Jeffrey Collins was invited to participate in the international symposium on “The Nomadic Object: Early Modern Religious Art in Global Contact” sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute from January 18-21. Featuring scholars from Europe, China, Japan, Brazil, Canada, and the United States, the symposium investigated how increased global contact and exchange during the Age of Exploration problematized the status of objects and their engagement with audiences around the world, offering the opportunity to look across cultures once more and construct a truly global art history. Collins’s paper, prepared with Associate Professor Meredith Martin of NYU New York, was entitled “‘A Fleet of Little Gilded Vessels’: Early Modern Incense Boats in Global Context.” On January 28-29, again with Professor Martin and Françoise and Georges Selz Lecturer Robert Wellington of the Australian National University, Professor Collins co-hosted the international conference “Versailles in the World: 1660-1789.” Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and NYU’s Washington Square campus, the event was co-sponsored by NYU’s Dean for Humanities, departments of French and Art History, and Institute for French Studies; Bard Graduate Center; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ivan Gaskell is a member of the CAA Museum Committee, which met during the annual CAA conference in Washington, D.C., in early February.

Freyja Hartzell presented a paper at the CAA conference entitled “The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Material Politics of Glass in Modern German Design.” In December, Hartzell received the Decorative Art Society’s 2015 Robert C. Smith Award for the best article published in 2014 in English on the decorative arts, for “A Renovated Renaissance: Richard Riemerschmid’s Modern Interiors for the Thieme House in Munich,” which appeared in Interiors (Volume 5, Issue 1).

Deborah L. Krohn‘s book, Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy: Bartolomeo Scappi’s Paper Kitchens, is available from Ashgate.

Andrew Morrall represented Bard Graduate Center at the meeting of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH) held during the CAA conference in Washington, D.C.