Alex Taylor Writes for New Book on Pop Artist Allan D’Arcangelo
Recognized as a major Pop artist in his day, Allan D’Arcangelo (1930–1998) has yet to receive the critical reevaluation of painters like Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. Published by Rizzoli, this major monograph introduces new audiences to his iconic paintings, particularly his celebrated paintings of the highway.
Christopher Nygren Contributes to New Podcast Series
Season 2 of Genealogies of Modernity is a narrative podcast released as a limited series of Ministry of Ideas and supported by a Media Production Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each episode takes up a well-worn story about what it means to be modern and how we got here, and then challenges that narrative with recent humanities scholarship. Genealogies of Modernity illuminates lesser-known pathways to the present and unearths overlooked resources from the past for flourishing in the future.
Amrita Vinod Presents at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference
The Center for Philosophical Technologies (CPT) in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) at Arizona State University hosted the 2023 Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) last Saturday, October 28, first-year Ph.D student Amrita presented a paper titled “Knowing Open, Overflowing and Plural Subjects through Kaḷiyāṭṭaṁ of Malabar Coast, India ” based on her Architectural History and Theory masters thesis (Vinod, Amrita.
Paula Kupfer Presents Paper at University of Texas at Austin
On October 31st, PhD candidate Paula Kupfer presented "The Exotic Dominates, Which Is Regrettable’: Negotiating Foreignness in the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden” at the Center for Latin American Visual Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
Kathryn Carney Co-Facilitates GSA Working Group
This academic year, graduate student Kathryn Carney is co-organizing the Body Studies working group of the German Studies Association with historian Alice Weinreb. The group provides feedback on new scholarship concerning the changing politics of the body and its representations throughout German history. Read more about the German Studies Association on the GSA website.
Hossein Nakhaei Presents at Association for Iranian Studies Symposium
Graduate student Hossein Nakhaei presented a paper this past weekend based on his recent colloquium, “Persian Pavilion and British Petroleum: Art and Oil in the Last Concession of Antoine Kitabgi Khan”, at the Association for Iranian Studies symposium. Nakhaei’s paper concerns the figure of Khan as an important actor in Iranian diplomacy on the European stage at the turn of the twentieth century. See the full conference program on the AIS website.
Marisol Villela Balderrama Presents at UCLA Symposium
On Friday, October 27, 2023, Graduate student Marisol Villela Balderrama will present at the 58th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium, In/On/Across Bodies of Water to be held at the Hammer Museum.
Gretchen Holtzapple Bender Chairs SECAC Panel
On Friday, October 13, 2023, Gretchen Holtzapple-Bender led a panel on “‘Ungrading’ Art History: How It Works and Why to Do It” with Matthew Levy of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Fall Exhibitions at the UAG Featured in Pittwire
HAA undergraduate Irene Castillo and Hot Metal Bridge Fellow Camila Aguayo discuss the new exhibits at the University Art Gallery that spotlight Latinx and Caribbean identities. Both students had the opportunity to develop the exhibit through the Department of History of Art and Architecture's Museum Studies program.
The Pitt News Features UAG Caribbean Exhibits
The University Art Gallery hosted an Opening Celebration for the three exhibits currently on view.
Langmead Spearheads NEH-Funded AI Pedagogy Project
Alison Langmead was recently awarded funding from the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “Teaching Art History with AI.” The project will focus on the “pedagogical use of computational image generation technologies in art history, visual culture, and media studies.” Learn more about other ODH winners on the NEH website.
Vuković Presents at SECAC
On October 13, 2023, PhD candidate Vuk Vuković presented his paper "Unraveling Highways of Inequity: Nam June Paik and Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii (1995)" as part of the "American Art" panel at SECAC Annual Conference. His paper examined how Korean-born artist Nam June Paik, under the guise of flashing screens in his monumental work "Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii" (1995), deconstructs images of Hollywood films.
Larson Leads Student-Curated Exhibition of Chinese Video Art
In conjunction with her Fall 2023 course “Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Art”, Ellen Larson (PhD 2022) has organized a student-curated pop-up exhibition titled Ephemeral Architectures: Early Performance and Video Art from China, which will take place across the University of Chicago campus. Read more about the exhibition on the University of Chicago website.
Vuković Presents and Chairs at ASAP/14
On September 30, 2023, PhD candidate Vuk Vuković presented his paper "Deconstructing Americana: Nam June Paik and Electronic Superhighway" as part of the "Fugitive Media: Aesthetics and Escape" panel at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/14) Annual Conference. His paper examined how Korean-born artist Nam June Paik, under the guise of flashing screens in his monumental work "Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii" (1995), deconstructs typical Americana images.
Flatto Presents at the Congreso Internacional de Teoría e Historia de las Artes XX
PhD candidate Diana Flatto presents her paper "El antifascismo y feminismo rioplatense en la obra de Demetrio Urruchúa, Amalia Polleri y Carmen Garayalde: construyendo redes sub-regionales" at the Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte, CAIA's annual conference in Rosario, Argentina, October 4-7, 2023. Her paper explores the role of women in the formation of a rioplatense visual language of political activism through their collaboration on the 1939 mural La mujer compañera del hombre (Women, companion of man).