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HAA Graduating Seniors Rosie Collier and Adam Dwyer Among 2023's Hoopes Prize Winners

May 8, 2023
Rosie Collier and Adam Dwyer, this year's Hoopes Prize winners from HAA

Congratulations to HAA graduating seniors Rosie Collier and Adam Dwyer on winning the 2023 Hoopes prize for their respective theses: Prayer in the Perilous Realm: The Impossible Landscape of Hieronymus Bosch’s Hermit Saints, and Operative (Work)Space: Rethinking the Office Layout Informed by Traditional Japanese Building Practice.

The Hoopes Prize, funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, recognizes excellent undergraduate work, usually in the form of a senior thesis.

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HAA Alumni Scott Rothkopf to Serve as Director of Whitney Museum

March 8, 2023
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Scott Rothkopf, HAA Class of ’99, has recently been appointed as the Director of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Scott previously served as the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator in 2015, and Senior Deputy Director in 2018. Prior to his work at the Whitney, Scott served as the Senior Editor of Artforum International from 2004 through 2009. He began his curatorial career at the Harvard University Art Museums, organizing Mel Bochner: Photographs, 1966–1969 (2002) and Huyghe + Corbusier:...

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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art Awards Professor Necipoğlu Lifetime Achievement Medals for Contributions in Asian Art

January 6, 2023

The National Museum of Asian Art has announced its 2023 recipients of the Freer Medal, a lifetime achievement award that honors individuals who have substantially contributed to the understanding of the arts of Asia throughout their career. This year, the institution’s centennial, the honor will go to Vidya Dehejia, the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University, and Gülru Necipoğlu, the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University’s History of Art and Architecture Department. They...

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