On February 12, at the annual College Art Association
Conference in New York, Paul
Stirton chaired a panel on “The Global History of Design” that
attracted a large audience. Among the speakers was Pat Kirkham,
who talked about editing History
of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400-2000. Stirton is
pictured left next to Kirkham. The other panelists (l-r) included Grace
Lees-Maffei, David Raizman, Kjetil Fallan, Daniel Huppatz, and Victor Margolin.
Also on February 12, at Hunter
College, Pat Kirkham presented
a paper, “Re-thinking Latin American Modernism through National and
International Perspectives” at the conference, “The Invention of the Modern
Domestic Space in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela: Design, Art, Architecture,
1940-1978.” The companion exhibition (curated by Bard Graduate Center doctoral
candidate Jorge Rivas Perez, Ana Elena Mallet, and Maria Cecilia
Loschiavo dos Santos), “Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and
Venezuela, 1940-1978,” is currently at the Americas Society until May 16.
Michele
Majer spoke on “La Mode à la girafe: Fashion, Culture, and
Politics in Bourbon Restoration France,” at the Providence Atheneum, Providence,
Rhode Island, on February 20. Originally scheduled in 2014, the talk was part
three of ‘What Use is the Giraffe?’—The Evolution of Science, Society, and
Spectacle in the Cosmopolitan 19th Century—a series on the giraffe that went to
Paris in 1827.
Jeffrey
Collins joined an international team of scholars at the Museo
Franz Mayer in Mexico City on February 25-26 to consult on the proposed
reorganization of the museum’s renowned collection of art and material culture
from the Viceroyalty of New Spain. During the two-day conference Collins
presented a paper entitled “Decorative Arts or Design: What’s in a Name?”
Shawn
Rowlands presented a paper, “An Artefact of Colonial Violence?,”
at the conference on
“Weapons and the Anthropology Museum” held at the Horniman Museum and Gardens
in London on February 27. An article he co-authored with Peter McAllister and
Michael Westaway, entitled “The Blood and the Bone: The Collection of Human
Remains and Frontier Violence in Colonial-Era Queensland,” will appear in the Journal
of Australian Colonial History.
Ittai
Weinryb will present a paper, “Cultures of Alloy: Technology and
Community in Early Medieval Europe,” at the Max Planck Institute for the
History of Science in Berlin on March 9. This is part of the Max Planck Research
Group “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe” Colloquia.
Aaron Glass will
lecture on and screen Edward Curtis’s 1914 film, In the Land of the
Head Hunters, at Concordia University, Montreal, on March 13. On March 15,
he will introduce it at a screening at Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal. The
film, which he worked on restoring, was recently cited in the New
York Times, and he is quoted in Indian
Country Today.
Susan Weber will
talk on “John Lockwood Kipling: Exploring Art and Design from Bombay to the
Punjab,” at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on March 19. Her presentation begins
the St Cross College (Oxford) 50th
Anniversary Lecture Series.
Andrew
Morrall will present a paper on
“The Art of Geometry and the Imagery of the Ruin in the Sixteenth-Century
Kunstkabinett” at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, on March 10. On
March 27, at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference in Berlin, he
is co-organizing (with Evelin Wetter) and chairing a triple session entitled
“The Extended Narrative of the Object.”
François
Louis will chair and be the discussant of the panel,
“Crafting China: Materiality, Decoration, and Global Exchange,” at the Annual
Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Chicago on March 29.
