Alumni News: Stephanie Wiles Named Director of The Yale University Art Gallery

GC Art History alumna Stephanie Wiles, class of  2001, is an expert in old master drawings and has served in museum leadership roles at several universities. Her dissertation surveyed the careers of British-born artists Thomas Charles Farrer, a Ruskin admirer and leader of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and his brother Henry Farrer. Continue reading “Alumni News: Stephanie Wiles Named Director of The Yale University Art Gallery”

The CUNY Graduate Center at CAA 2018

From Wednesday, February 21 through Saturday, February 24, CAA will convene in Los Angeles for its 106th Annual Conference. We are proud of the numerous students, faculty, and alumni of the art history program at the CUNY Graduate Center who are coming to CAA this year as presenters, chairs, discussants, and organizers of affiliated programs! See below for a list of participants:
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Dr. Katherine Manthorne Curates “California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820–1930,” part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

Artistic and cultural exchange between California and Mexico has flourished since the time when California was part of the United States of Mexico. On view at the Laguna Art Museum from October 15, 2017 – January 14, 2018, California Mexicana highlights this vital aspect of the state’s history through a panorama of works by artists on both sides of the border, from scenes of mission and rancho life through images of romantic Old California, to the emergence of a cross-border modern art scene.

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Call for Proposals: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Deadline: Monday, January 15, 2018

The peer-reviewed open-access journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (NCAW) is pleased to announce a new digital humanities publishing initiative supported by a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. The editors of NCAW are now accepting proposals for articles addressing art and visual culture of the Americas in the long nineteenth century, from the American Revolution to World War I.  Continue reading “Call for Proposals: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide”