Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Bank art advisory: American v. Italian, Gloria Cavaciuti
Analysis on the Overseas Market Performance of Porcelain and Its New Situation in the Context of Global COVID-19 Epidemic, Tianxiang Chen
Lost Innocence: Women, Power, and Art in Victorian England, Jia Jing Ding
Manifesting Magic: Occultism and Feminism in the Art of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, Margaret Dirschl
The Controversy of the Female Nude Body within Performance Art of the 1960s and 1970s, Jennifer Fialkowski
The Women of Impressionism: The Influence of Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Eva Gonzalès on the Art Market, Caroline Finden
Would you rather be the head of a lion or the tail of a mouse? A comparative study of the art markets in London and New York, Clio Giner Garcia
Djurberg & Berg: A Relationship Saga, Johanna Graflund
Becoming Asia’s Next Art Hub: A Reflection on the Rise of the Contemporary Korean Art Market, Jihyun Hur
Monumentality of the Artist Chapel: Dissecting Light, Color, Spirituality, and Permanence, Katherine Isler
Present and Future of Impact Investing in Arts: Catching Momentum, Olga Korneeva
On Curation: A Hermeneutical Approach, Elisabeth Yumin Kröber
The Evolution of Marketing Tools at Auction Houses. Case: The Last Leonardo, Margherita Magnino
Black Lives Matter & Contemporary African American Art: An Auction market analysis., Montserrat Miranda Ayejes
Artists in Legacy-Land: Endowing Foundations to Balance Market and Philanthropic Activity, Lucas Mischler
Collecting an Empire: Stolen Heritage of Indigenous Australians, Kyla Moore
From Exclusivity to Ambiguity: Rethinking Contemporary Ink Art and its Methodology, Ruqin Mu
The Artist as Surveillant: The Use of Surveillance Technology in Contemporary Art, Claire O'Neill
Art Investment Funds and NFTs, Francesca Osborne
The Impact of the Fashion Industry in 19th Century Paris on Impressionist Painting, Puja Patel
The Application and Impact of Digital Technology in Jewelry Art, Lai Tai
State of the Arts: The Contemporary Arts Ecosystem in the Republic of Ireland, Clare Tayback
The Wave of Digital Revolution: New Trends in the Emergence, Participation, and Presentation of Metaverse Art, Zijian Zhang
Spirituality and Abstract Art, Hao Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The art market’s inflection point: the inception of modern art investment, Maria B. Abraham
Lauder Art Collections: Two Brothers, Two Collections, One City, Carol Bradford Abruzzo
The Influence of the American Film Noir on Fine Arts in Los Angeles, Paige Berlin
The Private Art Collector’s Foundation in France: Issues and Implications for the Cultural Landscape, Milena Berman
Paris is Always a Good Idea: Study into Paris’ Potenial to Regain a Place at the Top of the European Art Market, Laura Bishai
‘What A Woman Can Do:’ Analyzing Correlation between Historiography of Italian Female Artists and Auction Prices, Paige Boucher
Selling Transcendence: The Rise of Experience and the Big Business of Immersive Art, Emeline Callaway
The Printmaking Boom and its Effect on the Future for the Market for Prints and Multiples, Helen H. Condo
How NFTs Are Driving the Latest Evolution of Art from Physical to Digital in a Pandemic Age., Isabel Dominguez de Haro
Looking South: The Increased Visibility of Modern Latin American Art, Sofía Festa
A Eurocentric Model: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Westernization of the “Other”, Chloe Greisman
The Paradox of Scarcity: A Look at the Old Masters Evening Sales from 2014 to 2022 in London and New York, Erin Haydon
The Search for a Quintessentially French Style: The Reactionary Nationalism of French Art Nouveau (1890 – 1900), Bailey Johnston
Aboudia: a new generation artist from Côte d’Ivoire, Richard Montoux
Linda Nochlin Finding Feminism: Early Education to Early Career, Natalie Parent
History of Fashion Installations as Art Exhibitions and Their Impact on the Public’s Perspective on Culture and Community, Arabella Riley
Lucretia Van Horn: The Artist’s Meaningful Impact on the Development of Modernism in the Bay Area, Annie K. Roddy
Valuations Achieved at the Sale of Royal Jewels from the Bourbon Parma Family, Reka Szterenyi
Impediments to Art Market Growth: Understanding Germany’s Disproportionately Small Art Market Share, Anthony von Steuben
Factors behind the successful positioning of Mexico City as an International Contemporary Art Center, Alma Roberta Zertuche Cantu
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Antiquities and the Art Market: Forever Divided or Will Ancient Art Find Its Place in an Evolving Contemporary Art Market?, Yvette Abiuso
The Cottages That Almost Were Not Saved: A Preservation Perspective on Three Newport Mansions, Julia Boron
Perspectives on Consciousness-Raising: A Modernist Intersectional Feminist Agenda, Ariana Cacoulidis
The Melancholy of Misunderstanding: An analysis of Marcel Duchamp’s Effects on the Development of Art in Conversation with Contemporary Artist Urs Fischer, Elizabeth Chander
Revisiting Appropriation in Contemporary Art: Art and Law Analysis, Won Sun Choi
The Durability of Authenticity: An Examination of the Art Conservator’s Role in Preserving Authenticity, Emily Crozier
The Brave New Virtual Art World The Evolution of Digital Art: NFTs and their Effects on the Art Market in 2021, Sophie Delaplaine
The Therapeutic Value of Art, Alexandra Eagle
Contemporary Textiles: Unraveling White Feminist Discourse, Meredith Friedman
Walter De Maria: The pursuit to defye time, Whitney Hart
The Retrospection and Prospection of Contemporary Feminist Art in China, Li Hou
Value of NFTs in the Digital Art sector and Its Market Research, Su Yeon Jeong
NFT — Friend or Foe of Today’s Art Market?, Anna Maria LaGuardia
The Influence of Zen on Contemporary Aesthetics in Decorative Arts and Interior Design, Ronit Lee
Risk Management for Small and Mid-Sized Contemporary Art Galleries in the United States, Lauren Pappas
Bertha Palmer and Anna Wintour: How Does Private Patronage Impact Identity-Building within Cultural Institutions?, Marie Redetzki
An Analysis of Immersive Art Experiences, Adele Whitmyer
Yokai Ukiyo-e: ExploringAesthetics of Monsters in Japanese Ukiyo-e, Ranshanzi Xiao
The Role of Art Hotels in the Art Ecosystem, Nicola Ziman
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Art of Healing: The effects and importance of art in hospitals and clinical settings, Olivia Adamaitis
Analysis of the Relation Between Trauma and Art as a Result of Context and Purpose with The Holocaust as a Subject Matter, Robert Bandeen
Threading the Future : Contemporary fiber in the global, Erin Choi
Hilma af Klint's Divine Commission, Paintings for the Temple : Modern western esotericism embodied and art historical norms redfined, Hilary Cianciolo
Helen Frankenthaler : The calculus for gender neutrality within the post abstractionist color field movement, Aelxandra H. Dodge
Appalling Aftermath : The idealization of sympathy in battle paintings of the Great Siege of Gibraltar, Sean F. Galvin
De-Orientalizing Classical Ballet in the Twenty-First Century, Pamela Gendron
On the Fluidity of Honey and Fugitivity of Sound in Trauma, Ecstasy, and Black Radical Tradition, Evgenia Grant
Thoughts around the Psychological Attributes of Fascist Aesthetics, Carolina Mimi King
Re-thinking Risk Management of Auction House Guarantees and Third-Party Irrevocable Bids, Nathan Krasnick
For Those in Peril on the Sea : The motivations of nineteenth century European artists to create shipwreck paintings, Calvin Liepins
Radical Queer Gazes : How lesbian and nonbinary contemporary photographers are destabilizing the male gaze, Eliza McDonough
Role of Art in International Relations : Analysis of the key operational patterns on the example of French cultural cluster, Maria Meshcherskaya
How Fat-Positive Art Asserts Validity in the Face of Social Erasure, Humiliation & Objectification of the Fat Female Nude, Elizabeth Powell
Collectors Beware: A glimpse into the high-risk, high-reward world of antiquities and its dark underbelly, Claire M. Purcell
Business Interrupted : COVID-19 and its impact on auction houses, Carolina Sagardoy
The Reemergence of Celebrity Imagery in Twenty-First Century Art, Maria Olsson Skalin
Relational Accountability in the Art Business : A study of ethics, Theodore Soliman
The Old Masters Market and the Salvator Mundi: What did it do, what can be done?, Mary Sullivan
The Art of Marketing Luxury, Aiho Tan
Terrible Beauty : The many faces of Helen of Troy in painting from antiquity to the nineteenth century, Lindsay M. Taylor
“Whose Utopia?” Kimsooja & Bottari Utopia, Younghee Kim Wait
The Crown Jewel of Divinity : Examining how a coronation crown transforms the virgin into the queen, Sara Sims Wilbanks
Reappraising the Rococo : The enduring relevance of eighteenth-century French painting, Emma M. Woodberry
From Spectacle to Collectible : A reappraisal of Katherine Dreier and Juliana Force's pioneering impact to bolster the ascendancy of Modern Art in America, Caroline Holt Yarbrough
The Development of the Jewelry Industry under the Patronage of the Russian Imperial Court in the XIX-XX Centuries, Julia Zubko
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Evolving Ethics: Deaccessioning from Museum Collections in the Twenty-First Century, Julia Baker