Vuk Vuković Presents at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Vuk Vuković delivered a paper at the 2024 SCMS Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
UAG Featured in NEXTPittsburgh
Boaz Frankel, the host of NEXTpittsburgh's popular segment Yinzer Backstage Pass, visited the Frick Fine Arts building for a tour of the Cloister, University Art Gallery, and the Fine Arts Library. Dr. Sylvia Rhor, Gallery Director, shared the history of the building and its unique architecture. She also guided Frankel through the Cloister and the three exhibitions currently on view at the Gallery. The visit concluded with a look at some of the unique objects and artwork in the UAG's collection.
Giordano Contributes to LARB “Short Take” Series
Graduate student Rebecca Giordano recently reviewed an exhibition of the work of multidisciplinary artist Yoshie Sakai at the Vincent Price Art Museum for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read Giordano’s review, “Grandmas Gone Wild,” on the LARB website.
Miramontes Olivas Opens New Show at Schnitzer Museum of Art
Adriana Miramontes Olivas (PhD 2022) recently opened her latest exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art as Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American & Caribbean Art. My Body, My Choice? Art And Reproductive Justice considers bodily autonomy through the work of Nao Bustamante, Judy Chicago, and Alison Saar. Read more on the Schnitzer Museum website.
Nygren to Present at Renaissance Society of America
Chris Nygren will present his paper, “Bones of the Earth: Subterranean Materials in The Florentine Studiolo” at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting on March 21, 2024 in Chicago. In the paper, Nygren approaches early painting on stone as a philosophical exercise that sought to highlight material transformations and the role of human labor. Read more on the RSA website.
Alex Taylor Presents at Business History Conference
Alex Taylor will present his work at the Business History Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, March 14-16, 2024. The theme for the 2024 meeting is "Doing Business in the Public Interest." Alex will chair a session on Public-Private Partnerships in the Arts and Education, and present a paper titled “Beautify America with Billboards: Art and the Outdoor Advertising Lobby,” research that extends research in his most recent book Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s (California, 2022).
Roberts Awarded Lyons Canadian Film Scholarship
Graduate student Emma C. Roberts was awarded The Jeffrey & Sandra Lyons Canadian Film Scholarship in support of work that will engage TIFF's Film Reference Library (FRL). Roberts will have extended access to the resources and collections housed in the FRL as she continues to develop research on Allan King’s 1983 film Who’s in Charge? Read more about the scholarship on the Toronto International Film Festival's website.
Georgina Laube to present at the University of Szczecin, Poland
In March, Georgina Laube (HAA 2020) will present her paper titled “The Silent Narratives: Investigating the Impact of Absent Bodies in Memorial Photography” at the “Legal Bodies, Embodied Subjects: (Re)contextualizations of Physicality” conference hosted by the University of Szczecin in Poland.
Maxwell Gives Talk at Kent State University
On February 2, 2024, Andrea Maxwell led a graduate student workshop and gave a public lecture titled, "Symbolic Violence and the Jew in Premodern Italian Art," at Kent State University as part of the School of Art's Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. This talk explored how the death of Simon of Trent in 1475 ignited a wave of Antisemitic imagery and visual rhetoric that persists into the twenty-first century. Read more about the lecture series here.
Josten to Present at the Columbia University-ISLAA Colloquium
Professor Jennifer Josten will present her research on contemporary art in the Columbia University-ISLAA Colloquium "Between Art and Archives," which will be held at ISLAA and Columbia University on Feb. 8–9, 2024. For more information, see here.
VMW Hosts Teaching Art History with AI Workshop
On January 26, 2024, Alison Langmead and the Visual Media Workshop welcomed participants to Pittsburgh for a hands-on workshop focused on the dangers and opportunities presented by computational image generators. To learn more about the NEH-funded project, visit the Teaching Art History with AI website.
Nygren to Give Talk at Miami University Humanities Center
Chris Nygren will give the talk, “Materials, Labor and Time: Toward an Ecology of Early Modern Art,” at Miami University on Monday, February 12, 2024. Rather than focus on artists, this paper will trace the history of materials and their extraction from the earth to narrate a more humane and inclusive history of Renaissance painting. Read more on the Humanities Center website.
Larson Publishes New Essay in Afterimage Collection
Graduate Ellen Larson (PhD 2022) has published the essay, “The Concrete Flux Of Cao Fei's 'Cosplayers,'” in a new volume of essays and archival materials organized as part of the 2023 exhibition, “Afterimage: New Media Art in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan” held at Arts West Gallery, University of Melbourne. Read the essay here.
Giordano Reports on Screening of John Sayles's Lone Star (1996) in LA
Ph.D. Candidate Rebecca Giordano covered the release of the 4K restoration of John Sayles' 1996 western film "Lone Star" for Short Takes, the Los Angeles Review of Books' new series of reviews of live events. Her essay covers the film and the subsequent Q-and-A with the prominent director. Linked to PhD research on 20th-century race and national identity in the Americas, Giordano considers how Sayles uses techniques drawn from the Golden Age of Hollywood to rethink the genre of the Western in the age of NAFTA and its racial politics.
Vuković Presents at Yale University
Vuk Vuković delivered a paper at the Biennial Graduate Student Sohbat-Yaji-Gathering: On the Frontier of Asian Arts at Yale University. His paper, "Global Signals: The Satellite Networks of Nam June Paik,” examined the global satellite signals employed by the Korean-born artist Nam June Paik to connect the West and the East using satellite networks to open cross-cultural exchange across national borders. Read more here.