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Chris Atkins has accepted a position as Research Assistant II in the Art of Europe Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He presented a paper entitled “Presenting Himself Among the Ranks: Frans Hals’s Self-Portrait in the St. George Civic Guard Portrait” at the Historians of Netherlandish Art International Conference, held in Antwerp, March 2002. Francesca
Bacci and David Melcher are pleased to announce the birth of
Chiara Sophie Melcher, on September 15, 2002 at 2:38 a.m. On arrival, Chiara
weighed about six pounds and was approximately 19 inches long.
Chiara Sophie Melcher Stacey Schultz Burger presented the following papers in March 2002: “Performing Body Image: Hunger Ideology as Cultural Roadmap” at the Graduate Student Symposium, “Somatic Art: Attitudes Toward the Body University,” at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Kansas at Lawrence; “The Mark of Culture in Hannah Wilke’s S.O.S. Starification Object Series,” in the Graduate Student Symposium, “New Visions in the History of Art and Archaeology,” at Cornell University. In February 2003, she presented the lecture “Beyond Barbie: Women Artists, Body Image, and the Search for Self” as part of the Rutgers Counseling Center’s week-long “Body Appreciation Week.” Amy Bloch’s review of Margaret Haines, ed., Santa Maria del Fiore: The Cathedral and its Sculptures (Florence, 2001) has been published online by the College Art Association, available at www.caareviews.org/reviews/haines.html. In March 2003, she will present a paper on the reconstruction of St. Zenobious’ chapel in the Duomo in Florence at the Toronto Renaissance Society of America conference. She will also present “Ritual, Space and the Bronze Doors of the Florentine Baptistery.” Amy is teaching at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Brian Clancy received the 2002-2003 Bevier Dissertation Fellowship. He will present the paper “A Good Story Marred in the Telling: J. C. Cady and the Metropolitan Opera House” in the session, “Architects in New York, 1865-1930,” at the College Art Association annual conference in New York, February 2003 (Friday, 2/21, 2:00-4:30). Caitlin
Sproule Davis married Michael Davis on June 1, 2002 in Red Bank,
NJ.
Caitlin & Michael Davis Lisandra Estevez will present a paper, “The Triumph of the Text: A Selected Reading of Giovanni Vendramin’s Architectural Frontispieces,” at the 21st Annual Symposium for Graduate Students in the History of Art, Florida State University, February 2003. Tracy
Fitzpatrick will defend her dissertation “Tunnel Vision: Images
of the New York City Subway, 1904-1941” in April 2003. She represented
the Rutgers Art History Department at the annual Symposium on the History
of Art, sponsored by the Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts,
NYU, in April 2002. She presented the paper, “Futurism Underground:
Max Weber, Joseph Stella and the New York City Subway.” She also presented
“Joseph Beuys’s Creativity=Capital and the New York City Subway as Performance
Space” at the 2001 Andrew Mellon Colloquium, “From Different Perspectives:
Looking at Art at the Zimmerli,” April 5, 2001. Tracy and her husband Bill
are pleased to announce the birth of their son, David, on August
1, 2002.
David Fitzpatrick Howard
A. Fox has just completed cataloging the holdings of approximately
1200 etchings by Old Master,” for the session, “The Self-Wenceslaus Hollar
(1607 Prague –1677 London) in the Department of Drawings and Prints at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The cataloging was designed to create a
computerized database that will be incorporated into the museum-wide database.
This past summer, Fox
Aaron Freedman curated two exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. The exhibitions entitled “Change and Continuity: Indian Folk and Tribal Art from the Low Art Museum” and “Heart and Hand: Indian Drawings from the Subhash Kapoor Collection” will run from January 29–March 28, 2004. He published “Nonconformist Art in the Soviet Union” and “Censored and Sanctioned: Soviet Art of the Cold War,” exhibition catalogue, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, 2002. He presented the following papers: “A Tiny Nest and the Vast Sky: Defining Modernism in the Contemporary Art of India,” at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, April 12, 2002; and “Terror, Dread and Unspeakable Sin: Siva-Bhairava and the Act of Brahminicide,” Mellon Lecture Series, Zimmerli Art Museum, October 2002. He also delivered a guest lecture, “The Sacrifice of Abraham’s Son in Islamic Art: Issues of Iconography and Iconology” at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, November 21, 2002. Emma Guest announced the birth of her son, Lorenzo Robert Consales, on December 21, 2002. Watch out for Lorenzo’s national TV debut in “A Baby Story” on TLC (The Learning Channel) in March. Ann Keen had a 12-week summer internship in 2002 with the Upstate History Alliance in Oneonta, NY, researching the history of protest in the 19th and 20th centuries in upstate New York. The project was partially funded by the NEH and NYSCA. Ann conducted primary research at participating historical societies and museums in search of documentation and artifacts for a proposed 2005 exhibition. During the Spring 2003 semester, Ann is coordinating research for the Transcultural New Jersey Initiative on behalf of the Stedman Art Gallery at Rutgers-Camden. The Initiative's purpose is to document creative achievements of underrepresented non-European artists in order to recognize and examine how they are shaping culture and communities in New Jersey. The Stedman Art Gallery is planning an exhibition in 2004 focusing on religious architecture. In conjunction with Dr. Meredith Bzdak's undergraduate seminar on New Jersey Architecture, Ann is working with several students conducting interviews, compiling research, and writing exhibition catalog entries. Patricia
Kiernan will give a paper entitled “‘All Nations Gathered Together
Before Him’: The Last Judgment Tympanum of Sainte-Foy at Conques,” at the
Medieval Academy of America conference, “Encounter and Exchange,” in April
2003. Her presentation will be included in the “Saints” session of the
conference. She will also deliver this paper at the annual conference of
the Medieval Academy of America, to be held in Minneapolis, MN, April 10-12,
2003. She is currently assisting the forthcoming exhibition, “Prague: The
Crown of Bohemia 1350-1450,” in the Medieval Department of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, scheduled to open in the fall of 2005.
Students in Dr. Bellion's seminar at the trompe d'oeil show in Washington: (l-r): Thea Gunhouse, Danny Lanzafama, Sascha Scott, Katie Poole, Kandice Rawlings and Kate Hammond Natalia Kolodzei published two reviews: “The Russian Avant-Garde Book: 1910-1934 at MoMa,” in ArtChronika 3 (2002), and “Unknown Segal at State Hermitage Museum,” Iskusstvo 16 (October-November 2002). She curated the exhibition, “New Identities, New Forms: Contemporary Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Collection,” at Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington, DC (March 12 – 27, 2002). Sharon
Matt Atkins will present a paper entitled “‘Becoming’ Rembrandt:
Yasumasa Murimura as the College Art Association annual conference, February
2003. In October 2002, she gave the paper “Between Two Worlds: Yasumasa
Murimura’s Art History Photographs” at the Southeastern College Art Conference
held in Mobile, Alabama. She is currently a part-time research assistant
in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Boston Museum of
Mary Kate O’Hare will represent Rutgers Art History Department at the Philadelphia Symposium on the History of Art, March 22, 2003. She will present a paper entitled “Teaching Men Manhood: John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Henry Lee Higginson at Harvard University.” In October 2002, she presented the paper at the annual Southeastern College Art Conference, held in Mobile, Alabama. On August 3, 2002 she married Chris Edelson at her parent’s beautiful home in Rochester, New York. Alison Poe contributed an entry on the Annunciation for P.C. Finney, ed., Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, forthcoming). She delivered a paper entitled “Gatherings at the Tomb: The Ritual Context of the Frescoes in the Hypogaeum of the Aurelii, Rome” at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, January, 2003. Wendy Streule represented Rutgers Art History Department at the Philadelphia Symposium on the History of Art in March 2002. She delivered a paper entitled “The Mirrored Image: Reflections on the Use of Mirrors in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Paintings.” She will present the paper, “A History of Unruly Objects: The Place of Erotica in Seventeenth-Century Holland” at the Boston University Symposium on the History of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 29, 2003. Wendy has been selected to participate in the Getty Research Institute’s Dissertation Workshop, to be held at the Getty, April 11-12, 2003. Mary
Tinti interned in the Contemporary Art Department of the Brooklyn
Museum in 2002 and worked with curator Charlotta Kotik. She was also an
intern in the Curatorial Department of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Mary Tinti and Kim Curtiss with a Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture at the national gallery of Art Aileen Wang was the 2003 recipient of the Graduate School’s Dissertation Teaching Award, which has enabled her to design and teach a 400-level undergraduate seminar, “Michel-angelo and Self-Imaging in the Renaissance.” She presented a paper entitled “The Virgin and Child with Four Musical Angels: Issues of Attribution and Dating” at the 2001 Andrew Mellon Colloquium, “From Different Perspectives: Looking at Art at the Zimmerli,” April 5, 2001. Patricia Zalamea gave a paper entitled, “Redressing Griselda’s Nudity. A Comparison of Narrative Structure in Text and Image,” at the Interdisciplinary Conference at the Siena Center for Medieval Studies, Siena College, New York, October 2002. The conference was titled, “Soul and Psyche: Mind, Body and Spirit in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras.” Her paper, “Rome’s Mirabilia in Giovanni Marcanova’s Sylloge. An itinerant guide and imaginative exercise in remembering things past,” was accepted at the 2003 Kalamazoo Medieval Conference. Jennifer Zarro was invited to present a guest lecture entitled “Looking with a Feminist Eye” at the Temple University Honors program, Philadelphia, April 2002. She also delivered the gallery talk, “The Light of Impressionism,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 2002. She published an article “Mourning and Melancholia in Joseph Hu’s Table Paintings” in A Graduate Journal of Contemporary Art Criticism, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, June 2002.  |
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