Best of 2018: Our Top 15 Los Angeles Art Shows Hyperallergic’s Los Angeles-based contributors share their top exhibition choices of the year. “Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths,” with lead curator Tom Joyce and …
Drewal exhibition ranked top ten!
Holland Cotter, art critic of the New York Times just rated this year’s exhibitions and “Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths” (of which Professor Drewal is one of five curators, and an author in the …
Jessica A. Cooley presents “Disability and the Biggs Museum, An Introduction”
Jessica A. Cooley will deliver an invited lecture this Saturday at the Biggs Museum of American Art in celebration of their 25th year anniversary. Her presentation, “Disability and the Biggs Museum, An Introduction” will draw …
“The Triumph of Trolls”
Professor Ann Smart Martin with PhD Candidates Jared L. Schmidt and Cortney Anderson Kramer will publish their collaborative research from the Community-University Award winning project with the Mt Horeb Historical Society. The book chapter titled “The Triumph …
Louis Nelson Lecture Draws Crowd
Louis P. Nelson, Professor of Architectural History and Vice Provost, University of Virginia, drew a large crowd for his talk on Thursday, November 15. The talk attracted some attention from the local press.
Selling Sunshine in the Sunshine State: A Colloquium by Prof. Anna Andrzejewski
This paper examines the marketing efforts of the Mackle Company of Miami, Florida, who became the largest seller of vacation and retirement homes nationwide by 1960. Beginning in the mid 1950s, Mackle reworked its marketing …
Art History honored with the Community–University Partnership Award
Inspired by the Wisconsin Idea, the ongoing collaboration between the Department of Art History and the Mount Horeb Area Historical Society (MHAHS) was awarded the Community-University Partnership Award by Chancellor Rebecca Blank. The exhibition and e-book Creators, …
Drones and the Dig
Dr. Nick Cahill, the Simona and Jerome Chazen Distinguished Chair in Art History and field director of Harvard’s archaeological expedition at Sardis in Western Turkey, recently spoke at Harvard about the significance of the site …
Lindsay Wells to Publish on Ruskin
Ph.D. Candidate Lindsay Wells reports from her Huntington Exchange fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University (UK) that her article on John Ruskin’s “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers” (1875), was just accepted by the journal “Victorian …
Interview on the course “Race and Representation in the Art of the United States”
Mark Summers, Ph.D. candidate, was recently interviewed by Radio Chipstone (WUWM/NPR) about his role as lead teaching assistant for our new fall course, AH104 “Race and Representation in the Art of the United States.” The …