Call for Papers: Annual Symposium of Latin American Art

The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; The Graduate Center, City University of New York; and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) are pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art. Erasures: Excision and Indelibility in the Art of the Americas will be held in New York on April 11 and 12, 2019.

Organized by current PhD candidates Brian Bentley, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Ana Cristina Perry, and PhD students Francesca Ferrari, Sonja Gandert, and Tie Jojima, the symposium will include keynote lectures by Barbara Browning and Ken Gonzales-Day. It is coordinated by Professors Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts; Anna Indych-López, Professor of 20th-Century Latin American and Latinx Art at The Graduate Center; and Katherine Manthorne, Professor of Modern Art of the Americas at The Graduate Center.  Continue reading “Call for Papers: Annual Symposium of Latin American Art”

Faculty News: Professor Romy Golan to Speak on “Magic Realism in 1920s Italy and Quattrocento painting” at Harvard University

On Thursday, October 18, Professor Romy Golan will give a lecture at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, where she is the Francesco de Dombrowski Visiting Professor this term.

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Student News: Rebecca Pollack organizes the conference “Jewish Memory and Culture: 1945-Present,” convening April 12 at the Graduate Center

On April 12,  doctoral candidate Rebecca Pollack is organizing the conference, Jewish Memory and Culture: 1945-Present, co-sponsored by The Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY, the Doctoral Students’ Council, CUNY, and the Ph.D. Program in Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY. 

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Faculty News: Cynthia Hahn Authors Catalog on “Meaningful Jewels” in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Dr. Cynthia Hahn, Professor of Medieval Art at The Graduate Center, CUNY and Hunter College, wrote and organized the catalog for the exhibition “The thing of mine I have loved the best: Meaningful Jewels,” on view at Les Enluminures, New York, from April 5 through April 20. Graduate Center PhD student Kristen Racaniello also assisted with the show. Continue reading “Faculty News: Cynthia Hahn Authors Catalog on “Meaningful Jewels” in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period”

Student News: Abigail Lapin Dardashti Organizes an Exhibition and Conference on Contemporary Art in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Abigail Lapin Dardashti, a doctoral candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center, has organized two related events: the conference Art and Literature in Contemporary Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas at the Center for the Humanities, and the exhibition Bordering the Imaginary at BRICContinue reading “Student News: Abigail Lapin Dardashti Organizes an Exhibition and Conference on Contemporary Art in Haiti and the Dominican Republic”