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name: Robert Slifkin
about: Robert Slifkin, a specialist in later-modern and contemporary American art, with interests ranging from James McNeill Whistler to contemporary art criticism, has been named Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Professor Slifkin will begin teaching in the fall of 2010.Professor Slifkin earned his BA in History with a minor in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He subsequently obtained his MA in the History of Art from Williams College, followed by his PhD from Yale University, which was conferred in 2007. Before coming to the Institute of Fine Arts he was Assistant Professor of Art and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Professor Slifkin has completed Robert Slifkin, a specialist in later-modern and contemporary American art, with interests ranging from James McNeill Whistler to contemporary art criticism, has been named Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Professor Slifkin will begin teaching in the fall of 2010.Professor Slifkin earned his BA in History with a minor in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He subsequently obtained his MA in the History of Art from Williams College, followed by his PhD from Yale University, which was conferred in 2007. Before coming to the Institute of Fine Arts he was Assistant Professor of Art and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Professor Slifkin has completed a book titled Out of Time: Philip Guston’s Return to Figuration and the Crisis in the Humanities and is beginning work on a project called Incidental Cenotaphs: The Renewal of Monumentality in Contemporary Art. His recent publications include “Butterfly Money: James Whistler as the Invisible Man” in James McNeill Whistler in Context: Essays from the Whistler Symposium, University of Glasgow, 2003 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2008). ...more