AHVC Program News
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Summer 2010 – Prof. Susan Merriam I spent most of the summer in (very hot!) upstate New York working on two book projects. One, now in draft manuscript form, looks at representations of animals in early modern Europe. I’m particularly interested in exploring how the idea of the human was formed in relationship to the…
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Summer 2010 – Sara Kornhauser This summer I worked for Eli Wilner framing company in New York City. They have a gallery which houses their antique frames and an offsite studio space where reproduction frames are made as well antique frames are restored. I started with finishes–learning about the different layers that can be applied…
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Summer 2010 – Madeline Turner Before this past June, I really had no knowledge of contemporary art. I thought I couldn’t understand it and, therefore, I often chose not to deal with it. However, over the summer I had the amazing opportunity to immerse myself and develop my appreciation for the contemporary art world. This…
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Summer 2010 – Nicki Stein This summer I worked as an intern and docent at the Edward Gorey House, a small museum dedicated to the life and work of the somewhat eccentric, wholly fascinating author and illustrator, Edward Gorey. My love of Gorey’s bizarre, sometimes nonsensical stories and blackly comedic, seemingly anachronistic illustrations, have only…
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Summer 2010 – Clare Conniff My Summer 2010 plans fell into my lap in the form of a mass e-mail from a professor. After quickly filling out some applications and emailing the director of Sinergie, an art restoration program based in the Puglia region of Italy, I found myself spending the month of June in…
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Summer 2010 – Nicolette Cook During this summer I had two internships, one working with Gwen Spicer, a textile conservator in Delmar, NY and the other working with Hallie Halpern, a painting conservator in East Chatham. With Gwen I was able to work on a late 18th – early 19th Century 13 Star Whiskey Rebellion…
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Summer 2010 – Prof. Patricia Karetzky During the summer I gave two talks: “Uses of the Past in Contemporary Chinese Art,” at Xiamen University Fujian in June and “The Use of Hanzi in Contemporary Chinese Art” at the Seventh International Conference on Hanzi Calligraphy Education, Capital Normal University, in Beijing on June 29. I also…
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Summer 2010- Prof. Laurie Dahlberg I spent my summer on three areas of work. First, I did some legwork on my latest project, a study of the 19th-century amateur as the driving force behind the discovery and evolution of photography. I’m intrigued by the fact that amateurism itself has an evolution that is laid bare…
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Tom’s Picks
“Christian Marclay: Festival”: sounds and art works by a pioneer of turntable music. See and hear Marcel Duchamp talk! (on film). Ends September 26, but if you’re there by September 19 definitely check out the sleeper show of the summer on the 2nd floor: “Off the Wall: Thirty Performance Actions,” featuring documentation in various media…
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Summer 2010: Prof. Susan Aberth I attended the 5th International Symposium on Surrealism held June 18-20 at The Edward James Foundation, West Dean College located in Chichester, West Sussex (England). Titled “Surrealism Laid Bare,” this year’s conference was supported by the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies and the Tate Museum’s project…
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