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.

“It was the greatest art theft in history: 650,000 works looted from Europe by the Nazis, many of which were never recovered. But last November the world learned that German authorities had found a trove of 1,280 paintings, drawings, and prints worth more than a billion dollars in the Munich apartment of a haunted white-haired…

The Times Union writer Amy Griffin introduces an exhibition, “Big and Bold : Contemporary Art from the Albany Institute’s Collection”     Where : Albany Institute of History and Art When : Through March 2 Info : 518-463-4478; http://www.albanyinstitute.org  

Times Union writer Amy Griffin interviewed artist Jenny Kemp, discussing her paintings in three exhibits in the region.

The Wall Street Journal By Daniel Grant Nov. 10, 2013 4:18 p.m. ET For graduates, job prospects and satisfaction are surprisingly high Think that art school dooms graduates to a life of unemployment? The numbers paint a very different picture.”Artists can have good careers, earning a middle-class income,” says Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown University’s…

Article from the Times Union, By Amy Biancolli RPI students offer their visions for revamping Schenectady’s miSci. Published 9:53 am, Friday, November 8, 2013   The designs are flights of fancy of fancy — swirling confections of white and light and shadow, some resembling spiky alien landscapes. One might be an offshoot of the Guggenheim in…