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ART BULL The Newsletter of Boston University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture

2013-2014

Welcome to the 2013-2014 publication of Art BUll! It was another exciting year in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Congratulations to all on the many the personal and professional achievements this year and thank you to everyone for contributing to this newsletter and to the success of our department! Thank you as well to Professor Alice Tseng who served as the advisor for Art BUll. Best, Tessa Hite thite@bu.edu FACULTY Professor Qianshen Bai published an article entitled “Antiquarianism in a Time of Crisis: On the Collecting Practices of Late Qing Government Officials, 1861-1911,” in Traces, Collections, and Ruins: Towards a Comparative History of Antiquarianism: Comparative Perspective, ed. by Alain Schnapp with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Peter N. Miller, and Tim Murray, and a review of Shana Brown’s “Pastimes: From Art and Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese Historiography” in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. In February, Qianshen gave a talk entitled “Wu Dacheng and the Modern Fate of Chinese Literati Culture” at the Institute of Fine Art, New York University. Invited by the Australian National University, Canberra, he co-led the workshop “Research Training in Chinese Paleography” from to Dec. 16 to Dec. 22, 2013. In August, he co-led a one-week workshop on Chinese calligraphy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation.

Professor Cynthia Becker has been awarded a Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellowship from the BU Humanities Center. The fellowship releases her from teaching in fall 2014 to complete her book, Gnawa: Visual Art and the Performance of Blackness in Morocco. During the summer months, she will travel to Senegal to attend Dak'Art: the 11th Biennial of Contemporary African Art. She will also present a paper in Algeria at the conference "Saharan Crossroads: Views from the Desert Edge." This year, Professor Jodi Cranston has been on research leave with partial support from a Henderson Senior Fellowship from the BU Center for the Humanities. In addition to writing some chapters of her next book, tentatively entitled The Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice, she has written several essays for various publications. These include an exhibition catalogue for a previously unknown self-portrait drawing by Titian now on view at the Museo Correr in Venice, an

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introduction to an anthology on portraiture, an essay on the steady departure of paintings from 17th-century Venice, and an essay on the performativity of beauty in Renaissance painting, among others. She received a major grant from the Kress Foundation to develop a web application for mapping and visualizing the movement of artworks. Her work on a specific section of the application, "Mapping Titian," will be discussed this summer at the Getty Research Institute. She hopes to develop a more extensive version that will be called “Mapping Artworks,” which will allow scholars a template from which they can map the “lives” of any set of artworks—whether delimited by artist, material, etc. “Mapping Titian” is not officially up and running (there are still some bugs and holes in the data), but can be accessed at this address: www.mappingtitian.org. This summer, Jodi will be participating in a conference in Venice on portraiture (someone has to do it!), as well as wrapping up some research and writing before returning to teaching this fall. Professor Emine Fetvaci was on leave in the fall. In the spring she taught AH 220: Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture, and AH 541: Ottoman Art and Architecture. She gave a number of talks this year, at the University of Washington, The Seattle Asian Art Museum, MFA Boston, and Yale University. She also presented papers at CAA and the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. Her review of the new Islamic Art galleries at the Met appeared in caa.reviews this year, and her edited volume Writing History at the Ottoman Court appeared last summer. She received tenure and was promoted to associate professor at the end of the spring semester. She is looking forward to research in Florence and Istanbul this summer. Professor Melanie Hall had a productive and enjoyable 2013-14. Two chapters on her

current research about the nineteenth-century Anglo-American origins of architectural and landscape preservation came out: “Plunder or Preservation? Contesting the Anglo-American Heritage in the Later Nineteenth Century,” in From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire c.1800-1940, edited by Peter Mandler and Astrid Swenson, and “American Tourists in Wordsworthshire: From ‘National Property’ to ‘National Park’”, in The Making of a Cultural Landscape: the English Lake District as Tourist Destination, 1750-2010, edited by John K. Walton and Jason Wood. Melanie reviewed three interesting books on preservation themes: Heritage in the Context of Globalization. Europe and the Americas edited by Peter F. Biehl and Christopher Prescott for the Journal of Anthropological Research; The Fragile Monument: On Conservation and Modernity by Thordis Arrhenius, and Materan Contradictions: Architecture, Preservation and Politics by Anne Parmly Toxey for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She also reviewed essays for publication for the International Journal of Heritage Studies. Summer 2013 was spent enjoyably visiting museums, exhibitions and archives in London and elsewhere in the UK, and presenting a conference paper, “Preserving Thomas Carlyle’s House as an Anglo-American ‘Literary Embassy’” at the Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. During the fall semester, she spoke to Boston University’s Graduate School of Painting and Sculpture MFA program about “Artists, Art and Museums” and, in the spring semester, to the undergraduate Art History Association’s “Boston Arts Career Night” along with two alumni, Krista Dahl Kusuma, now Visitor Experience Manager at Boston’s ICA, and John Colasacco, now head of Fine Jewelry Department at Skinner Inc. and a recent contributor to PBS’s Antiques Road Show.

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Forward news – she is planning another symposium with the Nichols House Museum on the use of technology in small house museums called “In the House and On the Web” to be held at Boston’s Athenaeum in Fall 2014.

Bridget Hanson, Naomi Slipp, Professor Patricia Hills, Jordan Karney and Emily Voelker Professor Patricia Hills is retiring at the end of the spring 2014 semester. She was deeply gratified that there was a Symposium in her honor, "American Visual Culture in Context," held at the University on Saturday, April 26, organized by Professor William Moore, Dr. Charlotte Emans Moore, Professor Keith N. Morgan, and Professor Kim Sichel. The symposium was funded by the Dean of CAS, alumni and current students, the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Department of History of Art & Architecture, the American & New England Studies Program, and the African American Studies Program. Eight of her former students gave papers on their recent research, and ten other colleagues spoke. Professor Alice Tseng read a statement by Professor Fred Kleiner. Pat is deeply grateful to her many colleagues in the Department and in the African American Studies Program and the American and New England Studies Program with whom she has shared the joys of teaching, mentoring, and developing new programs for students. On April 23 GSHAAA presented Professor Hills

with the 2013-2014 Faculty Award. Professor Hills will continue guiding her doctoral students and being engaged in her scholarship on the nineteenth-century American painter Eastman Johnson and also 1930s artists. During the fall 2013 semester, she gave talks at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Academy of Design Museum in New York, and Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, and she will continue lecturing as occasions arise. Professor Fred Kleiner is looking forward to returning to full-time teaching and having more time for his own research and writing after completing his fifth (and third consecutive) term as HAA Chair on June 30. This summer he will be putting the finishing touches on the 15th edition of Gardner's Art through the Ages, a 1,200-page tome with a manuscript many times longer and, between trips to Chichen Itza, Teotihuacan, Paris, Rome, and San Francisco this summer, turning his attention to Art and Politics in Imperial Rome for Cambridge University Press. In April, Professor Keith Morgan had the pleasure of reading the citation at the Society of Architectural Historians’ annual meeting in Austin, Texas, when Professor Emerita Naomi Miller was honored as a Fellow of the Society. With his research partners, Elizabeth Hope Cushing and Roger Reed, he recently received the good news that their book published in 2013, Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts, had been selected to receive the Ruth Emery Prize of the Victorian Society in America. He will appear as commentator in “Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America,” a production of Florentine Films that will be aired on PBS nationally in June. He lectured at the Boston Architectural College in January, at the annual meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum/New

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England Chapter in March, and will give papers this summer at the Shelburne Museum in June and the Museum of Fine Arts in July. He served as the chair of the America art search committee and was a member of the Preservation Studies Program director search committee this semester as well. Since the end of the 2012-13 academic year, Professor Paolo Scrivano had two essays included in collective publications in France and Italy: the first, “‘Comprendre’ l’architecture moderne: la position de Michel Ragon au sein de l’historiographie de l’architecture des années 1950 et 1960,” in the volume Michel Ragon. Critique d’art et d’architecture (Richard Leeman and Hélène Jannière, eds.: Presses Universitaires de Rennes); the second, “Architettura, design e paesaggio nella costruzione delle infrastrutture di servizio stradale e autostradale: una breve storia italo-americana,” in the catalogue Energy. Architettura e reti del petrolio e del post-petrolio (MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome). He also received an Arts Grant from The BU Arts Initiative to support student research in preparation for an exhibition on José Luis Sert at Boston University, scheduled to open at the BU Art Gallery in the fall 2015. His most important achievement, however, was the publication of his new book Building Transatlantic Italy: Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America, which appeared last November.

This year, Professor Kim Sichel is publishing three articles: “Lee Friedlander, The American Monument, and Eakins Press,” in Exposure 47.1 (Spring 2014); “‘Contortions of Technique’: Germaine Krull’s Montages and the Complexity of Urban Modernism” in OBJECT: PHOTO (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2014), in press; and “Germaine Krull’s War Photographs: From Africa to Alsace, 1942 to 1944” in Fotogeschichte Wien (summer 2014), in press. In March, she gave a lecture: “Photography on the Road,” at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is also continuing work on her current book project, Making Strange: Modernism and the Construction of French Photographic Books 1925-1960. Professor Alice Tseng started the fall semester with a long flight but brief stay in Singapore, where she presented a paper at the symposium “Is Asian One?” hosted by the Asian Civilizations Museum. For the rest of fall she remained on land in the Boston area, serving as a discussant for the interdisciplinary colloquium “(Un)Building Colonial Space in Korea, 1910-1945” held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a participant in the faculty roundtable at the

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Symposium on Teaching the History of the Built Environment organized by the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. In the spring semester, Alice presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies in Philadelphia and the Society of Architectural Historians in Austin. At the end of April, she was invited to give the 25th annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture in Art History and Humanities at Case Western Reserve University to coincide with a traveling exhibition of modern Japanese art from the Tokyo National Museum at the Cleveland Museum of Art. For the past four years, Alice has organized an annual lecture on Asian art and architecture with the co-sponsorship of the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA); this year Professor Ken Oshima of University of Washington was invited to speak on the conceptualization of Japanese urban space in the 1960s. In between the teaching and traveling, she worked with co-editor Morgan Pitelka (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) to put the finishing touches on a book manuscript on Kyoto cultural renaissances in the 17th and 19th centuries. Right after commencement, Alice embarks on her research trip to Japan to gather material for writing chapter two of her Kyoto monuments book on imperial weddings and coronations in the early 20th century. During the current academic year Professor Gregory Williams has published an essay in a book about the German painter Florian Meisenberg as well as three exhibition reviews in Artforum. He took part in fall conferences of the German Studies Association in Denver and the Transcultural Exchange in Boston, and delivered a gallery talk on the painter Amy Sillman at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. In February he presented a paper, “Critical Delay: The International Reception of Michael

Krebber,” at the annual conference of the College Art Association in Chicago. He looks forward to a summer of research in Germany as he completes an essay on Franz Erhard Walther for a forthcoming book published by the Dia Art Foundation. Professor Michael Zell presented a number of talks on aspects of Rembrandt's art this academic year: "Rembrandt's Art as Gift" at the Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam in July; "Actor-Network-Theory and Rembrandt's Gifts" at a Queen's University Conference in Herstmonceux, England, also in July; “Rembrandt and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Holland” at Tufts University in November; and “Graphic Images: Rembrandt’s Printed Nudes” at the Renaissance Society of America Conference, New York in March. In June he also led the seminar “Dutch Art, Patrons, and Markets" for the Council of Independent Colleges-Kress Seminar at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, in conjunction with the exhibition Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis. Professor Zell is now immersed in coordinating the 2014 conference of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, which takes place at Boston University June 5-7, and plans to devote the rest of his time this summer to writing his next book, For the Love of Art: Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art.

Professor Kim Sichel, Professor Greg Williams, Antien Knaap, David Silvernail

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GRADUATE STUDENTS This year Lindsay Alberts began writing her dissertation and taught at both UMass Boston and BU. She presented a paper based on the second chapter of her dissertation at the Brown University Interdisciplinary Grad Student Conference in April. This summer she will be conducting archival research for her dissertation in Florence, partially supported by a GSHAAA Travel Grant. She is looking forward to sole, vino, e gelato- and of course, many many Medici documents!

Erin McKeller, Naomi Slipp and Lindsey Alberts Lara Ayad is in the process of finalizing her dissertation prospectus on modern Egyptian art. She presented her research on mid-20th-century Egyptian painting and sculpture at two conferences this past March: the 16th Triennial of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) in New York; and the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference at the African Studies Center, Boston University. In addition to being awarded a long-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year, Lara published her book review of Hamid Irbouh's Art in the Service of Colonialism: French Art Education in Morocco, 1912-1956 in African Studies Quarterly. Her research plans for this fall include using her GRAF award to travel

to Cairo and carry out dissertation fieldwork for ten months. Leslie K. Brown took her qualifying exams this past May and completed her prospectus over the summer. She is delighted to be ABD and thanks her advisors, committee, and the department for their efforts and support. In the fall, she traveled multiple times to Rochester, NY for research; submitted grant and fellowship applications; and assisted Professor Hills with compiling and editing the Alumni Newsletter, which cast a wide net in honor of her retirement. The digital interactive artist’s book for which she wrote an essay, Psychometry: Photographs by Carol Golemboski, was selected as one of the twelve Outstanding Books of 2013 by the Independent Publisher Book Awards out of over 5,000 entries, winning an "IPPY" for Outstanding eBook Achievement. In October, she co-moderated a panel and enjoyed catching up with BU alums at the second annual FOCUS conference of emerging photohistorians and photocurators hosted by the New Orleans Museum of Art. In November, she presented a paper as a part of the symposium "Poignant Prospects: Landscape and the Environment in American Visual Culture, 1750-1890" at the American Antiquarian Society's Center for Historic American Visual Culture. In March, she was invited to moderate a panel on “Itinerant Photography,” in conjunction with the exhibition BRINK v1 at the Boston Center for the Arts' Mills Gallery. This semester, she very much enjoyed working as a Teaching Fellow, along with AMNESP's Sam Shupe, for Professor Scrivano's AH205: Architecture: An Introduction. This spring, she was honored and grateful to receive support from the Beaze and Harry Adelson Travel Fund, the departmental Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, and a Graduate Award from the BU Center for Humanities. After a busy semester interrupted by an appendectomy, Leslie looks

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forward to a summer filled with researching, traveling, thinking, and writing.

BU photohistory participants included (from left to right): Leslie K. Brown, Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw, Dalia Habib Linssen, Julia Dolan, Rebecca Senf, Kate Palmer Albers. Additional BU alumni members include Laura Muir and Lisa Sutcliffe. Photo by Todd J. Tubutis. Heidi Effenberger completed her MA scholarly paper on the architecture and landscape of Balboa Park, and she presented her findings at UC Santa Barbara's 39th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium in April. In the fall, she worked for the Photographic Resource Center. During the spring semester, Heidi interned for the Architecture and Design department at the MIT Museum, conducting research on the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin and the German architect Hans Scharoun. After graduation, Heidi will be writing a history of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. Elisa Germán is excited to have completed her final semester of coursework in her first year as a PhD student. Her summer plans include studying for her oral exams, taking part in the Summer Institute in Technical Art History (SITAH) at New York University, whose focus for this year's program is on “The Artist’s Book: Materials and Processes,” in addition to serving as the GSHAAA MA Comprehensive Exam Prep Coordinator (for

the second year in a row). Next fall, Elisa looks forward to serving as a teaching fellow for AH 111 "Introduction to Art History I: Antiquity to the Middle Ages." Tessa Hite is pleased to have completed her MA. In the spring, she presented “A State of Evolué: Photographs of 1950s Belgian Congo,” at the Boston University 22nd Annual Student Conference in African Studies. Tessa enjoyed serving as a teaching fellow for Professor Sichel’s AH295: History of Photography and as the GSHAAA Forum Coordinator with Naomi Slipp. Tessa’s essay “Into the Archive: ‘My Own Mad Conscientiousness’” and a chronology she compiled will be published in Magnum Legacy: Eve Arnold by Janine di Giovanni (Prestel 2015), in press. This summer, she will be conducting research in Bruce Davidson’s archives for the next Magnum Legacy publication. She looks forward to serving as the GSHAAA vice president next year. This academic year Erin Hyde Nolan passed her orals and completed her dissertation prospectus. In the fall, she co-chaired a panel with Martina Tanga on “The Multi-Temporal City” at the South Eastern College Art Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina. In the spring, Erin presented a paper entitled "You are What you Wear: Dress and Cultural Identity in Les Costumes Populaires de la Turquie en 1873" at the interdisciplinary conference The Disciplined Past: Critical Reflections on the Study of the Middle East at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Most recently, she completed a catalogue essay for the exhibition Undercurrent, which includes images of the sea by contemporary photographer Shoshannah White, at the Maine Center for Contemporary Art. This coming year Erin looks forward to intensive dissertation research abroad in Turkey, France, England and Austria thanks to a long-term GRAF. She

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will also travel to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles with the support of a Getty Library Research Grant. On a personal note, Erin and her husband Chris welcomed a new addition to their family this past January - a daughter named Elise Adele Nolan!

Erin Hyde Nolan and Elise with Carrie Anderson and Natalie. Jordan Karney is looking forward to summer after a busy academic year. In addition to completing her MA, she presented her paper, "The Presence of Absence: The Disappearance of the Body in Ana Mendieta’s Siluetas" at The Graduate Center, CUNY's interdisciplinary conference Disappearance: Spatial and Temporal Horizons in November, and moderated the afternoon panel of HAA’s own graduate symposium, See the Light in March. Along with Michael Pagan she organized a successful series of GSHAAA Guest Scholar Lectures. This summer she is excited to travel to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Archives of American art for research with the help of a GSHAAA travel grant. She is looking forward to being a teaching fellow next year, and serving as the next GSHAAA president.

Michael Pagan, Emily Voelker, Professor Kim Sichel, Professor Patricia Hills, Jordan Karney with Guest Scholar, BU Alumna, Carol Payne. In the fall of 2013, Anjuli Lebowitz commenced dissertation research in Paris funded by a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship and the Kate and Hall Peterson Fund from Boston University. In the spring of 2014 she continued her research of the photographer Auguste Salzmann as a Library Grant Recipient at the Getty Research Institute. This summer she will participate in the Mellon Summer Institute in Technical Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and also attend the French Language School at Middlebury College with the support of a Samuel H. Kress Art History Fellowship. In 2014-2015 she will be a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she will begin drafting her dissertation. Erin McKellar spent the 2013-2014 academic year teaching courses on the history of interior design in the CAS Writing Program and at the Boston Architectural College and serving as GSHAAA president. During the fall semester, she traveled to Greensboro, NC to present a paper entitled “‘A Better Environment for Today’s Living’: MoMA’s Organic Design in Home Furnishings” at the annual Southeastern College Art Conference. In February she organized the New England Chapter of the

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Society of Architectural Historians’ 36th Annual Student Symposium, which was held at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Most recently, she published a review of The Blitz and its Legacy in a special issue of Planning Perspectives devoted to the transatlantic culture of planning after the Second World War. In May she will head to London to conduct research to advance her dissertation, “Tomorrow on Display: British and American Housing Exhibitions, 1940-1955.” She will return to Boston at the end of June to once again teach “Introduction to Architecture” for BU Summer Term. Catherine O'Reilly completed her course work this year and plans to take her qualifying exams in the fall. She recently represented the department at the IFA-Frick Symposium where she presented her paper "Venus on Balance: Botticelli’s Venus and Mars and the Crux of the Female Nude in the Italian Renaissance". Over the summer, in addition to preparing for exams, she plans to teach AH 111 in the second session and continue her work as the Curatorial Division Research Associate at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the Fall 2013 semester, Sarah Parrish continued her position as a Mellon Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. In this role, she assisted Senior Curator Jenelle Porter with the research for her upcoming exhibition Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present and wrote all 33 artists texts for the accompanying catalogue. After concluding her fellowship, Sarah taught “The History of Mixed-Media” during Lesley University College of Art and Design’s January term. At Lesley she also advised an undergraduate on his senior thesis and tutored graduate students on their MFA theses. This spring she taught “Women, Art, and Society” at Suffolk University and presented her paper “Materializing Global Networks: Craft and

Capital in Sheila Hicks’s Air France Tapestries” at a conference titled “Threads of Circulation” at Ohio State University. Sarah’s summer plans include teaching “Introduction to Art History II: Renaissance to Today” at Boston University and continuing her dissertation research with support from the Beaze and Harry Adelson Travel and Research Fund.

Susan Rice and Joseph Saravo Joseph Saravo continues in his role this summer as Senior Cataloguer at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. He has been working since last summer on an access to the collections project, a joint effort of the curatorial, archives, and registration departments that aims to improve online access to the museum's holdings for both internal use as well as for public and scholarly audiences. Margaret Shortle continues to work on her dissertation as part of the Emmy Noether-Junior Research Group Kosmos/Ornatus, Ornament in Persia and France in Comparison, ca. 1400 in Berlin, Germany. Her appointment with the group has been extended, and she will remain in Germany for at least one additional year. The research group kindly supported her research at various libraries and collections throughout Europe over the past summer, and she navigated

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successfully (with the help of a kind Turkish friend) the rare books library at Istanbul University and the Suleymaniye Library. Now that the Topkapi Palace Library has reopened, she hopes to schedule a second trip to Istanbul before leaving Europe. Additionally, Margaret will present her research in August and October at the International Society for Iranian Studies Conference in Montreal and the Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg. This year as a Horowitz Foundation Dissertation Fellow, Naomi Slipp completed research and began drafting her dissertation. Between October and June, she presented papers at Florida State University, the University of Liverpool, UK, Oxford University, UK, the University of Southern California, Wellesley College, the Eastern American Studies Association, and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, UK. In addition, she has an essay forthcoming in Athanor 32, along with entries for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and the MFA’s forthcoming publication on black artists in the Americas. She also began a two-year term as book review co-editor for AHAA’s new journal Panorama. During the summer, she will be teaching AH112 for BU’s Summer Term II. In September, she returns to Philadelphia with her husband (they lived there from 2005-8) to assume a nine-month Barra Foundation Curatorial Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, hosted by the Center for American Art. At the PMA she will work for the American Art Department on upcoming exhibitions and curatorial projects while also continuing work on the dissertation. With all of this ahead, she is looking forward to a quiet and productive summer spent in Boston and on Cape Cod! Lana Sloutsky had another busy and productive academic year. She traveled to

conferences in Ann Arbor and Philadelphia in the fall to give papers on Byzantium and Venice. She also attended several conferences in Boston and New York. She continued teaching Byzantine art and architecture at MassArt and working at the MFA. This summer she is looking forward to visiting Istanbul and then working in Rome and Venice. Ginger Elliott Smith happily reports that she is in the final stages of writing her dissertation, "Practicing Big Science: Art, Technology, and Institutions in 1960s and 1970s Southern California." She was awarded a 2014 CAA Travel Grant to attend the 102nd Annual Conference in Chicago this year and it was a real treat to simply enjoy the conference and to catch up with friends and colleagues. Ginger is also thrilled to announce that she been accepted into the 2014 Summer Institute for Technical Art History (SITAH), organized by the Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts (June 9-20, 2014). Her hope is that the topics and debates staged at this year's SITAH, "The Artist’s Book: Materials and Processes," will strengthen her approach to technical art history and improve the total contribution that her dissertation makes to our discipline. Finally, Ginger will be using this summer to complete comprehensive rewrites and edits of her dissertation draft, in anticipation of a defense in the fall. This past year Deb Stein has taught two courses at BU that have not only been great teaching experiences but have been thought provoking in terms of her dissertation project. She taught The Early Italian Renaissance in Metropolitan College in the fall and this spring she has taught The Arts in America in CAS. As her project assesses American mid-nineteenth century "past looking," with particular emphasis on the Early Italian Renaissance, this sequence of courses has proven fruitful. Dissertation research and

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writing have continued, albeit slowly, in concert with the teaching. If all goes according to plan, Deb will focus this summer on archival research in Boston and in other sites in New England and New York. In addition, she will present a paper, "Text and Image: The Early Italian Renaissance Sculptural Collections of Two Nineteenth-Century Bostonians," at the mid-June annual meeting of the Society of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. She will also offer gallery talks at the MFA, Boston. A life of art history continues to be a wondrous thing! Thanks to the American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship, Martina Tanga has been able to dedicate this academic year to writing her dissertation, Acts of Disengagement: Italian Art in the 1970s. She presented material from her dissertation at various conferences this spring. In February, she participated in the panel entitled “Time and Space Concepts in Postwar Art,” co-chaired by Larisa Dryansky and Melissa Warak, with the paper entitled “Urban Rhythms: Ugo La Pietra’s Artistic Investigations in 1970s Italy” at the CAA’s 102nd Annual Conference. Additionally, in April she presented a talk entitled “The 1974 and 1976 Venice Biennale Exhibitions: Social engagement and institutional decentralization of the arts” at the panel “But how does it work? Clarifying the Rhetoric Surrounding Social Value in the Arts,” co-chaired by Charlotte Bonham-Carter and Nicola Mann, at the Association of Art Historian’s (AAH) 40th Annual Conference in London. Furthermore, Martina is pleased that she will receive this spring the Boston University Center for the Humanities Student Award for work on her thesis. As well as working on her dissertation, Martina published a review of the exhibition “Loïs Mailou Jones,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the International Review of African American Art (IRAAA) winter issue.

Martina also co-chaired, with Erin Nolan, a panel entitled “The Multi-Temporal City” at the 2013 Southeastern College Art Conference in October. This year she served as chair of the Society of Contemporary Art Historian Graduate Advocacy Committee (SCAHGrad) and together with other graduate students in the Boston area she co-authored a syllabus of 19th and 20th century art and architecture with a feminist pedagogical methodological approach. Lastly, on a personal note, Martina is proud to announce the birth of her daughter, Olivia Beatrice Entis, on October 16, 2013. She is a beautiful happy baby girl!

Martina Tanga, Jonathan and Olivia Beatrice Entis During the past academic year Emily Voelker passed her oral exams and wrote her dissertation prospectus while serving as a Graduate Writing Fellow in the CAS Writing Program. As a GWF she taught WR100 in the fall and WR150 in the spring, both designed as topic-based seminars entitled, Framing Encounters: Intersections between Art & Travel. In addition, she presented on a photographic album that forms one of her dissertation chapters in October at the Western Society for French History, on a panel entitled The American West in the French Imagination. This summer she will attend the French language immersion program at

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Middlebury College in Vermont before pursuing her dissertation research over the next academic year in Washington D.C. and Paris with support from The Raymond and Margaret Horowitz Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Her project focuses on photographs of Native Americans made under the direction of early anthropology institutions in the United States and France between 1870 and 1890, and their exchange and circulation in transatlantic exhibition culture during this period.

Jordan Karney, Alex Yen, Beatrice Chan, Steven Burges

Michael Pagan, Ewa Matyczyk, Bridget Hanson

Amanda Lett, Joseph Saravo, Maggie Finnegan, Nicole Ford

Stacey Leonard, Kelsey Gustin, Olivia Kiers

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GSHAAA: Tina Barouti, Lynne Cooney, Kelsey Gustin, Sam Toabe, Emily Voelker, Jordan Karney, Ariel Green, Naomi Slipp, Lindsey Alberts and Maggie Finnegan

American Visual Culture in Context: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Patricia Hills.

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Professor Kim Sichel, Kevin Whitfield, Kelsey Gustin, Mr. and Mrs. Gustin, Amanda Lett, Sam Toabe, Professor Patricia Hills, Abigail MacGibeny, Elisa German, Rachel Kopelman, Jordan Karney, Alex Chaim, Naomi Slipp.

Professor S. Hollis Clayson delivering the keynote address, "Episodes From the Visual Culture of the Electrified City of Light" for "See the Light": The 30th Annual Graduate Symposium on the History of Art and Architecture. The lecture was held at the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery on February 28, 2014. Photo courtesy of Leslie K. Brown.