SPRING 2007
From the Director
This semester the most exciting news comes from the outstanding accomplishments of two of our students:
Geaninne Gutierrez-Guimaraes, continuing her job as Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, won the Museum's 2007 Lee Tennenbaum Award in recognition of the creation of the Latin American and Caribbean Fund to purchase works by artists from those countries.
Email: geaninne@earthlink.net
Kelly Pajek, was appointed Deputy Director of NYC's Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art program. Previously she worked as Public Art Project Manager for the Arts Council of Forth Worth and Tarrant County in Texas.
Email: kpajek@yahoo.com
The spring museum studies exhibition analysis seminar had an exceptionally challenging array of exhibitions to study. We focused on eight exhibitions including retrospectives, theme-based shows and surveys and considered, among other things, how exhibitions convey place and various approaches to displaying video art. Students reported on Gordon Matta Clark (Whitney Museum of American Art); Lorna Simpson (Whitney Museum of American Art); Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape (Brooklyn Museum of Art); Athens and Sparta (Onassis Cultural Center); Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting (Museum of Arts and Design); Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi, Miro, Dali (Metropolitan Museum of Art); Global Feminisms (Brooklyn Museum of Art); Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art (Jewish Museum).
Dates for the Postmodern Classical II exhibition have been finalized. The exhibition will take place in the lobby of the Olympic Tower from April 14 to May 16. The opening is scheduled for Thursday, April 17; please save the date. Students will curate the exhibition and write the catalog during the Fall 2007 semester in a seminar devoted to the project. The class will consider the classical tradition and its evolution before selecting contemporary artists whose work reflects and reinterprets it. Where possible, we will ask the artists featured in Postmodern Classical (Spring 2002) for suggestions: Ron Baron, Muriel Castanis, Audrey Flack, Gabriel Koren, Yayoi Kusama, Allan McCollum, Melissa McGill, Dennis Potami, Judith Shea.
Our new website designed by Tristan Bhagwandin, a CCNY student majoring in EDM (electronic design multimedia) will be up shortly. Thanks to Sarah Roberts who edited the papers presented at the first (and now annual) joint symposium of CCNY and NYU museum studies programs in cooperation with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum considering the theme of museums and civic engagement. The papers will soon be available on the new website. When it is ready we will send an announcement out on our list serve.
On a personal note, my essay "Louise Nevelson's Public Art" just appeared in the exhibition catalog The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson. The exhibition, curated by Brooke Kamen Rapaport, is beautifully installed by Todd Williams and Billie Tsien at the Jewish Museum and will be up through September 16.
A special thanks, as always, to Gonzalo Casals for designing our newsletter! Gonzalo has this time added a whole new and very exciting feature to the text. If you click on a person's name, his or her email address will now automatically pop up and take you to your email account. We hope you will enjoy this new tool and that it will help you to better stay in touch!
- Dr. Harriet F. Senie
Director of Museum Studies
Professor of Art History
MA Theses in Process
Francesca Arcilesi, Piero della Francesca: "A Historiography of
the Madonna della Misericordia," Advisor: Prof. Anne Leader.
Email: liveinitaly12@hotmail.com
Lucia Carbajal, "Hagar in the Wilderness: Reconsidering Edmonia Lewis and Reconstruction Attitudes." Adjunct Prof. Jonathan Clancy.
Email: lucia.carbajal@gmail.com
Mary Ann Furman, "The Pedagogy of Moholy-Nagy and His Impact
on American Art Education" (working title), Advisor: Prof. Harriet
F. Senie
Email: anadanasor@hotmail.com
Alyssa Grasso, "Reconsidering Wolfgang Laib: Life in Material and Art." Advisor: Adjunct Prof. Lise Kjaer.
Email: alg3279@yahoo.com
Geaninne Gutierrez-Guimaraes, "Photojournalism in Cuba during the 1960s" (working title) Advisor: Prof. Anna Indych-Lopez.
Email: geaninne@earthlink.net
Africia Heiderhoff, "Museum Island Hombroich" Advisor: Prof. Harriet F. Senie.
Email: heiderhoff@earthlink.net
Jason Holton, "Graffiti in New York: The Appropriation of Art Historical
Genres and Subjects into the Piece," Advisor: Prof. Anna
Indych.
Email: jasondholton@yahoo.com
Sarah Roberts, "Retooling the Industrial for the Cultural: Dia:Beacon
and MASS MoCA," Advisor: Prof. Harriet F. Senie
Email: seratine@nyc.rr.com
Hiroko Suda, "Whistler and Photography: Artistic Documentation of Art." Advisor: Adjunct Prof. Marjorie Munsterberg.
Email: rokohi@nifty.com
Graduating Spring 2007
Carl Fields, "A New Art for A New Time: The Glazed Terracotta Sculpture of Luca della Robbia." Advisor: Prof. Anne Leader.
Email: cbfields@munster.k12.in.us