Homepage | Faculty | PhD Program | Undergraduates | VRC | Announcements | Contacts NASHER MUSEUM OF ART Panel Discussion: Picasso and the Allure of Language August 27, 2009 Pablo Picasso, pages 86-87 from Pierre Reverdy’s Le chant des morts (The Song of the Dead). Published by Teriade, Paris, 1948. Transfer lithograph, 17 x 13 inches. Yale University Art Gallery, The Ernest C. Steefel Collection of Graphic Art, Gift of Ernest C. Steefel. 2008 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Nasher Museum hosts a conversation with exhibition curator Susan Greenberg Fisher, the Horace W. Goldsmith Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Patricia Leighten, professor of art history and visual studies, at 7 pm on Thursday, August 27, 2009. Reception to follow; seating is limited and reservations are suggested ARTS OPEN HOUSE August 31, 2009 Faculty from AMI (Arts of the Moving Image), Documentary Studies, ISIS (Information Science + Information Studies), Literature (Critical Theory/New Media), Music, Visual Arts, and Visual Studies would like to invite students to attend an Open House on Monday, August 31 from 4:30-6:30pm in the Smith Warehouse (Bays 11-12). Students will have the opportunity to talk to the faculty about courses taught this or next semester, tour the facilities, and see student work on display. Refreshments will be served. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER EXHIBITION Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency September 17 – November 29, 2009 The exhibition, Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency, opens with a reception on September 17 at 5:00 pm in the Franklin Center Gallery of the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and runs through November 29, 2009. Kristine Stiles, professor of art, art history, and visual studies, curated the exhibition from her extensive archive of art, artists’ letters, documents, posters, and ephemera. A 48-page full-color catalog designed by Molly Renda and featuring an essay by Professor Stiles accompanies the exhibition. In her essay, Stiles writes that, “for over fifty years, Jean Toche has made art from the position of moral and ethical indignation, expressed openly and without reservation against political corruption, social hypocrisy, and human rights abuses throughout the world.” As witnessed in the current show, Toche has lost nothing of his ability to employ art to explore and express critical understandings of global decision-making and social and political acts, especially by the United States. All works in this exhibition are from the year 2004 and focus on the administration of George W. Bush. FACULTY NEWS Brooklyn Exhibition: Status Report Pedro Lasch, Serie LATINO/A AMERICA, begun 2002, ongoing, acrylic paint on wall. BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn opened its 2009-2010 contemporary art season at BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn Heights on Thursday, September 3, 2009, with the exhibition Status Report, to be on view through Saturday, October 10. Status Report presents work by contemporary Mexican and Latino artists, highlighting the varied ways that artists have examined the themes of immigration, the U. S./Mexican border, and work. Pedro Lasch, assistant research professor of the practice of visual arts, joins exhibiting artists—based in Brooklyn and greater New York, the West Coast, and Mexico—who include Margarita Cabrera, Sergio de la Torre and Vicky Funari, Christina Fernandez, Coco Fusco, Erika Harrsch, Delilah Montoya, and Dulce Pinzon. Status Report is the first exhibition in New York to consider the issue of Mexican immigration, the border, and work through the lens of contemporary, urban artists. Its organization has been inspired by the enormous growth in Mexican population in New York—particularly in Brooklyn—in the last decade. In fact, the city's Mexican population has roughly sextupled since 1990. The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Director of Contemporary Art, and a long-time specialist in Mexican and Latino contemporary art and photography. GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS Grant for Dissertation Research Meagan Green Labunski was selected to receive a Trustees Merit Citation from the Carter Manny Program, which provides her with a grant of $2,500 for dissertation-related research. Her topic of study is "Friars in the City: Mendicant Architecture and Pious Practice in Medieval Verona (c. 1220-c. 1375)." Meagan will also begin her Fulbright year in Italy in October. Cambodian Genocide Education Project Three decades have passed since the world first learned of the "killing fields" of Cambodia. Yet, for thirty years, education on this period has never been implemented in Cambodian classrooms in an accurate and pedagogically appropriate way. In fact, there are only three lines that mention the Khmer Rouge atrocity in current Cambodian textbooks. The Documentation Center of Cambodia and the Ministry of Education have recently begun to fill this void with its Genocide Education Project, which seeks to implement genocide education curriculum into Cambodian high schools using a newly published and Cambodian authored textbook A History of Democratic Kampuchea. One of the crucial steps in their project is to equip Cambodian teachers with the necessary tools to be able to teach and lead the classroom. While in Cambodia this summer, new graduate student Sarah Jones Dickens (Duke, BA, 2007, art history/political science) worked on the first stage of this teacher training process. She helped train forty-eight Cambodian officials, who will serve as National Trainers and leaders in subsequent trainings in November and December. Sarah conducted mock lessons, led small group breakout sessions, edited the teacher guidebook, and authored a final project report, which outlined strengths and challenges and proposed recommendations for the next training sessions.  By the end of 2009, over 3,000 civic and history teachers will have received training. The project is funded in large part by US-AID; the governments of Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, and the UK; the Open Society Institute; and the National Institute for Democracy. ALUMNI NEWS Laurel Frederickson (Duke, Ph.D., 2007 ) contributed an essay, "Trapped: Kate Millett, Japan, Fluxus, and Feminism," to the "Women & Fluxus" issue of Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory  (Volume 19, Issue 3, November 2009). The essay is drawn from her dissertation. NASHER MUSEUM OF ART David Roberts and the Holy Land David Roberts, Jerusalem, Church of the Purification, 1842-1844, color lithograph. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. This year the Nasher Museum will present two installations from its collection of the complete lithographs after David Roberts' images of the Middle East. The first selection of twenty-five prints in summer 2009 presents a general survey of Roberts' journey and some of the major sites he visited. The second installation in fall 2009 will showcase a selection of the prints made by professors Eric Meyers and Carol Meyers of Duke's Divinity School, and professor Annabel Wharton of the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, to complement their fall 2009 academic programs. Please refer all relevant departmental information for inclusion in our weekly announcement to John Taormina, Director, Visual Resources Center, at taormina@duke.edu. Homepage | Faculty | PhD Program | Undergraduates | VRC | Announcements | Contacts © 2008 Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited.