Past O’Donnell Institute Events
The O'Donnell Institute holds a number of lectures, symposia, and other programs each year.
2021
WORKSHOP TALK
Paul Galvez, the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, Hybridity in Gauguin's Ceramics.
WORKSHOP TALK
Eldeeca Thompson, Humanities/Aesthetic Studies PhD Candidate at UT Dallas, African Art on View: Mediating Histories at the Dallas Museum of Art.
WORKSHOP TALK
Ali H. Alibhai, Visiting Assistant Professor at UT Dallas and the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, Water, Memory, and Kingship: Understanding Islamic Hydraulic in Medieval Ifrīqiya.
WORKSHOP TALK
Elizabeth Molacek, Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, An American Creation: Early Collections of ‘Classical’ Art in U.S. Museums.
WORKSHOP TALK
Charissa N. Terranova, Professor of Art and Architectural History at UT Dallas, Autopoiesis in Contemporary Art-and-Biology, Towards a New Autonomy.
WORKSHOP TALK
Aimée Froom, Curator MFA Houston, Between Sea and Sky: Blue and White Ceramics from Persia and Beyond.
2020
WORKSHOP TALK
Katherine Brodbeck, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, The Shifting Iceberg: Julian Charrière and the Future of Romanticism
WORKSHOP TALK
Mark Rosen, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, The Map from the Other Side of the Clouds
WORKSHOP TALK
Sarah Kozlowski, Associate Director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of EODIAH’s Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities, Materiality and revelation in fourteenth-century Naples: a new proposal for the function and configuration of the Stuttgart Apocalypse Panels
Bonnie Pitman's Art and Health Series at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Bonnie Pitman, Distinguished Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas, The Power of Play
WORKSHOP TALK
Bonnie Pitman, Distinguished Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas, Artists’ Response in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and Influenza 1918
WORKSHOP TALK
Jacqueline Chao, Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas, Dragons and Dragon Kings in Chinese Painting
Bonnie Pitman's Art and Health Series at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Bonnie Pitman, Distinguished Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas, Nourishing Relationships
Bonnie Pitman's Art and Health Series at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Bonnie Pitman, Distinguished Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas, Mindful Observation
Bonnie Pitman at Virtual Sips & Science
Bonnie Pitman, Distinguished Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas, Values and Compassion
Bonnie Pitman's Art and Health Series at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Bonnie Pitman, Distinguished Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas, The Cultural Impact of Pandemics
MA PRACTICUM WORKSHOP
Virtual EODIAH's MA in Art History Student Presentations
Austin Bailey, "A Theater of Western Imperialism: Ghosts and Hauntings in the Art of Michael Rakowitz”
Mya Adams, “Murals to Menus: Eugene Savage, the Travel Aesthetic, and the Exploitation of Hawai’i”
Megan Refice, "Sublime Dissonance: Art, Politics, and Historical Record on a San Francisco School Wall”
Craig Cole, “The Darwinian Automaton: the Starfish as Machine in Man Ray’s L’Étoile de Mer”
Athenaeum Review Issue 4 Launch
Virtual launch of AR Issue 4.
WORKSHOP TALK
Dr. Mark Rosen, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas
The Map from the Other Side of the CloudsLECTURE
Bonnie Pitman, Director, Art-Brain Innovations, Center for BrainHealth, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, EODIAH, Do Something NEW - Play, Compassion & Acceptance
At Center for BrainHealth, Brain Performance Institute
PANEL TALK
Beili Liu: Art, Refugee Policy, Human RightsWORKSHOP TALK
Dr. Elaine Gazda, Professor and Curator of Hellenistic and Roman Antiquities, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan
Women of the Villa of the Mysteries: Social Contexts of the Bacchic Murals in Room 5 and BeyondGALLERY TALK
Tour of the recently reinstalled galleries at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
WORKSHOP TALK
Dr. Mark Castro, Jorge Baldor Curator of Latin American Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Laura Eva Hartman, Associate Paintings Conservator, Dallas Museum of Art
Tour of the Dallas Museum of Art conservation lab for MA students
WORKSHOP TALK
Dr. Mark Castro, Jorge Baldor Curator of Latin American Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Floods, Mold, and Candle Burns: Conserving and Exhibiting Spanish Viceregal Art
PANEL TALK
Speakers
Dr. Dennis Kratz, Ignacy and Celina Rockover Professor of Humanities and Founding Director of the Center for Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas
Dr. Richard Brettell, Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies and Edith O’Donnell Distinguished University Chair, The University of Texas at Dallas
Dr. Jacqueline Chao, Senior Curator, Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas
Moderator
Amy Lewis Hofland, Senior Director, Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas
AThe Crow Museum Meets University: Our Future as a University Art Museum
GALLERY TALK
Dr. Whitney Stewart, Assistant Professor of History, UT Dallas
American Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the Dallas Museum of Art
WORKSHOP TALK
Dr. Vivian Li, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art,Jiro Takamatsu
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
WORKSHOP TALK
Dr. Richard Brettell, Founding Director of EODIAH, d’Ou venons nous? Que sommes nous? Ou allons nous?: New thoughts on pictorial invention
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
2019
EODIAH FELLOW TALK
Fatemeh Tashakori, The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas, Diffusion of the Shameless Gaze: Propagation of European Prints in Nineteenth-century Qajar Iran
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
GALLERY TALK
Michelle Rich, The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas, From Alaska to the Andes: Reinstalling the Arts of the Americas
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
NASHER ART AND HEALTH SERIES
Seeing with the Brain: Artists and Visual Impairment
Bonnie Pitman, UTD Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Catherine Craft, Ph.D., Curator, Nasher Sculpture Center
Stephen Lapthisophon, Artist and Educator
Niraj Rama Nathan, M.D.,Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology at UT Southwestern Medical Center
At The Nasher Sculpture Center.
SEMINAR TALK
Dr. Heather Ecker, Marguerite S. Hoffman and Thomas W. Lentz Curator of Islamic and Medieval Art, Dallas Museum of Art, The First Congregational Mosque of Córdoba
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
NASHER ART AND HEALTH SERIES
The Power of Art: Creating through Disorders of the Mind
Bonnie Pitman, UTD Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Leigh A. Arnold, Ph.D. , Associate Curator, Nasher Sculpture Center
Mark Goldberg, M.D. , Professor, Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, Associate Vice President of Institutional Advancement at UT Southwestern Medical Center and O'Donnell Brain Institute member
Ann Marie Warren, Ph.D., ABPP , Co-Director of Trauma Research at the Level I Trauma Center at Baylor University Medical Center, at Baylor Scott & White Health
At The Nasher Sculpture Center.
EODIAH FELLOW TALK
Francesca Brunetti, EODIAH Fellow, The Incursions of the Southern Italian Woman into the Discourse of Man: A Drawing, Printmaking, and Video Project about Gender, Language, and Geography.
At the Edith O'Donnell Institute, UT Dallas Arts and Technology Building, [ATEC] Room 2.705E.
NASHER ART AND HEALTH SERIES
Reaching New Heights: Overcoming Physical Limitations
Bonnie Pitman, UTD Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Kathleen Bell, M.D., Chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UT Southwestern Medical Center and O’Donnell Brain Institute member
Sandi Chapman, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Director, Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas
Jed Morse, Chief Curator, Nasher Sculpture Center
John Pomara, Artist and Professor of Visual Art, The University of Texas at Dallas
At The Nasher Sculpture Center.
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
Marjaneh Goudarzi, EODIAH Fellow
In the Hands of the Paints
Curated by John Pomara
Exhibition dates: October 25 - November 29
At UT Dallas SP/N Gallery, 3020 Stewart Dr, Richardson, TX 75080.
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GALLERY TALK
Dr. Whitney Stewart, Assistant Professor of Historical Studies and Affiliate of the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas, Reading Slavery Into & Out of American Decorative Arts
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
BRETTELL LECTURE
Dr. Richard Brettell, Founding Director, Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History, Cézanne in DFW
NASHER ART AND HEALTH SERIES
Art and the Brain
Bonnie Pitman, UTD Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Dr. James Fleshman, MD, FASCRS, FACS, Sparkman Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center a part of Baylor Scott & White Health
Daniel Krawczyk, Ph.D., Deputy Director, The University of Texas at Dallas Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas
Anna Smith,Curator of Education, Nasher Sculpture Center
At The Nasher Sculpture Center.
GALLERY TALK
Dr. Michael Thomas, Director, Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the Dallas Museum of Art.
ATHENAEUM REVIEW ISSUE 3 EVENT
At UT Dallas JO 4.122.
At Deep Vellum Books, 3000 Commerce St., Dallas
EODIAH FELLOW TALKS
Kent Boyer, EODIAH Fellow, Ekphrastic Poetry and Abstract Expressionism: “Why I Am Not A Painter” by Frank O’Hara 1956
Eman Al-Habashneh, EODIAH Fellow, A Relentless Quest for Identity
At the Edith O'Donnell Institute, UT Dallas Arts and Technology Building [ATEC] Room 2.705E.
BRETTELL AWARDS IN THE ARTS LECTURE
Ambassador Jorge Alberto Lozoya, Recipient of the 2019 Brettell Awards in the Arts, The International Museum of the Baroque in Puebla, Mexico
At UT Dallas, Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center
LECTURE
Bonnie Pitman, EODIAH Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Director of Art-Brain Innovations, Center for BrainHealth, The Power of Observation - What color is your apple?
At the UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth
EODIAH SCHOLAR LECTURE
Dr. Chen Jing, EODIAH Visiting Scholar, Art Photography, Documentary Photography and the Sociological Art in China
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
EODIAH FELLOW TALKS
Jacquelyn Delin McDonald, EODIAH Fellow, When the Sitter is More "Important" than the Artist: Portrait Busts by Elisabet Ney
Patricia Stout, EODIAH Fellow, Aesthetics and Politics: Community-Based Art in Brazil
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the Dallas Museum of Art.
MA PRACTICUM WORKSHOP
Fatima Esmail, Communities and Shared Aesthetics-Inscriptions of Piety and Coptic Saints in Medieval Cairo (Fustat)
Marjaneh Goudarzi , Ludicrous Irony in Grace Hartigan’s 'Grand Street Brides'
Nausheen Hoosein, Triumphant Towers and Sites of Spolia in Almohad Spain and Morocco: The Case of the Sevillan Minaret
Harper Kennington, Sacred Materiality: Elaborate Chipped-Stone Artifacts of the Classic Maya
At UT Dallas Arts and Technology Building [ATEC] Room 2.705E
ATHENAEUM REVIEW ISSUE 2 EVENTS
Reception at UTD
Arts and Technology Building [ATEC] Room 2.800
Party at Deep Vellum Books
REPORTS FROM VISITING ISAAC RESEARCH FELLOWS WEIYI WU & TING ZHANG
Weiyi Wu, Sculpting in between: A glimpse to the multifaceted American modernism
Ting Zhang, Twentieth-Century African American Art
WORKSHOP TALK: Volker M. Welter, Professor of Art History, UC Santa Barbar
Reliving World War I in Southern California: Richard Neutra’s mid-20th century Domestic Architecture and the modern Landscape of War
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
REPORTS FROM O'DONNELL INSTITUTE GRADUATE FELLOWS VIRGINIA CURRY & FATEMEH TASHAKORI
Virginia Curry, “Causarum Cognitio”: The Architecture, Collections and Social Agency of American Athenaea. Three Case Studies: Redwood, Boston and Caltech
Fatemeh Tashakori, The Invisible Foreigner: The Westerner as the Eroticized Other in Persian Arts since the 17th Century
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
GALLERY TALK: Katherine Brodbeck, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art
American Landscape(s): Broadening the Contemporary Collection at the DMA
At The Dallas Museum of Art, Chilton I Gallery
WORKSHOP TALK: Sarah Schleuning, Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, Dallas Museum of Art
Thoughts on Design
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
STUDY DAY & SYMPOSIUM
Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist
Presented in partnership with the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History and The Dallas Museum of Art, a two-day event exploring the life and work of Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot.
REPORTS FROM O'DONNELL INSTITUTE GRADUATE FELLOWS MADHAVI BISWAS & JACQUELYN DELIN
Madhavi Biswas, Othello in Bollywood: Songs and Dances in Omkara
Jacquelyn Delin, Modeling Fame, a Closer Look at the Work of Sculptor Elisabet Ney
WORKSHOP TALK: Dr. Ali Alibhai, EODIAH Lecturer
From Sound to Light: The Symbolic Transformation of Medieval Maghribi Bell-Lamps
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
PRIVATE COLLECTION TOUR
Fellows’ visit to the collection of Elizabeth Boeckman
At the Boeckman residence
WORKSHOP TALK: Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center
That Moment of Complexity
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
CAROLYN BROWN: A Retrospective
At the
UT Dallas SP/N Gallery
SP/N Program
2018
ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATION
At The Wilcox Space
With Liz Trosper, John Pomara, and Danielle Avram, moderated by Ben Lima.
CONSERVATION SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
At the Dallas Museum of Art
By Invitation
PUBLIC LECTURE: Dr. Gregory H. Williams, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, Boston University
No Quotations: Günther Förg in the Context of the Long 1980s
At the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
WORKSHOP TALK: Dr. Paul Galvez, EODIAH Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, MA Curriculum Coordinator
Violence and Impressionism: the case of early Cézanne
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
PRIVATE COLLECTION TOUR
Fellows’ visit to the Seventeenth Century Collection of Alan M May
By invitation
SYMPOSIUM
György Kepes’s Vision + Values Series and the Origins of Cybernetic Art
At UT Dallas Edith O’Donnell Institute for Art History and the Nasher Sculpture Center
WORKSHOP TALK: Dr. Hansong Dan, EODIAH ISAAC Senior Fellow
The Yellow Wallpaper Stares Back: A Visual Re-reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (and if possible, Vernon Lee)
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
GALLERY TALK: The Nature of Arp
Fellows’ visit to The Nature of Arp with Catherine Craft, Curator, Nasher Sculpture Center
At the Nasher Sculpture Center
By invitation
PANEL DISCUSSION: Athenaeum Review
Athenaeum Review: The Future of Criticism
At the SP/N Gallery, UT Dallas, 3020 Stewart Dr., Richardson, 75080
Open to the public
Athenaeum Review Launch Party
Celebrate the premiere issue of Athenaeum Review, a new publication from the UT Dallas School of Arts and Humanities, sponsored by the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
At Interabang Books, 10720 Preston Rd. Ste. 1009B, Dallas
Open to the public
WILCOX SPACE RELAUNCH
An opening of an exhibition of the work of Liz Trosper, curated by John Pomara
At the The Wilcox Space, 824 Exposition Ave., No. 9, Dallas
Open to the public
WORKSHOP TALK: Dr. Elizabeth Molacek, Curatorial Fellow, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums
(Re) Discovering Roman Mosaics: The Harvard Tethys Project
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
WORKSHOP TALK: James Clifton, Blaffer Foundation
Where Art and Nature Play: The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation’s Cabinet of Curiosity at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Symposium
Intersections: Visual Cultures of Islamic Cosmopolitanism
A Collaboration between the O’Donnell Institute, Islamic Art Revival Series, a program of Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation and Agha Khan Council in Dallas.
At UT Dallas, the Dallas Museum of Art, and Ismaili Jamatkhana Plano
Open to the public
Reports from O'Donnell Institute Post-Doctoral Fellows: Dr. Gao Xin on American Modernism and Dr. Liu Yi on American Landscape Painting
Dr. Gao Xin,The Art of Anamorphosis: Edward Hopper and the Culture of Modernity
Dr. Liu Yi, Americanness in Landscape Painting
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Gallery Talk: Bonnie Pitman, UTD Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Director of Art/Brain Innovations, Center for BrainHealth; and EODIAH Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Art and Medicine Tour
At the Dallas Museum of Art
By invitation only
Reports from O'Donnell Institute Graduate Fellows: Jacob Crawford on Early Modern Playbook Title Pages and Brianni Nelson on New Media Race Humor
Jacob Crawford, Playing with Publishing: A Study of Early Modern Playbook Title Pages
Brianni Nelson, New Media Race Humor: Subversive Stereotypes via Instant Video Sharing
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Gallery Talk: Dr. Whitney Stewart, Assistant Professor of Historical Studies, UT Dallas
Slave Cabins and the Making of the Ideal American Home
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Public Lecture: Dr. Thomas Gaehtgens, Director, Getty Research Institute
Wilhelm von Bode and the American Danger: The Impact of Gilded Age American Collectors on Europe’s Artistic Patrimony
At the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art
Open to the public
Public Lecture: Dr. Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Department of History of Art & Architecture and Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Picasso’s Demoiselles: Africa, Sex, Origins and Creativity
At the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art
Open to the public
Gallery Preview: Fellows’ preview of Francisco Moreno: The Chapel and Accompanying Works with artist Francisco Moreno presented at Erin Cluley Gallery
At Erin Cluley Gallery
By invitation
Public Lecture: Dr. Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
What’s with the bamboo stick? Matisse’s late drawing practice
At the Nasher Sculpture Center
Open to the public
Reports from O'Donnell Institute Post-Doctoral Fellows: Dr. Gao Xin on American Modernism and Dr. Liu Yi on American Landscape Painting
Dr. Gao Xin, From Mirror to Anamorphosis: The Transformation from Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper
Dr. Liu Yi, Americanness in Landscape Painting
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk: Dr. Sarah Kozlowski, EODIAH Assistant Director and Dr. Elizabeth Ranieri, EODIAH Research Coordinator
An art history of great port cities: the O’Donnell Institute’s new research center in Naples
At UT Dallas, ATEC 2.705
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Gallery Talk: Bonnie Pitman, UTD Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Director of Art/Brain Innovations, Center for BrainHealth; and EODIAH Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Power of Observation
At the Dallas Museum of Art
By invitation only
Workshop Talk: Dr. Mark Rosen, Associate Professor, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, UT Dallas
The Production of Space in Leonardo da Vinci’s Plan of Imola
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in the Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk: Dr. Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Barbara
Photography after Photography: Gender, Genre, History
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in the Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Reports from O'Donnell Institute graduate fellows: Aditi Samarth on Hindu cremation rituals and Fatemeh Tashakori on Reverse orientalism in Persian art.
Aditi Samarth, The Survival of Hindu Cremation Myths and Rituals in 21st-Century Practice: Three Contemporary Case Studies
Fatemeh Tashakori, Reverse Orientalism: The Westerner as the Eroticized Other in Persian Arts since the 17th Century
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in the Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Symposium
Rethinking Form in Latin American Literature and Visual Art
At UT Dallas, ATC 3.225
Open to the public
2017
Center for Brain Health Special Lecture
Bonnie Pitman, UTD Distinguished Scholar in Residence
The Art of Observation
At UTD's Center for Brain Health, in the Ellipse at the Brain Performance Institute, 2200 W. Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, 75235.
Open to the public; registration required.
Workshop Talk
Edleeca Thompson, UTD Fellow
African Art on View: Mediating Transnational Histories in Four Metropolitan Museums
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Looking Below the Surface: Working Methods of Zurbarán, Velázquez, and Murillo
Co-sponsored by The Meadows Museum and the O’Donnell Institute
At The Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas
Open to the public and free with advanced registration. To register, please call 214.768.8587.
Open House for prospective MA students
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to the public
Workshop Talk
Sabiha Al Khemir, Senior Advisor for Islamic Art, Dallas Museum of Art and the Distinguished Scholar of Islamic Art in Residence, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
Fellows’ visit to the Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery at the DMA
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
By invitation
Workshop Talk
Dr. Herbert Kessler, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University
The Meaning of Stained Glass as a Material
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk
Rebecca Quinn Teresi, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
Immaculacy and (Im)Purity in the Spanish Baroque
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Eighth Quadrennial Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference, Washington, D.C.
EODIAH co-sponsored with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Sessions chaired by:
Sarah Kozlowski, Assistant Director, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, The University of Texas at Dallas
Victor Coonin, Rhodes College
Sally J. Cornelison, Syracuse University
John Paoletti, Wesleyan University
William Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis
Elizabeth Cropper, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
Shelley Sturman, National Gallery of Art
Emily Pegues, National Gallery of Art
Workshop Talk
Dr. Zhou Xian, UT Dallas Senior Research Fellow
On Wang Guangyi and his series “The Great Criticism: Coca Cola”
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Fellows’ visit to Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Paintings from Auckland Castle
With Claire Barry, Director of Conservation at the Kimbell Museum of Art and Mark Roglán, Director of the Meadows Museum
At The Meadows Museum
By invitation
Fellows’ visit to the collection of Tom and Jeanne Campbell
By invitation
Fellows’ visit to the DeGolyer Library
With Anne Peterson, Curator of Photographs, Southern Methodist University
At the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
By invitation
Workshop Talk
William Howze, Nonsuch Projects
The Picture Chase: Acquiring and licensing images for art history publications
At The Warehouse
By invitation
Fellows Tour
Fellows' visit to Doubles, Dobros, Pliegues, Pares, Twins, Mitades
At The Warehouse
By invitation
Workshop Talk
Dr. Elpida Vouitsis, UTD Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Double-talker: Paul Gauguin
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk
Dr. Joseph R. Hartman, UT Dallas Fellow
Cuba Incarcerated: The Historic Vision of Cuban Prison Architecture
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk
Dr. Michael Corris, Professor of Art, Southern Methodist University
Leaving Skull City: The Afterlife of (Some) Conceptual Art
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
The Richard Brettell Award in the Arts
Peter Walker, Landscape Architect and the First Recipient of the Richard Brettell Award in the Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas
Schedule of Events
Open to the public
Read more in The Dallas Morning News article here.
Workshop Talk
Leslie Reid, UT Dallas Fellow
Edward Larrabee Barnes’ Dallas Museum of Art: An Architectural Tour
At the Visitor Services Desk in The Dallas Museum of Art
Tour has reached capacity and is currently closed.
Workshop Talk
Dr. Allan Antliff, UT Dallas Research Fellow
The Unknown Man Ray: Anarchism, Formalism, Dada
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Collection Tour
Fellows’ visit to the collection of James Ledbetter
At private residence
By invitation only
Workshop Talk
Natalie J. Ring, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Dallas
Painting on the Inside: Outsider Art in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola
At UT Dallas, ATEC 2.705
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk
Dr. Allan Antliff, UT Dallas Research Fellow
Pedagogical Subversion: The ‘Un-American’ Graphics of Kevin C. Pyle
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
O’Donnell Institute Symposium
Artists’ Writings on Materials and Techniques
Open to the public
Please RSVP
Workshop Talk
Poe Johnson, UT Dallas Fellow
The Great Chain of Being Black: Images of the Lynched Black Body as Participatory Fandom
At UT Dallas, ATEC 2.705
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk
Robyn Hodgkins, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Trinity University
A closer look at modern and contemporary oil paint formulations
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Gallery Talk
Jessica Harden, Director of Exhibition and Museum Design, The Dallas Museum of Art
Exhibition and Museum Design at The Dallas Museum of Art
At The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk
Dr. Adam Herring, Chair of Art History, Southern Methodist University
Turntable: Inca Cuzco’s ‘Terrace of Leisure’
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk
Dr. Jacopo Gnisci, UT Dallas Fellow
A Passion without passion? Holy Week in Ethiopian manuscript painting (1270-1527)
At The O’Donnell Institute Research Center in The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Symposium: Talavera and Ceramic Connections: East Asia, West Asia, and the Americas
At The Crow Collection of Asian Art and The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to the public
2016
Workshop Talk: Dr. David McPhail, O’Donnell Institute Distinguished Chair of Conservation Science
At UT Dallas, BSB 13.685
Using surface science and surface analysis to understand (and hopefully ameliorate) ultra-slow corrosion processes in works of art
By invitation
O’Donnell Institute Lecture with Philippe de Montebello
The Multiple Lives of Works of Art
At The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to the public
Please RSVP to Pierrette Lacour [email protected]
Workshop Talk: Dr. Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator of Paintings, J. Paul Getty Museum
Giovanni di Paolo. The 20th Century Rediscovery of a Sienese Renaissance Painter
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Dr. Julian Henderson, Professor and Chair of Archaeology, University of Nottingham
The glories of Islamic glass – new insights into production, trade and specialization along the Middle Eastern Silk Road
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Area Art History Faculty Reception
At the O’Donnell Institute, UT Dallas and the Research Center at the DMA
By invitation
Workshop Talk: Dr. Jacqueline Chao, Curator of Asian Art, Crow Collection of Asian Art
Chen Rong’s Nine Dragons scroll and the history of Chinese ink dragon painting
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
O’Donnell Institute/Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies Symposium
The School of London: Diaspora and Pictorial Trauma in Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kitaj, and Kossoff
O’Donnell Institute/Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies Symposium
At the O’Donnell Institute, UT Dallas and the Research Center at the DMA
Open to the public
Details forthcoming
Workshop Talk: Allan Antliff, O’Donnell Institute Research Fellow, UT Dallas
“Clyfford Still on the Margins of Anarchy”
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Fellow’s Object Talk: Fabienne Ruppen on Cézanne’s Still Life with Apples on a Sideboard at the DMA
By invitation
Workshop Talk: Nicole Myers, The Lillian and James H. Clark Curator of Painting and Sculpture, DMA
At The Dallas Museum of Art
“Explore the European Art Galleries with Nicole Myers, The Lillian and James H. Clark of European Painting and Sculpture”
By invitation
Workshop Talk: Dr. Qing Chang, Research Curator, Crow Collection of Asian Art
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMAFashioning Self-Portrait Leads Iconoclasm: The Portrait Image of Yang Lianzhenjia and Its Reception in the Yuan (1271-1368) and Ming (1368-1644) Periods
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk: Dr. Mary Vaccaro, Professor, UT Arlington
Connossieurship and the study of Old Master drawings
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
What makes a cultural capital? Paris versus Vienna: A conversation with Alessandra Comini and Richard Brettell
Dr. Alessandra Comini, Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita, Southern Methodist University; Dr. Richard Brettell, O’Donnell Institute Founding Director
At The Dallas Museum of Art
Open to the public
Workshop Talk: Dr. Timothy McCall, Associate Professor of Art History and Co-Director of Gender & Women’s Studies, Villanova University
“Fashionable Diplomacy in Renaissance Italy”
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Fellows’ visit to the collection of Charles Dee Mitchell
By invitation
Workshop Talk: Roger Malina, Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair, UT Dallas, PhD students Chaz Lilly and Poe Johnson
Leonardo Journal 50th Anniversary: the Future of History and the Future of Publishing
At UT Dallas, ATEC 2.705
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Fall Reception at the Wilcox Space
The Wilcox Space
By invitation
Workshop Talk: Carolyn Brown, Photographer
“Istanbul: ‘Sensations of Light’”
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Plaster: Medium and Process
A panel discussion presented in collaboration with the Nasher Sculpture Center
At the Nasher Sculpture Center
Open to the public
The Art of Examination: Art Museums and Medical School Partnerships
At the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Chaired by Bonnie Pitman (Distinguished Scholar in Residence, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, and Wendy Woon, The Edward John Noble Foundation Deputy Director for Education, MoMA
By Invitation
Fellows’ viewing of Vermeer Suite: Music in 17th-Century Dutch Painting at the DMA
By invitation
O’Donnell Institute Symposium
Diptychs, Triptychs, and Polyptychs, from the Middle Ages to Modernity
At the O’Donnell Institute, UT Dallas
Space is limited; attendees must RSVP
Opening at The Wilcox Space: John Wilcox: Diptychs and Polyptychs II
The second of a two-part installation curated by Sarah Kozlowski and Ben Lima
The Wilcox Space, 824 Exposition Boulevard, no. 9, Dallas
Open to the public
Workshop Talk: Professor Norman H. Tennent, University of Amsterdam
“Slow but sure--a good motto for conservation science?”
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas-Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk: Nancy Bell, The National Archives, UK
“A Vision for Heritage Science”
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas–Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk: Charissa Terranova, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
At the O’Donnell Institute, UT Dallas
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas–Fort Worth art historians
Workshop Talk: Sarah Kozlowski, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
“Jan van Eyck’s Saint George and the Dragon between Bruges and Naples”
At the O’Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas–Fort Worth art historians
Fellow’s Object Talk: Kristine Larison on Jacopo Bassano’s Adoration of the Magi at the Kimbell Art Museum
By invitation
Workshop Talk: Mark Rosen, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
“The Poitiers Stone and the Cartographers of Europe”
At the O’Donnell Institute, UT Dallas
Open to O’Donnell Institute/UT Dallas/DMA affiliates and other Dallas–Fort Worth art historians
ATEC Watering Hole with Dr. David McPhail, O’Donnell Institute Distinguished Chair of Conservation Science
At UT Dallas, ATEC 3.209
Open to UT Dallas affiliates
Colloquium, Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots
At the O'Donnell Institute Research Center at the DMA
By invitation
Fellows’ visit to the DMA Conservation Studio
By invitation