News
Monday, March 25th
Assistant Professor Maryl Gensheimer's first book, "Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae: Messages of Power and their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla," has been published by Oxford University Press. According to the press website, "Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae presents a detailed analysis of the extensive decoration of the best preserved of... [more]
Caroline Shields (PhD 2017) curates "Impressionism in the Age of Industry" at Art Gallery of Ontario
Monday, March 11th
Dr. Caroline Shields, Assistant Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, curated the newly-opened "Impressionism in the Age of Industry," which is winning a great deal of praise for its intelligent hang, educational programming, and the abundance of art historical insights the show provides visitors. Particularly clever and attractive is a guide to the exhibition that reads as a... [more]
Monday, February 11th
The Indianapolis Museum of Art recently hired Michael Vetter (Ph.D., UMD '18) as curator of modern and contemporary art. Congratulations Michael!
Monday, February 11th
As reported in the New York Times on Friday (February 8th), Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown, philanthropists based in Baltimore, have donated $3.5 million to the Baltimore Museum of Art to endow the Chief Curator, which is held by Asma Naeem, who was... [more]
Monday, January 28th
Drawing from the collection of Museum Kampa in Prague, Dr. Aneta Georgievska-Shine has curated "Jiří Kolář (1914–2002): Forms of Visual Poetry," a retrospective of the Czech poet and visual artist Jiří Kolář (1914-2002), which opened over the weekend at the Katzen Arts Center at American University. A poet often censored for his words (even imprisoned for a time), Kolář turned to visual art -... [more]
Monday, January 28th
Professor Emerita Renée Ater, recently returned from her successful fall semester in residence at the Getty Institute, continues to garner praise and attention for her ground-breaking work studying contemporary monuments and memorials to slavery in the United States. Her project, which is unfolding as a landmark digital humanities project attracting grant support from many quarters, is featured... [more]
Wednesday, January 2nd
Dr. Krista Thompson, the Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, will deliver her lecture "Tom Lloyd and the Boundaries of Art History," at the Keynote Address of the 48th Annual Middle Atlantic Symposium on March 1st.... [more]
Thursday, November 1st
Dr. Adrienne Childs, who received her Ph.D. from the Department in 2002, returns to campus to deliver the fall keynote lecture at the David C. Driskell Center on Friday, November 16th at 6 pm, following a reception at the Center at 5 pm. It will be wonderful to see Dr. Childs, who also was a resident scholar at the Center for many years, back on campus!... [more]
Wednesday, October 24th
What is nature? What is civilization? How can the two co-exist? Art has been proposing a series of answers to these questions since long before the crisis of climate change.
Dr. Joshua Shannon is offering "Art and the Environment" this spring at The Phillips Collection at the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at Art and the Environment as either a Non-Credit Workshop or For-... [more]
Wednesday, September 19th
The Baltimore Museum of Art has appointed Asma Naeem (PhD, UMD) Chief Curator, effective September 24th, 2018. Dr. Naeem previously served as Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Media Arts at the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian... [more]
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