Leora Maltz Leca receives Swann Fellowship and…
Leora Maltz-Leca (Asst. Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture) was awarded the 2010/ 2011 Swann Fellowship for Caricature and Cartoon by the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Over the summer her essay on Paul Stopforth, “The Logic of the Relic: Traces of History in Stone and Milk” was published in the TAXI volume on Paul Stopforth. Click here to read the article. Maltz Leca’s reviews of William Kentridge and Mark Bradford appeared in Frieze. Click here to read the review. Her interview of Sokari Douglas Camp who spoke at RISD last spring, “500 words with Sokari Douglas Camp” was published on Artforum.com. Click here to read the interview . Her essay “Taking Public Liberties: Three Graces in an African Postcolony” will be in this fall’s themed Public Art Review on “Realism and Representation” edited by Patricia Phillips and Nancy Princenthal. Her articles “Marlene Dumas: Dirty Woman” is forthcoming in November’s Artforum. In November Maltz Leca will speak in Seoul, Korea on “Streetwalkers: Phantom Monuments of the Post-Apartheid City,” and her review of Zwelethu Mthethwa will be printed in Art South Africa.
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