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Dear Rutgers–New Brunswick Faculty and Staff: It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that Thomas Sokolowski, Director of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, sadly passed away yesterday. A distinguished museum leader and art historian, Tom joined the Rutgers community in the fall of 2017 with responsibilities for the museum’s exhibitions, scholarship and community outreach. Tom’s enthusiastic personality, sense of humor and—above all else—passion for the arts quickly became the...

Image By John Singer Sargent - http://www.shaw-morton.co.uk/a-brief-history-of-oil-painting-technique/ http://www.shaw-morton.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/John-Singer-Sargent_SelfPortrait.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=633539 Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University, Clark Fellow (Spring 2019)    “John Singer Sargent and the Matter of Paint” February 19, 2019 The cosmopolitan son of a physician who authored and illustrated a widely read tract on bandaging, John...

Carla Yanni, Professor, was elected to serve as the Second Vice President of the Society of Architectural Historians. This is a two-year term, typically followed by a four-year term.  The Society of Architectural Historians promotes the study, interpretation, and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes, and urbanism worldwide. SAH is a nonprofit membership organization that serves a network of local, national, and international institutions and individuals who, by profession or interest,...

Welcome! Welcome to this virtual iteration of the Rutgers University Department of Art History’s annual Undergraduate Honors Symposium! I have had the pleasure of working with our four honors students for the past year as they have labored to complete their theses. Each of them has demonstrated commitment to their research and an enthusiasm to hone their skills as art historians, resulting in truly impressive projects. What’s more, they have all shown real fortitude as they completed their...

Dr. Nicole Fleetwood's Marking Time will be launched on April 28, 2020.  Below is an excerpt from her book, published in The New York Review of Books, as well as a link to a review from the LA review of books. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/04/28/creation-in-confinement-art-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/carceral-aesthetics/ Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard UP, Spring 2020): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919228 Marking...

Art History Professor highlights iconic Black artists

Catherine Puglisi's book, Art and Faith in the Venetian World. Venerating Christ as the Man of Sorrows,                                            co-authored with William Barcham, has been published by Brepols/Harvey Miller (2019).   This is the first study of the Man of Sorrows in the art and culture of Venice and her dominions across three centuries. A subject imbued with deep spiritual and metaphorical significance, the image pervaded late-Medieval Europe but assumed in the Venetian world an unusually rich and long life. The book...

Rutgers Graduate Becomes University's First Marshall Scholar Diego A. Atehortúa was one of only 46 people in the United States awarded the postgraduate scholarship By Margaret McHugh December 9, 2019 Diego A. Atehortúa, who became the first Rutgers student to win a Beinecke Scholarship as an undergraduate and recently returned from a Fulbright Fellowship in Brazil, was named Rutgers' first Marshall Scholar today. Photo: Courtesy of Diego A. Atehortúa "Being the first Rutgers student awarded a...

Dr. Carla Yanni has published an article on PLATFORM titled, From Bunk Beds to Lazy Rivers: The Rise of the Luxury College Residence Hall READ ARTICLE

Joanna Zotti received a prestigious Fulbright research award for Italy. She will be conducting research that evolved out of her undergraduate Honor thesis in Italian and Art History.  Based in Bologna, she will study Properzia de' Rossi, the earliest European female sculptor.  Throughout this year, she will expand the topic to include later women sculptors, including  Lavinia Fontana and Elisabetta Sirani. 

New York, NY, September 16, 2019—Aimé Iglesias Lukin is the new Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at Americas Society, as Americas Society/Council of the Americas President and CEO announced today Susan Segal. Iglesias Lukin will assume her new role in early October. “We are thrilled that Aimé will join us at the Americas Society. We believe that the sum of her rich experience, commitment to excellence, as well as her enormous enthusiasm is the perfect combination as we commence this...

  See Nicole Fleetwood's article about photographer John Edmonds, art criticism, and the Whitney Biennial in NYR: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/30/the-quiet-risks-of-john-edmondss-photographs/

Erin Benay, Rutgers Ph.D 2009, was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure at Case Western Reserve University.  She is the author of two books. The first, co-written with Lisa M. Rafanelli, is Faith, Gender, and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art: Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas (Ashgate, 2015) which considers how representations of these two popular Renaissance subjects together engaged with contemporary theories of the senses and definitions of gender...

Professor Yanni was a recipient of the university-wide Scholar-Teacher Award for 2019.  The citation on the certificate reads: "In recognition of her path-breaking work as a social historian of architecture, and her remarkable ability to make architecture come alive for her students by teaching them to think rigorously about the ways people have lived with the built environment and in so doing made it meaningful." 

Joanna Zotti received a prestigious Fulbright research award for Italy. She will be conducting research that evolved out of her undergraduate Honor thesis in Italian and Art History.  Based in Bologna, she will study Properzia de' Rossi, the earliest European female sculptor.  Throughout this year, she will expand the topic to include later women sculptors, including  Lavinia Fontana and Elisabetta Sirani.          

Katy Greenberg and Joanna Zotti received the Henry Rutgers Scholar Award for their honors theses completed in spring 2019.  Sarah McHam, Distinguished Professor of Art History, supervised both. Katy Greenberg is an Art History and Medieval Studies double major. Her thesis explored imagery of Saint Clare of Assisi in Italian Art from 1260 to 1500. Joanna Zotti wrote about Properzia de’ Rossi, one of the few female sculptors in the Renaissance.  Kristin Okun also received the Henry Rutgers Scholar...

PRESS RELEASE: Tallinn Art Hall announces new curator: Corina L. Apostol Tallinn Art Hall is happy to announce that Corina L. Apostol will join their curatorial team at the beginning of June. Corina is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Creative Time (NYC), where she co-edits Making Another World Possible (Routledge), a forthcoming book on socially engaged art of the previous decade in a global perspective. She recently co-curated the 11th Creative Time Summit: “On Archipelagoes and...

On February 22, 2019, the CHAPS program (a part of the Art History Department) along with the Rutgers Center for British Studies, hosted four speakers who discussed the material remains of slavery in various contexts, ranging from Brazil to Ghana.  The event included a walking tour sponsored by the Scarlet and Black program; the tour leaders are undergraduate students attuned to teaching a wider public about the history of disenfranchised peoples. One of them, June Titus, is an art history,...