art history

Henry Adams, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, wrote an essay in Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect, celebrating the hundred years since the artist was born. The book was reviewed in Maine Antique Digest, including a paragraph about Adams’ contribution, “Andrew Wyeth at the Movies: The…

Yeshiva University professor Steven Fine will discuss the Arch of Titus and Jewish history in the Roman period, exploring the image and symbolism of the arch from the vantage points of various people—emperors, popes, Jews and Christians—who re-interpreted the meaning of the Arch in modern…

Maggie Popkin, the Robson Assistant Professor of Art History, will give the Baker-Nord Center for Humanities’ next Faculty Work-in-Progress talk. Her lecture, titled “Object Memory: Souvenirs and Memorabilia in the Roman Empire,” will be held Thursday, Nov. 2, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall,…

The university community is invited to hear from Peter Lu, a physicist at Harvard University, about the mathematics underlying the patterns of medieval Islamic art. His lecture is titled “Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings and Beyond.” Photo by Peter…

The Case Western Reserve University-Cleveland Museum of Art Joint Graduate Program in Art History and Museum Studies will hold its 43rd annual graduate symposium Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the museum’s Recital Hall. Titled “Ars et Scientia: Intersections of Science and the Visual Arts,” the…

The Department of Art History and Art will host the Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art Friday, Sept. 29, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Cleveland Museum of Art Recital Hall. This year's speaker will be Christina Maranci, professor at Tufts University, who will deliver a talk titled “Adventures in…

Holly Witchey traveled more than 3,200 miles in seconds—and speed wasn’t even the most impressive part of the feat. Standing in the basement of a building on Case Western Reserve University’s campus, the adjunct professor of art history and art suddenly found herself standing in The Courtauld…

Odds are long for any application for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship—only about 7 percent are awarded. Even longer are the odds that two professors from the same department each receive one of the prestigious grants in the same year. Unlikely as it may be, Erin Benay and…

Entering her 37th (and final) year at Case Western Reserve University, Jenifer Neils—an internationally renowned scholar of ancient Greek and Roman art—has won the 2017 Baker-Nord Center Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities. After the academic year, Neils, the Elsie B. Smith…

Henry Adams catalogues the first-ever retrospective of artist Dexter Davis Dexter Davis spends his days as a guard at the Cleveland Museum of Art, roaming its galleries and protecting prized works, including one of his own. As a Cleveland-based artist of national significance, Davis is the…