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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... 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 (... 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... 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... 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... 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.... 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... 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... 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... read more about View of Venice at the University of Minnesota »