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Lauren Taylor Publishes Article on Independent Senegal's First Art Museum

In the latest issue of African Arts, Lauren Taylor argues that the architecture of the Musée Dyamique expressed the multiple roles that Senegal, negritude, and artistic exchange could play in healing a world torn by the violence of colonialism, the devastation of the World Wars, and the tensions of the Cold War

Flatto Works on Volume of Interviews with Contemporary Chilean Artists

PhD candidate Diana Flatto is the associate editor of Conversations in Chile, a new volume of interviews between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and contemporary Chilean artists

Finkelstein co-curates “Semiha Berksoy: Singing in Full Color” at Hamburger Bahnhof

Together with Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, directors of Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin, Finkelstein has curated the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany of the Turkish painter and opera singer Semiha Berksoy (1910 – 2004)

In Memoriam: Fil Hearn

Professor Emerita M. Alison Stones remembers the life of the late Professor Emeritus Millard Filmore (Fil) Hearn

Huey Copeland Reflects on the Lecture as Form

Mellon Professor Huey Copeland reflects on the lecture in theory and practice for leading contemporary art journal.

Savage and Thomas to speak at Museum of the Cherokee People

Kirk Savage and Elizabeth Thomas will present "William Holland Thomas: A New Perspective and a History Retold" at the Museum of the Cherokee People in Cherokee, NC on January 9.

Paula Kupfer Publishes Exhibition Review of the CMOA's "Widening the Lens" Exhibition in Aperture

Kupfer's review discusses the exhibition "Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape," underscoring its expansive and multidimensional approach to the history of landscape photography

Kale Serrato Doyen Receives A&S GSO Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award

The A&S GSO Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Awards acknowledge excellence in graduate student teaching across the Arts & Sciences.

Fava-Piz Prepares Major Exhibition of Impressionist Painter Camille Pissarro

The Denver Art Museum has announced it will present the first U.S. retrospective of the "first impressionist" in Fall 2025, a project to be co-curated by Pitt alum Clarisse Fava-Piz.