Art, Art History & Visual StudiesPaul B. Jaskot, professor of art history, along with Alexandra Garbarini (Williams College) edited and wrote the introduction for the new publication, Lessons and Legacies XIII. New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust: Social History, Representation, Theory (2018 Northwestern University Press). Northwestern University Press describes the book as:A collection of essays representing the forefront of current research on the Holocaust in a range of disciplines, Lessons and Legacies XIII … read more about New Publication: Lessons and Legacies »
Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice Lecturing fellow Kristin Huffman spoke about “A View from above: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s Venice” on October 9, 2018 in the Ballroom of the Correr Museum at Piazza San Marco, Venice. Her presentation anticipates a future installation at the Correr Museum that will bring the View’s magnificent details to life. The print and the original wooden blocks used to publish the six large-scale sheets, form the centerpiece for interactive multi-media displays. The… read more about View of Venice at the University of Minnesota »
The exhibition catalogue Pop América, 1965–1975, curated and edited by Esther Gabara, E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and associate professor of art, art history and visual studies, accompanies the first traveling exhibition to stage Pop art as a hemispheric phenomenon. The richly illustrated catalogue reveals the skill with which Latin American and Latino/a artists adapted familiar languages of mass media, fashion, and advertising to create experimental art in a startling range of mediums.… read more about Pop América »
Josh Gibson, associate professor of the practice of filmmaking, has been appointed the next director of the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image. Gibson is a moving image artist working in documentary, hybrid forms, and experimental cinematography. Gibson’s appointment is for five years. read more about New AMI Director »
Anne Murnick Cogan Professor Emerita Caroline Bruzelius contributed “Reconstructing Spaces” to the MOOC, “A Voice of Their Own: Women’s Spirituality in the Middle Ages.” The MOOC consisted of five units: A Voice of Their Own, Introduction; The House of the Heart, Female Nunneries in the Middle Ages; The Space Within, Female Mysticism in the Middle Ages; Voices of Dissent; and Spiritual Landcapes. read more about A Voice of Their Own »
End-of-Semester Visual Projects Reception Friday, Dec. 7 "AAHVS End-of-Semester Student Exhibition" 5-7 PM, Bays 9-12, Smith Warehouse read more about December 2018 »
LONDON, Tate Modern — “Museum of Clouds...the first museum gathering of a cloud of artist-filmmakers whose works have shifted the field of artists’ cinema over the last decade.” Museum of Clouds is a weekend programme of screenings and discussions exploring the films, the contexts, the figures that connected a diverse group of artist-filmmakers working over the last ten years. The series includes works by Gabriel Abrantes, Basma Alsharif, Alexander Carver, Benjamin Crotty, Mati Diop, Beatrice Gibson, Shambhavi… read more about Museum of Clouds »
An Evening with Shambhavi Kaul — Applying deep research, precise editing, and fine-tuned humor to a combination of her own cinematography and found footage, Shambhavi Kaul depicts landscapes and figures that exist between imagination and reality. Her work uses cultural tropes from places like Hong Kong, India, and Mexico to reveal the ambiguous meanings behind loaded popular signifiers. Kaul presents a selection of her films, including new work, followed by a conversation. Monday, October 22, 7:00… read more about Faculty at Museum of Modern Art »
Art, Art History & Visual Studies Art History Speaker Series Fall 2018 September 12, 2018, 5:00 PM “Lustmord: Images of Violence and the Shape of the Public Sphere in Early Twentieth-Century Germany” Frederic J. Schwartz Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University College, London A266, Smith WarehouseOctober 16, 2018, 5:00 PM “For Love or Money: Gisele Freund’s Paradoxical Turn from Her Marxist Study of The Rise of 19th Century… read more about Fall 2018 »
Print installation by Merrill Shatzman, Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, that presents stationary color woodcut prints adjacent to projected animations of black and white woodblocks that are displayed within the framework of a grid. All of the prints include aspects of urban landscapes, emphasizing details, shape, time, transition and visual tension found within architecture and the surrounding environment. Capturing Magic Installation from… read more about Capturing Magic Installation »
The 20-minute video of sights and sounds of the garden was taken by Hunter Stark, Trinity '18. The video won a 2018 Visual Studies Initiatives Award from the Art, Art History and Visual Studies Department and is now part of the "Blomquist Gardens 50th Anniversary" library exhibit. The full article can be found at Duke News: https://today.duke.edu/2018/08/immerse-yourself-blomquist-gardens read more about Video by VSI Award-winning alumnus featured in Duke News »
Art, Art History & Visual Studies Visiting Artist Lecture Series Fall 2018 9/5/18, 6:30pmCarlos Hernandez Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater 10/12/18, 5:30pmIsabella Alexander Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater 10/25/18, 8pmHelga Fanderl Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater 11/6/18, 4pmEuphus Ruth Rubenstein Arts Center Courtyard read more about Fall 2018 »
Paul Jaskot, professor of art, art history and visual studies and director of the Wired! Lab at Duke, is the joint recipient of a 3-year National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant of $296,455, along with Anne Knowles (University of Maine, Orono) and Anika Walker (Washington University, St. Louis). Knowles is project director, with the grant based at the University of Maine, and Jaskot and Walker are co-project directors. The grant will fund “The Holocaust… read more about NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant »
Located at the Umass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts in downtown New Bedford. Video by Steven Richard, 2018. read more about Bill Seaman: Suspended Sentence »
University of Oregon Welcomes Duke AAH&VS Alumna Lindsey Mazurek Lindsey Mazurek will join the Department of History at the University of Oregon in Fall 2018. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and taught in the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University. Her research focuses on questions of ethnicity, migration, materiality, and identification in the Roman Empire, and her work has appeared in the Journal of Roman… read more about Alumna Lindsey Mazurek joining University of Oregon Dept. of History »
Laura Moure Cechini’s essay, "A House No Longer Divided: Patronage, Pluralism, and Creative Freedom in Italian Pre- and Postwar Art" was recently published in Postwar Italian Art History Today, Bloomsbury Publishing. bloomsbury.com/us/postwar-italian-art-history-today-9781501330056 read more about Alumna Laura Moure Cechini Publication Contribution »
A lecture by Nicola Suthor History of Art, Yale Monday April 16 5 pm Reception at 4:30pm Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 First Floor read more about Macchia versus Memory? Outlining inner images »
Is technology making or breaking our world? That question is central to THE_OPER&, a bold new opera to be developed and premiered at Duke University that uses the high-drama framework of opera and advanced technology to explore ideas of apocalypse, renewal, and survival in the modern age. During each performance, a computer system preloaded with video, sound, and poetic text fragments generates an original world, specific to the room and audience. That world eventually cedes to entropy,… read more about World Premiere by Dept. Faculty »
Duke Art, Art History & Visual Studies Reception College Art Association’s Annual Conference in Los Angeles Friday, February 23, 2018 5:30-7:00 pm, Los Feliz Room, Lobby Level, Westin Bonaventure Hotel 404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles http://conference.collegeart.org/ read more about Duke Reception: CAA Conference L.A. »
Grand Opening Party on Sat, Feb 3, 1-4 PM (free; no RSVP required). Explore the Ruby and see upcoming public programs at www.artscenter.duke.edu #theruby #dukearts The Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke is now open for arts events, classes, and more! Grand Opening Party Saturday, February 3, 1–4 PM (Free; no reservations required) Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive (Across from the Nasher) Celebrate the grand opening of the Ruby! The entire arts… read more about Rubenstein Arts Center now open »
“The Aesthetics of Water: Wellheads, Cisterns, and Fountains in the Venetian Dominion” Patricia Fortini Brown Professor Emeritus, Princeton University 6 PM, Thursday, December 7, 2017 Nasher Museum of Art Duke University Co-sponsored by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. read more about Art History Lecture »
Part of the Routledge Research in Digital Humanities series, edited by Kristin L. Huffman, Andrea Giordano, Caroline Bruzelius. Visualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times within history. Written by those behind the Visualizing Venice project, this book explores the variety of disciplines and analytical methods generated by technologies such as 3D images and interoperable models, GIS mapping and… read more about Visualizing Venice Book »
Stories about Venice and de’ Barbari’s Marvelous View of 1500 October 12-13, 2017 Nasher Museum of Art Duke University The symposium, "Stories about Venice and de' Barbari’s Marvelous View of 1500,” was held Thursday, October 12, and Friday, October 13, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in conjunction with the Nasher exhibition, "A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’Barbari’s… read more about de' Barbari Symposium »
Visiting Artist Series Fall 2017 Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Thursday September 14, 6:30 pm Libia Posada Visual Artist and Surgeon (Visiting Katz Family Fellow, Columbia University) Room A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse Thursday October 12, 6:30 pm Mathias Hinke Social Practice Artist and Composer (Professor, University of the Fine Arts (UdK), Berlin) Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Ahmadieh Lecture Hall Thursday October 19, 4:30pm SALMAN SAJUN STUDIO Room A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse… read more about Visiting Artist Series »
Washington University, St. Louis Alexis Clark (Ph.D. ‘14) has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. There, she will teach undergraduate and graduate courses on global Impressionism and museum history. Clark’s research concentrates on intersections between exhibitions, cultural politics, and narratologies of modern art; these interests inform her book manuscript currently under preparation, entitled The Musée du Luxembourg and the… read more about Alumni News: Alexis Clark (Ph.D. ‘14) »
The department welcomes the following new graduate students to our doctoral and master’s programs. Ph.D. in Art History & Visual Culture •Elizabeth Brown •Robin Klaus •Karlee Bergendorff •Soohyun Yoon Ph.D. in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures •Quran Karriem •Rebecca Uliasz M.A. in Digital Art History •Emily Leon M.A. in Computational Media •Kyle Arcand •Shuochun (Nina) Feng •Carolina Iribarren •Jo Kwon •Chang Liu •Vijay Rajkumar •Shiqi Xie read more about New Graduate Students 2017 »
John Taormina, director, Visual Media Center, has been appointed project manager and co-leader of the Art Libraries Society of North America’s (ARLIS/NA) new project, an Annotated Digital Art History Directory. Samantha Deutch, assistant director of the Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, is the other co-leader. ARLIS/NA is a growing, dynamic organization promoting the interests of more than 1,000 members. The membership includes architecture and art… read more about Art Libraries Society of North America »
The Paper Hat Game, a collaboration between Raquel Salvatella de Prada, assistant professor of the practice of visual arts, and Torry Bend, associate professor of the practice of theater studies, has been awarded a “Citation of Excellent in the Art of Puppetry” by The American Center of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. The award was announced during the National Puppetry Festival in Minnesota in July 2017. read more about The Paper Hat Game »
Ellen Sebring, Ph.D., will be joining the department as a post-doctoral associate this year. She was creative director of the Visualizing Cultures project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from its inception in 2002. Her research investigates “visual narrative” as an emerging digital historiographic form that addresses the mass digitization of archives now opening an unprecedented global portal to the past. The research—at the crossroads of history, digital data, and interactive… read more about New Post-doctoral Associate »
Edward Triplett, Ph.D. Lecturing Fellow in Art, Art History & Visual Studies Ed Triplett joins the department as lecturing fellow in art history and visual studies. Triplett originally came to Duke in 2015 as a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wired! Lab and University Libraries tasked with data curation for visual studies. He continues to work with the Wired! Lab and other digital scholarship groups on campus. Triplett received a… read more about New Faculty: Edward Triplett, Ph.D. »