Department of Art History
Events
Annual Sydney Leon Jacobs Lecture in American Art
2024 Stephanie Sparling Williams, Brooklyn Museum
Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art
2023 Adriana Zavala, Tufts University
Afrolatinx Art: Radical Unsettling
2022 Huey Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
In Stereo: Modern Art and the Black Anthological
2021 Denise Murrell, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reconsidering the Harlem Renaissance: Context and Legacy
2019 Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware
Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment
2018: Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania
The Langenheim Brothers at Niagara Falls: Photographic Fusions and the Mass Marketing of Photography
2017: Marilyn S. Kushner, New York Historical Society
Shock, Influence, or Indifference, the 1913 Armory Show Reconsidered
2016: Rachel Z. DeLue, Princeton University
Thomas Eakin’s Music Paintings and the Problem of Picturing Sound
2015: Douglas R. Nickel, Brown University
Walker Evans and the Art of the Common Man
2014: Richard J. Powell, Duke University
Fat Man in Bronzeville: Archibald Motley’s Witness to the Modern City
2013: Maurie D. McInnis, The University of Virginia
The Civil War and Slavery’s Shadow
2012: Kathleen A. Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Looking into Winslow Homer’s The Life Line
2011: Sarah Burns, Indiana University, Professor Emeritus
Haunted Houses and Murder Mansions: Art and the Dark Side of American Architecture between the Wars
2010: Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University Professor Emeritus
Social Concern in Jewish American Art
2009: Wanda M. Corn, Stanford University
The Three Lives of Grant Wood’s American Gothic
2009: Martin A. Berger, University of California at Santa Cruz
Civil Rights Photography and the Politics of Race in 1960s America
2008: Thomas E. Crow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Screen Memories in the Art of Ed Ruscha: Los Angeles as a Pop City
Events Calendar 2018-2019
September 5, 2018 - Faculty meeting, VH002, 10:00am-12:00noon
September 5, 2018 - Welcome Reception for the Art History Department, Zimmerli Art Museum, 4:00--6:00pm
October 3, 2018 - Faculty meeting, VH002, 10:00am-12:00noon
October 29, 2018 - Lecture by Robin Fleming, 4:30-6:00pm Hosted by Rutgers British Studies Center
November 7, 2018 - Faculty meeting, VH002, 10:00am-12:00noon
November 13, 2018 - Annual Sydney Leon Jacobs Lecture, featuring Michael Leja, 4:30pm lecture, followed by reception, Zimmerli Art Museum
December 5, 2018 - Faculty meeting, VH002, 10:00am-12:00noon
January 23, 2019 - Faculty meeting, VH002, 10:00am-12:00noon
February 6, 2019 - Faculty meeting, VH002, 10:00am-12:00noon
March 6, 2019 - Faculty meeting, VH002, 10:00am-12:00noon
March 28, 2019 - Developing Room Symposium: Photography and Display, Time: TBA, Center for Cultural Analysis
April 3, 2019 - Faculty meeting, VH002, 10:00am-12:00noon
April 12, 2019 - The 2nd Annual Developing Room Graduate Student Colloquium on the History and Theory of Photography, 10:00am-5:00pm, Center for Cultural Analysis
May 16, 2019 - Faculty meeting, VH002, 10:00am-12:00noon
May 16, 2019 - Art History celebration, Zimmerli Art Museum, 12:00noon - 3:00pm, Lower Dodge Gallery
Events Calendar 2017-2018
Fall 2017
September 5, 2017 - CHAPS Meet & Greet, 12:00noon, GSL
September 6, 2017 - Welcome Reception, 4:00-5:30pm, Zimmerli Museum
September 13, 2017 - Faculty meeting, 10:00am
September 14, 2017 -AHGSO meeting, 4:30pm, GSL
October 5, 2017 - Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Young Kim, University of Pennsylvania,
October 11, 2017 - Faculty meeting, 10:00am
October 12, 2017 - Developing Room,, Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm, Academic Building (West Wing), room 6051, Rutgers University, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, New Jersey
October 19, 2017 - AHGSO meeting, 4:30pm, GSL
October 25, 2017 - Book talk with Benjamin Paul, 10:00am, GSL
November 7, 2017 - Art After Hours/First Tuesdays, 5:00-9:00pm, Zimmerli Art Museum
November 8, 2017 - Faculty meeting, 10:00am
November 9, 2017 - AHGSO meeting, 4:30pm, GSL
November 14, 2017 - Annual Sydney Leon Jacobs lecture, 4:30pm, Zimmerli Art Museum
November 16, 2017 - 4:00-5:00pm, Conversation with Rui Gomes Coelho
December 6, 2017 - Faculty meeting, 10:00am
December 7, 2017 - AHGSO meeting, 4:30pm, GSL
Spring 2018
February 8, 2018 - AHGSO meeting, 3:30pm, GSL
February 8, 2018 - Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Marcia Hall, 4:30pm, Zimmerli Art Museum
March 8, 2018 - AHGSO meeting, 3:30pm, GSL
March 8, 2018 - Lecture - details TBA, 4:30pm
March 29, 2018 - Faculty Symposium with Trinidad Rico, 4:30pm, GSL
April 12, 2018 - Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Betzer at 4:30pm
April 19, 2018 - AHGSO meeting, 4:30pm, GSL
April 20, 2018 - Graduate Student Symposium, 9am-5:00pm, Alexander Library, Pane Room
Events Calendar 2016-2017
Fall 2016
September 6, 2016, Tuesday, First Day of Classes for Fall Semester
September 7, 2016, Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:30 pm Welcome Reception/ Zimmerli Museum/Lower Dodge Gallery
September 13, 2016, Tuesday, 4:00 pm /AHGSO Meeting/ Graduate Student Lounge / Voorhees Hall Basement Room 006F
September 21, 2016, Wednesday, 3:00 - 8:00 pm, Moscow Conceptualism opening at the Zimmerli Art Museum
September 22, 2016, Thursday, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Zimmerli Museum MPR (Film Review) "Destruction of Memory"
October 11, 2016, Tuesday, 4:00 pm AHGSO Meeting / Graduate Student Lounge
October 20-22, 2016, Thursday thru Saturday, Princeton University Graduate Student Conference
October 26, 2016, Wednesday, 9:30 am Faculty Meeting / Voorhees Hall Room 001
October 27, 2016, Thursday, 4:45 pm Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Loh's Presentation, Zimmerli Museum MPR (Reception to follow in the Graduate Student Lounge)
November 3, 2016, Thursday, 4:30 pm Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Gretchen E. Henderson, Zimmerli Museum MPR
November 8, 2016, Tuesday, 4:00 pm AHGSO Meeting/Graduate Student Lounge
November 10, 2016, Thursday, 1:30 - 5:00 pm /Zimmerli Museum Maxwell MPR 250th University Anniversary /Art History Department Speakers, Victoria Reed & Norman Kleeblatt, Senior Curator at the Jewish Museum in New York/Reception in the Main Lobby of the Zimmerli Museum
November 15, 2016, Tuesday, 4:30 pm Annual Leon Sydney Jacobs Lecture/Speaker:Rachel DeLue/Zimmerli Museum Lower Dodge Gallery/Reception in Museum Lobby at 6:00 pm (Dinner by Invitation at 7:00 pm in Lower Dodge)
November 30, 2016, Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:30 pm / Fall Faculty Symposium/ Sarah Blake McHam Speaking/ Graduate Student Lounge
December 7, 2016, Wednesday, 9:30 am Faculty meeting/Voorhees Hall Room 001
December 13, 2016, Tuesday, 4:00 pm AHGSO Meeting/Graduate Student Lounge
SPRING, 2017
January 17, 2017, Tuesday, Spring Semester Begins
January 18, 2017, Wednesday, 9:30 am, 1st Faculty Meeting Spring Semester/Voorhees Hall 001
January 26, 2017, Thursday, 4:00 pm AHGSO Meeting/ Graduate Student Lounge
February 1, 2017, Wednesday, 10:00am Spring Faculty Symposium/ Faculty Book Publication Talk featuring Dr. Laura Weigert, Graduate Student lounge/Voorhees Hall
February 7, 2017, Tuesday, 5:00-9:00pm, Zimmerli Art After Hours
February 8, 2017, Wednesday, 9:30 am, Faculty Meeting/Voorhees Hall Room 001
February 9, 2017, Thursday, 4:00 pm AHGSO Meeting/Graduate Student Lounge
February 15-18, 2017, Wednesday - Saturday, CAA College Art Association Conference, New York
February 21, 2017, Tuesday, 5:00 pm in the Zimmerli Museum Maxwell MPR, "Transnational Identities" presented by Tal Dekel from Tel-Aviv University (reception to follow in the Grad Lounge Voorhees Hall Room 006F)
March 2, 2017, Thursday, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, DSS Dr. Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania, Zimmerli Maxwell MPR (reception to follow in Graduate Student Lounge Voorhees Hall Basement Room 006F)
March 8, 2017, Wednesday, 9:30 am, Faculty Meeting/Voorhees Hall Room 001
March 9, 2017, Thursday, 4:00 pm, AHGSO Meeting/Graduate Student Lounge
March 23, 2017, Thursday, 4:15 pm DSS talk by Dr. christopher D.M. Atkins in the Zimmerli Museum Maxwell MPR/Reception to follow in Grad Student Lounge Voorhees Hall Basement Room 006F
March 24, 2017, Friday, 10:00am - 5:00pm, Graduate Student Symposium, "It's About Time", Alexander Library, Pane room
April 5, 2017, Wednesday, 9:30 am, Faculty Meeting/Voorhees Hall Room 001
April 6, 2017,Thursday, 4:00 pm, AHGSO Meeting/Graduate Student Lounge
April 7, 2017, Friday, 9:00 - 5:30 pm/Tod Marder's Retirement Symposium/Zimmerli Museum Lower Dodge Gallery
April 12, 2017, Wednesday, 10:00am, Faculty Recent Publication Talk featuring Dr. Andres Zervigon, graduate student lounge/Voorhees Hall
May 4, 2017, Thursday, 4:00 pm, AHGSO Meeting/Graduate Student Lounge
May 11, 2017, Thursday, 9:30 am, Last Faculty Meeting for the Academic Year/Voorhees Hall Room 001 (Possibly Awards Luncheon at The Rutgers Club at Noon)
Symposium in Honor of Dr. Joan Marter, 10/30/2015
True to Her Spirit: A Symposium in Honor of Joan Marter
October 30, 2015, 9:30am-6pm
Lower Dodge Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
In recognition of Art History Professor Joan Marter on the occasion of her retirement from Rutgers and in honor of her distinguished scholarship and contributions to the literature of the Twentieth Century and contemporary art history, her commitment to curatorial studies, her advocacy for artists and feminism, and her dedication to her students.
Keynote Speaker: Ellen Landau, Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita of the Humanities, Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University
Sponsored by: Department of Art History, Zimmerli Art Museum, Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, and the School of Arts and Sciences
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