Finkelstein Co-Curates “Semiha Berksoy: Singing in Full Color” at Hamburger Bahnhof
Berksoy studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin from 1936 to 1939, and enjoyed a distinguished career as a visual artist and an opera singer.
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.
In Memoriam: Fil Hearn
Submitted by Professor Emerita M. Alison Stones.
Huey Copeland Reflects on the Lecture as Form
The December issue of Europe's leading contemporary art journal, "Texte zur Kunst" focuses on the art of the lecture in theory and practice, with contributions from critics and scholars including Isabelle Graw, Branden Joseph, and Tavia Nyong'o. For his intervention, Mellon Professor Huey Copeland re-performed his 2014 talk "Voice Lessons," an homage to his advisor, art historian Anne M. Wagner, that was written on the occasion of her retirement from the University of California, Berkeley.
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.
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, Associate Curator of European and American Art before 1900 at the Museum.
Kale Serrato Doyen Receives A&S GSO Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award
Kale Serrato Doyen has been awarded the 2024 A&S GSO Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award that acknowledges excellence in graduate student teaching across the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences.
Presentations from HAA community at SECAC 2024
Faculty, alumni and graduate students from HAA feature in the program at the 80th annual SECAC conference held this year in Atlanta.
Villela Balderrama Writes About Incorporating AI Into an Asian Art History Course
Marisol Villela Balderrama's essay "Incorporating AI Into an Asian Art History Course" appeared in AI Bites, the website [blog?] of the Dietrich Graduate AI Innovation and Networking Series (GAINS). It details her pedagogical approach to incorporating AI in a summer 2024 edition of the HAA course "Introduction to Asian Art."
Adriana Miramontes Olivas Curates Exhibition on Democracy and Justice
Featuring works by Doris Salcedo, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Carlos Castro Arias, and Oscar Muñoz, Dr. Miramontes Olivas questions dictatorial governments, authoritarian tendencies, censorship, disappearance, and political repression.
Taylor Participates in Panel on Art in Architecture
On October 1, 2024, the Arts and Humanities Center at the University of Oklahoma will host Alex Taylor in a panel discussion at the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West.
López Presents “Serigrafía para la comuniversidad” at the Humanities Center
Hosted by the Humanities Center, graduate fellow, Janina López, will discuss the history of screen-printing as a primary medium of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), an activist collective of artists formed in 1969 at California State University, Sacramento.
Vukovic Presents "Art Beyond Borders: The Global Networks of Satellite Art (1984–1988)"
Hosted by the Humanities Center and graduate fellow, Vuk Vuković. Respondents include Mark Collins from the Geology and Environmental Science department and Joshua Ellenbogen from the History of Art and Architecture department.
Taylor Presents “Selling National Treasures” at the Humanities Center
Alex Taylor will discuss enterprising curators of American decorative artsin 1950s who began licensing and selling three-dimensional reproductions of objects in their care as a way to generate museum revenue. These reproduction programs helped promote their collections and, more broadly, boost middle-class tastes for antiques.
Sarah Bromberg Receives Medieval Academy of America Grant
Sarah Bromberg has been awarded the Olivia Remie Constable grant from the Medieval Academy of America.