Alpesh has been appointed coeditor of the Rethinking Art’s Histories book series, through the University of Manchester press. You can read the official announcement here:
News from the Art History Department at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Category: faculty
Hylton interview in CAA News as he takes on the role of Art Journal‘s new Reviews Editor can be found here: https://www.collegeart.org/news/2026/03/17/member-spotlight-meet-new-art-journal-reviews-editor-richard-hylton/
Find out what he plans to do in the role!
You can find out all about Erin’s research from a podcast through the Sirius Studios in NYC.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gilded-gentleman/id1595160782?i=1000755696095
The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass Announces 2026 Residencies as The Studio Celebrates 30 Years: https://press.cmog.org/2026/studio-announces-2026-residencies-studio-celebrates-30-years
Alpesh was one of the “18 outstanding artists and scholars from around the world…chosen for their skill, potential, and dedication to their work”. According to the Corning Museum, “The Studio residencies empower artists to explore new directions in their work, and research residencies have been awarded to artists and scholars to provide time and resources for in-depth, scholarly research using the vast collections of the Rakow Research Library and the Museum as well as access to expert Museum staff.”
The residency committee noted that, “Inspired by a series of exhibitions he organized while curator-at-large at UrbanGlass in New York City, Patel has undertaken a new project—his third major book—which will examine glass as both a material and a concept. During his residency, Patel will advance this project by drawing upon key works within the Museum’s collections and engaging with librarians, curators, other scholars, and artists—deepening his understanding and shaping his thinking. The residency will also provide him with dedicated time for writing his book.”
Conversations at MOCA with exhibiting artist Hiba Schahbaz and curator Jasmine Wahi, moderated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, PhD. Dive into Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden, her first major retrospective showcasing 15 years of lush paintings inspired by Sufi mysticism, global myths, the feminist gaze, and fantastical realms of sea, land, and sky. Framed as a jannat or Paradise Garden with Persian and Mughal char-bagh influences, the exhibition merges Indo-Persian miniature traditions with large-scale works evoking South Florida’s lush landscapes and themes of transformation, selfhood, and care.
The review has been published in Art History : i
The review of ‘Property Rights’ can be found here, in Art History, Volume 48, Issue 3, June 2025, pp. 619–622
11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4
Booth Hall, room 3634 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY
About Alpesh Kantilal Patel
Alpesh Kantilal Patel’s (they/he) art historical scholarship, curation, and criticism reflect their queer, anti-racist, and transcultural approach to contemporary art. They are an associate professor of global contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. Recently, they were an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and curator at large at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, where they organized a series of exhibitions under the theme, “Forever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans* Subjectivity.” Patel will talk about their current research and how these critical touchstones in queerness, anti-racism, and transculturalism has led into several publications and curatorial projects within the world of contemporary glass.
Find Mariola’s insights here: https://news.temple.edu/news/2025-10-14/temple-leaders-reflect-identity-and-experiences-hispanic-americans
Over the summer, Leah published an article on Richard Rauschenberg’s “The Happy Apocalypse” here: https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journal/spiritually-overqualified-robert-rauschenberg-and-the-happy-apocalypse-commission
Has a piece in The Delaware Contemporary show “Challenging the Algorithmic Gaze” (until December 5): https://www.decontemporary.org/reimagine-reveal
Gave the keynote, “Looking up at and from the Unfathomable Scale of Disaster” at the “Art, Urbanocene and the City, the 7th Art and the City Conference in Villa Arson, l’Université Côte d’Azur.
And the lecture, “Art as Reconstruction in the Perilous Territory of Not-Belonging”, part of the panel “Wartime Cities: Resistance, Creativity, Resilience” at the VI Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Network: Urban Sociology
As an expert on American art, Pauwels was interviewed by Temple Now. You can read her insights about the opening of the Calder Gardens here: https://news.temple.edu/news/2025-09-22/temple-experts-calder-gardens-new-gem-philadelphia-s-art-and-culture-scene