The Art History Newsletter

Sarah K. Kozlowski studies fourteenth- and fifteenth-century art in Italy and Europe. She received her PhD in December 2010 from the History of Art Department at Yale, where she wrote a dissertation entitled "Convergences of Portrait, Icon, and Tomb in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Naples." Her current book project studies Naples as a node in a Mediterranean and European cultural network and as a laboratory for emerging concepts of art.


Kozlowski's Posts:

Ai Weiwei

15 April 2011 | Asia, Contemporary, Current Events

As the Chinese government’s detention of artist Ai Weiwei approaches the two-week mark, ArtInfo.com brings together the latest developments. Ai was arrested in Beijing on April 3, an event his studio assistants recorded on Twitter (translation here).  Evan Osnos reported on the day’s events in a New Yorker dispatch.  Police claim that Ai is being investigated [...]

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Creighton Gilbert, 1924-2011

14 April 2011 | Renaissance

The Renaissance art historian Creighton Gilbert died on April 6, 2011.  On his life and career see the entry in the Dictionary of Art Historians.  We will post an obituary when it appears in the press.

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Leo Steinberg, 1920-2011

14 April 2011 | Modern, Renaissance

The great art historian and critic Leo Steinberg died in New York City on March 13, 2011. Steinberg, more than any other historian of Renaissance art, believed in the power of pictorial structure to generate meaning. On Steinberg’s life and work see the New York Times obituary and the entry in the online Dictionary of [...]

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