Suffolk University Art History Program

Anyone interested in a museum career, this looks like it would be very helpful: Friday, February 12, 12:00-1:30 PM via Zoom -- preregister at the link below

https://www.mfa.org/event/museum-careers-today?event=67161
Museum Careers Today
Interested in learning about museums? Join us for a panel discussion that engages MFA staff members from across the institution to explore the many types of professions that exist in art museums and to examine how current social and cultural challenges are impacting museums now and in the future. Follow the link to preregister for the program.* *Live-streaming programs utilize Zoom. To access you will be required to download Zoom.
www.mfa.org

Museum Careers Today Interested in learning about museums? Join us for a panel discussion that engages MFA staff members from across the institution to explore the many types of professions that exist in art museums and to examine how current social and cultural challenges are impacting museums now and in the future. Fo...

It's finally out! The long-delayed (blame COVID) 2019-2020 Art History Program newsletter is available at:

www.charlesacramer.com

Turns out Albrecht Dürer invented the selfie

Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait Now it seems self-evident that pictures can represent who you “really” are. That conviction began with Albrecht Dürer, five centuries ago.

It's the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death this year, and there's a commemorative exhibit at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. (While you're there, stop by the Vatican to see the Stanza della Segnatura, of course.) In case you're not able to go, this article has links to a walk-through of the exhibit in English.

‘Rafaello 1483-1520’ Review: A Renaissance Reappraisal An exhibition at Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale examines the career of Raphael, contemporary of Leonardo and Michelangelo, to mark the 500th anniversary of the painter’s death.

NEWSLETTER TIME!
We're collecting updates for the 2019-20 Edition of the Art History Newsletter -- please let us know what's been up with you: new degree? new job? new family? new pet? get any traveling done before the Great Shutdown? how are you enjoying the Zoom life? We want to know, and more importantly your classmates want to know: please send us your update!

This seems like a good time to look at the long tradition of using art as a form of social activism -- we'll be talking about some of these artists in Contemporary Art next semester.

https://www.art-critique.com/en/2020/06/activism-and-art/

Sad news. We'll be talking about Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Contemporary next semester. The phrase is over-used, but they really did take public art to another level

Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84 Mountains, museums, bridges and Central Park were just some of what he used to make astonishing and popular art with his wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.

A nice walkthrough of Eakins's aptly-named Gross Clinic, which was rejected from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 for its realism.

Taking Lessons From a Bloody Masterpiece I’ve become obsessed with Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic.” Let me show you why.

Anyone interested in pursuing art conservation? This article is a really interesting compendium of information (mostly links to museum website videos) about what conservators do, techniques and ethics of conservation, and so on. Includes looks at the conservation of King Tut's Tomb, Van Gogh's Bedroom, and Caillebotte's Paris Street: Rainy Day.

The Staying Inside Guide: Breathing New Life Into Old Works Online videos show that art conservation is part scholarship, part exploration, and part artform itself.

This is very good. Viewing reproductions still can't replace seeing the real thing, but we may be approaching the point where you have to do both: there is a lot that you can see here that you really can't see in front of the real work (due to crowds, glare, viewing angles, etc.)

You can now view every exquisite detail of this Rembrandt masterpiece virtually With many galleries closed to the public as the world grapples with the coronavirus crisis, a museum in the Netherlands has found a way to bring a masterpiece straight into people's homes.