Month: September 2010
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Prof. Simeen Sattar: Artists’ Materials: Metals and Prints
I’m a physical chemist in the physics program with a long-standing personal interest in art history. I’m teaching a new course this semester about the chemistry of photography. Since the goal of the course is to understand the chemistry of light-sensitive materials, the first four weeks have stressed light and color, ionic and covalent compounds,…
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Tom’s Picks
After looking at Judy Pfaff’s exhibition in Chelsea, don’t miss Dan Flavin’s light pieces at Paula Cooper (534 W. 21), and Sue Williams’ mini-retrospective the at 303 Gallery (547 W. 21). It omits some highlights from her career, but she is a fine painter. As much as she tries to gross you out, she always…
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Summer 2010 – Julia Rosenbaum An NEH Summer Institute Fellowship took me to Chicago for most of the summer for research at the Newberry Library. I am working on a couple of new projects related to mapping and art (one focusing on the Hudson River and tourism in the early 1800s) and the Newberry has…
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Summer 2010 – Prof. Tom Wolf I continued my research about Asian-American artists by visiting a descendant of a fascinating, overlooked Japanese American set designer in Seattle. But most of my summer was devoted to writing an article about the famous feminist writer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Early in her career, in the 1880s, she worked…
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Summer 2010 – Noah Chasin Summer is a very conflicted season for academics. On the one hand, we are “not working” in the conventional sense, leading many friends and family members to believe that we have a guilt-free three-and-a-half-month vacation. The reality is that summer is when academics get the chance to focus on their…
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On Saturday, September 25th, Prof. Laurie Dahlberg will be taking her class, Arth 258 Manet to Matisse, to the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. There are available seats on the school bus and the Art History Program invites you, for the nominal fee of $15., to take this opportunity to visit the Clark, http://www.clarkart.edu/ and…
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Summer 2010 – Miriam Natis This summer I worked for the Masonic Library and Museum in the Grand Lodge of New York. It was an interesting experience, working for a not-so-secret secret organization, especially because I couldn’t know some things and wasn’t supposed to know others. Despite being a touch surreal, it was definitely worthwhile.…
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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…