David Bellingham, Andras Szanto, Judith Prowda, Tom McNulty, Kathy Battista


David Bellingham
Programme Director, MA Art Business, London
David has recently submitted his doctoral thesis (University of Manchester) on Sympotic Scenes in Romano-CampanianWall-Painting.

His paper on a new reading of Botticelli's Venus and Mars has just been published (April 2010) and the book launch will take place at Sotheby's, London on April 28th. David is now writing a book on the art market for publication in 2011.

Recent publications:
Bellingham, D.C. (2010) ‘Deconstructing Aphrodite: Botticelli’s Venus and Mars in the National Gallery, London’ in Amy C. Smith and Sadie Pickup (eds) (2010) Brill's Companion to Aphrodite (Leiden: Brill)

Tom McNulty
Professor of Research Methodology, New York
Tom is the recipient of the 2010 H.W. Wilson Foundation Research Grant. The grant is awarded to support costs associated with a book or other publication in the field of fine art research and documentation. Tom will use the grant for two research assistants’ salaries; his book, scheduled for publication in 2012, is a revised and expanded edition of his 2006 Art Market Research: A Guide to Methods and Sources (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers).

Andras Szanto
Senior Lecturer, MA Art Business, New York
Andras Szanto will moderate a panel discussion at the Second Unesco World Conference on Arts Education in Seoul, Korea, May 26, 2010.

On June 17th, 2010, Andras will Moderate a panel titled "Crossing the Atlantic" as part of Art Basel Conversations at the Art Basel fair, June 17, 2010

Recent Publication: "Will US Museums Succeed in Reinventing Themselves?” from The Art Newspaper, issue 209, January 2010.

Judith Prowda
Senior Lecturer, MA Art Business, New York
Judith began her two-year tenure as Chair of the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section of the New York State Bar Association in February 2010. She chaired a program at the NY Institute on Holocaust-looted art for the Fine Arts Committee of the New York State Bar Association in March 2010. Also in March, Judith gave a presentation to the City Bar Art Law Committee on Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art v. Christoph Büchel, in which the First Circuit Court of Appeals held for the first time that the Visual Artists Rights Act applied to unfinished works of art, a significant victory for artists.  In April, Judith gave a guest lecture on copyright and fair use in the visual arts for the Advanced Copyright Seminar at Fordham Law School.

Judith gave a guest lecture on copyright and fair use in the visual arts for the Advanced Copyright Seminar at Fordham Law School on April 12th.

Kathy Battista
Programme Director, MA Contemporary Art, New York
Early in 2010, Kathy spoke as a panelist at the event: “Fair Play: Women and the Art Market”, which was part of the Art Los Angeles Contemporary. In April, she was asked to be a visiting critic for the Pratt School of Architecture’s final thesis jury as well as a critic at Cranbrook Academy on the MFA program final thesis exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Recent publications:
‘Report from LA’ featured as the cover story in the April issue of Art Monthly.

Review of ‘Ch-ch-ch-changes’ featured in the April issue Art Monthly.

Her article on the Hugo Boss Prize 2010 at the Guggenheim Museum was featured in the March issue RES ArtWorld/World Art.


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