Andrea Pappas at Symposium in Venice

Andrea Pappas (Art and Art History) joined an international roster of scholars in December when she gave an invited paper at the symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition, "Norman Raeben, the Wandering Painter" (Jewish Museum Venice) sponsored by the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. Her paper elucidated Raeben's position in Jewish social and artist networks in the New York artworld in the 1930s. Raeben has been celebrated for his impact on Bob Dylan (as his art teacher) but the exhibition is the first to assess Raeben's career independent of his famous pupil. The exhibition catalogue features essays from the scholars at the symposium.