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Congratulations to Negar Rokhgar and all the other recipients of this year's Medici Archive Project Fellowship: The Medici Archive Project is delighted to announce this year’s new MAP fellows:  Linda Olenburg, Freie Universität Berlin Laura Overpelt, Open Universiteit Nederland Anna-Luna Post, Universiteit Utrecht Wieke Reitsma, Universiteit van Amsterdam Negar Rokhgar, Rutgers University Dru Swadener, Saint Louis University To know more about the new MAP fellows click on http://www.medici.org/?p=4829    ...

Congratulations to Dr. Tatiana Flores on her exhibition "Relational Undercurrents" being featured in Sunday’s (2/24/18) LA Times!

Congratulations to Dr. Tatiana Flores on the recent opening of the exhibition that she curated: Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at The Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles! This is a major survey exhibition of twenty-first century art of the Caribbean that employs the archipelago as an analytical framework. The exhibition is divided into four thematic sections: Conceptual Mappings, Perpetual Horizons, Landscape Ecologies and Representational Acts...

Anna Rogulina and "The Art that Challenged an Authoritarian State" - see article at:  http://sas.rutgers.edu/news-a-events/news/newsroom/student-news/2541-challenging-the-aesthetics-of-an-authoritarian-regime  

Congratulations to recent alum Dillon Raborn (MA, 2017) who recently published an article in the Pelican Bomb on the "Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association" exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum: http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2017/a-haunting-mythology-atlanta-ladies-memorial-association-at-the-zimmerli-art-museum

Diego Atehortua is currently a junior majoring in Art History.  Diego is the first Rutgers student to win a Beinecke Scholarship, and one of only 20 students in the United States to receive one this year. The Beinecke scholarship is a program of the Sperry Fund and provides substantial scholarships for the graduate education of young men and women of exceptional promise. Each scholar receives $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate...

Congratulations to Dr. Tamara Sears who has been awarded a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence as one of the university's most distinguished faculty members.

Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Yuen, who successfully defended her dissertation , "The Young Mattia Preti in Rome: Style, Baroque Painting, and the Art Market, ca. 1630-1653".

We are thrilled to let you know that Dr. Tatiana Flores was just awarded an Arts Writers grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation to support her book project Art and Visual Culture under Chávez. The award is $50,000 for the calendar year, beginning in January 2017. Here is some information on the award: http://www.artswriters.org/ and a list of previous winners of the book prize, including some very big names in contemporary art history: http://www.artswriters.org/grant/grantees/book   Congratulations...

Congratulations to Dr. Brooke Falk Permenter who successfully defended her dissertation, "Assaults on the Faith:  Imagining Jews and Creating Christians in the Late Middle Ages".

Released in the UK, and thereafter in the US:   Photography and Doubt Edited by Sabine T. Kriebel, Andrés Mario Zervigón                   About the Book  Recent decades have seen photography’s privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography in the 1980s and the rise of digital technologies soon thereafter, scholars have been asking who and what built this understanding of the medium in the first place. Photography and Doubt reflects on this interest in...

Forbes reviewed Dr. Jane Sharp's Thinking Pictures exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/2016/10/13/zimmerli/#6f1de6193742

Congratulations to Dr. Christine Fillipone (Ph.D. 2009) on her forthcoming book, Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America (Routledge Press). About the book: "This innovative book offers the first focused examination of women artists’ response to the preeminent status of science and technology during the Cold War, a period that saw the rise of “big science”, the space race and cybernetics as well as the birth of a feminist awareness of women’s historical exclusion from...

Fresh off the press, The Medieval South Caucasus: Artistic Cultures of Albania, Armenia, and Georgia, co-edited by Erik Thunø and Ivan Foletti.

Congratulations to alum Amy Bloch (PhD 2004) Ass't. Prof., SUNY-Albany, who has a major new book due out in January. click here for more information

George Eastman House hires Heather Shannon as assistant photography curator Former archivist for the Smithsonian joins museum's Department of Photography  For Release 2015-08-03 George Eastman House has announced the appointment of Heather Shannon as Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography. Shannon brings more than a decade of academic and museum experience to her new role at Eastman House, where she will be focusing on 19th century photography. Prior to joining the staff at George...

Dr. Heather Cammarata-Seale successfully defended her dissertation titled, "Embodied Paradox: Taxidermy and Contemporary Art, 1990-Present" on October 26, 2015.  Congratulations Dr. Cammarata-Seale!

Dr. Kate Scott successfully defended her dissertation titled, "The Photography of Absence: Death in Postmodern America", on October 7, 2015.  Congratulations to Dr. Scott!

Congratulations to Melissa Beck Lemke! (MA, 1994) Melissa has just won an Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Curatorial Fellowship for 2015-16. Her research project concerns the art photographer Clarence Kennedy.

Dr. Mieke Paulsen successfully defended her dissertation, “Faces in the Frame: Masks and Heads in the Boundaries of Roman Art” on August 27, 2015.  Congratulations to Dr. Paulsen!