On Friday, October 30, Visiting Assistant Professor Shannon Steiner will present her paper “Supernatural Perfection: Alchemy and the Conspicuous Virtuosity of Byzantine Enamel” at the Frick Symposium in the History of Art. The panel will begin at 3pm. EDT on Zoom. More information at https://mailchi.mp/frick/edu_ifasymposium_oct_2020?e=2002903301
Graduate student Sun Yang Park has contributed the essay “The Reception of Korean Contemporary Art in America from the 1950s to the Present” to the June 2020 issue of the journal Art History Forum, published by the Center for Art Studies in Korea. Find more information and links at http://www.dbpia.co.kr.proxy.binghamton.edu/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE09381225.
Every spring, the Art History Department sends a graduate student speaker to the Annual Symposium in the History of Art, held at the Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts in New York. The symposium is organized by the Graduate Student Organization of the IFA, in collaboration with the Frick Collection curatorial staff. Fourteen graduate programs in Art History in the region participate.
This past spring, the symposium was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been rescheduled for this fall as a four-part webinar, during which graduate students will present their papers remotely on Zoom. On Thursday, October 23, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. EDT, Zohreh Soltani (Phd 2020) will present her paper, “Between Shahyad and Azadi: The Meanings of Monumentality in Revolutionary Tehran.”
More information at https://mailchi.mp/frick/edu_ifasymposium_oct_2020?e=2002903301
Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi (PhD 2013) has contributed the essay “Feminist and Anti-Racist Graffiti Disrupting Public Space in the 1970s in Britain” to the anthology Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience, edited by Eliza Steinbock, Bram Ieven, and Marijke de Valck (New York and London: Routledge, 2021). Find more information and links at https://www.routledge.com/Art-and-Activism-in-the-Age-of-Systemic-Crisis-Aesthetic-Resilience/Steinbock-Ieven-Valck/p/book/9780367219840.
Nancy Um will deliver the talk, “Viewing Mocha from Sea, Air, and Land,” a Henry Luce Indian Ocean Distinguished Lecture, at the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai. This talk will be presented on Friday, October 23, 2020, at 9 pm (New York)/ Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 9 am (Shanghai) via Zoom. Registration is required: https://cga.shanghai.nyu.edu/viewing-mocha-from-sea-air-and-land/
Angel Szymanek (PhD 2015) has contributed the essay “Haptic Encounters: Margarita Cabrera’s Space in Between” to the Fall 2020 issue of Art Journal. Find more information and links at https://www.collegeart.org/publications/art-journal.
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