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42nd Street Grand Central Partnership

Oct 26 2011


Faculty: Matthew Burger and Jeff Kapec

In a project for the senior studio, Making Meaning Joe Kent and Sally Ann Corn created a project called Street Eats.  This was an extensive research/3D project that involved redesigning the NY street food cart, which led to a ‘real world’ project of redesigning a fleet of mobile information carts for…READ MORE...



CALL FOR PAPERS: 2011 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference on Money/Myths at University

Jul 25 2010


 

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2011 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference on Money/Myths at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, March 3-6, 2011

 

Proposal for special Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) panel The Art of Cultural Capital, Julie Codell, Arizona State University

 

Papers for his panel will explore strategies used by 19th-century artists to shape, define…READ MORE...



A Look at HAD Student Internships for 2009/2010

May 27 2010


During the past academic year our students have obtained outstanding internships with major museums and other non-profit organizations.  For the first time, one of our graduate students interned at the Neue Galerie for the Administrative Manager and was involved in a range of activities that included translation from German to English and registration and curatorial assistance…READ MORE...



Alumni Update: Sarah Wilkins Receives Fulbright Fellowship

May 20 2010


Sarah Wilkins (MS 2004 and Pratt in Venice alumna), now in the Ph.D. program in Art History at Rutgers, has been granted a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Italy in 2010-11. Wilkins wrote her masters paper under the direction of Diana Gisolfi on the Franciscan Magdalen Chapel at Assisi, and in her doctoral research, under…READ MORE...



Apply for IAS School of Historical Studies Membership

May 20 2010


The Institute for Advanced Study is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Each year scholars from around the world apply to come to the Institute to pursue their own research. Those who are chosen are offered a…READ MORE...



Prof. Edwards Becomes President of the 14th-Century Society

May 14 2010


On May 14 at the 45th annual Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Professor Mary D. Edwards became president of the 14th-century Society, an interdisciplinary group that investigates the culture of Europe between the years 1300 and 1400.


Prof. Mary D. Edwards (by Sean Sullivan)READ MORE...



Prof. Morton Curates Contemporary Art Exhibit

May 07 2010


Professor Marsha Morton has curated an exhibition of contemporary art in Westchester.  Titled "Looking Back: Forty Years at the Pelham Art Center," the show, accompanied by a small catalogue, creates a visual institutional history by assembling previously exhibited multimedia artworks.  The Center was begun in 1970 as part of the centennial activities of the Metropolitan…READ MORE...



Call for Papers: 28th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium

May 04 2010


28th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium
Department of Art History
The Florida State University
October 22 & 23, 2010

The Art History faculty and graduate students of Florida State University invite students working towards an MA or PhD to submit abstracts of paper for presentation at the Twenty-Eigth Annual Art History…READ MORE...



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