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BLOOMSBURY AT THE NASHER
DUKE IN DEPTH WEEKEND

February 27-28, 2009

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Vanessa Bell, Flowers in a Vase, 1917. Watercolor, 18 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Image courtesy of private collection.

This year's Duke in Depth weekend, February 27-28, 2009, celebrates a culmination of the yearlong programs at Duke designed to illuminate the Bloomsbury Group and showcase the Bloomsbury exhibition of works at the Nasher Museum of Art.

A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections, organized to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of Bloomsbury's beginnings, will examine the American reception of the art produced between 1910 and the 1970s by the Bloomsbury artists and their associates and collaborators. The exhibition will include paintings, works on paper, decorative arts, and book arts borrowed from public and private collections throughout the United States, and will focus on how this small group of artists made its imprint on the cultural thinking of their day.

For the full schedule, please go to: http://www.dukealumnicenter.com/ed_travel/Bloomsbury_Final_Schedule.pdf

PUBLIC LECTURE
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 4:30 PM

Dias

"Inclusions and Exclusions: Folklore and Ethnographic Museums in 19th-century France"

Nelia Dias
Department of Anthropology, University of Lisbon

204B East Duke Building, East Campus
Duke University

Co-sponsored by the Duke University Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Department of Art.

NEW LOOK TO EAST DUKE BUILDING

The first floor of East Duke Building has been undergoing a visual and functional transformation this semester. The old flat glass cases lining the walls of the main hallway were removed over winter break and all the public spaces on the first floor were repainted. In keeping with the department’s expansion of programs in visual studies and digital media arts, two permanent electronic displays have been installed to showcase faculty and student digital media works.

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Above the west-end entrance is a 10’ x 15’ projection screen that is currently featuring a continuous loop of visual arts associate professor William Noland’s video, Occulted. Along the corridor wall at the west end of the building is a new 6-part plasma screen, which is displaying a digital media work, Architecture of Association, by Bill Seaman, Duke’s new professor of visual studies and the latest addition to the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.

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William Noland, Occulted.

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Bill Seaman, Architecture of Association.

These two installations join the existing flat-screen monitor at the east end of the hallway above the entrance to the main office suite. This monitor displays current and upcoming events in the department and at the Nasher Museum of Art, and forms an integral component to the department’s publicity program.

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Along the walls of the east-end hallway outside the Visual Resources Center are large printouts from student Charles Sparkman’s senior distinction project in visual studies, Black Mountain Bauhaus (The Gropius/Breuer Design of Black Mountain College, Lake Eden, North Carolina). Sparkman’s thesis advisor is Hans van Miegroet, professor and chair of the department.

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Charles Sparkman, Black Mountain Bauhaus.

These new installations serve to visually and conceptually connect East Duke Building, which houses the departmental administrative offices and staff, art history faculty offices and classrooms, and Visual Resources Center, with the programs in the nearby Smith Warehouse, containing the new Visual Studies Initiative facilities in Bay 11 and visual arts facilities in Bay 12. By featuring visual projects and multi-media installations along the main East Duke corridor, the campus community and visitors to campus can experience firsthand the creative output from Duke’s art, art history, and visual studies programs.

The new Bay 11 facilities in the Smith Warehouse will be featured in the next NewsByte.

YALE-NASHER EXHIBITION

Patricia Leighten, professor of art, art history and visual studies, contributed to the exhibition catalogue, Picasso and the Allure of Language, a collaborative effort between Yale University Art Gallery, which opened the exhibition on January 27, 2009, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The exhibition was organized by Susan Greenberg Fisher, the Horace W. Goldsmith Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, who worked in close collaboration with Leighten. The fully illustrated catalogue is co-published by the Nasher Museum and Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University Press.

The exhibition is drawn primarily from the Yale University Art Gallery and the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, in Dallas, Texas, from which two sculptures are on loan. The works span the years from 1900, when Picasso was 19 years old, to 1969, just four years before his death at the age of 91. The exhibition opens at the Nasher Museum at Duke on August 20, 2009.

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDED FELLOWSHIP

Barney

Sculptural installation from Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle.

The Graduate School has awarded Mitali Routh the Bass Instructorship for next year. This is a year-long fellowship that will enable Routh to finish writing her dissertation. She will also teach one course based on her dissertation research.

AAHVS ON FACEBOOK

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The department now has a Facebook page, thanks to Jack Edinger, our Web Manager/Imaging Specialist. If you are a member of Facebook, you can search on the following to join: Art, Art History & Visual Studies @ Duke.

We will be posting appropriate departmental news about lectures, exhibitions, symposia, events, new courses, etc.

PUBLIC LECTURE
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 4:30 PM

C.R.W. Nevinson, Returning to the Trenches, 1916.

Jonathan Black
Senior Research Fellow in the History of Art
Dorich House Museum, Kingston University

"'Watching the war machine crunch through': C.R.W. Nevinson's Vision of the First World War."

204B East Duke Building, East Campus
Duke University

Jonathan Black’s scholarly focus is on British and European modernism. His publications include the exhibition catalogue Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920 (2004); the monograph Form, Feeling and Calculation: The Complete Paintings and Drawings of Edward Wadsworth (2006); and most recently Dora Gordine: Sculptor, Artist, Designer (2009).

Please refer all relevant departmental information for inclusion in our weekly announcement to John Taormina, Director, Visual Resources Center, at taormina@duke.edu.