Peter R. Kalb

Associate Professor of Contemporary Art on the Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Chair and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Departments/Programs

Fine Arts

Degrees

New York University, Ph.D.
New York University, M.A.
Oberlin College, B.A.

Expertise

Modern and Contemporary Art

Profile

Peter R. Kalb is the Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Brandeis University where he teaches modern and contemporary art history. He was also recently appointed to the core faculty of the Brandeis Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. He is the author of Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary, (Pearson and Laurence King: New York and London, 2014) which details the expanding contemporary art world from its New York explosion in the early 1980s to its global expanse in the 21st century. Before preparing Art Since 1980, he was the revising author of the Fifth Edition of H.H. Arnason History of Modern Art and the author of High Drama: The New York Cityscapes of Georgia O’Keeffe and Margaret Bourke-White. Current projects include research on artists responses to the Apollo Mission, a series of articles on the politics of representation as evident in the work of Andrea Bowers, writing on the innovative practice of bricolage in the work of Tom Sachs, and the intersection of archeology and art history in the contemporary art world.

Courses Taught

FA	56a	American Art
FA	59a	Modern Art and Modern Culture
FA	61a	History of Photography
FA	62a	Art since 1945
FA	164a	The Re-Invention of Art
FA	165a	Contemporary Art
FA	166b	Representing Globalism
FA	169a	Ecology and Art
FA	192a	Studies in Modern and Contemporary Art

Awards and Honors

THE MICHAEL L. WALZER AWARD FOR TEACHING (2009)

Scholarship

Kalb, Peter R. (panel chair). "Companion or Competing Disciplines: Histories of Art History and Archaeology." College Art Association 108th Annual Conference, Chicago. February 12, 2020.

Kalb, Peter R.. "Reflections on the Moon: Critical Uses of Lunar Photography by Artists of the Apollo Generation." Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Quebec City, Canada. October 26, 2019.

Kalb, Peter R. "Chen Chieh-jen, Lin & Lin." Art in America vol. 107 February 2019: 93.

Kalb, Peter R. "Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum." Art in America vol. 107 March 2019: 109.

Kalb, Peter R (Curator). Steven Seidenberg. Pipevalve: Berlin. June –July 2017. Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA.

Kalb, Peter R. "Tom Sachs’s American Bricolage and the revised logic of space travel,." Sculpture Journal 26. 3 (2018): 349-371.

Kalb, Peter R. "’Put in Another Way’: Linda Nochlin’s Modernism," delivered for the panel: “Memorial Session in Honor of Linda Nochlin,” chaired by Maura Reilly and Margo Hobbs.." College Art Association 105th Annual Conference, Los Angeles. February 22, 2018.

Kalb, Peter R. "Megacities Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Art Asia Pacific vol. 100 September/October 2016: 163.

Kalb, Peter R. "Present Things Passing and a Matter of Photographed Space." Pipevalve: Berlin. Ed. Steven Seidenberg. Revere, PA: Lodima Press, 2017. 15-23.

Kalb, Peter R. "Walking to the Moon: Bricolage, Boundaries, and the Terrestrial Space Program of Tom Sachs." The Sculpture Research Semiyearly 17. 1 (2017): 1-29.

Kalb, Peter R. "Landscape, Abstraction, Stencil, Text." Joe Wardwell: Soon I will be President. Ed. Deborah Diston. Manchester, NH: McIninch Art Gallery, 2016. np.

Kalb, Peter R with Talinn Grigor. "Parvis Tanavoli: Davis Musuem." Art in America vol. 109 October 2015: 163-164.

Kalb, Peter R. "A Photorealism Fit for Politics: The Transformative Drawing of Andrea Bowers." Contemporaneity: Papers on Drawing in the 21st Century. Ed. Elizabeth A. Pergam. Burlington: Ashgate, 2015. 27-46.

Kalb, Peter R. "Andrea Bowers." Drawing Now 2015. Ed. Klaus Albercht Schröder and Elsy Lahner. Vienna: Albertina, 2015. 58.

Kalb, Peter R. "Anicka Yi: 6,070,430K of Digital Spit, MIT List Visual Arts Center." Art Asia Pacific vol. 95 September/October 2015: 120.

Kalb, Peter R. "Critics Page: Linda Nochlin." Brooklyn Rail 13 July 2015: www.brooklynrail.com.

Kalb, Peter R. "Jennifer rosa, Laconia Gallery." Art in America vol. 102 December 2014: 157.

Kalb, Peter R. "Tiger in the Living Room." Tiger in the Living Room: work by Shelley Reed. Ed. Michelle L'Heureux. Norton, MA: Wheaton College, 2015. np.

Kalb, Peter R. "Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted, Portland Museum of Art." Art Asia Pacific vol. 87 March/April 2014: 124.

Kalb, Peter R. "Unified Harvard Art Museums Launch with Restored Rothkos." Art in America Online November 19, 2014. (2014)

Kalb, Peter R. "When We're Screwed We Multiply: Andrea Bowers and Representation for Democracy." Andrea Bowers. Ed. Rebecca McGrew. Claremont, CA: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2014. 155-166.

Kalb, Peter R. Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary. New York & London: Pearson and Laurence King Publishing, 2014.

Kalb, Peter R with Joe Lin-Hill (curators). Dreams and Realities: Visions from Taiwan and Cuba of a Post Cold-War World. Group Show, May 23-26, 2013. Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Kalb, Peter R. "Cheney Thompson at MIT List Visual Arts Center." Art in America May 2012: 178-179.

Kalb, Peter R. "Julianne Swartz at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum." Art in America February 2013: 108.

Kalb, Peter R. "Nancy Holt at Tufts Art Gallery." Art in America June 2012: 170-171.

Kalb, Peter R. "Picturing Pollock: Photography’s Challenge to the History of Abstract Expressionism,." Journal of Art Historiography 7. (2013): 1-17.

Kalb, Peter R. "Regarding the Contemporary." The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis. Ed. Michael Rush. New York: Abrams, 2009

Kalb, Peter R. and H.H. Arnason. History of Modern Art. Fifth ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Kalb, Peter R. High Drama: The New York Cityscapes of Georgia O'Keeffe and Margaret Bourke-White. Introduction by Linda Nochlin. New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 2003.