Congratulations to second-year graduate student Dada Wang who
will present her paper “Reframing Narratives of Water Control:
Mechanisms of Resistance in Chinese Performance Art” at the Mary
L. Cornille Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium in the
History of Art & Architecture on April 2.
In a celebration long delayed by the pandemic, the UC Davis
Foundation on Feb. 4 honored Sacramento business owner and
philanthropist Rita Gibson (B.A., art history ’82) as
the 2020 winner of the university’s Charles J. Soderquist Award.
On Thursday, January 20th, Professor Talinn Grigor will
participate in the vrtual symposium “Surrealism Beyond Borders”
sponsored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Caitlin Schwarz (M.A.,’ 19) explores Victorian mourning culture
with a focus on how the Victorians celebrated romantic and
familial love through jewelry and other everyday objects in her
public lecture ”‘Til Death Do Us Part: How the Victorians
Kept Love Alive from Beyond the Grave.”
Professor Talinn Grigor explores the ruins of Persepolis in
the aftermath of its excavation by Ernst Herzfeld in a public
lecture entitled “Persepolis After Lindon Smith: The Modernist
Afterlife of the Ruins.”
Alumnus and philanthropist Alan Templeton (B.A., art history and
psychology, ‘82) recently received the highest honor U.C. Davis
bestows: the UC Davis Medal.
First year Art History graduate student Srđan Tunić, along with his
colleagues in Street Art Belgrade, have just completed a
project dedicated to making street art accessible to blind
and visually impaired individuals using 3D printing technology.
How have artists and arts workers been conducting their careers
and their lives during the last eighteen months? In a piece
written for SF MOMA’s Open Space, alum Daniel Trejo
(B.A., art history and art studio, ‘13) shares his experiences of
making art in the Sacramento region as a Latinx
artist in “Thoughts
at 70 mph”.
Professor Katharine Burnett participated in the latest Asian
Food Study Conference with her talk on ”How Do We Know When
Culture Crosses the Border? The Case of Sino-Viet Teapots before
1700.”
In a recent
opinion piece in Newsweek, Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh
discusses a pair of lawsuits now before the International Court
of Justice and their possible impact on the prevention of
cultural heritage destruction and accountability for destruction.
Professor Katharine Burnett’s new book Shaping Chinese Art
History: Pang Yuanji and His Painting Collection has made
Book Authority’s 16 Best New Art History Books To Read In 2021.
The Verge Center for the Art’s original documentary
series About the Artist: Making Art in the Golden
State premiers Thursday, July 22 with an episode
featuring alum and Sacramento-based artist Manuel
Fernando Rios (M.F.A., ‘11).
Sculpture Collections in Europe and the United States
1500-1930: Variety and Ambiguity includes a chapter
contribution — “Porcelain as Sculpture: Medium, Materiality, and
the Categories of Eighteenth-Century Collecting” — by Professor
Michael Yonan.
Michael Yonan, Professor of Art History and the Alan
Templeton Endowed Chair in the History of European Art, recently
published an article in Materia: Journal of Technical Art
History entitled “Technical Art History and the Art
Historical Thing.”
Professor Talinn Grigor, chair of Art History, has just launched
her most recent book The Persian Revival: The
Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture.
This book, published by Penn State University Press, will
be released July 8.
The Courtauld Institute in London recently conducted a panel
discussion on “Post-conflict: Art History and Cultural Heritage
in Dialogue” which featured Professors Heghnar Watenpaugh and
Talinn Grigor.
The Art and Art History Club is open to all art studio and art
history majors, minors, and friends. Our purpose is to learn
about and discuss all things relating to art and art history. We
do this through open discussions at meetings, going on field
trips to art museums and galleries, watching art-related movies,
selling student-made art, and promoting art education. We are
working hard to create an art community among UC Davis
undergraduates.
