

Postcard from Istanbul: Dr. Lewis Johnson, Fall 21 Randall Chair
In Fall 2021 the Art History Division is very excited to host Dr. Lewis Johnson as our Randall Chair Visiting Scholar. The Randall Chair was established in 2007 to honor the legacy of artist and educator Theodore Randall who is remembered as the architect of the School of Art and Design at Alfred and as a significant artist and organizer in the field. Adrián Villar Rojas, The Most Beautiful of All Mothers, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Trotsky House, Büyükada, 2015. It is now more


16mm outdoor film screening of James Benning's Ten Skies
On April 22 and 23, Assistant Professor James Hansen hosted an outdoor 16mm film screening of artist James Benning's Ten Skies. The film was rented from Canyon Cinema. A book on the film is soon to be published by Fireflies Press. https://firefliespress.com/TEN-SKIES-Erika-Balsom Ten shots of the sky, each ten minutes long. That’s all it takes to describe James Benning’s film from 2004. And yet, this simplicity conceals a rich and absorbing drama, one of the great works of t