Sluijter will join as the Erasmus Lectureship on History and Civilizations of the Netherlands and Flanders; consisting of a lecture course and three public lectures. Title of lecture course: “Making [...] Read More
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Yao-Fen You Joins Cooper Hewitt Curatorial Staff
Yao-Fen You will serve as senior curator and head of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department, beginning January 2019. As senior curator and head of the Product Design and Decorative Arts [...] Read More
Walter S. Gibson (1932-2018)
Walter Samuel Gibson, formerly of Williamstown, MA and Pownal, VT, died peacefully in Saratoga Springs, NY on November 18th. Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1932, Professor Gibson served in the army [...] Read More
Professor Ethan Matt Kavaler Receives a ‘Doctor honoris causa’ from the University of Liège
On March 24, 2018 Professor Ethan Matt Kavaler was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège, one of Belgium’s oldest institutions. Professor Kavaler is Director of the Centre for [...] Read More
Maryan Ainsworth Appointed Kress-Beinecke Professor at CASVA
Maryan Ainsworth, Curator of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been appointed the Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the [...] Read More
Sam Segal (1933-2018)
On 11 June 2018, Dr. Sam Segal passed away at his home in Norwich (Norfolk). Segal was an academic biologist and art historian, who specialized in flower still-lifes. Sam Segal majored in Biology [...] Read More