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 »
Susan Crile Professor of Art, Hunter College, CUNY Thursday, February 18, 2016 6:30 PM A290, Bay 9, Second Floor, Smith Warehouse Duke University Susan Crile’s paintings move between the poles of beauty and horror. Her work is in the collections of many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, The Hirshhorn Musem & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. She has exhibited at… read more about Artist Talk »
“Kiyochika's ‘Hurrah for Japan! One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs’: Clear Ends, but with What Means?” Miriam Wattles Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture University of California - Santa Barbara Wednesday, February 17, 2016 4:30-6:00 PM A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse Duke University Manipulating public emotions through war propaganda relies on creating a huge gulf between Us and Them. Much of the unofficial propaganda… read more about Art History Lecture »
Ebony G. Patterson, …shortly after 8- beyond the bladez (detail), 2014. Mixed media on paper, 92 × 111 inches (233.7 × 281.9 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Museum purchase with additional funds provided by Blake Byrne (T’57) and Marjorie and Michael Levine (T’84, P’16, P’19, P’19). Image courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. © Ebony G. Patterson. Thursday, February 11, 2016 7 PM Nasher Museum of Art at Duke… read more about Panel Discussion: Collecting and Presenting Work by Artists of African Descent »
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 »