Alumni News: Getty Research Institute Names LeRonn P. Brooks Associate Curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections

Congratulations to the Graduate Center Art History Program alumnus Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks, who will be joining the Getty Research Institute in June as Associate Curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections, specializing in African American art.  Continue reading “Alumni News: Getty Research Institute Names LeRonn P. Brooks Associate Curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections”

Faculty Publication: Katherine Manthorne’s “Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue between Cinema and Painting”

Congratulations to Professor Katherine Manthorne, whose book, Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue between Cinema and Painting, is now out from Routledge! Dr. Manthorne is Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center, where she focuses on the art of the United States, Latin America, and their Cross-Currents from 1750 to 1950. Continue reading “Faculty Publication: Katherine Manthorne’s “Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue between Cinema and Painting””

Faculty News: Katherine Manthorne Organizes “The Rockies & The Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, And The Romance Of The Mountains” at the Newark Museum

On view from March 24 through August 19, 2018, Dr. Manthorne’s exhibition places Newark’s renowned collection of 19th-century landscape painting in dialogue with European alpine painting of the same period.  Continue reading “Faculty News: Katherine Manthorne Organizes “The Rockies & The Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, And The Romance Of The Mountains” at the Newark Museum”

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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