Congratulations to Michelle Millar Fisher, who, along with Senior Curator Paola Antonelli, organized the exhibition “Items: Is Fashion Modern?” at the Museum of Modern Art, opening October 1. Fisher is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Curatorial Assistant in MoMA’s Architecture + Design department.
Continue reading “Michelle Millar Fisher co-organizes “Items: Is Fashion Modern?” at MoMA”
Gwen Shaw, Art History doctoral candidate and Contributing Writer for Visible Pedagogy, on experiential learning and how Graduate Center instructors can integrate site visits into their teaching: Continue reading “Gwen Shaw: In Praise of Experiential Learning”
On September 26th, Gayatri Sinha of Critical Collective will lecture on “Embedding the Memory Landscape: Revisiting Asia’s Cultural Past in Contemporary Art.” Continue reading “Rewald Seminar: Gayatri Sinha”
Marnin Young, Yeshiva University
Seurat and Space
5:30-7:00 pm, Room 3416
Tuesday Sept 19th, 6-8pm
Art History Lounge
Last week, Dr. Flam–the Graduate Center’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History, appeared on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper discussing his role as whistleblower in the Knoedler sandal. Continue reading “Distinguished Professor Emeritus Jack Flam on Breaking the Knoedler Forgery Scandal”
Professor Manthorne will discuss her work with the Cisneros Collection of Latin American art and her recent publication Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection at the New York Academy of Arts on Friday, November 20, at 6:30 PM.
The publication was released in conjunction with the exhibition, “Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists’ Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,” on view at the Americas Society and at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College through January 23rd.
This Thursday at the Institute of Fine Arts, Professor Emily Braun will discuss the choices and challenges involved in organizing the current retrospective of Alberto Burri at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the first in this country in nearly forty years. The exhibition documents Burri’s development, argues for his widespread influence, and revises standard interpretations of post-WWII art. In any monographic show, selection, exclusion, and availability of works for loan determine how an artist’s career will be narrated and received. Burri’s highly tactile pictures, made of unorthodox materials, demand specific types of attention and installation design. Braun will examine these issues, as well the process of conceiving the Burri retrospective in tandem with the architecture of the Frank Lloyd Wright Rotunda.
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 6:00 PM
6:00 PM in the Lecture Hall
The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
1 East 78th Street
RSVP Required
Professor Marta Gutman’s A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 has been awarded the Urban History Association’s Kenneth Jackson Award for the best North American book in 2014. Her co-recipient is Nathan Connolly, who won for his book “Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida.”
In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy.
On Wednesday, October 21, Gutman will participate in the panel, Is This for Everyone? Design and the Common Good at MoMA from 6:00–7:30 p.m. This event will also be live-streamed online.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition, This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good, the panel addresses case studies and theoretical applications in which design intersects with ideas of the common good. Panelists look to their own work to consider how this intersection arises across social, political, economic, and cultural platforms, as presented in the exhibition.
Gutman’s co-participants include Laura Kurgan, Director of Visual Studies, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and Raphael Sperry, architect, green-building consultant, and president of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. Paola Antonelli, senior curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, moderates.
The Byzantine Studies Conference, to be held from October 22-25 in NYC, will come to the Graduate Center on Friday, October 23, thanks to Professor Jenn Ball and the generous support of the Art History Department and the Applied Research Collaborative at the GC. Continue reading “This Friday at the GC: 2015 Byzantine Studies Conference, Cynthia Hahn Book Launch”
