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The lecture hall at the Bard Graduate Center

The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture in New York has been awarded a $152,761 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to initiate a four-week NEH Summer Institute in July 2011 for college teachers to study “American Material Culture: Nineteenth-Century New York.” With leading practitioners from this multidisciplinary field as its faculty, the institute will focus on nineteenth-century artifactual materials, with an emphasis on New York City as a national center for fashioning cultural commodities and promoting consumer tastes.

Socratis Mavrommatis’s digital photograph Aphrodite (2005) next to a plaster cast of Amazon at the Bellarmine Museum of Art (photograph by Katherine A. Schwab)

Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, has just opened the Bellarmine Museum of Art. Comprising three galleries and an ancillary corridor, the museum will be a dynamic center of learning for students, art professionals, and the general public. Loans and gifts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters in New York and the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, have enhanced the Bellarmine’s core permanent collection.

The Fashion Institute of Technology has recently established a master of fine arts in illustration, housed in the School of Graduate Studies. The program was developed in response to a growing demand for professional illustration excellence and expertise, particularly in the film and entertainment industries. The terminal MFA in illustration replaces the master of arts in the same area, previously offered at the school, and is the only program of its kind offered by an institution in the State University of New York system.

Duke House of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (photograph provided by the Institute of Fine Arts)

The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University has established a new master of arts in the history of art and archaeology. The program is designed for those who want to study the history and role of the visual arts in culture and society through detailed, object-based examination, historical analysis, and critical interpretation. Students interested in careers in art museums, galleries, auction houses, cultural centers, arts foundations, or archaeological sites may earn an advanced degree without the commitment to a doctoral program.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Homer and His Guide, 1874, oil on canvas, 82¼ x 56¼ in. Milwaukee Art Museum. Layton Art Collection, Gift of Frederick Layton, L1888.5 (artwork in the public domain)

The Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin has accepted a $2.7 million donation over three years from Kohl’s department stores. The funds, coming from the Kohl’s Cares cause-merchandise program, will continue supporting the Kohl’s Art Generation program, launched in 2008, as well as create new programs for kids and families.

The School of Visual Arts in New York will offer a master of fine arts in art practice beginning summer 2011. The low-residency, interdisciplinary program of study allows experienced artists an opportunity to deepen their studio practice and to develop an advanced body of work under the guidance of some of the world’s foremost artists and critics. David A. Ross will serve as chair.

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