There is currently a photo exhibit being put on by Abe Frajndlich and students as well as a Butoh dance being performed by Minami Azu (an internationally known Tokyo based dancer). The photographs in this exhibition feature Minami Azu, international Butoh dance master from Tokyo, Japan. She has performed...
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The Class of 2019 Art History and Museum Studies MA students (Jacob Emmett, Hannah Hilditch, Kate Hublou, Tori Laser, Julia LaPlaca, Lauren Lovings-Gomez, and Tom Martis) spent the 2017-2018 school year proposing an exhibition that would showcase the Cleveland Museum of Art's extensive collection of textiles by mid-twentieth-century Swedish designers....
JP Peralta '19, a major in Art History and Theatre, has been selected to be an educator and interpreter at the American Pavilion of the 2019 Venice Biennale. He will be working under acclaimed sculptor Martin Puryear on a team of educators representing the United States at this renowned...
Only just published, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, which Prof. Gertsman co-authored with Barbara Rosenwein, will be translated into Italian. The translation is slated to appear in 2020! For more on the book, click here.
Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and Associate Professor of Art History, has been at work this past year researching ancient Roman souvenirs and memorabilia, a project supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
Professor Elina Gertsman (Department of Art History, Case Western Reserve University) and Vincent Debiais (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) received a $20,000 grant from the French-American Cultural Exchange Foundation for their collaborative project “Abstraction Before the Age of Abstract Art.”
This fall on November 7, 2018, the Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art: Destruction and Defiance in Late Republican Rome given by Penelope Davies of University of Texas at Austin will take place in the CMA Recital Hall. More information can be found here.
Congratulations to Maggie Popkin who was promoted to Associate Professor effective July 1! Her first book,The Architecture of the Roman Triumph: Monuments, Memory, and Identity, was published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press.
Elina Gertsman’s and Barbara Rosenwein’s The Middle Ages in 50 Objects is published after being hailed as “a splendid visual feast” (Julia Smith, University of Oxford). Don’t miss the authors’ lecture, “Divine, Desirable, Deadly: the Middle Ages through Objects,” which will take place on December 12 at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Just this week, this centuries-old painting graced the June 2018 cover of The Burlington Magazine, a prestigious monthly academic journal that covers the fine and decorative arts.The Burlington article also features the scholarship of Erin E. Benay, PhD, Climo Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art at Case Western Reserve University. The full article can be found here.
Our glorious PhD students at the hallowed International Congress for Medieval Studies — with Prof. Gertsman’s award-winning book and her fabulous Penn State editor, Ellie Goodman.