I co-organized the current contemporary design exhibition at MoMA, titled This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good. I co-authored a post describing the impetus behind the show, here.
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More details on the paper session I’ll be participating in here.
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ArtHistoryTeachingResources.org launches new site design and content
ArtHistoryTeachingResources.org launches new site design and content. In 2011, I set out with my colleague and AHTR co-founder, Karen Shelby, to better support peer discussion and collaboration teaching the art history survey. We built a site and started to create and support content; four years and several grants (including a Kress) later, we re-launched the…
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I co-authored a post on some exciting new acquisitions we made at MoMA!
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On October 14, 2014, the exhibition Digital Typefaces opened at the Hyundai Card Design Library in Seoul, Korea. The exhibition is curated by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator in MoMA’s Architecture and Design Department, and Michelle Millar Fisher, Curatorial Assistant and Art History PhD Candidate at the Graduate Center, in collaboration with the Hyundai Card Design…
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October 2014. Two reviews for ARTnews. PDFs here and here.
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October 2014. I co-authored a reflection on MoMA’s Design and Violence exhibition with senior curator Paola Antonelli. See the full post here.
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Post on the Society of Architectural Historians Blog on–you guessed it–Corbu’s legacy. July 2014.
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I reviewed two exhibitions for the summer 2014 issue of ARTnews. PDFs here and here.
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I participated in the 2014 closing celebrations of the Frick-Columbia Narrative Medicine program partnership, giving a gallery talk on the wonders of Hogarth’s Miss Mary Edwards.
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Collection Object Entries for the Currier Museum of Art
I wrote extended collection entries for works by Donald Judd, Catherine Opie, Anthony Caro, Liz Nofziger, Layla Ali, and Chris Taylor as part of the Collections Access Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currier Museum of Art Collections. 2014
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“Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings at Bernard Jacobson Gallery,” ARTnews, May 2014. PDF here.
Read More“This is for Everyone,” Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the World Wide Web. Co-authored with Paola Antonelli. May 2014.
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“Why Digital Art History?”
Peer-reviewed. Co-authored with Anne Swartz. “Why Digital Art History?” Journal of Visual Resources, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2014. [PDF]
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Design and Violence is a curatorial experiment organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA and Jamer Hunt, Director, graduate program in Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons The New School for Design, and myself. Check it out here. I’ve worked on the project during my time at MoMA, both online, as a contributing…
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I gave a paper, culled from part of my dissertation research, titled “Nothing is Transmissible but Thought: Le Corbusier’s Radiant Farm Made Real,” at the April 2014 Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, in Austin, TX.
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Translating Utopia: FSA Architecture and Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse
March 2014 California Design Colloquium, UC Berkeley, CA. The California Design Research Group, which comprises scholars in the University of California system whose research concerns Californian architecture, landscape architecture, and design, held its first bi-annual Graduate Student Colloquium: NEW THINKING ABOUT CALIFORNIA. PhD candidates from Europe and the United States presented papers on topics addressing Californian architecture,…
Read MoreMarch 2014 Panel on Open Educational Resources, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
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February 2014 Annual College Art Association Conference (CAA), Chicago I oversaw the successful realization of the College Art Association’s Digital Humanities THATCamp at CAA 2014. I maintained the collaboratively authored THATCamp website, and researched, invited, programmed and directed a three day conference for ninety digital humanities innovators in collaboration with Anne Swartz of Savannah College…
Read MoreFrick Forum Evening Class–“What is Art History?” Over three weeks, my evening class explored the question “What is Art History?” through gender, technology, aesthetics and criticism, looking at sixteenth-century bronzes, works by Monet, Whistler and Cy Twombly, and curious eyes.
Read More“dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany,” Exhibition Review, SECAC Review, XLIV, December, 2013. [PDF]
Read MoreDecember 2013 12th Annual CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY
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One of the most poignant signs I saw waved during the Occupy Movement was held by a young woman who politely advised The System to “F**k your free internships.” Free intern labor wasn’t ever right, but it has become glaringly unethical in the current post-Lehman-crash era. That protest placard highlighted the unpaid internship as a simultaneous symptom…
Read MoreThe digital humanities project I founded in 2011, arthistoryteachingresources.org, was awarded a $25,000 institutional grant to support further exploration and development. The site reaches 80+ countries as a peer-network for discussing and disseminating art history pedagogy.
Read MoreNovember 2013 Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Annual Conference, Atlantic City, NJ
Read MoreNovember 2013 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Annual Conference, NJ Paper: Le Corbusier’s Radiant City in Diaspora
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October 2013 Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute Faculty Roundtable, Baruch College, NY I led a workshop on interdisciplinarity and the arts. See the Prezi here.
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I won a Knickerbocker American Studies Dissertation Proposal Research Grant, Summer 2013, and headed to California for a deep dive into archives and site research.
Read MorePainting, Identity and Modern Life Three-part course: July 9, 10 & 11, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Michelle Fisher, Adjunct Lecturer in Art History, Parsons The New School for Design Participate in three conversations that reflect on identity and modernity in the nineteenth century. How did painters such as Manet, Monet, and Renoir use their canvases to…
Read MoreAn archive of one iteration of one of the courses I teach at Parsons The New School For Design.
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Poster Session Co-presenter for Art History Teaching Resources at the February 2013 Annual College Art Association Conference (CAA), New York.
Read MoreCollection Entries: Lyle Ashton Harris, Jiro Takamatsu, Eduardo Paolozzi, Serge Poliakoff, Pablo Palazuelo, Jean-Paul Riopelle. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, 2012.
Read MorePanel Co-chair: “Building and Collaborating: Case Studies in Digital Scholarship”
Read More“My main concern was that, unlike at my previous place of work (the Guggenheim Museum), I hadn’t found any basic template or peer-to-peer platform for sharing teaching resources. I felt like I’d spent a semester reinventing a very linear wheel. I was searching for the conversations teachers of all levels have (or don’t get to…
Read MoreFall 2012–a semester of exploring the history of the nineteenth century through visual arts and architecture.
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DAAD Summer Language Fellowship in Berlin, July/August 2012
Read MoreJune 2012 Communicating the Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Panel Chair: “Art & Luxury Brands: Creative Partnerships”
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Read the full post here. “It’s a show that, on the surface at least, is about things I’m happily distanced from – organized sports, parental rules, teen angst, and curfews – and I was going to write about something completely different this month (ie. something germane to Art 21 and Open Enrollment, something to do…
Read MoreFebruary 2012 Art and the Mind: Neuroaesthetics, Phenomenology, and the Experience of Vision, University of Southern California (USC), LA Paper: Ferocious Fighting Men: A Phenomenological Reading of the Berserker Chessmen.
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One of my favorite courses I’ve ever taught–not least because of the amazing students I got to know during the semester. See an archive of all of our conversations on the art market here, from 2012.
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I wrote on the Lewis chessmen, part of a longer research paper into the medieval beserker and hallucinogenic sight. “Armed to the Teeth: The Lewis Chessmen,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition Blog, December 20, 2011. [PDF]
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Beginning in the 1970s and exploding in use recently, curators and artists have claimed the terms “discursive turn” and “pedagogy” to describe elements of their practice within museums. My interest lies in neither curators, nor contemporary artists per se, but artist-educators. This paper, “Museum Education and the Pedagogic Turn,” for the journal ARTWRIT concerns a…
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I responded to the symposium “Art Speech” held at MoMA in 2011: “What is “art speech” and how does it function and change across contexts, as art practice, interpretive gesture, vehicle of critique or connoisseurial, canonical voice? Is the spoken word just a lesser afterimage of text or is art speech always more compelling in person? Part…
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BOOK REVIEW “Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania by Dianne Suzette Harris,” Book Review, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 2011), pp. 119-121. Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center. [JSTOR] [PDF]
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April 2011 Reconsidering Historiography 1900-1960, Art History Graduate Student Symposium, The CUNY Graduate Center, NY My great colleague and fellow architectural historian Sam Sadow and I organized this graduate student conference. Collected papers were later included in the Journal of Art Historiography Number 5, December 2011.
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March 2011 The Now Museum Symposium, The New Museum, NY Paper: When is an artist not an artist? Artists, Museum Education, and Hierarchies of Contemporaneity. I also wrote about this conference/summed up my paper there for Art21.
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“Song Dong,” Slashstroke Magazine, 2010.
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