Professor of Art History Kimberly Smith published an essay titled “Austria’s Dilemma: Wartime Politics and Propaganda in Schiele’s Landscapes” in the catalog Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes  (Prestel, 2024), published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Neue Galerie in New York. The essay examines Schiele’s participation in the 1917 Austrian Exhibition in Stockholm as an intensely concentrated moment of externally directed propaganda, in which his images of organic towns and rural scenes functioned as environmentally deterministic claims for a pluralistic yet united Austria in a post-war Europe.

—November 2024

Professor of Art History and Margarett Root Brown Chair in Fine Arts Kimberly Smith published four “in-focus” essays in the exhibition catalogue, Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider(Tate Publishing, in association with Yale University Press). The essays address specific collaborations and relationships in the Blue Rider movement, and are titled: “The French Connection,” “Else Lasker-Schüler and Franz Marc’s Mail Art,” “Reiterinnen: Women Riders,” and “Fritz Burger: The Art Historical Connection.” The catalogue was edited by Natalia Sidlina, and published in conjunction with the landmark exhibition, “Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider” at the Tate Modern, London, on view until October 20, 2024.

—May 2024

Professor of Art History Kimberly Smith gave a talk entitled “Beyond Japonisme: Charlotte Berend-Corinth’s Wartime Watercolors” at the 2023 Feminist Art History Conference, held online and in-person, hosted and organized by American University, Washington DC, September 30 - October 1.

—October 2023

Professor of Art History Kimberly Smith gave a talk in December 2020 titled “Modeling and Modernism: Charlotte Berend-Corinth’s Work” at the virtually held annual Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.

—December 2020

Professor of Art History Kimberly Smith gave a conference talk titled “Invisible Labor: German Modernist Art and Women’s Work” at the Feminist Art History Conference held at American University in Washington, D.C., Sept. 2830, 2018.

—October 2018