Gabrielle
Berlinger will present a paper at the Heritage 2014: Heritage
Preservation and Safeguarding Conference in Guimarães, Portugal, July 22-25.
She also plans to attend the New York Folklore Roundtable in Schenectady,
NY in August.
Jeffrey
Collins is working on several topics regarding papal art
collecting and patronage, based on documents from the Vatican Secret Archive,
the Biblioteca Apostolica, and the archives of the Reverenda Fabbrica di San
Pietro. Inspired in part by the Waterweaversexhibition,
this August he will visit Colombia to study colonial works from the
Viceroyalty of New Granada, including some he discussed in History of Design, the
BGC survey spanning six centuries of global design, published this year.
Ivan Gaskell has
been awarded a fellowship at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Institute of Advanced
Study), University of Göttingen, to research the university collections, to
advise on their future uses, and to continue work on a book manuscript on
philosophy of museums. He is away from May 15 to July 30.
Aaron Glass gave
a public lecture on April 22 on totem poles as part of the programming for a
small Northwest Coast exhibit being held at the Arthur Ross Gallery on the
University of Pennsylvania campus. On June 8 at the Portland Art Museum
(Portland, Oregon), he introduced and screened the 1914 Edward Curtis film, In
the Land of the Headhunters.
Hanna Hölling is
continuing research on Fluxus, at the archives of the Gilbert and Lila
Silverman at MoMA in New York, but also at other Fluxus archives and collections
in Germany and London in hopes of completing a portion of the writing on her
project. She will also start the preparations for the Focus Gallery project
planned for fall 2015 and finish two essays related to changeability and
impermanence of works of art—themes that are currently the center of her
research. Hanna is planning a land art trip though the American southwest to
visit Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970s) and further land interpretations.
David
Jaffee is working on his Visualizing New York Focus
Gallery project that will open in September. In addition, he is one of the
history faculty on the CUNY NEH Summer Institute “The Visual Culture of
the American Civil War” in July.
Deborah
Krohn is editing the final manuscript of her book, Food
and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy: Bartolomeo Scappi’s Paper Kitchens, and
writing a paper for a conference in Berlin in September. She is also crafting
the syllabus for a new course she is co-teaching with Andrew Morrall next term
called Artists, Craftsmen, and the Pursuit of Nature.
François
Louis is spending June with the final editing of the conference
volume Perspectives on the Liao, which will appear as Volume 43 of
the Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, and also with the preparation for
publication of an article on the Sanli tu, a tenth-century illustrated
reference book on the Chinese classics on ritual.
Pat Kirkham is
spending part of the summer at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC
researching in the huge Eames Archive. She is working on a new book about the
Eameses that focuses on their networks of friends, their concept of good design
as like a good host/guest relationship, gift giving, and their relationship to
Hollywood.
Peter N.
Miller will be writing an essay on Goethe’s notion of research as
a way of life for a festschrift, and he is also working on a preface to a new
French translation of his book, Peiresc’s Europe, that is
being published by Albin Michel in spring 2015. But his main project for the
summer is the ongoing work to prepare the final version of a manuscript
destined for Cornell University Press: An Intellectual History of
Material Culture.
Andrew
Morrall is giving the keynote lecture at a three day-symposium
organized by INHA, Centre André Chastel, Paris, June 19-21, on the theme of
Civic Artists and Court Artists (1300-1600). On June 28, he is giving a talk:
“Education, Ethics, and Identity in the Making of English Seventeenth-Century
Domestic Embroidery”, in a conference on Cultural Production in Early Modern
England at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon, University of
Birmingham.
Elizabeth
Simpson is planning a research trip to Turkey in August, to work
at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara on the reinstallation of the
Gordion wooden artifacts in the renovated museum galleries.
Paul Stirton is
speaking at “One Design Week” at Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the week of June 19.
His talk is on publishing design history, and is entitled “Who Writes the
History of Design?”
Earlier this month, Professor Stirton had coffee with Amber Winick (MA 2013) in
Budapest where Amber is a Fulbright Scholar researching Hungarian designs
for children. Paul relates that they were “actually in a famous cafe
in Buda called Bambi, well known for its ceramic murals from the 1950s, but
unfortunately you cannot see them from this image.” The photographer was
Juliet Kinchin, former BGC faculty member and current curator at MOMA. The
little one is Amber’s daughter, Alice.
Catherine
Whalen will lead the 2014 Craft Research Fund selection panel at
the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in Asheville, North Carolina. www.craftcreativitydesign.org/2014-craft-research-fund/
The mission of the Center for
Craft, Creativity & Design is to advance the understanding of craft by
encouraging and supporting research, critical dialogue, and professional
development. This will be the Center’s ninth year of awarding Craft Research
Fund Awards. Each year $95,000 is granted to academic researchers, independent
scholars, curators, and graduate students who apply according to three
categories: project grants, exhibition grants, and graduate research grants.
