Isabel Wünsche received a research fellowship from the
National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina for the
academic year 2007-2008. During her 9-months stay at the NHC, she will
complete the English book publication on the Organic School of the Russian
Avant-Garde.
An expanded version
of the exhibition "Technical Detours: the Early Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered"
curated by Oliver Botar, which opened at the Gallery
of the Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York last February and continued
on to the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University,
will be shown at the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pecs, Hungary from
December 20, 2007 - March 15, 2008. It will then go on to the Magyar
Nemzeti Galeria (Hungarian National Gallery) in Budapest, opening
in April. Revised Hungarian and English versions of the accompanying
book of the same title will appear with Vince Kiado, Budapest in time
for the Pecs opening.
Shulamith Behr contributed interpretive essays to the catalogue
of the Georg Baselitz retrospective, held at the Royal Academy 22
September – 9 December 2007, and wrote the gallery guide and
didactic panels for the exhibition. For the academic year 2007/8 she
is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and Visiting
Fellowships at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences
and Humanities and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Julie Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio, was awarded
a residential grant at the IFK Vienna (International Research Center
for Cultural Studies)from October 2007 to January 2008.
Brett Van Hoesen has a new position as Assistant Professor
of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Nevada,
Reno. In September, she presented the paper, "Modernity and Weimar
Re-Visions of Germany's Colonial Past: The Photomontages of Hannah
Höch and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy" at the conference, "Germany's
Colonialism in International Perspective" hosted by San Francisco
State University. See the website: http://www.sfsu.edu/~german/GCC/program.html
Brett will also present the paper, "Weimar Photomontage and the
Visual Legacy of German Colonialism" on the panel, "Visuality
and Colonial Empire: From Wilhelmine to Weimar Germany" at the
German Studies Association conference in October. She is currently
working on a book project in which she discusses the interrelationship
between photomontage, documentary photography and the visual legacy
of Germany's colonial past during the Weimar Republic.
Jay A. Clarke, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at
The Art Institute of Chicago, was awarded a grant from the American-Scandinavian
Foundation for research towards her forthcoming Edvard Munch exhibition
and publication. Clarke also received an award for "Outstanding
Essay of 2006" from the American Association of Museums Curators
for her article "Originality and Repetition in Edvard Munch's
'The Sick Child'" published in Edvard Munch: An Anthology,
ed. Erik Morstad (Oslo Academic Press, 2006).
Marion Deshmukh presented two invited lectures at the Goethe-Institut,
Washington DC: "Simplicissimus: Image and Satire in Imperial
Germany," (Sept. 2006) and "Caspar David Friedrich and German
Romanticism," (April, 2007). She moderated a session at a symposium
on German-American relations (The Cultural Dimension) at the American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC, in May,
2007. She also reviewed exhibition catalogue Glitter and Doom,
German Portraits of the 1920s (Sabine Rewald, ed., Metropolitan
Museum of Art, NY, 2007) for German Quarterly in 2007.