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  • DeWitt Godfrey, associate professor  of art and art history at ±«Óătv, was elected president of the College Art Association’s Board of Directors for a two-year term, beginning May 2014. The CAA is a highly regarded organization, and Godfrey’s colleagues stressed its importance. “The decisions the CAA governance makes have an impact on thousands of people [
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    November 11, 2013
  • ±«Óătv’s Clifford Art Gallery and the Department of Art and Art History will host an exhibition by artist Creighton Michael P’14 titled “Pattern Play” from October 23 through January 29, 2014. The showing, which is free and open to the public, will feature a lecture by Michael at 4:30 p.m. October 23 in Golden Auditorium [
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    October 18, 2013
  • Elizabeth Marlowe, assistant professor of art and art history, started with some big questions at a recent colloquium: “What can we learn from a work of ancient art?  Will it teach us new things or reinforce what we already know?” In addressing those questions, Marlowe highlighted the lack of attention paid to the origins of [
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    October 7, 2013
  • From Lawrence Hall to Hamilton Central School to a high school in New Jersey, the distinctive black-and-white cover of George Saunders’s Tenth of December seemed to be everywhere this summer — the visual cue to the inaugural ±«Óătv Reads program. ±«Óătv Reads was simple: read a story, discuss the story. Approximately 2,150 people joined in [
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    October 2, 2013
  • ±«Óătv students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by art history major Hannah Bjornson ‘15, of Westport, Conn. This summer I held a faculty-sponsored research position in the Department of Art and Art History. I assisted Professor Padma Kaimal in putting together her [
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    September 25, 2013
  • Penny Lane — a seasoned storyteller, nonfiction filmmaker, assistant professor of art and art history at ±«Óătv, and 
  self-proclaimed thief? In a thought-provoking and honest lecture about her role as a visual artist, Lane discussed the complexities of being a filmmaker who appropriates others’ images exclusively to create her own nonfiction narratives.
    September 19, 2013
  • (Note: These are prepared remarks by Mary Ann Calo, Batza Professor of Art and Art History; Director, Division of Arts and Humanities, given at ±«Óătv’s 193rd convocation.) Greetings to President Herbst, Dean Hicks, my colleagues on the faculty, and of course a warm welcome to the class of 2017, our transfer students and their families. [
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    August 29, 2013
  • Update: The film Our Nixon, directed by ±«Óătv professor Penny Lane, premieres August 30  in select U.S. cities. Since its premiere on CNN earlier this month it has drawn a lot of attention, including a Daily Beast commentary by Ben Stein, the economist known to many as a movie and television personality. Lane responded to Stein here. [
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    August 28, 2013