The Midwest Art History Society will hold its 40th annual Conference in Columbus Ohio, March 21- 23, 2013. The conference will be hosted by the Department of History of Art of The Ohio State University, with additional support from the Wexner Center for the Arts as well as the Columbus Museum of Art. Sessions will take place in the state-of-the-art facilities of the recently constructed Ohio Union. The conference hotels are the Blackwell Inn, on the campus of Ohio State, and the Hampton Inn, which is located about a mile from campus in the heart of Columbus’s celebrated arts district, the Short North.
Twenty-three thematic and open sessions will be featured, along with a special round-table discussion on appraising as a career path for art historians, co-sponsored by Jacob Fine Art, Chicago and the Appraisers Association of America. Among the thematic sessions are two panels devoted to Mark Rothko and Josiah McElheny, the subjects of special exhibitions at the Columbus Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts, respectively. Thursday afternoon’s keynote address will be delivered by Charles Barber, Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Barber is one of today’s foremost scholars of Early Christian and Byzantine Art. He has written extensively on theories of the image in Byzantium. His publications include Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Representation (Princeton, 2002), and Contesting the Logic of Painting: Art and Understanding in Eleventh-Century Byzantium (Leiden, 2007). He is also working with his students at Notre Dame on publishing the Snite Museum’s collection of Greek and Russian icons.
