Article by Dr. Melody Davis Published on thealt.com March 29, 2017 David Salle’s March 23 talk at University at Albany, hosted by Joe Donahue and recorded by WAMC radio, was a promotional vehicle for Salle’s How to See: Looking, Talking and Thinking About Art, a new book of art criticism published by W. W. Norton. Beginning…
A Grant From The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seeds a $1.2 Million Initiative at Skidmore College to Explore Diversity and Collections at the Tang Teaching Museum SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (April 11, 2016) — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a substantial grant to Skidmore College to seed a $1.2 million, three-year initiative to strengthen…
A fake painting sold as an untitled Rothko from 1956. The New York Times Article: Knoedler Gallery Heads to Trial in Sale of a Fake Rothko The Wall Street Journal Article: Art-Forgery Trial: Freedman Ignored ‘Stark Warnings’ of Forgery ~~~
Lavishly illustrated study of historical narrative stereography and the story it tells about women and gender roles In this remarkable book, Melody Davis analyzes the underexamined genre of narrative stereoviews and their audiences. Because stereoviews were created for and marketed primarily to middle-class women in domestic settings, Davis argues that they represent one of the…
The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College has received a gift of more than 500 photos, including works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus. The donation comes from the collection of photographer-curator Jack Shear and spans the history of photography from its birth in the 1840s to contemporary works. Included in…
Science Shows Something Surprising About People Who Still Read Fiction By Gabe Burgado They tend to be more empathetic toward others. The study: A 2013 Emory University study looked at the brains of fiction readers. Researchers compared the brains of people after they read to the brains of people who didn’t read. The brains of the readers —…
Researcher spots Sleeping Lady with Black Vase by Robert Bereny being used as a prop in Hollywood children’s movie A long-lost avant garde painting has returned to Hungary after nine decades thanks to a sharp-eyed art historian, who spotted it being used as a prop in the Hollywood film Stuart Little. Gergely Barki, 43, a…
Professor Gabriel Weisberg has a strong specialization in the history of graphic art, design history, and visual culture in France and Europe from 1780-1920. He has a deep interest in the art nouveau period having taught graduate seminars and lecture courses in this area. His current research focuses on nineteenth-century Music-halls and in particular Jane…
Alyssa Schaff presented a paper at the 2014 Sage Undergraduate Research Symposium titled “Mail Art in the Work of Johnson and Banana.”
Congratulations to Marita Nurminen for her paper, “Magic and Spirituality in Art” —Winner of the Library Award for the Sage Graduate Schools, 2014.