First Tuesday

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, detail of Proverbs, 1559 (Gemaldegalerie, Berlin)

First Tuesday is an opportunity for the faculty and students in the Department of Art History to meet informally to talk about current issues in art and architecture. On the first Tuesday of every month during the academic year, in a casual setting, faculty and students can chat about items in the news, recent scholarship, current research, and other matters of interest in the field of art and architectural history, museums, galleries, and the intellectual life of the discipline.  An added plus: we provide pizza, cookies, soft drinks, and coffee!

Remaining schedule for Fall 2009

November 3 - 12:10 p.m., Klingenstein Lounge.  Some possible topics:

• Op Ed: "To Catch a Looter" (New York Times, 10/12/09) (looting and repatriation, in Peru and Iraq)
• The new Acropolis Museum in Athens: arguments for and against returning the "Elgin Marbles"
  • e.g., "Greece Unveils Museum Meant for 'Stolen' Sculptures" (NPR)
• "A 3,500-Year-Old Queen Causes a Rift Between Germany and Egypt" (New York Times, 10/18/09 (Egypt asks for repatriation of a famous work that has been in Germany since 1913)
• Review of the movie "Untitled" (2009): "The Question: Is It Art? The Answer: Ambiguous" (New York Times, 10/23/09): about a movie that the review characterizes as an "acutely witty art-world satire"
  • click here for the movie's website

December 1 - 12:10 p.m., Klingenstein Lounge; possible topics TBA