2011-2012 Events Calendar
all events are free unless noted
Spring Semester 2012
Events and Speakers' Schedule, Department of Art History and Art
Sunday, February 5
Annual Friends of Friends lecture will be given by Professor Ellen Landau at Cleveland Museum of Art Recital Hall, 2:00 pm.
Wednesday, February 15
Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art, Professor Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia
"Nude Males and Troublesome Tripods: Festivals, Competition, and Performance in Ancient Greece," CMA Recital Hall, 6:00 pm.
Friday, March 2
"Medicine Show: Science, Art, and Health at Wellcome Collection (London)." A lecture by Dr. Ken Arnold, Head of Public Programmes at the Wellcome
[Co-sponsored by Friends of Art with the Dittrick Medical History Center] Powell Room - Allen Memorial Medical Library – 12:30pm. Reception to follow. See invite below for more information.
Wednesday, March 7
GAHA is pleased to announce that the March At Talk will be given by one of our CWRU Masters Candidates, Stephanie Foster.
Stephanie will be presenting her paper, "Just One of the Giovani: An Examination of the Attribution of the Cleveland Head of Proserpina."
Please come to offer your support and critical input. The details are as follows:
Who: Stephanie Foster
What: "Just One of the Giovani: An Examination of the Attribution of the Cleveland Head of Proserpina."
Where: Recital Hall at the Cleveland Museum of Art
When: Wednesday, March 7th @ 12:30 PM
Friday, March 9
Christopher Nygren, PhD Johns Hopkins 2011, will discuss "Hard Paintings" on March 9th at 5:30 PM in the CMA Recital Hall.
Dr. Nygren is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in art history at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a specialist in early modern art in Italy.
Friday, March 23
"Things Fall Apart: Fragmentation in Visual Culture," The Cleveland Symposium sponsored by The Graduate Art History
Association (GAHA) at the CMA Lecture Hall. For more information contact Stephanie Foster snf5@case.edu or Michele Frederick mlf5@case.edu.
Wednesday, March 28
"A Charismatic Thinker: Aby Warburg on Image and Word
," Professor Elizabeth Sears, The Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art
. March 28, 5:30 pm,
Cleveland Museum of Art, Recital Hall.
Friday, March 30
The Undergraduate Symposium, “Cultural Change and Exchange”, sponsored by the Art History Club, will be held in the
Recital Hall, Cleveland Museum of Art, from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. For more information, contact Christine Haynes cah4@case.edu or Bethany Wisinski bcw30@case.edu.
Sunday, April 15
“Fresh Perspectives on an Old Master: Rembrandt van Rijn” will feature two events sponsored by the Department of
Art History, The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Baker–Nord Center. The day will include a symposium on new research by
young scholars on Rembrandt; the second event will be a conversation on Rembrandt by the renowned scholars Svetlana Alpers and Mariët Westermann. CMA, 12:30-4:30 PM.
Wednesday, April 25
The Buchanan Lecture will be given by Walter Gibson, Professor Emeritus of Northern Renaissance Art at CWRU;
"Hell, Heaven and Hieronymus Bosch: Depicting the Afterlife in the Late Middle Ages" CMA Recital Hall, 5:30 PM.
Past Events: Fall Semester 2011
Friday, August 26
Department orientation for new art history graduate students -- 12:30 Mather House; lunch provided
Monday, August 29
First day of classes
Thursday, September 8
Book party for Elina Gertsman's Dance of Death and Welcome party for Andrea Wolk Rager, Baker-Nord Center Clark Hall 206, 4:30 pm
Friday, September 16
CMA Director’s Reception for CWRU art history graduate students, 4:30 pm
Wednesday, September 21
Julius Fund Lecture in Renaissance Art, Cathleen Hoeniger, Queen’s University, Ontario, “The Fame of Raphael and the Fate of His Paintings,” CMA, 5:30 pm
Friday, September 23
Friends of Art/Graduate Student Lunch Mather House 100, 12:30 pm
Friday, September 30
Tiffany Washington, "Associated American Artists and Technologies of Art Marketing from Mail-Order to eBay" Clark Hall 206, 4:30 pm
-- Part of the College of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Lecture Series.
Sunday, October 9, 3:00 pm
Carol Boram-Hays, African art historian and lecturer at Ohio State University,
shares her knowledge of Zulu beadwork. Her research interests also include twentieth-century American and
European art and her book Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890–1960 was published to great
acclaim by Swallow Press in 2005. Lecture will be held in the Recital Hall of The Cleveland Museum of Art.
This lecture accompanies the Museum's current exhibition The Art of Daily Life: Portable Objects from Southeast Africa. Comprising a selection of 70 household and personal objects borrowed from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art and 22 private collections, the exhibition also features 15 works which the Cleveland Museum of Art recently added to its holdings.
Wednesday, October 19, 12:30- 1:15 pm
Art Talk, CMA Recital Hall
Dana Cowen, CWRU Ph.D. candidiate, will be presenting her paper "Albrecht Durer's Oblong Passion and the Influence of Netherlandish Art on the Artist's Late Drawings."
Saturday, October 22, 1:00- 6:00 pm
Olszewski Symposium, CMA
“Going to Italy with Ed”, with presentations of papers from the forthcoming Festschrift on Italian
Renaissance and Baroque art honoring Professor Emeritus Ed Olszewski followed by a lecture given by
Sarah Blake McHam from Rutgers University “In the Shadow of Michaelangelo: Giambologna’s Samson and Philistine Group” with a reception to follow.
Saturday, October 29, 1:30- 4:00 pm
MODERN CHINA: A Multidisciplinary Exploration
at the Cleveland Museum of Art
An afternoon of talks on modern China from multiple perspectives, relating to politics, art, and culture.
Introduction
Anita Chung, curator of Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965), grounds the day’s lectures in the special exhibition topic. Dr. Chung is Curator of Chinese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Three speakers
Wen-hsin Yeh, author of Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China 1843-1949, offers historical perspectives on China’s turbulent twentieth century, focusing on modernization, war and revolution during the Republican and Communist periods. Dr. Yeh is Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History, University of California, Berkeley.
Peter Galassi, curator of the MoMA exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, talks about Henri Cartier-Bresson’s experience in China and his photographs of Communist revolution within the context of photographic modernism. Dr. Galassi is Chief Curator Emeritus, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Julia Andrews, co-curator of the Guggenheim exhibition A Century in Crisis and author of Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979, provides a review of modern Chinese art history in the US. Dr. Andrews is Professor of Art History, Ohio State University.
This event is co-sponsored by CWRU's Department of Art History and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.
Above: Jingang Mountain, 1964. By Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). Nanjing Museum.
Saturday, October 29, 2:00-5:00 pm
Medieval Art Symposium
CMA lecture hall, 2:00 to 5:00 pm, followed by private viewing in the galleries
For more information, contact Dr. Gertsman: elina.gertsman@case.edu
Friday, November 11, 12:30- 1:15 pm
Art Talk, CMA Recital Hall
"Bearing Standards: Frans Pourbus the Younger and Royal Child Portraiture" will be presented by Michele Frederick, MA candidate.
Friday, December 9, 12:30- 1:15 pm
Art Talk, CMA Recital Hall
"The Captivity of Venus: Intermediality and Aesthetic Immersion in Edward Burne-Jones’ Laus Veneris" will be presented by Dr. Andrea Wolk Rager, Visiting Professor.
Past Events: Spring Semester 2011
Stanley Abe, Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University will present "Order and Things: The Transformation of Chinese Objects into Sculpture" at 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 in the Recital Hall of The Cleveland Museum of Art. This talk inaugurates the Friends of Art Lecture Series in Asian Art and is co-sponsored by the CWRU Friends of Art, CWRU Department of Art History, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Christina Neilson, Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, will give the annual Julius Fund Lecture in Renaissance Art at 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 in the Recital Hall of The Cleveland Museum of Art, on the topic of, "A Harpy in the Workshop: Hybred Techniques for Awakening Statues in Renaissance Florentine Art."
25 March 2011, Friday - Undergraduate Symposium, 10:00 A.M., CMA Recital Hall.
Heather Hyde Minor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will speak on "G.B.Piranesi and the Natural History of Ancient Art: Reflections on the Diverse Maniere," in the Recital Hall at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Wednesday 30 March 2011, 6:30 P.M. Heather Hyde Minor is a leading authority on the artistic and architectural culture of Enlightenment Italy. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Architecture School of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she teaches the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture and art. Her publications include her recent book, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome (Penn State Press, 2010), as well as a book of essays she co-edited on Piranesi, The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G.B. Piranesi (University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Professor Jonathan Katz, University of Buffalo, will present the 22nd Annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture in Art History and the Humanities on, "Art, Eros, and the 'Sixties," at 4:30 P.M., on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 in the CMA Recital Hall.
More events at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Events at surrounding institutions:
MOCA Cleveland
Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art
SPACES Gallery
The Sculpture Center
For further information contact Debby Tenebaum at dxt6@case.edu