Elissa Auther is the curator of two exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design: Eye for Design, on view through September 18 and Francoise Grossen Selects from the Collection, opening October 18. Two independently curated shows are now touring. Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures is on view at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, through October 9, and Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty will open November 4 at the Brooklyn Museum.

Ivan Gaskell gave two lectures in June: “Joining the Club,” at the Ethnological Institute, and “Concord Migrations: Thoreau’s Human Movements,” at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg. These were presented during the third of his annual summer terms as a senior fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Advanced Study Institute) of the Georg-August University, Göttingen. Gaskell’s senior fellowship at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of two months each year has been extended from a five-year term to a permanent appointment. In July, he participated in the Groningen-Göttingen summer school, The Knowledge of the Curator. His keynote lecture at the Groningen Museum was entitled “‘A firm hand on the Lobster’: Other People’s Things, and How to Get Hold of Them.” His review of the exhibition and catalogue entitled Asia in Amsterdam:The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts) appeared in Historians of Netherlandish Art Review of Books, in June. He also published exhibition reviews of Krieg: eine archäologische Spurensuche (Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle-an-der-Saale) and Found, curated by Cornelia Parker (The Foundling Museum, London) in West 86th online.

Paul Stirton’s essay, “Commanditaires et luttes de classes dans la Florence du XIVe siècle,” on the Hungarian art historian Frederick Antal, appeared in the June issue of Histoires sociales de l’art: Une anthologie critique, published by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris. In October, he will give a talk on the subject at the INHA.