission required) and here for more information on upcoming public events at Dia.

This Friday, PhD Candidate Andrianna Campbell and Public Art Fund Associate Curator Andria Hickey will serve as respondents for the third section of the Creative Time Summit, “Activating Public Space.”

The Creative Time Summit is an annual forum for socially engaged artists and public intellectuals addressing some of the most pressing political, economic, environmental, and social issues of the time.

This year’s Summit is located in Stockholm and focuses a regional spotlight on Europe, with panels addressing the rise of new nationalisms and shifting patterns of migration. These issues are situated in a wider discussion of public practice and art in the public sphere. New York’s Vera List Center will provide live programming with local artists and academics that responds to the Creative Time sections.

A full schedule of events is available here. Tickets to view the Summit at the Vera Center are sold out, but make sure to the visit the Creative Time website on Friday to live-stream the proceedings!

On November 14th, between 2-4pm the Ph.D. Program in Art History will host an ‘open house’ for any interested prospective students to come to find out more about studying Modern and Contemporary Art at the Graduate Center!

This session will provide an opportunity to meet current students and faculty specializing in these fields and ask questions about the program. Those interested in attending should RSVP to arthistory@gc.cuny.edu. Students interested in fields other than Modern and Contemporary should contact faculty members directly.

As part of a Graduate Center-wide initiative, the Program is striving to increase its diversity, and we especially encourage African-American and Latino/Latina students to attend.

Beyond Connoisseurship: Rethinking Prints from the Belle Épreuve (1875) to the Present

Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Martin E. Segal Theatre

Organized by GC Art History students Allison Rudnick and Britany Salsbury, this conference will present talks by emerging and established curators and academics who are applying innovative methodologies to the study of printmaking (from ca. 1875 to the present) and connecting it to broader theoretical trends within art history.

Full details on the Conference website here!

10:00 – 10:15 AM – Opening Remarks (Claire Bishop, Professor and Executive Officer, PhD Program in Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY)

10:15 AM – 12:15 PM – Session One: Subject, Form and Technique

Bridget Alsdorf, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Princeton University
Bonnard’s Sidewalk Theater

Alison Chang, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, RISD Museum
The Circus and the Weimar Republic: Die Hölle and Jahrmarktas Cultural Critique

Christina Weyl, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, Rutgers University
Size Matters: Abstract Expressionism and the Epic Print at Atelier 17

Elizabeth DeRose, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Printmaking as Conceptualist Strategy in Postwar Latin American Art

12:15 – 1:15 PM – Lunch

1:15 – 3:15 PM – Session Two: Redefining the Traditions of Print

Marsha Morton, Professor, Department of Art and Design History, Pratt Institute
Max Klinger and the Illustrated Press

Shannon Vittoria, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Etching New Paths: Mary Nimmo Moran and the Development of America’s Etching Revival, 1879-1885

Katherine Alcauskas, Collection Specialist, Department of Drawings & Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Rethinking the Print Room: Its History, Present, and Future

Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Van Gogh Museum
Looking for Unicity in the Medium of the Multiple: The Private Cult of the Belle Épreuve

3:15 – 3:30 PM – Coffee Break

3:30 – 5:30 PM – Session Three: Originality and Reproduction

Jay A. Clarke, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Intermediality and the Photogravure

Sarah C. Schaefer, Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
New Translations: Modern Biblical Print Culture and the Limits of “Reproduction”

Lisa Conte, Assistant Paper Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Images of Resistance or Violence: The Early Prints of David Wojnarowicz

Ruth E. Iskin, Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Birth of the Modern Art Print and the Multiple Original

5:30 – 6:00 PM – Respondent Session (Susan Tallman, Editor-in-Chief, Art in Print)

6:15 PM – Reception

 

 

 

On October 14th, the exhibition Digital Typefaces opened at the Hyundai Card Design Library in Seoul, Korea. The exhibition is curated by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator in MoMA’s Architecture and Design Department, and Michelle Millar Fisher, Curatorial Assistant and Art History PhD Candidate at the Graduate Center, in collaboration with the Hyundai Card Design Library. It’s the first of three traveling exhibitions going from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, to the HCDL over three years in a collaboration called “New Design Angles.”

For those versed in Korean, more information on the exhibition can be found on the Hyundai Card Design Library’s website!