#faculty writings

“The Met as a Mirror,” a retrospective post by Peter Hristoff about his residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peter Hristoff’s tenure as Artist in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is nearing its end, and he has written a final essay for the museum’s website that looks back at his time there. In addition to covering some of the projects he was involved with over the last few months and his engagement with various objects in the museum’s collection, the article features images, videos, and links…

This Tuesday, April 12th at 7 pm – Kara Rooney in “Bad Girls and Brooklynites: The Review Panel” at the Brooklyn Public Library

Tomorrow (Tuesday the 12th) at 7 pm, VCS faculty member Kara Rooney will take part in “Bad Girls and Brooklynites: The Review Panel” at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Cultural Center. Here’s a little about the event from a recent listing on artcritical.com: Three Brooklyn-based critics join David Cohen at the podium April 12 for The Review Panel at Brooklyn Public Library in what should be…

Lynn Gamwell’s “Why the history of maths is also the history of art” featured in The Guardian’s Adventures in Numberland blog

Earlier this week, VCS faculty member Lynn Gamwell had an article on mathematics and art published on Alex Bellos’s maths blog in The Guardian. Titled “Why the history of maths is also the history of art,” the piece features Gamwell’s discussion of ten artworks from her new book Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press, 2015). In this introductory passage, she explains…

Lynn Gamwell to present a paper on Sigmund Freud and Art this weekend at the Helix Center

This weekend, VCS faculty member Lynn Gamwell will present her paper “Sigmund Freud and Art” during the conference A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today at the The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation in New York. The bilingual (French/English) colloquium is co-presented by the Helix Center and L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud, and will span two…

This Thursday evening at The Drawing Center: a reading of new works by Jeremy Sigler

Jeremy Sigler (via The Drawing Center) This Thursday, November 5th at 6:30 pm, The Drawing Center will host a reading of new writings by poet and VCS faculty member Jeremy Sigler. Here’s more about the event from the Center’s website: Jeremy Sigler will read a selection of new prose poems, including Not to Brag, which was written for the catalogue accompanying Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men, curated…

Occupy Poetics, curated by Thom Donovan

Today’s post comes from writer and VCS faculty member Thom Donovan, who recently curated Occupy Poetics, a book of responses to the Occupy movement by 21 writers and artists. Here is an excerpt from Thom’s preface to the book:   Writing With the Event   The following texts, composed between 2011 and 2014, represent a series of responses to an event that arguably has not ceased: Occupy. In…

An essay by VCS Department Chair Tom Huhn in Vision Anew, from UC Press

We are happy to announce that Tom Huhn, the Chair of Visual & Critical Studies, has contributed an essay on the fate of photography to the new collection of essays on the lens and screen arts. (See below for more information on the book.) The following description of Vision Anew is quoted from the University of California Press website. (Click on the cover image or the link above to visit the…

Blurbs by Tom Huhn for two recently published books on photography and painting

          A few weeks ago, VCS Department Chair Tom Huhn told me that a couple new academic press art books were about to be released with dust jacket blurbs quoted from advance reviews he’d written for the publishers. Last week he showed me his copies of the books, so I scanned the covers and Tom’s comments and thought I’d share them here.

First up is Photography and Its Violationsby John…