2021 AHNCA/Dahesh Graduate Student Symposium Prize
The Eighteenth Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art, co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art was held virtually on September 25-26th 2021. Ten participants, representing future directions for nineteenth-century art history, presented their dissertation research. After prolonged deliberation because of the uniform high quality of the presentations, the jury awarded two Dahesh Prizes of $1000 each, funded by the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation. The awardees, Lieske Huits of the University of Cambridge and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Sean Kramer of the University of Michigan, will repeat their presentations and discuss their projects at an AHNCA/Dahesh Virtual Salon in December, date TBA. Read More.
Lieske Huits
Sean Kramer
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The Dahesh In Focus Series
The Museum is pleased to announce the arrival of three new publications in the In Focus series. Begun in 2016, the series explores aspects of academic art, major artists, or a single work of art, fully illustrated with examples from the Dahesh’s rich collection and comparative visual images. Each publication in the series features an essay written by a Dahesh staff member or scholar in the field. Buy Online.