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General News Graduate News Amy Bloch was featured in an edition of Cross/Section; see under Carla Yanni. Louise Caldi presented the paper, “Heraldry and Power: Simone Martini and the Angevins," at the conference on Pageantry and Power in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, sponsored by the Convivium Center Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Siena College, Laudenville, New York, October 2000. Lisa Victoria Ciresi was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany for 1999-2000 and a Dissertation Fellowship for 2000-2001. She was an invited speaker at the conference sponsored by the Index of Christian Art & the Dept. of Art and ARchaeology, Princeton University, entitled "Objects, Images and the Word: Art in the Service of the Liturgy", held at McCormick Hall, Friday March 23rd. Her topic was "A Liturgical Study of the Dreikoenigenschrein". She spoke in distinguished company including Peter Lasko and Joh Lowden of the Courtauld Institute; Dorothy Glass, SUNY Buffalo; Roger Wieck of the JP Morgan Library; Elizabeth Teviotdale of the Getty Instititute, Los Angeles; and Michael Curschmann of Princeton. Brian Clancy was awarded his Master’s Degree in May 2000 and submitted his thesis “‘…Le continue o tragedie, o commedie domestiche’: Family Patronage in the Papacy of Innocent X (1644-1655).” His dissertation topic for the Ph.D. is entitled: “An Architectural History of Grand Opera Houses: Constructing Cultural Identity in Urban America from 1850 to the Great Depression.” Brian successfully edited the Rutgers Art Review, vol. 18, published July 2000. In January 2000, Brian traveled to Rome to present his paper “Il disegno borrominiano per la cappella Pamphilj alla Chiesa Nuova (Albertina 285)” at the conference, Borromini e L’Universo Barocco: Convegno Internazionale in Rome. This paper was published in the conference precedings, Borromini e L’Universo Barocco: Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Electa, November 2000). In April 2000, he presented “‘The Most Beautiful City in the World’: Interpreting Modern Paris in the American Architect and Building News at the Centers and Peripheries: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference INCS, Vanderbilt University, Yale University, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. He also presented this paper at the Americans Abroad, 1850-2000: The Frank R.Veale Symposium, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Temple University, and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. In March 2001, he will present “‘A Cage Ready for Our Birds When We Catch Them’: The Architecture of Cultural Idealism at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia” at the Century of Victoria and Verdi: Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference, Gettysburg University, and Hollins University, Roanoke, VA.. Brian Clancy is the winner of the American Council of Learned Societies/Luce Foundation Disserttion Fellowship in American Art. Aliza Edelman was the Exhibition Assistant for “Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918” (November 1999-April 2000), and the accompanying catalogue, at The Jewish Museum, New York. She was also the Exhibition Coordinator of “Light x Eight: The Hanukkah Project 2000” (December-January 2001) at The Jewish Museum. This project celebrated the festival of Hanukkah by exhibiting eight works of contemporary art that use light as both medium and metaphor and are displayed in non-traditional sites. She is the curator of “Gail Cohen Edelman: A Memorial Exhibition” (February-March 2001) at the Maurice Flecker Art Gallery, Suffolk Community College, New York. This exhibition presents her mother’s last series of mixed media and collage works on paper and panel that focus on sweatshops, immigrant culture, and contemporary approaches to embroidery. Craig Eliason was awarded the U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grant by the U.S. Department of State. In February, he traveled on this grant to Pulawy, Poland, and participated in the conference, 2000: ‘Art Matters in Teaching American Studies,’ sponsored by the U. S. Embassy, Warsaw and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin. His lectures included topics on “Abstract Art Since Pollock,” “Pop and the Commodity as Art,” and “New Media, New Voices, New Controversies." In March 2000, he presented the paper, “Spin Control: Rotation and Revolution in Van Doesburg’s Art,” at the Theo van Doesburg Retrospective Symposium, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands, sponsored by the Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History and University of Amsterdam. He published the paper entitled “De conferenties van 1922: Tristan Tzara als Van Doesburgs saboteur [The Conferences of 1922: Tristan Tzara as Van Doesburg's Saboteur],” in Jong Holland 16, no. 2 (May/June 2000). Tracy Fitzpatrick was awarded the Henry Luce Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2000-2001. She published the entry on “Willem de Kooning” in the American National Biography (Oxford University Press, January 2001). In May 2000, she presented the paper, “Picturing the Underground: Images of the Subway by Reginald March,” at the conference on Imaging the Space Between: Constructing Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 at the University of Western Ontario, London Ontario, Canada. She also presented “Exhibiting Reform: The Women’s Movement and the Role of the Museum” on the panel American Museums and Social Movements at the American Association of Museums Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD. She is the curator of the exhibition, “Traffic Patterns: Images of Transportation in the Age of the Machine,” which opens at the Zimmerli Art Museum in February 2001. Melissa Kerr is a Research Assistant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is working on the forthcoming retrospective on Barnett Newman, co-organized with the Tate Modern, scheduled for March 2002. Natalia Kolodzei presented a lecture entitled “Art Exhibition and Lecture: Great Russian Art Collections” for The Russia Society at the Harvard Club of New York City. Stephanie Leone is a recipient of a Dissertation Fellowship for 2000-01 and a Trustees’ Merit Citation from the Graham Foundation in Fall 2000. Tom Loughman received a J. William Fulbright Fellowship and a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant to Italy. He contributed the obituary and bibliography on Rutgers’ Art History alumnus, Dr. Robert Paul Bergman, to our Rutgers Art Review, vol. 18, published July 2000. In May, he presented the paper “Revivalist or Retardataire? Stylistic Eclecticism in late Trecento Florence” for the Italian Art Society session, Continuity and Change, at the 35th International Conference of Medieval Studies, Kalamazzo, MI. Amy Mooney was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington State University. She was awarded the Henry Luce Foundtion/ACLS/Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship for Dissertations in American Art for 2001. She also received a College Arts Association Honorable Mention for the Terra Foundation Fellowship, 2000. In Spring 2000, she presented a paper entitled, “Presenting the Self: Archibald J. Motley’s Jr.’s Approach to Portraiture,” at the National Museum of American Art. Alison Poe was awarded a USIA Fulbright Scholarship to Italy for 1999-2000. She contributed an entry on “Ascension” in the Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology, ed. P. C. Finney, forthcoming. She is an Instructor of Art History at New York University, Paul McGhee Division, from September-December 2000. Gabrielle Rose traveled to Paris in the spring 2000 for dissertation research at the Musée Bourdelle and Musée Rodin. Her dissertation is entitled “Succeeding Rodin: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle and the Making of a New Sculptor for France, 1900-1931.” Jennifer Schubert contributed the essays on “Bolognese Mannerism at the Princeton Art Museum: The Annunciation by Giovanni Francesco Bezzi (called Il Nosadella)," in The Princeton Record, forthcoming, and "Nosadella, not Agostino, in the Collection of Benedetto Giustiniani," in Intorno ai Giustiniani, forthcoming. Jennifer Tonkovich was appointed Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Pierpont Morgan Library in April 2000. She is a contributing author to The World Observed: Five Centuries of Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp (January 2001) and co-author with William M. Griswold of Pierre Matisse and His Artists, forthcoming. At the Pierpont Morgan Library, she presented the following lectures: “Van Dyck in Rubens’s Studio”(March 2000); “Claude, Poussin, and the Arcadian Landscape” and “Recent Acquisition: A Journal by Stuart Davis” (October 2000); and “Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp,” (March 2001). In April 2000, she presented “Old Master Drawings and Issues of Provenance,” at the ARLIS National Conference. Carmen Vendelin was the curator of “Book Illustration of European Symbolist Texts” at the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago (February and March 2000). She presented the paper, “Modernity and Ambivalence: Photographic Images of Rodenbach’s Bruges-La-Morte,” at the following conferences — Crosscurrents: Fin de siècle Fears, Fantasies, and Frenzies, the Schuylkill’s Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Temple University, and 2000 Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College. Midori Yoshimoto was awarded the Rutgers University-Bevier Fellowship for 2000-2001. She contributed entries to Yes Yoko Ono (Harry N. Abrams in association with the Japan Society, 2000), and Japonisme – Japonisme from the Turn of the 19th Century (T-G Concepts, Inc., 2000). She was the curator of “Opening Up: Artistic Dialogue Between Japan and the West” at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and “Japonisme,” an exhibition originating at the Zimmerli Art Museum and traveling to eight venues in Japan, from September 2000 – October 2001.  |
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