Art History Moments 2022–2023

With the aid of a grant from the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, SAMUEL ALBERT conducted research on his project, “Austro-Hungarian, Austrian, and Hungarian Art Exhibitions Abroad, 1890–1940.” He has a forthcoming article about his research in the journal Austria-American History. He also received additional grants from the Fulbright Program and from the Hungarian Academy of Science. In May 2023, he gave the lecture “Art Nouveau in Central Europe” to the 92nd Street Y.

JENNIFER MIYUKI BABCOCK gave presentations at the International Congress of Egyptologists XIII in Leiden, the Netherlands, and at the ARCE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Here at FIT, she created an online version of HA 115 (Crossroads: Global Art and Its Histories, 1450–1750) and wrote the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice learning objectives for HA 318 (Repositioning Ancient Egypt and Rethinking Egyptology). In addition, she undertook curricular work at the Pratt Institute, where she also teaches.

RACHEL BAUM wrote a catalog essay for LA-based artist Scott Cassidy about a recent series of paintings in which he combined mannequins with detailed portraits of friends and family in his lockdown bubble.

In July 2022, CELIA BERGOFFEN codirected a field survey in Cyprus for the Kalavasos Laroumena Archangelos Archaeological Project. She presented a paper at a conference in Paris on Cypriot pottery imitations and also gave several lectures for Silversea Cruises in Croatia, Italy, Norway, and Iceland. FIT’s Center for Excellence in Teaching awarded her a faculty development grant in February 2023 to conduct research in Bodrum, Turkey for a joint publication on part of a shipwreck cargo dated circa 1300 BCE.

Stateside, she completed two archaeological assessment reports of lots in Brooklyn, New York.

Last summer, RAISSA BRETAÑA served as Programming Consultant and On-Screen Talent for the series “Follow the Thread” on Turner Classic Movies. She also appeared in a UNIQLO “Art Speaks” video in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art and on the iHeart Media podcast Dressed: The History of Fashion , in addition to her continuing role in Glamour Magazine ’s “Would They Wear That?” video series. She gave four lectures in the past year: two in New York, one in Toronto, and one in Savannah, Georgia. She gave the presentation “Fashioning the Body for Sport and Leisure: A History of Dress and Textiles” for the international conference of the Association of Dress Historians in London, England, and she wrote a review of the book FABRIC: The Hidden History of the Material World in The New York Times

JUSTINE DE YOUNG was on sabbatical for the 2022–2023 academic year to write her book Fashion and Power: Modern Women and Modern Art in Impressionist Paris.

DAVID DROGIN presented “Jacopo della Quercia’s Porta Magna , Bologna: Adaptive Style at San Petronio” for the Renaissance Society of America Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He also presented “Bertoldo’s Battle Relief : Hercules, Mercury, and Medicean Sculpture in Context” for the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Minneapolis.

NANCY EDER contributed the chapter “From Horse-Drawn Carriages to Internet Searches: How Teaching the Art of India Has Changed in the Twenty-First Century” for the forthcoming volume Teaching South and Southeast Asian Art, edited by Bokyung Kim and Kyunghee

Pyun. She continues to lecture for the Education Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Marianne

EGGLER received her PhD in art history from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York (see p. 8). Her dissertation is “‘A Decorator in the Best Sense:’ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, the Fabric Curtain Partition, and the Articulation of the German Modern Interior.” Last year, she was rehired at the Museum of Modern Art following the pandemic shutdown to serve again as a gallery lecturer, a position she began in 1998. In March, she also presented a gallery lecture and tour of the Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Additionally, she was nominated for the SUNY Chancellor’s Excellence in Adjunct Teaching award as well. and will be presenting this summer at FIT’s Adjunct Summer Institute.

BRONTË HEBDON PATTERSON received two fellowships: the Veronica Gervers Research Fellowship in Textile and Fashion History at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in 2022, and a Global Research Initiative Fellowship at New York University in 2023. She also gave the lecture “Laurel, Oak, and Peacock: The Politics of Men’s Historical Fashion” in connection with the Gervers Fellowship.

In April 2023, PAUL MELTON gave a virtual lecture, “Mercado y sociedad: Apuntes sobre la condición contemporánea” at the Universidad Escuela de Administración de Negocios in Bogotá, Columbia. He also served on the review committee for the Association of Arts Administration Educators 2023 Annual Conference.

KATHERINE JÁNSZKY MICHAEL-

SEN was the editor for the English-language text in the bilingual photo book Selling Polaroids in the Bars of Amsterdam, 1980: Bettie Ringma & Marc H. Miller. It will be published by Lecturis in June 2023.

ALEX NAGEL’s book, Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia , is currently in production and will be published with Cambridge University Press. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming volume Working on Stones in the Achaemenid Empire: Methods, Theories and Techniques, and he co-authored an article on new evidence for ultramarine blues on the surface of stone monuments at Persepolis. In November 2022, a book he co-edited, Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece, became available in paperback. After he received the Club Advisor of the Year Award from the FIT Student Government Organization, he continued to serve as advisor to the Art History and Museum Professions Association (AHMPA), for whom he co-organized a trip to Boston and Harvard in March 2023. He secured a paid internship for an AHMP student in the Smithsonian Institution and helped three students to curate an exhibition at the Museum at FIT’s Gallery FIT. He co-advised PhD theses at NYU IFA and Columbia University. He contributed to the exhibition “Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky” which opened at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. in March 2023. In October 2022, he was invited to speak and chair a conference session hosted by the Sultanate of Oman Sultan Qaboos Center in Washington, D.C. As Chair of the AHMP program, Nagel partnered with FIT’s Office of International Relations to create more Globally Connected at FIT events in the 2022–2023 academic year, prepared an FIT visit by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), and co-organized an event with Jennifer Babcock on “Keeping the Gods Alive Through Art and Fashion.” Earlier in 2023, he served as a judge in the Brooklyn Public Library’s annual Fashion Academy, the theme being “Ancient Egypt: Gods of the Runway!” At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Smithsonian Institution, he collaborated with researchers on examining Persepolis stone fragments for evidence of ancient paint and polychromy. He also reviewed papers for the Journal of Field Archaeology and other publications.

KYUNGHEE PYUN co-edited three books published in the past year: Teaching South and Southeast Asian Art, Dress History of Korea: Critical Perspectives on Primary Sources, and Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Activism. She also edited a special issue of Journal of Religion and the Arts and contributed the article “Religiosity and Spirituality in Linda Mary Montano’s Anorexia Nervosa” to it. She published “Girls in Sailor Suits: Constructing Soft Power in Japanese Cultural Diplomacy” in the journal Global Perspectives on Japan and continued her column “Kyunghee Pyun’s New York Sketch” for the South Korean art/photography magazine Wolgan Sajin. Her many public speaking engagements included lectures at Miami University in Oxford, OH; the Textile Museum at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; the London College of Fashion at the University of Arts London; and at Bard College in

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. In addition, she delivered papers at five different conferences: the Global Asias 6 Conference at Penn State University; the College Art Association Annual Conference; the Dress & Body Association Annual Conference; the 19th World Economic History Congress in Paris, France; and the Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference. She also chaired or organized a multitude of other conference sessions. These include panels at the annual conferences of the Association for Asian American Studies and at the Association for Asian Studies, a roundtable at the New York Conference on Asian Studies, and sessions at the 50th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies conference and at the American Comparative Literature Association in Taipei, Taiwan. She served as Vice President on the Board of Directors at the Korea Contents Association and as Peer Reviewer for the Fulbright Program’s scholarly applications for art and music. She received a grant for Religiosity and Spirituality in Korean Material Culture to be funded by the Academy of Korean Studies. Here at FIT, she curated the exhibit Renewal of Symbols: Contemporary Minhwa Paintings at the Gladys Marcus Library, where she also served as project advisor for the exhibition Chasing a Dying River: Ghat 24 Yamuna, Delhi, India

In June 2022, ANN SHAFER delivered a lecture to heritage preservationists in Qairawan, Tunisia; she also received a Fulbright Scholar Award to travel to Tunisia. With funding from FIT’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, she attended an Islamic geometry drawing class in Granada, Spain. Recently, publishers Taylor & Francis and Bloomsbury Press both contracted her to write book chapters.

SANDRA SKURVIDA published her essay “Iranian or Not: Sociopolitical Conditions of Art Representation” in the German-language book Transcultural Interaction Through Art and Social Life:

Iranian Diaspora in Europe and Beyond . In ARTMargins Volume 12, Issue 1, she contributed the article “Barbad Golshiri’s Acts of Alterity.” She also participated in, and wrote an essay for the artist Žilvinas Kempinas’ exhibition at the MO Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. At the SLA Art Space in New York, she curated a screening of films by Deimantas Narkevičius and moderated a talk with the artist.

Late last year, RICHARD TURNBULL curated the exhibition Making Book at Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, MA. He also was a participant in three group exhibitions in Massachusetts and New York in April, 2023. He wrote the exhibition texts for Liz Chalfin: Iterations at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Art in Brattleboro, VT, and published the article “Jewel Box: Artists’ Books at Smith College” for the Spring

2023 issue of Printmaking Today. Additionally, he delivered two multi-part lecture series onboard Silversea Cruise liners in January and February, 2023.

New full-time faculty member ANDREA VÁZQUEZ DE ARTHUR presented the paper “Between the Sea and the Sky: Coastal Tides as Sacred Space on the North Coast of Ancient Peru” at the College Art Association’s 2023 annual conference. She also joined the Executive Board of Directors for the Pre-Columbian Society of New York.

ANDREW WEINSTEIN delivered the paper “Psychological Readings of David Levinthal’s Use of Toys in Hitler Moves East and Mein Kampf ” at the 53rd Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, held in Dallas, Texas. In addition, he gave several invited lectures: “Case Studies in Modern Design” at the Shenzhen International School of Design, “From Athens to MoMA: 2,500 Years of Museums and Agendas” for Road