We synopsize news and opinion of interest to art historians and provide original reporting on conferences, lectures, and other special events.
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Editor:
Jonathan Lackman is a PhD student at NYU. His dissertation (in progress) is “Invective in Mid-1800s French Art Criticism.” He has written for Slate, Harper’s, and The New Yorker.
Contributors:
Daniel Belasco is a PhD student at NYU. His article, “A Vanished Prodigy,” on filmmaker Barbara Rubin, appeared in the December 2005 Art in America.
Anne Byrd is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, writing her dissertation on Richard Serra, 1965-75. She presented “The Tache as Catastrophe: Cézanne’s Paintings of Bibémus Quarry” at the 2006 College Art Association meeting in Boston.
Allyson Drucker is a freelance writer and MA student at NYU. She also holds an MA from Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in the History of Decorative Arts and Design. She has worked at Cooper-Hewitt, and for private scholars and collectors in New York City.
Ross Finocchio is a PhD student at NYU. He also works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Katherine Howe is a PhD student in American Studies at Boston University. She has worked at the Museum of Modern Art and Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum.
Benjamin Lima reports from Germany, where he is doing research for his Yale art history PhD on Wolf Vostell, the major exponent of Happenings in 1960s Europe.