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copied from Duke Today article:https://today.duke.edu/2017/02/two-trinity-faculty-members-receive-neh-grants The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded two grant fellowships to Duke University faculty members for their respective work in humanities-based advanced research programs —one focusing on post-apartheid mobility, while the other is digital catalog connected to an upcoming Duke exhibit. Anne-Maria Makhulu, associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and African and… read more about Lanzoni awarded NEH grant for Barbari 'View of Venice' exhibit »
“The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me” (performed with drums, bass, and electric guitars) Jen Delos Reyes Artist, Founder-Director of Open Engagement, Associate Director of the School of Art & Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago Thursday, February 23, 2017 6:00-7:15 PM The Carrack (947 E. Main St, Durham, NC 27701) Join Jen Delos Reyes for a performance and artist talk in collaboration with local musicians/Duke students, faculty, and staff. Her lecture will be delivered throughout a set list of songs they will… read more about PUBLIC LECTURE: Jen Delos Reyes »
Michael Snow, Wavelength, film still, 1967; 16mm film, sound, color, 45 minutes. Image courtesy of the artist. Michael Snow was born in Toronto in 1928, and lives there now. He is a musician (piano and other instruments) who has performed solo as well as with various ensembles (most often with CCMC of Toronto) in Canada, USA, Europe, and Japan. Numerous recordings of his music have been released. He is also a filmmaker, and his films have been presented at numerous festivals worldwide, and are… read more about VISITING ARTIST: Michael Snow »
Thursday, February 23 Room A266 (Collision Space), Bay 10 Smith WarehouseKeynote Address (4:30 PM) “Everything but the Clouds: Digital Art History and Cory Arcangel’s Super Mario Clouds” Patrick LeMieux Assistant Professor, Cinema and Digital Media Program University of California, DavisFriday, February 24 Room A266 (Collision Space), Bay 10 Smith WarehousePapers and PresentationsSymposium Papers (2 - 4 PM) … read more about 2017 GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM »
The Installation Array exhibition, Tomato Republic, by second-year MFA/EDA student Haoyang Zhao was featured in a January 19, 2017 Duke Today article.today.duke.edu/2017/01/student-photo-exhibit-tomato-republic-debuts-smith-warehouse The Installation Array, launched in Fall 2016, is a new space for multi-media art installations by students and faculty. It is located on the second floor of Bay 11 in Smith Warehouse. Assistant professor of the practice Shambhavi Kaul organizes the… read more about Installation Array Exhibition in Duke Today »
A large group of faculty, staff, and students in the department are team leaders or participating in three Bass Connections projects awarded for 2017-18:Creative Industries and the Urban Environment The term “creative" or "cultural industries” refers to industries that combine the creation, production, and commercialization of creative contents that are intangible and cultural in nature. Cultural industries generally include printing,… read more about Bass Connections Project Awards »
Kristin Huffman Lanzoni, instructor in Art, Art History and Visual Studies, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities-Mellon fellowship for her project Jacopo de Barbari’s View: A Digital Exhibition Catalog. It expands upon content that will be displayed in her exhibition, A Portrait of Venice, opening at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, September 7, 2017. Even though scholars across a range of disciplines consistently refer to the woodblock… read more about NEH-Mellon Fellowship »
January 27 – February 7, 2017 Anxiety. Depression. Addiction. Family. And a conversation that never happened. Invisible illnesses can be the hardest to talk about. In COUSINS, six first cousins share their relationships with mental health. Positioned within a living room setting, this six-screen video installation explores the isolating nature of mental illness and the structures that prevent it from being discussed openly. Katie King (MFA/EDA, ’18) likes the visual and the textual, photographs and… read more about Installation Array, Smith Whse: COUSINS by Katie King »
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Saturday, February 11, 2017 9:15 AM - 5:30 PM The Medieval period of European history has been mischaracterized as an age of little innovation, while scholars who study the period are often portrayed as antiquarians poring over old texts without recourse to new research methods, tools, and perspectives. This seminar will put these notions to rest by showing how novel approaches to scholarship of the Medieval Era are yielding new insights on the era and on our world today. Join… read more about Symposium: What’s New in the Middle Ages? »
Friday-Saturday, February 10-11, 2017 Duke University How do you see nuclear energy? Are you even aware of its presence? For many people the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors in 2011 came out of the blue. Most Japanese were not aware of the 53 reactors in their country, let alone the dangers they posed. Yet Japanese were hardly alone in their ignorance. Every nuclear disaster seems as impossible as the previous one, even though activists, journalists, and artists around the world have been laboring for years to… read more about Symposium: The Nuclear Imaginary in Transnational Perspective »
A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View is an exhibition that will open at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, September 7, 2017. Even though scholars across a range of disciplines consistently refer to the woodblock print as a visual document of Venice as it appeared in the Early Modern period, this project will be the first time that the View is exhibited as a centerpiece for engaging with the life of the city. The experience of seeing and examining the View will be enriched by… read more about A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s "View" »
Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies will be leading a course in Trauma in Art, Literature, and Film as part of Duke University's Spring Breakthrough courses program: WHAT is Spring Breakthrough? Five-day seminars taught by some of Duke’s most engaging professors. These courses, and all meals and materials, are 100% free. There are no pre-reqs, grades, or credits. Participation will be noted on transcripts. WHO is it for? Duke… read more about Spring Breakthrough »
Alexandra Dodson (Ph.D., 2016) has been appointed lecturer in the School of Art at the University of North Carolina Greensboro for the fall 2016 semester. read more about ALUMNI NEWS »
Doctoral candidate Pinar Yoldas’ exhibition, The Warm, the Cool and the Cat, opens on September 24 at Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn. The exhibition is part of the seasons’ last exhibition in the 2016 Anthropocene series: The Warm, the Cool and the Cat by cross-disciplinary artist, researcher and scholar Pinar Yoldas. The exhibition is conceived and produced in conjunction with a three-week residency provided by Västra Götaland Region’s… read more about The Warm, the Cool and the Cat »
Doctoral candidate Kathryn Desplanque is presenting a paper entitled "The Historical Art Star: Caricaturing Visual Artists in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Paris," at the conference, Abusing Power: The Visual Politics of Satire, co-organized by C21 Writings, Royal Pavilion & Museums, and the University of Brighton. This conference brings together both historians of graphic satire, such as Ian Haywood and Brian Maidment, and cartoonists like Steve Bell and… read more about Abusing Power »
Alexis Clark (Ph.D., 2014) has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Visual Culture at Denison University for the 2016-17 academic year. Since her graduation in 2014, Alexis taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Riverside. She has published in Art History and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, and has forthcoming publications in The Burlington Magazine, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, and Oxford Art… read more about ALUMNI NEWS »
The department welcomes the following new graduate students to our doctoral and master's programs: Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture • Felipe Alvarez de Toledo • Jessica Orzulak M.A. in Digital Art History • Ruby Hung • Stephanie Manning M.A. in Computational Media • Yiran Ao • Luke LeGrand • Vivian Tan • Yuchen Zhao read more about GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS »
Histoires sociales de l'art. Une Anthologie critique, edited by Neil McWilliam, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Art and Art History, together with Johanne Lamoureux (INHA, Paris) and (EBABX, Bordeaux), was recently published in France by Les Presses du réel. A two-volume historiographical survey of social art history in Europe and the United States from the 1930s to 2000, the anthology pairs more than thirty classic texts and lesser-known articles by art historians ranging from Max Raphael to Griselda Pollock with… read more about New Publication »
Beverly McIver, Past Tense, 2016, oil on canvas. Beverly McIver, Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts, will be part of a new exhibition at 21 C Durham, Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation. Featuring painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, the exhibition will be on view through June 2017 and includes works by twenty-five artists from more than a dozen countries. Bedecked and bejeweled, the figures populating Dress Up, Speak Up occupy fluid space and… read more about 21C Durham: Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation »
Beverly McIver, Sisters Forever, 2016, oil on canvas.Objects of Affection, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Beverly McIver, Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts, opened September 7, 2016 at the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York. McIver's paintings are a voyage in self-revelation from her earlier self-portraits in white face (the clown) to black face (confronting the black stereotype); to more recently, the unmasking of her skin, body and feelings as she explores her identity… read more about Betty Cuningham Gallery: Objects of Affection »
William Noland, video still from Dream Rooms (2014), part of the ongoing series Presence Documents, single-channel video with sound, 19 mins., © 2014 William Noland. William Noland, professor of the practice of visual arts, had a solo exhibition open at the North Carolina Museum of Art on September 3, 2016. Called Dream Rooms, the exhibition examines our wired world of the 21st century. Individuals are seen in coffee shops, wholly absorbed, their trancelike states brought on primarily through an… read more about NC Museum of Art: Dream Rooms »
Caroline Bruzelius, Anne M. Cogan Professor of Art History, will present "Visualizing Venice: The Life and Times of an International Digital Collaboration" as part of the lecture series in the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin on September 19, 2016. Visualizing Venice is a Digital Humanities initiative that consists of students, scholar's and architects at all levels of their careers who are actively involved in research projects to generate digital models and maps of the city of Venice, its territories… read more about UT Austin Lecture »
Duke Today featured two departmental faculty members, Carla Antonaccio, professor of classical archaeology, and Pedro Lasch, associate research professor of visual arts, in the August 15 issue in "15 Years after 9/11." The Temple of Baal-Shamin in Palmyra, Syria, before and after it was destroyed by ISIS. Photos courtesy Bernard Gagnon, BBC News Antonaccio discussed the ancient archaeological sites that have become battlefields in "Since 9/11, Archaeologists Struggle to Work Safely": https://today.duke.edu/2016/08/911-… read more about 15 Years after 9/11 »
The department welcomes a large group of new and returning Fulbrights, post-docs, fellows, research scholars, and visiting graduate students this academic year. We wish them a productive residency at Duke. Shadow, no. 5 (Hinomaru bunko, July 1956), cover by Matsumoto Masahiko. Helen Ackers Fulbright Scholar, Classical Archaeology Sponsor: Sheila Dillon Andrea Basso Visiting Graduate Student, Architecture and Engineering, University of Padua Sponsor: Wired! Lab Elisa Castagna Visiting Graduate Student, Architecture and… read more about Visiting Scholars »
Young Ji Lee (Ph.D., 2015) has been appointed visiting assistant professor in East Asian art history at Oberlin College for the year 2016-17. read more about Oberlin College »
Needles from my grandfather’s ship. Photograph by Alina Taalman. Alina Taalman (MFA ‘15) is the recipient of the inaugural Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship. She will travel to Estonia to “make a film that explores my Estonian family history, which has always been broken into fleeting narratives.” Taalman’s fellowship will begin in August and will culminate with a public presentation in Durham in spring 2018. The Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship, made possible through a partnership between Cassilhaus, the Master of Fine… read more about Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship »
Graph by Alfred Barr modified to account for narrative provided in Bernard Dorival, Les Étapes de la peinture française contemporaine: tome troisième: depuis le Cubisme. 1911-1944. Paris: Gallimard, 1946. Visualization by Emilie Luse with help from Judith Leng, class of 2016. Doctoral candidate Emilie Anne-Yvonne Luse presented a portion of her dissertation chapter in a paper entitled, “The Mistake of Modernism? Surveys of Interwar Art in France, 1930-1950,” at the conference, Art and Politics in… read more about Modernism Conference in Croatia »
Hank Willis Thomas, What Goes Without Saying from the “Punctum” series, 2012. Wooden Pillory and Microphone [Installation View]. 64 x 66 x 36 in . (162.5 x168x 91 cm). Provided by Hank Willis Thomas. Doctoral candidate Anita Bateman recently completed the 2016 Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. The rigorous two-week program was held in New York and introduced art historians at the beginning of their careers to the intricacies of museum practices. Bateman also received… read more about Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar »
Merrill Shatzman, Tilatopia 13, Woodcut monoprint, 22” x 30”, 2015. Color woodcut prints by Merrill Shatzman, professor of the practice of visual arts, are currently on exhibit as part of the 8th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2016, from August 10 – October 31, 2016. Shown in seventeen venues throughout the Douro region in Portugal (including Alijó, Bragança, Celeirós, Chaves, Favaios, Régua, Sabrosa, São Martinho de Anta, Vila Real) the show includes 1,300 prints by 604 artists, representing… read more about International Printmaking Biennial Douro »
Bill Fick, visiting assistant of the practice of visual arts, recently (May 31 - August 7) exhibited an installation of 500+ linocuts and screen prints at SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), Winston-Salem, NC. The installation titled CHAMBER OF CHILLS is part of the 12 x 12 artist salon series that features work by twelve North Carolina artists. The installation of six repeating prints covered the walls and floor of the gallery (the chamber). The images envelope and surround the viewer with… read more about Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art »