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S. Hollis Clayson, professor of art history in Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and director of Northwestern University’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, has been appointed the 2013-14 Samuel H. Kress Professor at the National Gallery of Art.
The professorship is among the highest honors in the field of art history.
With the appointment, Clayson will become the senior resident scholar at the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). In addition to pursuing her own research, she will counsel predoctoral fellows at the center.
A historian of modern art who specializes in 19th-century Europe and transatlantic exchanges between France and the United States, Clayson is author of “Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era” and “Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life Under Siege (1870-71).” She is co-editor of “Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained,” which has been translated into six languages.
At CASVA, Clayson, Northwestern’s Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, will complete “Electric Paris,” a book exploring the visual cultures of the City of Light in the era of Thomas Edison.
Clayson was honored for her work two years ago by the Art Institute of Chicago and has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Getty Research Institute, the Clark Art Institute and The Huntington Library.
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts was founded by the National Gallery of Art to study the production, use and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, photography and film.
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IN MEMORIAM Melanie Michailidis
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February 6, 2013 1:02:46 PM EST
Anonymous
very sad! its true that she no more with us… but through her works she will always be there forever. may her soul be in peace.
February 6, 2013 9:51:27 PM EST
Caroline A Jones
As I wrote to her family, Melanie was a wonderful part of the HTC community. She was already an accomplished "doctorand" when I came to MIT. I found her simply lovely to be with — whenever we had reason to meet in my office, I felt refreshed by the interaction. Her quiet humor made each little bureaucratic obstacle seem like an amusing pebble on the path — something one might briefly pick up, observe, and then put in its place along the way, while one blithely moved ahead.
It is a good plan to publish her works, and something we can truly do as a community to make sure her voice is not stilled. Surely her lilting grace will come through in those printed words.
February 7, 2013 11:14:05 AM EST
Anonymous
Melanie was visiting lecturer at UC Davis at the same time I was there in a similar position. As we were having lunch together one day, we got to speak about archival research and she told me about her time in the archives in Central Asia. I was impressed: I have worked in archives too, but her words and a spark in her eyes made me think that her experience there had been superior to what I had imagined possible in archives. We talked about friendship, and I complained that temporary academic positions make it harder to invest in friendships. For how long are we going to share the same people and places? She listened sympathetically, but then she smiled and told me about her love for milongas and for tango, and again I felt that she was not afraid of challenges, that she enjoyed life at its fullest. I will miss her.
February 7, 2013 12:13:21 PM EST The Made in Italy brand needs no introduction, particularly within the design sphere. Among its many luminaries stands a post-war Italian design pioneer who tirelessly crafted over 2000 projects. He effortlessly navigated diverse fields, creating a wide array of items from furniture to children’s books, puzzles, and games. Moreover, through his concept of ‘Autoprogettazione,’ he empowered anyone to create their own furniture pieces. Who was this remarkable Italian designer? Enzo Mari. Enzo Mari (27 April 1932 – 19 October 2020) was not only a prominent figure in the world of design from Milan. He was also revered as a thought leader, teacher, and theorist. Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential designers of the 20th century and often hailed as the ‘conscience of design,’ Mari was renowned for his fearless critiques of the design industry and his unwavering commitment to the societal impact of design—a conviction that resonates deeply even today. That’s why anticipation is mounting for March 29, when the Design Museum of London will unveil the first-ever solo exhibition dedicated to Enzo Mari in the UK. This momentous celebration of his prolific six-decade career is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Francesca Giacomelli, Mari’s trusted studio collaborator, designer, curator, and researcher. Supported by Istituto Marangoni London, the retrospective promises to be a comprehensive exploration of Mari’s multifaceted work, featuring over 300 objects, many of which have never been displayed in the UK before. Share What do bubble tea pearls and tapioca cakes have in common with Brazilianfarofa and pão de queijo (cheese buns)? The answer is cassava, a woody shrub also known as manioc, yuca or mandioca. Check out these five interesting things to know about the humble root vegetable. Brazilian farofa and bubble tea pearls have more in common than you think. (Photo courtesy of Instituto Paulo Machado.) Cassava is known by many other names: manioc, mandioca, yuca, tapioca.
Anonymous
Although I did not know Melanie, but her untimely death is affecting me in How Enzo Mari changed design forever
1. Cassava is indigenous to Brazil.
After rice and maize, cassava is the third largest source of carbohydrates in the tropics. It is indigenous to Brazil and is cultivated in most tropical parts of the Americas. After the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese, the crop spread all over the tropical world, especially in Africa, where it is now an important everyday staple, providing up to half of all calories consumed.2. It has its own legend.
There is an Amazonian folktale told of a daughter of an indigenous Tupi chief who became pregnant out of wedlock. That night, in a dream, a man dressed like a warrior appeared to the enraged chief and told him that his daughter was going to bear a great gift for his people.
In time, she gave birth to a baby girl whose hair and skin were as white as the moon. Tribes from far and wide came to visit the unusual, beautiful newborn named Mani. At the end of a year, the child died unexpectedly without showing any signs of illness. She was buried inside her oca (which means "house" in the Tupi-Guarani language) and her mother watered the grave every day, as was the custom of her tribe.
Soon, a strange plant began to grow upon her grave and when the people opened it, they found a white root instead of the child’s body. The root saved them from famine and became a staple food that they named manioca, or “house of Mani.” 3. Cassava is poisonous in its raw form.
The roots and leaves of cassava contain cyanide, a poisonous substance that