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Volume 2 issue 2, March, April, May 2017
Become a FriendThe last few months have been busy and exciting. In December, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History celebrated its third anniversary with a program and dinner presented at the Dallas Museum of Art. Over 250 friends attended this evening including the Institute’s founders, Edith and Peter O’Donnell. The evening featured talks by Mr. Phillipe de Montebello, Professor in the History and Culture of Museums, at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and past director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Dr. Sylvain Bellenger, Director of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte. Their remarks highlighted the importance of the Institute’s future work for the University as well as for the entire Dallas/Fort Worth region. A New Master’s Program in Art History at the O’Donnell InstituteWe are very pleased to announce that the O’Donnell Institute’s new Master’s Program in art history has been approved by the University of Texas System and the State of Texas, and will welcome its first class in Fall 2018.
Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History Fellows UpdateWe are proud to announce that three of our Fellows received their doctorates last Fall with dissertations on museum education, contemporary Mexican art, and nineteenth-century French drawings. We expect to graduate two more Fellows at the end of the Spring! Sarah Kozlowski: Toward a History of the Trecento DiptychEdith O'Donnell Institute of Art History Assistant Director Sarah Kozlowski's article "Toward a History of the Trecento Diptych: Format, Materiality, and Mobility in a Corpus of Diptychs from Angevin Naples” will appear in 2018 in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. Laying the groundwork for a larger project, the essay brings together for the first time a working corpus of diptychs connected with the Angevin court in Naples in the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Joseph R. Hartman Joins University of Missouri as Assistant Professor this FallJoseph R. Hartman, Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History fellow 2016-2017, will be joining the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies and Art History this Fall. Joseph R. Hartman: Alternate Revolutions: Reexamining Cuban Art History beyond 1959Research Fellow Joseph R. Hartman presented his work on the panel “Alternate Revolutions: Reexamining Cuban Art History beyond 1959” organized by Abigail McEwen and Susanna Temkin with discussant Rachel Weiss for the College Arts Association 105th annual conference held in New York, NY (February 15-18). Hartman presented his work “Revolutions, Repetitions, and Prison Architecture in Machado’s Cuba, 1925-33.” His talk reexamined the formal qualities of modern prison architecture in Cuba and its relationship to the nation’s history of plantation slavery.
Reports from the Dallas Museum of ArtHighlights of the exhibition México 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde; and information on the Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery's new installation. Dallas Museum of Art Exhibitions, Events, & Upcoming LecturesMéxico 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde The Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion Meadows Museum Exhibitions, Events, & Upcoming Lectures
Between Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera Picasso’s Dream and Lie of Franco: The Spanish Civil War in Print Lecture: The Impact of Titian’s Painterly Technique on Velázquez, Lecture Series: The Global Art Community: A 17th Century Phenomenon, Crow Collection of Asian Art Exhibitions & ProgramsWisdom of Compassion: The Art and Science of Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002) Artist Talk: Henri Scars Struck Divine Strings: The Sounds of the Mohan Veena and Tabla Illustrative Silk Painting with artist Mylan Nguyen Adventure Asia: Perspective Kimbell Art Museum Programs & LecturesLouis Kahn: The Power of Architecture From the “Three Strides” to Dharmic Order: Vishnu in Hindu Art - Steven E. Lindquist A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection -Susan Behrends Frank A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection Monet Before Monet - Joachim Pissarro Vienna 1900: Redefining Portraiture in the Age of Angst - Alessandra Comini Georges Braque: Within Reach of the Hand - Karen Wilkin
University of Dallas Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery Presents ‘View from the Art Village: 50-Year Retrospective’In celebration of 50 years of graduate studies at the University of Dallas, the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery presents View from the Art Village: 50-Year Retrospective, an exhibition that features more than 40 alumni artists of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts. Promising exciting work from stalwart artists such as Bob Nunn, Linnea Glatt, Roberto Munguia, and Ann Stautberg, among many more, this exhibition features some of North Texas’ most prominent artists, whose works have been featured in museums, galleries, churches and convents around the world. The exhibit will remain open through Saturday, April 29. Read More
COMCOL Annual Conference Call for PapersThe Guardians of Contemporary Collecting and Collections - working with (contested) collections and narratives. Umeå, Sweden, December 5-9, 2017 |
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