How did you first become interested in Art History?
I grew up in a very artistic family, my Italian grandmother was an artist who went to the Accademia di Brera for scenography. Both of my aunts on my mother’s side are also artists. I spend my summers in the art-drenched hills of Tuscany, which certainly…
Continue reading >>An Evening with Gerard Malanga
Written by CIMA’s Summer 2021 Intern, Gizelle Greeley Winter.
On Wednesday, June 23rd, CIMA hosted its first in-person event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interview with poet, photographer, and filmmaker Gerard Malanga, which segued into a reading and book signing of his latest poetry collection The New Mélancholia (published in March of…
Continue reading >>Members only tour of the Frick Madison
Written by CIMA’s Spring 2021 intern, Clara Apostolatos.
On Tuesday June 8th, CIMA members and staff were invited to go on a private tour of the Frick collection, which is currently on display at the Breuer building while the Frick mansion is undergoing renovation and expansion. The former home of the Whitney Museum of American…
Continue reading >>Meet our new Summer 2021 intern: Gizelle Winter
How did you first become interested in art history?
In sixth grade, on a family trip to Costa Rica, I picked up The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and decided to become a symbologist. I have since learned that “symbology” doesn’t exist. Nevertheless, I remain fascinated by visual language: I think it’s beautiful that…
Continue reading >>Members only tour at TOTAH to view Mara De Luca’s ‘Lilith and the Sun’
Written by CIMA’s Spring 2021 intern, Clara Apostolatos.
For our most recent members only outing, CIMA visited TOTAH Gallery in the Lower East Side to view their current exhibit Lilith and the Sun, featuring new works by Mara De Luca (b. 1973). Gallery owner David Totah and Mara De Luca greeted our group at the…
Continue reading >>Ciao Richard
In memory of Richard Nonas (3 January, 1936–11 May, 2021).
“In my experience all sculptors fall into two categories in relation to photography: there are some that photograph their work as documentation, and only…
Continue reading >>MEET OUR SPRING 2021 FELLOW: MARICA ANTONUCCI
What do you find most interesting about Art History?
I have always been drawn to the ways in which works of art relate to their social context of production. Specifically, how artists negotiate, question, and reimagine particular structures of society alongside their underlying power dynamics and political ideologies through medium, subject matter, and…
Continue reading >>Members only tour of Giuseppe Penone at Marian Goodman Gallery
Written by CIMA’s Spring 2021 intern, Clara Apostolatos.
Marian Goodman Gallery is currently exhibiting a series of canvases, drawings, and sculptures by Turin-based Giuseppe Penone (born 1947, Garessio, Italy), a prolific multimedia artist with a career spanning over four decades. On the afternoon of April 8th, 2021, CIMA members were given a walking tour of…
Continue reading >>Members only tour of Morandi and Albers at David Zwirner
Written by CIMA’s Spring 2021 intern, Clara Apostolatos.
On Friday March 19th, CIMA members were given a walking tour of the David Zwirner Gallery’s current exhibition Albers and Morandi: Never Finished, led by the exhibit curator David Leiber and CIMA Founder and President Laura Mattioli. This exhibit explores the visual resonances and contrasts between two…
Continue reading >>MEET OUR SPRING 2021 INTERN: CLARA APOSTOLATOS
How did you first become interested in Art History?
I became interested in art history during my first semester at Columbia University when I enrolled in a ‘Masterpieces of Western Art’ course that surveyed the canon of western art—from classical architecture of Ancient Greece to the gestural paintings of Abstract Expressionism. I found myself drawn…
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