Art History News & Events

 

Faculty Roundtable: What we do and why (oh why? do) we do it. Jeff Ruda, Heghnar Watenpaugh, Diana Strazdes and Katharine Burnett. POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING QUARTER. Please watch for new date and time!

Art History and Medieval & Early Modern Studies Programs invite applications for a visiting lecturer position for academic year 2008-2009


MA candidates Anna Glaze and Micki McCoy publish review of "Visualizing Revolution: PRC Propaganda Posters" (Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UCD) in Yishi: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

Friday, 30 May, 2008: MA Orals. 10:00 am to 3:00 pm in Art Annex, TCS Main Room

Friday, 30 May-31 May, 2008: Art & Art History Club Dance Marathan. Detail to follow

Thursday, 29 May, 2008: Undergraduate Majors Reception, 3:00 pm at the Art Building Courtyard or Lobby

Wednesday, 21 May, 2008: Movie night. Movie TBA. 5pm in Art 217

Friday, 16 May, 2008: Miki McCoy presents "Spontaneous Resistance and the Performance of Memory: He Chengyoa's Live Art" at the Graduate Research Symposium. She will contribute to Panel 3 (Unbinding the Body: Sites & States of Alternative Embodiment), moderated by Professor Blake Stimson

Tuesday, 13 May, 2008: Jeff Ruda on "Masaccio and the Orator: Landino's Ornato in Theory and Practice." 4:10 pm in Art 210D

Saturday, 10 May, 2008: Second Saturdays.
RSVP to we_heart_art@hotmail.com. Meet at True Love Coffeehouse, 6pm or carpool

Wednesday, 7 May, 2008: Art & Art History Club meeting. 5pm in Art 217

Tuesday, 6 May, 2008: "By Land or By Sea: Job Opportunities for the Art History Major at Park West Gallery." Speaker: Shari Hunter, Recruitment Manager, Fine Art Management, Park West Gallery. 4:10 in Art 210D

Saturday, 3 May, 2008: Khen Rinpoche, "Compassion in Tibetan Buddhist Art and Culture. 2 pm in Art 217 (location subject to change). (co-sponsored with the Crocker Art Museum)

Tuesday, 29 April, 2008: Katharine Burnett on "The End of Originality (as the Seventeenth Century Knew It)" 4:10 pm in Art 210D (co-sponsored by the 18th Century Research Cluster)

MA Art History alumnus Colin Dusek named an Intern at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Thursday, 17 April, 2008: Picnic Day. Art & Art History Club looking for volunteers. Please contact we_heart_art@hotmail.com. Sell your art at Picnic Day!

Wednesday, 16 April, 2008: Movie night. Movie TBA. 5pm in Art 217

Tuesday, 15 April, 2008: Saleema Waraich, Curator, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco: "Mughals and Markets in the Early Twentieth Century: The Art of M.A.R. Chughtai". 4:10 pm in Art 210D


14 April-25 April, 2008: Art & Art History Club Art Contest exhibition. Winning piece will be placed in the MU

Study "Modernism in France" on the Riviera with Emerita Professor Dianne Macleod

Saturday, 12 April, 2008: Second Saturday. RSVP to we_heart_art@hotmail.com. Meet at True Love Coffeehouse, 6pm or carpool


Saturday, 12 April, 2008: Symposium: Visualizing Revolution: Propaganda Posters from the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989 . Full symposium program

Thursday, 10 April, 2008: Opening Reception, Visualizing Revolution: Propaganda Posters from the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989

3 April-14 May, 2008: Nelson Gallery Exhibition: Visualizing Revolution: Propaganda Posters from the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989

Wednesday, 2 April, 2008: Art & Art History Club Meeting: first general meeting of the quarter. 5pm in Art 217

Monday, 31 March - Monday, 7 April, 2008: Accepting submissions for student art search contest

Wednesday, 5 March, 2008: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club
'Persepolis' at the Varsity. Time: TBA

Tuesday, 4 March, 2008: Catherine Anderson on "Imperial Faces: Britannia's 'Daughters' in Victorian Visual Culture"

Monday, 3 March, 2008: Frederic Jameson, Globalization and Totality


Sunday, 24 February, 2008: Field trip with the Art & Art History Club
Bodies Revealed exhibition in Sacramento

Wednesday, 20 February, 2008: Dessert Night and Meeting for the Art & Art History Club

Thursday, 14 February, 2008: Alexander Garcia Duettman (Professor, Goldsmith College, University of London), Come and Go: On the Very Concept of Late Style (Art History co-sponsored event)

Wednesday - Friday, 13-15 February, 2008: Alexander Garcia Duettmann
", open seminar: Four Readings of Kant's Critique of Judgement: Heidegger, Adorno, Derida, Cavell

Sunday, 10 February, 2008: Field trip to the Legion of Honor with the Art & Art History Club. Leave Davis at 10 am, leave SF around 5 pm
(we_heart_art@hotmail.com to carpool)

Saturday, 9 February, 2008: Second Saturday with the Art & Art History Club

Thursday, 7 February, 2008: Annual Art History Reception & Lecture

Wednesday, 6 February, 2008: Art & Art History Club Movie Night: Art School Confidential Celebrate Brianna's birthday with cake and a movie!
6:30pm in Art 204


Wednesday, 30 January, 2008: Art and Art History Club in the California Aggie

Tuesday, 29 January, 2008: Professor Diana Strazdes, Recasting History: Word and Image in Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Standing Lincoln

Saturday, 26 January, 2008: Gallery hopping on Geary in SF with the Art & Art History Club. Meet at 9am on campus. We will take BART into the city

Tuesday, 15 January, 2008: 2nd Annual Art and Art History MA/MFA Winter Reception. 3-5 pm, Art 203. (Art History and Art Studio co-sponsored event)

Monday, 14 January, 2007: Artist Walid Raad, The Loudest Muttering is Over: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive.

Saturday, 12 January, 2007: Second Saturday Art Walk with the Art & Art History Club. Meet at 6pm on campus. We will carpool to Second Saturdays in Sacramento

Professor Blake Stimson publishes "A Modern Man" in Artforum

Tuesday, 27 November, 2007: Art & Art History Club Movie Night: Salvador Dali and Surrealism Showing a documentary and excerpts from Dali's movies
6:30pm in Art 217

Friday, 9 November, 2007: Collectibles and Collectors: a Symposium in Honor of Dianne Sachko Macleod

Design Program at UC Davis announces new faculty position in Design Theory, Methodology and History

Friday, 12 October, 2007: Empty Graves: The Tomb Towers of Northern Iran
Melanie Michalidis. 4 pm, Art 210D

Tuesday, 9 October, 2007: ARTstor demonstration
Dan Goldstein, Art & Art History Subject Librarian, Shields Library &
Leah Theis, Visual Resources Facility. 4 pm, Art 203

Tuesday, 2 October, 2007: Professor Blake Stimson on Krasinski and totality

Professor Katharine Burnett publishes "Through Masters' Eyes: Copying and Originality in Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting"

Wednesday, June 6, 2007: Art & Art History Club Last Meeting of the Year
Come have a good-bye coffee/drink with us at Delta of Venus at 5pm

Friday June 1, 2007: Art History Majors end of the year buffet
Art Building Lobby/Courtyard area

Wednesday May 16, 2007: Art & Art History Club Movie night. I Shot Andy Warhol. 6pm in ART 204. As usual, FREE snacks will be provided.

Saturday May 12, 2007: Second Saturdays in Downtown Sac. Meet us at The True Love Cafe (on 23rd and K)


AHI majors Natalie Mann, Lillianne Germaine, Peter Basmarjian, Lindsay Bregante, Ksenia Shadrina, Julia D’Alfonso, and Zach Blum present at UCD Undergraduate Research Conference

Monday April 23, 2007: Professor Susette Min, Roving Histories: Picturing San Francisco's Chinatown

Professor Blake Stimson publishes "The Artiste" in Oxford Art Journal

Saturday, April 21, 2007: Art & Art History Field Trip: Legion of Honor
Led by Professor Dianne Macleod. Meet at the museum at 10:30
email we_heart_art@hotmail.com for tickets. Sponsored by the Art/Art History Club

Wednesday, April 18, 2007: Art & Art History Club movie night: Basquiat
6:10pm in ART 204.

Undergraduate Lindsay Bregante presents paper "Regional Syncretism at Baodingshan" at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research


Graduate student Erin Aitali hosts curatorial walkthrough of 'The Gendered Suit'

Professor Blake Stimson publishes Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945

December, 2006: The Coffeehouse: Architecture and Sociability in the Islamic City. Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh. Sponsored by the Art History Graduate Student Association

Professor Blake Stimson interviewed for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona

Professor Simon Sadler named UCDavis Chancellor's Fellow

Professor Simon Sadler discusses The Whole Earth Catalog on WRNI Rhode Island Public Radio

November 15, 2006: Study Abroad with an Art History and/or Art Studio Major
Discussion. 5:10 pm in Art 204. Sponsored by the Art History Graduate Student Association

November 2, 2006: Professor Diana Strazdes, 'Catharine E. Beecher: Selling the Puritan Lifestyle to Victorian American'. 4:45 pm in Art 210D
Sponsored by the Art History Graduate Student Association


Professor Katharine Burnett awarded research fellowship at the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries

Professor Blake Stimson profiled in CAA News

2006 M.A. Orals--June 2nd

2006-2007 AHI courses

Prof. Heghnar Watenpaugh awarded 2006 Spiro Kostof Award by the Society for Architectural Historians for her book "The Image of an Ottoman City"!

M.A. candidate Jayme Yahr to publish "Daniel J. Terra and The Disapperance of The Terra Museum of American Art" in Art Words: University of Cincinnati Studies in Art

Professor Simon Sadler publishes "Archigram: Architecture without Architecture"

Professor Blake Stimson publishes "The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation"

Art History Honors Student Sara Sumpter will publish her thesis in the "UC Davis Journal of Undergraduate Research"

 

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