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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 »
ARTHIST 190S.02 Special Topics in Art History M. Woodworth MW 3:05—4:20PM Smith Warehouse, Bay 11, A233 read more about Featured course: The Medieval Castle in Britain »
A photogrammetric point cloud from 1430 photos shot at Duke Chapel. The largest point cloud processed from these photos contains 98 million points. On May 17, 2016, a photogrammetry tutorial was conducted in Duke Chapel, led by Ed Triplett, Ph.D., a 2-year CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in the University Libraries and Wired! Lab. A group of students, staff, and faculty spent the morning taking hundreds of digital photos documenting the interior of the chapel. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Ed Triplett photographing in the nave of Duke… read more about Creating a 3D model of Duke Chapel »
Photo by Travis Dove, courtesy of High Museum. Katherine Jentleson (PhD, 2015), the High Museum of Art’s Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art, was featured in an article in ARTSATL, “The High Museum of Art receives a gift of 47 works by self-taught Southern artists.” It discussed a recent gift made by Gordon W. Bailey to the High Museum of Art and Jentleson’s curatorial role in reviving the museum’s folk and self-taught art department. The article notes that… read more about High Museum of Art »
The Duke STEAM challenge (dukesteamchallenge.org) is an interdisciplinary cross-campus competition for students combining Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics together in a collaborative project. This year’s competition was directed by the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, Keith Whitfield and the Director of the Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, Victoria Szabo, and supported by I&E, the Co-Lab, ISS, and HASTAC. The judges were faculty, staff, and students from… read more about Duke STEAM Challenge »
Doctoral candidate Joseph Williams has received the Phyllis W. G. Gordan/Lily Auchincloss/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome (year 1 of a 2-year fellowship). While at the American Academy in Rome, he will pursue his dissertation research on the Church of S. Corrado, Molfetta, Italy. Congratulations, Joe! read more about Rome Prize »
Pietro Lorenzetti, Pala del Carmine (detail), 1329. Alexandra Dodson, who recently successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, presented "Constructing Mount Carmel in Central Italy: Carmelite Architecture and Identity" in the session Constructing Connections: Place and Identity in Early Modern Visual Culture at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston. Another doctoral candidate, Elisabeth Narkin, was the chair and co-organizer of the… read more about Renaissance Society Conference »
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Château of Blois, exterior façade of Louis XII wing and interior façade of Francis I wing, 1570. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum. Doctoral candidate Elisabeth Narkin is the recipient of the 2016 Carter Manny Award for research, which comes with a $15,000 prize, for her dissertation Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499–1610. Elisabeth’s dissertation explores architecture’s relationship… read more about Carter Manny Award »
Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, contributed the following essays to Reading Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres (Routledge, 2015): “Anti-Art,” “Destruction Art,” “Fluxus,” and “Bodies in Action,” the last co-authored with Kathy O’Dell, Professor of Art History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Stiles recently authored the essay, “Landscape of Tremors: Toward… read more about New Publication Essays »
Pedro Lasch, associate research professor of visual arts, was featured in Duke Today, where he discussed his first experience teaching public art to the masses on the Internet.today.duke.edu/2016/04/artmooc read more about Art of the MOOC/Duke Today »
Maurizio Forte, William and Sue Gross Professor of Classical Studies and Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, was featured in an article in Duke Magazine, “Planet Duke: Classics go digital,” in the Spring 2016 issue.dukemagazine.duke.edu/article/planet-duke-classic-digs-go-digital read more about Digital Archaeology/Duke Magazine »
Bill Fick, visiting assistant professor of the practice of visual arts, is currently exhibiting his "Scary Wall #3" print installation as part of the OUT OF PRINT exhibition at the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art. The piece measures 8 ft x 8 ft and is made up of 30 linocut prints that are pasted to the gallery wall. This installation is part of a series of prints based on Fick's interest in underground comics and lowbrow graphics. OUT OF PRINT features artists that are part of the New Contemporary… read more about OUT OF PRINT Exhibition »
Caroline Bruzelius, Anne M. Cogan Professor of Art History, has received the 2015-2016 Dean’s Leadership Award. A reception to celebrate award recipients was held Monday, April 25, 2016 at the Doris Duke Center in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. The award “recognizes leadership through a distinctive contribution to research, teaching, and service.” The award letter from Valerie S. Ashby, Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, noted that Bruzelius’ “work in creating the Wired! Lab for… read more about Dean’s Leadership Award »
Gennifer Weisenfeld, professor of art history and visual studies, has been appointed dean of humanities effective July 1, serving through June 2019. She succeeds Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History, who completes his two-year term as dean of humanities this June. Weisenfeld is a specialist in modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. Her work explores the impact of Japan's modern sociopolitical transformations on artistic… read more about New Humanities Dean »
2016 Senior Capstone and Graduation with Distinction, Duke Union for Media and the Arts, and Visual Arts Students Showcase Exhibitions Opening 4-6 PM, Thursday, April 28, 2016 Commencement Reception 2-4 PM, Friday, May 13, 2016 Bays 9, 10, 11, 12 Smith Warehouse Duke University read more about 2016 Commencement Exhibitions »
Woodcut from Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (1775-1778) Doctoral candidate Kathryn Desplanque was a Getty Research Institute Library Research Grant recipient and spent two weeks exploring their collections, in particular a series of boxes entitled "Caricatures of Salons and Artists." She also took advantage of their very complete collection of secondary art historical scholarship, and their print run of Lavater's multi-volume work… read more about Getty Research Institute Grant and Walpole Library Fellowship »
Doctoral candidate Laura Moure Cecchini has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in the Department of Art and Art History at Colgate University. Congratulations, Laura! read more about Colgate University »
Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History and Dean of Humanities, will give the Richard D. Cohen Lecture at Harvard University on March 29, 30, and 31, 2016. “Going ‘There’: Considering Black Visual Satire” will be a lecture in three parts: “Dis/compositions, Hazards, and Rags,” “The Minstrel Stain,” and “A Colescott Shellacking and its Legacy.” read more about Richard D. Cohen Lecture Series at Harvard University »
Two tracks have now been approved for the department’s Master’s degree program: Digital Art History and Computational Media.Digital Art History Track The M.A. in Digital Art History track prepares you for future work in such fields as public history, city planning and architectural design, cultural heritage, museum exhibition design and visualization-based journalism, and provides a springboard for more advanced study in art history, archaeology, architectural history and visual… read more about Master’s Degree in Digital Art History/Computational Media »
Photo by J Caldwell, Nasher Museum of Art For students interested in pursuing a museum career the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies now offers a B.A. degree in Art History that focuses on museum theory and practice. This concentration includes thirteen courses in museum theory, curatorial practice, and object study, as well as art history and the visual arts. Students selecting to pursue this concentration will graduate with a major in Art History, with a Concentration in… read more about Undergraduate Concentration in Museum Theory & Practice »
Still from Doxology. Michael Langan Independent Filmmaker 1:00 PM Friday, April 1, 2016 A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse Michael Langan is an American filmmaker with a background in experimental animation and visual effects. His films and music videos have garnered six Vimeo Staff Picks, been praised as "confounding and fascinating" by The New York Times, "inventive" by The Atlantic, and "eerily beautiful" by NPR, and have played at over a hundred film festivals… read more about ARTIST TALK »
Eric Consemuller, Unknown woman in a Breuer club chair in an Oskar Schlemmer mask, and a dress of Bauhaus fabric, c. 1926 “Gendering the Bauhaus” Elizabeth Otto Executive Director of the Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, University of Buffalo 5-6 PM Tuesday, March 29, 2016 A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse Sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies read more about ART HISTORY LECTURE »
Duke University’s Wired! Lab has received a grant of $140,000 from the Getty Foundation to support the Lab’s summer Digital Art History Institute, “Visualizing Venice: Mapping and Modeling the Venice Ghetto.” The institute will take place at Venice International University, Isola di San Servolo, Venice from June 8 – 20, 2016. The grant was given as part of the Getty Foundation’s Digital Art History Initiative. Digital technologies for historical and cultural visualization are transforming… read more about Getty Foundation Grant »
On Monday, February 22, 2016 over 160 art historians and curators, librarians and image specialists, scientists, teachers, and administrators attended Apps, Maps & Models: A Symposium on Digital Pedagogy and Research in Art History, Archaeology and Visual Studies, sponsored by the Wired! Lab of the Dept. of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and hosted by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.… read more about Apps, Maps & Models: A Symposium on Digital Pedagogy and Research in Art History, Archaeology and Visual Studies »
Mark Antliff, Mary Grace Wilson Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, lectured on "Censorship, Homosexuality, and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde” in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney in February. read more about Lecture in Australia »
Tom Rankin, professor of the practice of visual arts, guest-edited the Spring 2016 Documentary Arts issue of Southern Cultures. The cover photo was taken by Aaron Canipe (MFA/EDA ’15). The launch party for the issue will take place on Friday, March 4, 2016, 5-8 PM, at the Power Plant Gallery, Durham, NC. read more about Southern Cultures – Documentary Arts »
Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma, by Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, has just been published by The University of Chicago Press. The publisher notes: “Kristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in… read more about New Publication: Concerning Consequences »
The AAHVS department had a significant presence at the College Art Association’s annual conference in Washington, DC, February 3-6, 2016. Prof. Richard Powell at CAA with current and former students. As mentioned in a previous NewsByte Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History and Dean of Humanities, was named the College Art Association’s 2016 Distinguished Scholar. A specialist in American art, African American art, and theories of race and representation,… read more about AAHVS at CAA »
February 20 - April 9, 2016 Craven Allen Gallery Durham, NC Opening Reception 5-7 PM, Saturday, February 20, 2016 Also showing: Duke University advanced painting students. Beverly McIver is Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She is widely acknowledged as a significant presence in contemporary American art and has charted a new direction as an African American… read more about Faculty Exhibition: Beverly McIver The Ties That Bind »