The experimental documentary “66 stories and one love poem” by RUN Professor Edin Vélez has received a major grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.

This work in progress film looks at how we confront aging, memory loss and decay. It is an impressionistic road movie where the viewer travels through a literal and figurative landscape of aging human faces, towns, and landscapes. Shot on location in New Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Berlin, and New York.

Silvana Editoriale with esteemed Italian Curator Germano Celant will release a comprehensive, colorful monograph of Artist and ACM Professor, Sandra Skoglund’s work in October 2019.

With over 300 images, ranging from the earliest photography of the mid ’70s to previously unpublished photographs that Professor Skoglund has recently created as well as her most recent body of work, ‘Winter.’

Challenging typical views of modernism in art history as solely Euro-American, and expanding the conventional periodization of Islamic art history, Seggerman theorizes a “constellational modernism” for the emerging field of global modernism. Rather than seeing modernism in a generalized, hyperconnected network, she finds that art and artists circulated in distinct constellations that encompassed finite local and transnational relations. Such constellations, which could engage visual systems both along and beyond the Nile, from Los Angeles to Delhi, were materialized in visual culture that ranged from oil paintings and sculpture to photography and prints. Based on extensive research in Egypt, Europe, and the United States, this richly illustrated book poses a compelling argument for the importance of Muslim networks to global modernism.

Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have appeared to be secular, she argues, it reflected the subtle but essential inflection of Islam, as a faith, history, and lived experience, in the overarching development of Middle Eastern modernity. 

ACM’s own – Professor Kimi Takesue has received many many accolades over the past year for her award-winning film, 95 AND 6 TO GO. Now, Professor Takesue is getting ready to spend the next year participating in not only a TED Talk, but two prestigious artist residencies as well.

You can read more about her journey here at an article at Rutgers SASN website news.