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Scientists and Conservators Reinvent Formula for Vital Art Conservation Material

June 4, 2025

Getty, New York University (NYU) and The University of Akron (UA) announced today the development of a safer and more sustainable substitute for BEVA 371, an adhesive used by conservators worldwide in the structural treatment of paintings on canvas and related artistic media. This breakthrough is the result of a major conservation science research grant funded by Getty.

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Edward J. Sullivan weaves autobiography with art history to chronicle how Latino artists transformed from marginalized voices to central figures in New York's art scene between the 1970s and 2000s.





Alexandra Lange wins a Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for her collection of essays in Bloomberg CityLab





The IFA receives Getty grant for  Building the Field of Modern Art History in Central Asia a partnership with the Almaty Museum of Arts





Thomas Crow's latest book, Murder in the Rue Marat: A Case of Art in Revolution, will be published on November 4th, 2025.





PhD student Kinaya Hassane traveled to the Comoros, Tanzania, & Kenya this summer for dissertation research, with generous support from the Joan & Stanford Alexander Dissertation Award from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.





Marvin Trachtenberg's Brunelleschi and the Moment of the Renaissance, a critical biography of the quietly inventive Renaissance architect, is now available.

Faculty

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen has been selected as a resident fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University.

Prita Meier’s latest book, The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast, is a finalist for both the African Studies Association’s 2025 Best Book Prize and the 2024 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize for East African Studies.

Dipti Khera is a Scholar in Residence at The Power Institute.

Edward J. Sullivan curated the first institutional survey of the Colombian artist Fanny Sanín in New York, at the Americas Society.

Meredith Martin receives the Iris Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar.

Finbarr Barry Flood's co-authored book "Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms" received the 2024 ICMA Annual Book Prize by the International Center of Medieval Art.

Alexander Nagel receives a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Joan Kee is the winner of the 2024 Robert Motherwell Book Award for The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity

Students

Phoebe Herland curated Rauschenberg exhibition opening September 9 at the Grey Art Museum.

Jinyi Liu receives a 2025/2026 Getty Predoctoral Fellowship

Shannah Rose was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Scarlett Strauss received a Fulbright Open Study/Research Award to pursue research in Italy for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Summer Sloane-Britt is Assistant Professor of Art History at Occidental College.

Shiro Burnette named to the 2025 cohort of the Center For Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice.

Saarthak Singh was selected as the recipient of the 2024 UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize.

Alumni

Fatima Quraishi Joins Princeton's Department of Art & Architecture as Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology.

Blake Oetting is a Postdoctoral Fellow between the Art History and Rhetoric departments at UC Berkeley and Curatorial Fellow at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Rebecca Lowery joined the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University as the new curator of exhibitions

Aimé Iglesias Lukin received the 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Curatorial Work.

Paulina Pobocha was named Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.