NU Art History (Northwestern University Department of Art History)

09/30/2015

Congratulations to brilliant alum Claire Dillon (2014), who just took home the gold prize (and gold medal!) in the 2015 international Undergraduate Awards, where she was named the overall winner in her discipline (Music, Film, Theatre & Art History). As her well-earned reward, Claire will receive an all expenses paid trip to the Undergraduate Awards Global Summit in Dublin, Ireland, and her essay (based on her Art History honors thesis!), "Empty Space and Identity Politics in the Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Negation, Creative Reinterpretation, and Visual Rhyme," will be published in the Undergraduate Awards Academic Journal.

Brava, Claire!

If you would like to compete for this prize in 2016, Claire advises you to register at http://bit.ly/1FuVMbp.

Please provide your phone number in the following format: International dialing code (44) followed by the number - No spaces.

08/03/2015

Congratulations to Professor Clayson, who has just been named this year's recipient of Northwestern's prestigious Ver Steeg Faculty Award.

Named for Clarence Ver Steeg, former Northwestern University Professor in History and Dean of The Graduate School from 1975 to 1986, this award recognizes one outstanding non-faculty staff person and two Graduate Faculty members each year for excellence in work with graduate students in The Graduate School.

Graduate Faculty play a critical role in supporting and encouraging the academic and professional development of graduate students. They are advisors and role models for students in research, ethical conduct, professional responsibility, and personal development. The Clarence Ver Steeg Graduate Faculty Award affords students the opportunity to recognize individual faculty members for their outstanding efforts in these areas.

Professor Clayson will be recognized at The Graduate School's 2015 Recognition Dinner.

07/06/2015

Professor Linrothe's exhibition, "Collecting Paradise," originally up at the Block Museum and now on display at the Rubin, is reviewed in this great New York Times piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/arts/design/collecting-paradise-at-the-rubin-a-curious-case-of-divergence.html?_r=0

An exhibition on Buddhist art in Kashmir that traveled from one museum to another raises the issue of omissions.

06/22/2015

Congratulations to all our 2015 graduates!

06/10/2015

Save the Date! You're invited to our 2015 Undergraduate Commencement Cake and Champagne Reception– a toast to our graduating seniors as they move on from Northwestern and into the world. Parents are invited to join us for tea, cake, and champagne.

June 19th, 3:00-4:30 PM, 1800 Sherman Ave, Room 1-105

06/05/2015

Please join us in celebrating Sinéad López and Alex Lordhal who will each graduate with Honors in Art History. Congratulations, Sinéad! Congratulations, Alex!

06/05/2015

Please join us in congratulating Claire Dillon, whose fabulous essay (derived from her excellent honors thesis) on Felix Gonzalez-Torres is the featured cover article on this year's NURJ! Congratulations as well to Art History as this is the second year in a row that the cover of NURJ has been given to an art historian!

05/27/2015

Please join us for any and all of the following events over the next week. A symposium and two special lectures all dedicated to the topic of new historiographies of art, urban space, and public culture in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey from 1900-present.

05/14/2015

Save the Date! Professor Clayson will be presenting "Mary Cassatt's Lamp" at the Northwestern University Library Symposium, "Art and Science: Traversing the Creative Spectrum." The event takes place May 26, from 2:00-4:00 PM. Refreshments will be served.

05/14/2015

Save the Date! Christopher S. Wood will be presenting his lecture "The Whisperers" as the next event in the 2014-15 Warnock Lecture Series. The lecture will take place on May 20 at 5:00 PM in the Block Museum, and will be followed by a reception.

Wood is the author with Alexander Nagel of the field-changing book, Anachronic Renaissance.

04/27/2015

04/24/2015

We hope to see you at the Department of Art History's 2015 Undergraduate Honors Colloquium this afternoon, beginning at 3:30 PM in the TGS Commons. A reception will follow until 5:00 PM.

The TGS Commons is located at 2122 Sheridan. Enter through the door marked 2122 Sheridan on the south west side of the building adjacent to the parking lot. A map can be found at http://maps.northwestern.edu/ =42.057%2C-87.678%2C17&lookupid=193.