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Exhibition reviews by Art History Majors.
By Kassandra Ibrahim, FCRH 22′ The exhibition curated by students in Professor Jennifer Udell’s Museum Studies in Ancient Art course is particularly unique this academic year. Facing the Past will be on view from May 2021 until September 2021. Fifteen ancient Italian and Greek works …
By Kassandra Ibrahim, FCRH ’22 The Whitney Museum of American Art’s new exhibition “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist” explores the introspective work of Agnes Pelton. This exhibition, originally on view at the Phoenix Art Museum in 2019, allows viewers to step into the artist’s mental state. …
Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes By Kassandra Ibrahim, FCRH ’22 New York City is known for its abundance of art institutions, namely the larger and more well-known museums like the MET, the Guggenheim, and the MoMA. However, the richness of the city lies in the quality and quantity of smaller …
By Kassandra Ibrahim, FCRH ’22 Before the statewide shutdown that temporarily closed all of the museums in New York City, I visited the Museum of Modern Art for the first time. Last year, the museum underwent an expansive renovation, adding over forty thousand square feet …
By Kassandra Ibrahim, FCRH ’22 This fall, Fordham’s Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art opened a new exhibition entitled “Distant Relatives: Ancient Imagery of the Classical Pagan Past and Modern Byzantine Icons.” The exhibition features large mixed media collages by artist Joni Zavitsanos, whose …
Press room at Trifolio, an Italian printing company that works with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications and Editorial Department. Courtesy of Nicole Jordan. By Julie Hamon, 2018-2019 Art History Media Intern, FCLC 2019 Nicole Jordan graduated from Fordham Lincoln Center in 2018 with a …
Professor Elizabeth Buhe’s ARHI 3555 Global Contemporary Art Since 1989 at the SculptureCenter. Students got a private tour by the curator of the Other Objects show. They also got to meet two of the artists, including Rosa Sijben, who made the touch objects that the students …
By Julie Hamon, Art History Media Intern Over President’s Day Weekend, I took a trip to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA to see its newest installation by Pat Steir titled Silent Secret Waterfalls: The Barnes Series. The installation resides in the Annenberg Court, a …
Professor Caitlin Beach’s 19th Century Art class recently visited Shoestring Press, a printmaking workshop located in Crown Heights. The master printer of the workshop, Lane Sell, demonstrated different techniques in intaglio and lithography to the group. The students then enjoyed trying out the techniques and …
By Julie Hamon, FCLC 2019 I recently visited the Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (on view until April 23, 2019), and was amazed by the sheer amount and variety of af Klint’s featured artworks. I was initially interested …