Visiting Professors


Visiting Professorships are offered to scholars whose work plays a defining role in the discipline of art history and who are willing to share their research with the Courtauld community formally (through lectures and seminars) and informally for a period of one to five weeks.

Jonathan D Katz (Associate Professor and Chair, Visual Studies Doctoral Program, University at Buffalo; Guest Curator, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery ) is the Research Forum/Terra Foundation Visiting Professor for the period 2 November to 4 December 2009. Professor Katz is a specialist on the artists of the Cold War period, has drawn attention to the dominance of queer artists in this homophobic period and has developed pioneering analyses of the iconography of codes and hidden messages in the work of artists, registering resistance to societal norms in the form of silences, chance, emptiness and coding.  He has a book forthcoming Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and the Collective Closet: How Queer Artists Came to Dominate Cold War American Art (University of Chicago Press). At the Courtauld, he will be giving a Research Seminar for the Modern and Contemporary Section,  Participatory Eros: The Art of Seductive Embodiment Before the Sexual Revolution (16 November, 17.30, Research Forum South Room).   He will be also leading a series of seminars on Eros and the 1960s for Professor Mignon Nixon’s MA Informed: Art, Sex, War, and Gender Politics since 1960.

Malcolm Bull (Ruskin School of Drawing, University of Oxford) is the Research Forum/Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor for the academic year 2009-10.  He will be teaching, in collaboration with Dr. Julian Stallabrass, the MA Aestheticising Politics? The Political in Globalised Contemporary Art. This course explores the globalisation of contemporary art after the fall of Eastern European Communism, notably the increasing number of international biennales, and the rising of artists from the ‘developing world’ in the global arts scene.  Critical and theoretical texts are examined in this course, which also includes a series of in-depth case studies, focusing on current exhibitions, artist lectures and visits to artists or curators.


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Visiting Curators


The appointment of Visiting Curator is offered to distinguished curators, who are invited to work in the Courtauld Gallery collection and to collaborate with Courtauld Gallery staff on projects relating to the interpretation and display of the Courtauld's collections.

Dr. Holm Bevers (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin) has been appointed Visiting Curator for 2009-10.

The 2008 Visiting Curator was Michael Bury, Reader and Head of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. Michael Bury surveyed the Courtauld Gallery's collection of fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italian prints, with a view to establishing a cataloguing project. He considered the content, origins, arrangement and use of this Courtauld collection. Throughout the spring term, he held a series of seminars on the study of Italian prints; in January, he offered graduate students and staff four master-classes on the study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century prints (principally Italian).



Visiting Conservators


The appointment of Visiting Conservator is offered to conservators whose work plays a defining role in the discipline and who are willing to share their research with the Courtauld community formally (through lectures and seminars) and informally for a period of one to five weeks.


In 2008-09, the first Visiting Conservator was Charlotte Hale, who currently holds the post of Conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Charlotte completed the Postgraduate course in easel paintings conservation in 1983 after taking her first degree in Art History at UCL. She worked at the National Gallery in Washington and moved to her present post at the Met 20 years ago. Her visit occured from 20 to 31October, during which time she presented several lectures and seminars.

 

The second Visiting Conservator for last academic year was Dr Ella Hendriks, Head of Conservation, van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, who will be also Visiting Conservator for 2009-10. She visited the Courtauld for a week in March and will be returning for a second week in September 2009.  Dr Hendriks gave a series of lectures and seminars concerning the technical study of Van Gogh's paintings, and conducted workshops with the staff and students of the Conservation & Technology Department.