Analyzing Space and Place with Digital Methods and Geographical, Textual, and Visual Sources January 17-18, 2019 Nasher Museum of Art and Wired! Lab for Digital Art History & Visual CultureDuke University Co-Sponsored by The Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies (Duke University) and The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)Duke Sponsors: Nasher Museum of Art; Office of the Dean, Trinity… read more about Symposium and Workshop: Visualization and the Holocaust »
Rebecca van Diver (Ph.D. ’13), assistant professor of African American art at Vanderbilt University, published "The Diasporic Connotations of Collage: Loïs Mailou Jones in Haiti, 1954-1964" in American Art (journals.uchicago.edu) and "Art Matters: Howard University's Department of Art from 1921 to 1971" in Callaoo (muse.jhu.edu). Loïs Mailou Jones, Cockfight, 1960. Mixed media on board, 29 × 25 in. Location unknown. Reproduced from Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, The Life… read more about Recent Alumni Publications »
Carrie Mae Weems Doctoral candidate Anita Bateman has received a Carr Center Independent Scholars Fellowship with resident artist Carrie Mae Weems. Weems is one of the most respected and highly recognized names among visual artists today. ISF is a program designed to provide opportunities for early career artists and art historians to access, and work alongside nationally and internationally renowned artists of color. The Carr Center resident artist in visual art, Carrie Mae Weems, will create a vital, dynamic, and one-of-… read more about Independent Scholars Fellowship »
9th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2018 Two prints by Merrill Shatzman, professor emerita of the practice of printmaking, were included in the 9th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2018 held in Douro Portugal from August 10-October 31-2018. The exhibition, curated by Nuno Canelas, includes fourteen hundred works of seven hundred artists from seventy different countries. Due to the size of the exhibition, fourteen exhibition venues in Alijó, Bragança, Celeirós, Chaves,… read more about Merrill Shatzman recent exhibitions »
Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Cornered, 2018.Cornered, a video installation by assistant professor of the practice of art Raquel Salvatella de Prada, ran from September 27 to October 17, 2018, and extended the Nasher Museum’s In Transit exhibition to the Rubenstein Arts Center. It represented the motivation and struggles of African immigrants leaving their home country and making an attempt—most often failed—to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish cities of Melilla and Ceuta, the only… read more about Cornered »
Food Matters Tom Rankin, Cleveland, Mississippi, 2008, photograph. Professor of the practice of documentary art Tom Rankin’s article and photographs on “Food Matters” appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of Southern Cultures.southerncultures.orgPropitious Wind and Rain Tom Rankin, Bacheng Fishmarket, December, 2016, photograph.Propitious Wind and Rain, which runs from November 4, 2018 to February 17, 2019 in the Photography Gallery of the Rubenstein… read more about Tom Rankin recent exhibitions »
Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History, has been named the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, for spring 2019. The Safra Visiting professor is “a six-month appointment of a scholar who advances his or her own research on subjects associated with the Gallery's permanent collection.” About CASVA: Since its inception in 1979, CASVA has promoted the study of the history, theory, and criticism of… read more about CASVA Professorship »
Paul Jaskot presented, “The Art Historical Promissory Note: Evidence and Narrative in Digital Art History,” at a Clark Art Institute workshop on the topic of “Evidence and Narrative in Writing Visual Histories” on September 21, 2018 at the Clark Institute. read more about The Art Historical Promissory Note »
Paul 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 »