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Professor Gülru Çakmak's new book Jean-Léon Gérôme and the Crisis of History Painting in the 1850s has been published.
Professor Gülru Çakmak's Jean-Léon Gérôme and the Crisis of History Painting in the 1850s(Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2017) examines a turning point in French visual culture in the 1850s, when an increasing demand for empirical observation, coupled with a growing sense of an insurmountable distance separating the present from the past, led to the decline of traditional h
Rachel Young *17 at the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Rachel Young, who received her MA last year, was a featured speaker at the Renaissance Center on Wednesday, November 1st as part of the Center's Wednesday Lecture Series. The lecture was titled ...
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Mount Holyoke Professor Paul Staiti's expertise tapped by the New York Times
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Paul Staiti, Professor of Fine Arts at Mount Holyoke College, was quoted in a recent New York Times article on the National Gallery's comission of Amy Sherald to paint the offical portrait of...
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Professor Timothy M. Rohan's recent lecture at the Yale Center for British Art
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Professor Timothy M. Rohan lectured about postwar American architect Paul Rudolph's use of 19th century plaster casts of antique monuments at the Yale Center for British Art on Oct. 25, 2017. His...
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Gallery Talk: Intimate Looking in Sculpture from Auguste Renoir to Niki de Saint Phalle
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Gülru Çakmak, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art at UMass and Guest Curator of A Very Long Engagement: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives, will discuss her...
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Professor Karen Kurczynsk at the opening of the "Human Animals: The Art of Cobra" exhibition at NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale
Friday, September 22, 2017
On July 9th, Professor Karen Kurczynski attended the opening of the "Human Animals: The Art of Cobra" exhibition at NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale. Professor Kurczynski guest curated the...
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Alumni Maureen McVeigh MacLure's article published in Rutgers Art Review
Monday, September 18, 2017
Maureen McVeigh MacLure's article entitled "The Allure of Artifice: Titian's Half-Lengths and the Courtesan as Masquerader" is now available online in this year's edition of Rutgers Art Review.
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