Art, Art History & Visual Studies
February 11-12, 2016 KEYNOTE ADDRESS “Object, Image, Archive: Historicizing the Global in Caribbean Art” Dr. Erica M. James Assistant Professor Departments of The History of Art and African American Studies Yale University Thursday, February 11, 2016 4 PM A266 (Collision Space), Bay 10, Smith Warehouse Duke University PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS 1–5 PM, Friday, February 12, 2016 A266 (Collision Space), Bay 10, Smith Warehouse Duke UniversitySymposium Papers Nicole Gaglia (Moderator);… read more about AAHVS Graduate Student Symposium »
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 6:30-9 PM A290, Bay 9, Smith Warehouse Duke University Hanna Wiegers “Origins and Development of the St. Jacques Convent in Paris” Commentator: Joseph Williams Justin M. Sandulli “This Side of Paradise: Tracing Modernism in Hawaii” Commentator: Rosalia Romero Kathy Huang “Zeng Fanzhi and the Global Art Market” Commentator: Kelly Tang Sophia Sennett “Generating Topologies: Movement and Sensing through Immersive Cinema” Commentator:… read more about AAHVS Undergraduate Honors Colloquium »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ3JkVxi9AE A new exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke gives visitors a chance to use technology to color ancient statues. Duke computer scientists and art historians created software that projects a multitude of colors onto the sculptures using light from a projector. Lives of Things Project Team Duke University 2014 - 2015 Mariano Tepper Electrical & Computer Engineering Mark Olson Art, Art History & Visual Studies… read more about Medieval Color Comes to Light »
Digital Pedagogy and Research in Art History, Archeaology and Visual Studies February 22, 2016 • 8:30am—6:30pm Nasher Museum of Art at Duke Universitysites.duke.edu/digsymposiumSponsored by the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and the Wired! Lab. read more about SYMPOSIUM: Apps, Maps, & Models »
Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he has taught since 1989, has been named CAA’s 2016 Distinguished Scholar. A specialist in American art, African American art, and theories of race and representation, Powell will be honored in February during a special session at CAA’s upcoming Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Powell was chair of the school’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies from 1996 to 2001. He currently is… read more about Richard J. Powell named 2016 CAA Distinguished Scholar »
Acqua e cibo a Venezia: Storie della laguna e della citta , a Visualizing Venice exhibition in the Ducal Palace, Venice, opened on September 26 and runs through February 2016. Kristin Love Huffman, instructor in Art, Art History & Visual Studies, coordinated the section on banquets, parades, and festivals and contributed the essay, “Banchetti, parate, giochi e feste” to the catalogue. The exhibition vividly illustrates how Venice, a city built on the brackish waters of a lagoon, required unique forms of water… read more about Acqua e Cibo a Venezia »
In October the Duke Board of Trustees approved a new $50 million arts center, planned for the northeast corner of Anderson Street and Campus Drive, near the Nasher Museum of Art and Duke Gardens. The center will provide space for rehearsal, performance, video production, classroom instruction and other uses. Construction is expected to take two years. The new arts center at Duke is the largest and most recent in a series of university investments in arts facilities, programs, and faculty that total close to $100 million… read more about New Arts Center Approved »
Post-doc position, Research Associate or Equivalent The DIG@LAB (Digital Digging) at Duke, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, seeks applicants for a post-doc, a research associate (or equivalent) fellowship focusing on scholarship in digital archaeology - Roman archaeology – and more specifically on the digital reconstruction of the Forum of Trajan in Rome for the Museum of Imperial Fora. Applicants' own research should involve the sophisticated use of one or more of the following: computer… read more about Call for Applicants in Digital and Classic Archaeology »
October 4, 2015 Nasher Museum of Art 12:00-4:00PMCaroline Bruzelius, Mark Olson, Guillermo Sapiro, Mariano Tepper The Wired! Lab’s Lives of Things, a project co-led by Caroline Bruzelius, Mark Olson, Guillermo Sapiro, and Mariano Tepper, will be featured as part of the Nasher Museum of Art’s Homecoming event Sunday, October 4th, from 12:00-4:00p.m. Over the summer, the Nasher’s permanent exhibition gallery was renovated to create a space better suited to sharing with the… read more about Nasher10 Homecoming to feature Lives of Things »
Duke alumnus film about the Oxford Grey and Black Friars by Dr James Knowles (North Carolina State University) recently featured in an "Open Day" exhibit in Oxford to coincide with completion of the new excavations at Greyfriars. http://oxfordarchaeology.com/community/westgate-excavations The Oxford Friars project virtually reconstructs the medieval Franciscan and Dominican foundations in Oxford in the 13th to 16th centuries. The project places these lost buildings in the context of English antifraternal… read more about Oxford Friars virtual reconstruction project featured at excavation event »
Duke's Pedro Lasch gave four U.S. congressmen a private tour of a new exhibit in Havana. U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico, speaks during a tour of an art exhibit in Havana. Udall was part of a four-member congressional delegation visiting Cuba. Sen. Al Franken, far right in the photo, attended as well. Photo courtesy of Pedro Lasch. Duke Art Professor Pedro Lasch offered a private tour of his latest art exhibit to four members of Congress at the opening of the Havana Biennial this past… read more about In Cuba, Duke Visual Arts Professor Connects Politics, Art »
STAFFNew IT Analyst The department has hired Ernie Burgess as its new IT analyst, succeeding Bill Broom who retired in February. Ernie began work at Duke on Tuesday, May 26. He will be located in the department’s new facilities in Smith Warehouse. Ernie brings to the position ten years of IT experience. He most recently worked as an IT analyst/network administrator for the Franklin County Government in Louisburg, NC. He previously worked in technology services and support at the Braswell… read more about New IT Analyst »
Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center Doctoral candidate Katherine de Vos Devine has been appointed Executive Director of the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center in Asheville, NC. Beginning July 1, 2015, she will be responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for the institution as it expands its facilities and programs. Devine, who has been active in research and curatorial projects at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art, also received her J.D.… read more about GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS »
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWCLIR Postdoctoral Fellow to join Wired! Lab The Duke Wired! Lab is pleased to announce that a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Visual Studies will be joining the lab in fall of 2015. Edward Triplett is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Virginia, expected to complete in spring 2015. Triplett studies the history of medieval Iberia, medieval Spanish architecture, Digital Humanities, 3D visualization, GIS, and… read more about CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow to join Wired! Lab »
A new virtual museum created by Duke researchers will be housed in an Italian museum For many people, the Roman Empire is an abstraction -- a series of facts gleaned from textbooks and museum artifacts. For the people of Reggio Emilia, in northern Italy, the look and feel of the Roman Empire is about to become much more real. The local museum in the town of 170,000 has partnered with Duke researchers to house a virtual museum bringing the empire’s aesthetics to life. Developed by a team led by Maurizio… read more about Project Offers a 3D Look at the Roman Empire »
excerpt from "Movies’ Most Memorable Mexican-American Moments: From Stand and Deliver to Giant, These Are Hollywood's Strongest Cinematic Depictions of America’s Third Largest Ethnic Group" http://www.whatitmeanstobeamerican.org, May 2015. Esther Gabara Crossing the border, whether real or imagined Near the end of Cheech Marín’s 1978 Born in East L.A., the movie’s born-and-bred- Angeleno hero, who had been wrongly deported to Mexico, leads a mass dash back across the border. Neil Diamond’… read more about Crossing the border, whether real or imagined »
Congratulations to Duke assistant professor of art history Sara Galletti, who has been promoted to associate professor with tenure. read more about Galletti promoted to associate professor »
Congratulations to Duke professor of art history and visual studies Mark Antliff, who has been selected for a distinguished professorship! Effective September 1, 2015, Mark will be the Mary Grace Wilson Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. read more about Antliff selected for distinguished professorship »
Architectural Agents: The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings by Annabel J. Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art and Art History, has just been published by the University of Minnesota Press. From the Press: “Treating buildings as bodies, Annabel Jane Wharton writes biographies of symptomatic structures in order to diagnose their pathologies. The violence of some sites is rooted in historical trauma; the unhealthy spatial behaviors of other spaces stem from political and economic ruthlessness… read more about New Faculty Publication »
Oxford University Ertegun Scholarship Art History and Visual Arts senior major Tara Trahey has been offered an Ertegun Scholarship to Oxford University for their masters degree in Classical Archaeology. This scholarship covers full tuition and housing, in a community of humanities students. Tara’s presented her Graduation With Distinction project, “Visualizing an Iconographic Network Between Athens and Vulci in the 6th Century B.C.E.,” at the GWD Colloquium on Friday, April 10. Professor and chair Sheila… read more about Oxford University Ertegun Scholarship »
Pinar Yoldas, An Ecosystem of Excess (TR), 2014. Installation: drawings, projections and sculptures. Doctoral student Pinar Yoldas has received a prestigious 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the Fine Arts category. In its ninety-first competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 173 Fellowships (including two joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior… read more about Guggenheim Fellowship »
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Doctoral candidate Camila Maroja has received the prestigious two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University. Camila will be researching, writing, and teaching across an interdisciplinary cohort that includes the departments of History of Art and Architecture, Hispanic Studies, History, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. All Mellon fellows… read more about Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship »
Visualizing Venice: The Biennale and the City Digital Visualization Workshop - 4th edition http://www.univiu.org/shss/seminars-summer-schools/visualizing-venice-summer-workshop June 1-12, 2015 Faculty: Caroline Bruzelius, Mark Olson, Victoria Szabo and Hannah Jacobs, Duke University, Donatella Calabi, Ludovica Galeazzo and Chiara Di Stefano, Università Iuav di Venezia Program What is it about? The field of historical and cultural… read more about Visualizing Venice: The Biennale and the City »
ARTHIST 290-02 / ECON 390-02 Art, Money, and Labor 1830—Today The aim of this course is to explore how the contradiction between artistic ethics and artistic value has been expressed over time, integrated as it was, into the polemic writings of artists and art critics, artistic studio practices, and the theoretical percepts of artistic production itself. E. Luse ARTHIST 290-01 / VMS 290-01 The Visual Culture of News, Past and Present This class will explore the visual culture of news from Early Modernity to the… read more about Featured Summer Courses »
ARTHIST 101D Prehistory to Middle Ages Explore art’s role in the human activities of dwelling, worship, death and exchange, from prehistoric cave drawings to Roman arenas and Medieval relics. E. Narkin ARTHIST 102D Renaissance to 20th Century Explore art’s role in religious worship, private and public spaces, and the art market and exhibitions, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. K. Desplanque read more about Featured Summer Courses »
Rethinking Global Cities Presenter: Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo 03/30/2015 at 04:30 PM Sponsors: Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Japanese Culture Club Location: East Duke 108 - Map Webcast: Watch here When: 03/30/2015 at 04:30 PM to 03/30/2015 at 06:00 PM Contact: Ahmed, Iyman Email: iyman.ahmed@duke.edu Phone: 668-1920 Please join us for a public lecture delivered by Dr. Shunya Yoshimi, from the University of Tokyo, for the next installment… read more about Visualizing Postwar Tokyo: Bombing, The Olympics, Youth Culture and the Marginal »
2015 AAHVS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUMThursday, February 19, 2015Keynote 6:00 PM A266, Collision Space, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse “Japan’s Venice and the Ends of Art” Ignacio Adriasola Assistant Professor Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory University of British Columbia, VancouverFriday, February 20, 2015Symposium Papers 1:30-3:00 PM A266, Collision Space, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse Rosalia Romero “Transborder Visions of Freedom:… read more about Graduate Student Symposium »
Professor Patricia Leighten's recent book, The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris (Chicago, 2013) has won Choice magazine's CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award. Choice is a publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division the American Library Association (AMA). From Choice: “Stereotypical views of modern art long have associated its complex visual languages with radical politics, variously calling modern paintings ‘anarchic’ and ‘revolutionary.’ In… read more about Faculty Book Award »
EXHIBITIONSSecond Floor Bay 11, Smith WarehouseJanuary 12 – April 10, 2015 This spring, Duke University is hosting the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition, curated over the past ten years by Dr. Katy Borner, director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Networks Science Center in the Department of Information and Library Science at Indiana University. The Places & Spaces exhibition, a labor of love by internationally renowned visualization… read more about Places & Spaces: Mapping Science »
"Les Dessins de Roland Barthes" Celine Flecheux, Universite de Paris 7 Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 12:00-1:15 PM Language Bldg 114 West Campus, Duke University Sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies. read more about French and Francophone Studies Lecture »