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Clark Art Institute

Research and Academic Program Announces 25 Year Anniversary Celebration

In June 2025, the Research and Academic Program (RAP) is gathering to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program. Past fellows, former conference conveners and participants, previous RAP and Clark staff, and a host of other invited scholars, curators, and practitioners, will convene for lectures, roundtable conversations, seminars, film screenings, special tours, and object sessions. RAP is coming together under a theme, Writing Art History, to think together over four days about the ways in which writing art history is changing rapidly. This is not your typical art history conference. No stacked sessions of twenty-minute papers. No keynote lectures. More hikes, s’mores, swag, and enjoying the beauty of the Clark grounds, drinking wine and sampling our beloved Berkshires cheeses. Wild swimming encouraged. June 25-28, 2025For the full program and registration, please visit: https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/rap-events/rap-25th-anniversary/rap-25th-anniversary‍

October 28, 2024
Center for Italian Modern Art

Center for Italian Modern Art is Closing

Center for Italian Modern Art will bring its mission to a close at the end of our current exhibition, on June 22, 2024. For more information, and a letter from the director: https://italianmodernart.org/events/cima-is-closing/

October 28, 2024
Lunder Institute

Lunder Institute Announces its 2024/2025 Fellows: Dylan Robinson and Legacy Russell

Lunder Institute announces that Dylan Robinson and Legacy Russell have been selected for yearlong fellowships with the Lunder Institute for American Art. Robinson and Russell are each multifaceted scholars whose practices include curatorial, scholarly, and creative aspects. Both fellowships will begin this month and span a full year, including opportunities for engagement with Colby’s campus community during the upcoming academic year.Robinson is a Stó:lō scholar and artist, and member of the Skwah First Nation. His curatorial work includes Soundings, a touring exhibition that features an ever-growing number of art-scores by Indigenous artists. Other work includes Caring for Our Ancestors, a project that seeks to reconnect kinship with Indigenous life incarcerated in museums. His book Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies examines Indigenous and settler colonial practices of listening.Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen. She will utilize her fellowship to advance her research on what she calls “networked” or “memetic” Blackness—the ways in which Black visual vernacular transmits memetically through and beyond cybercultures as a form of data transfer. Rising out of the thought surrounding her new book BLACK MEME, she is keen to take a new turn in spiraling outward from that research and instead explore further how the framework of the “meme” is applied as a form of performative cultural expression.Image: Dylan Robinson; Legacy Russell, photo by Mina Alyeshmerni.‍

October 28, 2024
Yale Center for British Art

Register for Landscape Symposium at YCBA

Register for "A Legacy of Landscape Study" at the Yale Center for British Art co-sponsored with Oak Spring Garden Foundation.The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and Oak Spring Garden Foundation (OSGF) share a legacy of landscape study rooted in the collections of Paul and Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon. While the Mellons’ collecting practices differed, they both gathered significant materials in the history of British environments, horticulture, and landscapes. Notable examples include Paul Mellon’s paintings and prints by George Stubbs and J. M. W. Turner and Bunny Mellon’s garden treatises and Humphrey Repton Red Books. From these origins, the YCBA’s extensive collection of British art has encouraged generations of new scholarship on British landscape art, while OSGF has become a leading research institution for the global histories and futures of gardens, landscapes, and plants. Inspired by this legacy of collecting and scholarship, the YCBA and OSGF are hosting a symposium at Yale to bring together new interdisciplinary research on British landscape studies.By commingling the diversity of approaches to the histories and depictions of landscapes and environments represented by the two institutions, this symposium aims to generate new scholarly conversation about the intersections of British culture, ecology, and land.This symposium will be held at Hastings Hall, Yale School of Architecture, on December 5–6, 2024. For more information, please email sarah.leonard@yale.edu. ‍

October 28, 2024
Lewis Walpole Library

Lewis Walpole Library Announces their Fellows for the 2024-2025 Academic Year

The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of the Yale University Library since 1980, is an internationally recognized research collection in the field of British eighteenth-century studies. Its unrivaled collection of Walpoliana includes half the traceable volumes from Horace Walpole’s famous library at Strawberry Hill and many letters and other manuscripts by him. The library’s book and manuscript collections, numbering over 32,000 volumes, cover all aspects of eighteenth-century British culture.The library is also home to one of the most important collections of eighteenth-century British graphic art outside the British Museum; its 35,000 satirical prints, portraits, and topographical views are an incomparable resource for visual material on many facets of English life of the period. For more information on the Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year, please follow the link:https://walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/fellowship-awards/2024-2025-award-recipients

October 17, 2024
Lunder Institute for American Art

Lunder Institute @

The Colby College Museum of Art’s Lunder Institute for American Art has invited six prominent art institutions across the nation to respond to this question as part of its new initiative, Lunder Institute @. Starting in February 2024, the de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco will host the first Lunder Institute @ program, followed by The Broad in Los Angeles, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and finally, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

October 3, 2024
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