"Gosh, I just LOVE Lebensraum!"
Art dealer and Jewish scholar Irvin Ungar will deliver the annual Fox-Adler Lecture this Thursday at 5:15pm in Gannett. The lecture will focus on the life and work of artist Arthur Szyk, a Polish-born Jew famous for his World War II caricatures and charming illustrations.
Also, some of Szyk’s work is on display in the foyer of the library. If you’re heading there anyway, I highly encourage you to take five minutes and peruse the exhibit. It’s awesome.
Tonight Dr. Christraud Geary, the Teel Senior Curator of African and Oceanic Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, will give a lecture entitled “Entangled Images: Picture Postcards from West and Central Africa” in Davis Auditorium at 5:30pm.
The lecture is sponsored by the Art History Dept. (fbook)
Dr. Barbara Mundy, author and professor of Latin American Art History at Fordham, will be on campus Tuesday evening lecturing about “Aqua-ecology and Ideology in Aztec and Colonial Mexico City!”
Both the Aztecs and Mexico City’s colonial occupiers undertook massive draining projects to empty the inland seas and make room for agricultural expansion. Bundy’s lecture will “will explore both the complex hydraulic system created by Aztecs and look at the instrumental role that sculpture played within that system, as well as its colonial legacy.”
Palamountain 301
7pm
Beginning this upcoming Spring semester the Women’s Studies Department will transition into Skidmore’s new Department of Gender Studies. The interdisciplinary program will employ both gender queer and feminist theory and scholarship to analyze the experiences, perspectives and contributions of men, women and intersexed people and the systems of gender relations in various cultural settings and time periods.
As part of this transition the 2009 Solomon Residency will focus on the roles of gender studies in art history. The three day residency will feature two free and open to the public lectures.
At 5:30pm on Wednesday Henry Drewal will give a lecture titled “Spirit Spouse: Art and Gender Identity in the Worship of Mami Wata” in the Tang’s Payne Presentation Room. Then on Thursday, again at 5:30pm at the Tang, Patricia Simons will present her lecture, “Sex in the Kitchen: The Social Iconography of Male Bodies in Renaissance Art and Culture.”
More information on the events is available from the Saratogian.
Titled “ ‘No Direction Home’: George Tooker, Deviance, and Visibility in 20th-Century America,” the talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Emerson Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
Tooker’s Waiting Room II (1982) (Ed. note- It is impossible to find a picture of this painting online), is an extraordinarily early indictment of the Reagan administration’s neglect of both the homeless population and those suffering from HIV/AIDS, according to Hauser. Artists and collectives like Krzysztof Wodiczko and Gran Fury have enjoyed critical success for their projects associated with homelessness and those living with the stigma caused by HIV/AIDS, however they began their projects in the late 1980s. Hauser argues that Tooker’s sensitivity to both marginalized populations explains this work’s prescient condemnation of Reagan-era negligence. <via Events>
Columbia University Professor of Art History and Archeology Holger A. Klein will be on campus tomorrow giving an Art Department sponsored lecture entitled Cities, Saints, and Sacred Matter: Relics and Ritual in Jerusalem, Constantinople,and Venice. Klein will be speaking in Davis at 5:15.
The Alfred Z. Solomon Residency brings two eminent art historians to campus this week not only to address students and faculty, but also to celebrate the separation of the Art History Department into an independent academic department. Formerly of the Art Department, Art History makes this leap of maturity just in time to sit at the adult table during the annual “Departmental Thanksgiving Dinner.”
“Although future Solomon Residency events will likely feature artists and critics as well as art historians, the first will spotlight scholars Robert S. Nelson of Yale, speaking Thursday, Nov. 20, on “New Canons and Protocols of Art and Art History,” and James Elkins of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who will address “The Future of Art History” on Friday, Nov. 21. Both lectures will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Payne Room at the Tang Museum; a reception will follow the Friday lecture.” <via Scope>
