Dr. Kathy Battista and Stephan Pascher, Contemporary Art, New York

New York Faculty

Dr. Kathy Battista
Programme Director, Contemporary Art, New York

Recent Publications Include:
Editor and contributor of Haluk Akakçe Reincarnation, launched at the Istanbul Biennale in September 2009

Contributor to Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender, Temple University Press with a book party taking place at the NY Institute

Author of Ebru Uygun, published by Dirimart

Exhibition reviews, Letter from Dubai, Public Art in New York City, ICP Trienniale of Photography and Video, in Art Monthly

Cover story on Gregory Crewdson for RES Artworld.


András Szántó
Senior Lecturer, Art Business, New York

In December 2009, András Szántó, moderated the Art Basel Conversations Panel entitled Public/Private | Change in Generation. In late January András will be part of a small group blog on the Expressive Life – an examination of arts policy – that will take place on ArtsJournal January 25 -29th.

Recent Publications Include:
“Philanthropy in the Auction Room”, In Sotheby’s At Auction, Autumn 2009.

London Faculty

Anthony Downey
Programme Director, Contemporary Art, London

In 2009 Anthony was appointed external assessor for the revalidation of the Royal College of Art's MA in Curating Contemporary Art programme and sat on the curatorial committee for Yinka Shonibare Space in London. Throughout 2009 he also gave talks at Tate Modern, Brooklyn Art Museum (New York), Tate Britain, CENDEAC (Murcia), British Museum, Manchester University, and an interview for CNN’s African Voices programme which will be aired in January 2010. His interview for the BBC’s Islam and the Popular Imagination was broadcast in August 2009. In 2010 he will present papers at the London College of Communication (LCC) and the Association of Art Historians (AAH) conference in Glasgow in February and April respectively. The latter will be presented as part of ongoing research and is provisionally titled “The Rules of Engagement: Towards an Ethics of Collaborative Art Practices”. He will be in conversation with Palestinian artist Rula Hulawani at the Selma Feriani Gallery in London in January 2010 and will continue researching his upcoming book on ethics, politics and aesthetics (forthcoming, 2010).

Recent publications include:
“An Ethics of Engagement Collaborative Art Practices and the Return of the Ethnographer”, in Third Text, issue 100, 2009, pp. 593-603.

“Children of the Revolution: Contemporary Iranian Photography”, Aperture, issue 197, winter 2009.

“Re-Staging the Present: Reza Aramesh and the Re-Framing of Conflict”, in Canvas (Dubai), vol. 5, no. 4, September 2009, pp. tbc.

“The Afterlife of the Corpse: Teresa Margolles and the Ethics of Commemoration”, in Understanding Art Works (Lund Humphries: London, 2009).

“Diasporic Communities and Global Networks: The Contemporaneity of Iranian Art Today’, in Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, ed. by Hossein Amirsadeghi (Thames and Hudson: London, 2009)

“Zones of Indistinction: Giorgio Agamben’s Bare Life and the Ethics of Aesthetics,” Third Text, issue 97, 2009.

“Thresholds of a Coming Community: Photography and Human Rights”, Aperture , issue 194, spring 2009).

“At the Limits of the Image: Representations of Torture in Popular Culture”, Brumaria, issue10 (Spring, 2009).

‘Practice and Theory’, Anthony Downey in Conversation with Yinka Shonibare, in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artist’s Writings (revised ed.), edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (University of California Press: California, 2009).


David Bellingham
Programme Director, Art Business, London

This last year David published an article on ancient Roman wall-painting and the art market and a chapter on an ancient Greco-Roman statue of Venus and its reception history in art and the market. He has also written a critical introduction to the recent exhibition of the contemporary Irish sculptor Eilis O’Connell. Two other papers on classical and renaissance art are about to be published. David’s current research is for a book on the art market.

Recent Publications Include:
An Introduction to the “Eilis O’Connell – Biomorphia” solo show at the Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, Sussex

“The 'Jenkins Venus': Reception in the Art World and the Market” in Godfrey, T. (ed.) (2009) Understanding Art Objects: Thinking Through the Eye

“Memories of an Empire” in The RICS Arts Surveyor: Antiquities, April, 2009, pp. 10-11


Bernard Vere
Acting Programme Director, Photography, London

Recent Publications include:
“Oversights in Overseeing Modernism” on Alfred H Barr,Jr, founding Director of MoMA,Textual, Spring 2010.

Tate Britain talk essay will appear in March 2010, Literary London www.literarylondon.org.

“Pedal-Powered Avant-Gardes,” in an upcoming issue of International Journal of History of Sport.


Juliet Hacking
Programme Director, Photography, London

Juliet will publish an essay on the nineteenth-century photographer Camille Silvy in a forthcoming issue of the journal Art History.

Singapore Faculty

Tony Godfrey
Programme Director, Contemporary Art, Singapore

Tony Godfrey’s new book Painting Today, published recently by Phaidon, is an overview of painting over the last 40 years. His book presents work by Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch, alongside emerging artists including Jumaldi Alfi and Ingrid Calame.
http://www.phaidon.com/store/art/painting-today-9780714846316/


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