Art History

11/04/2021

10/21/2021

Join three prominent scholars—Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and Richard Powell—as they consider topics of their choice inspired by the works in the exhibition "Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South." This exhibition focuses on the medium of drawing in the art of Thornton Dial, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Nellie Mae Rowe, Henry Speller, Bill Traylor, Luster Willis, and Purvis Young.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do: Vision and Commitment In the Work of Southern Black Artists | Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Deputy Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Dispatches from the Mind of Purvis | Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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"Drawling" | Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Nellie Mae Rowe⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
American, 1900–1982⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Untitled (Woman Talking to Animals), 1981⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Ballpoint pen, marker, wax crayon, oil pastel, and graphite⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection and purchase on the Manley Family Fund; 2018.101⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
© 2021 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

12/23/2020

https://hyperallergic.com/604897/how-scientists-use-and-abuse-portraiture/

Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.

08/10/2020

08/07/2020

https://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2020/08/07/seal-matrix

How did you authenticate your message long before Face and Touch ID? In today's Academic Minute, part of Loyola University Maryland Week, Kerry Boeye looks to the past for an answer.

07/21/2020

Zoom talk this evening on Titian at 7pm eastern. (Note: Christopher Nygren is not a relation, although I do know him from his days at JHU.)

Happening TODAY 7/21 via Zoom and YouTube Live: Titian’s Icons: Logos and Kairos in Renaissance Devotion. Free and open to the public. Details and registration: https://bit.ly/2WB7yxa

07/21/2020

L.A. to New York, to Washington: The Dwan Gallery at the National Gallery by Kerr Houston In one of the last … Continued

07/14/2020

07/01/2020

An interesting case in the current monuments debate: The Freedmen's Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was largely paid for by freed slaves, but the iconography—at least at first glance—is problematic. Do you think this monument is acceptable in the wake of BLM?

Money for the Emancipation Memorial was donated by black people, but it was designed by white people.

06/26/2020

Thought-provoking:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-door-that-closes-art-freedom-and-oppression-in-1970s-hungary/?utm_source=grinews194&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=grinews194