UPDATE: Contested Visions in the Spanish American World has received the 2012 Eleanor Tufts Award from the Association for Spanish Art Historical Studies “for a distinguished book in English on the history of art and architecture in Iberia.” The award … Continued
Assistant Professor Roxana Pérez-Méndez’s new installation, 24K (24 Quilates), brings together new and recent works by the Philadelphia based, Puerto Rican artist. Remixing popular culture and unmasking histories of the colonization, this new presentation in the series alludes to gold’s … Continued
Congratulations to Associate Professor John Bowles on the publication of his essay “New Negro on the Pacific Rim: Sargent Johnson’s Afro-Asian Sculpture” in the Smithsonian Press volume East-West Interchanges in American Art: A Long and Tumultuous Relationship, edited by Cynthia … Continued
UPDATE 2: Dr. Sherman has done it again! French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire: 1945-1975 has been awarded the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize for the best book published during the previous year dealing with the French Colonial experience from 1848 to … Continued
One Day Only! Prints, Ceramics, Photos, Drawings and more. Great deals on original student artwork. Cash or check please. Friday, December 9, 11:00 am – 9:00 pm Hanes Art Center Room 301 (Print Studio) Presented by the UNC Art Department, … Continued
Don’t Touch the Ground, an exhibition of new installation and sculpture by MFA candidate Lee Delegard, is on display in the Durham Art Guild‘s Room 100 gallery at Golden Belt from August 19-October 2, 2011. Read a brief review in … Continued
Izel Vargas CLC (Carolina Latina/o Collaboraive) featured artist, fall 2010 Artist lecture and gallery visit 6 pm Thursday, November 4, 2010 At the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative For directions visit clc.unc.edu Free and open to the public Come enjoy Izel Vargas’s artist lecture and mixed-media … Continued
Ross Barrett, Assistant Professor and David G. Frey Fellow in American Art, has been awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for his article “Rioting Refigured: George Henry Hall and the Picturing of American Political Violence” (The Art Bulletin, September 2010) … Continued
EXTENDED! DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND THE SHOW WILL BE ON VIEW UNTIL JANUARY 27, 2012 UPDATE: Check out the article in the DTH about the Curatorial Projects Class and putting this exhibition together! Also featured in the Independent Weekly as … Continued