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
Story of Twin Cities, Who Will be the Next Storm Center of Art Fairs?, Rui Bian
Museum Websites and Restitution: Rediscovering Holocaust-Era Objects in the Digital Age, Gabriella Bloom
Small, Yet Mighty: The Influence of a Famous Figure Provenance on Commonplace Objects in Single Owner Sales, Shannon Brown
Private Art Museum backed by Hong Kong Invetment - Wan Fung Art Musem as an Example, Yiye Chen
The Demand for Women Who Painted: Recent Art Market Trends for Female Artists of the Premodern Era, Cristina Demiany
Digitization of Future Art Market through Blockchain Technology, Yuan Fang
The Celebrity Factor: An Evaluation of the Effect Celebrity Provenance at Auction, Danielle Gray
Land Art : True Capitalist Art, Annie Gustafsson
Contemporary Methods of Preserving Land Art: A Case Study of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Samara Johnson
Artist Frames: A Lost History Tracking the Innovations of Discarded Visions, Isabella Leokadia Kapczynski
Study of Dansaekhwa’s Identity through Analysis of its Criticisms, Ji Hyun Kim
The Role of the Curator in Curated Auctions, through the Lens of Sotheby’s Examples, Elizaveta Klimko
Development and Brand Management of Chinese Contemporary Furniture in the Twenty-first Century, Jiaying Li
teamLab Research, Chinchen Liu
What Made Vincent Van Gogh a Great Artist?, Yuanting Lu
Double-edged Experiences and Their Impact on the Twenty-First-Century Audience: The Ever-Evolving Museum, Ana Sanz Menchero
AMRITA SHER-GIL: Painting Beyond Boundaries, Rupi Sood
History and International Market for Russian Avant-Garde Art, Ekaterina Tsareva
From Micro to Marco: Jade Snuff Bottles in Qianlong Era, Jinpeng Wang
The Artistic Merit and Market Price of Bosch’s Paintings, Xiaoou Wang
Chinese Audience’ Perception and Interests in Western Modern Arts, Xuewei Wang
The Explosion Development of Chinese Contemporary Art Market from 2000 to 2015, Yaning Wang
The Role of Independent Curators in the Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Yiru Wang
Research on the Operation and Management of Foreign-funded Galleries and Local Galleries in China, Yumeng Wu
The Gallery Industry in China – A Study, Ziwei Xia
Why Visual Art Could Train Brains in Leadership, and How, Qiao Ye
UBS Corporate Art Collection Study, Chongwei Yi
Market Value Analysis of Takashi Murakami's Artwork Under Howard Becker's theory, Liu Yi-Ding
No Words: A Three-part Analysis of Xu Bing’s Book from the Sky, Zheng Yuan
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
For the Sake of Art: The Intersection Between Animal Rights and Freedom of Speech, Joelle Araujo
How Do You Depict the Life of a Soul?: Word and Text in and as Image in Soviet Nonconformist Art, Matthew Blong
Moral Rights: The Economic Ramifications of Moral Rights Under VARA in the U.S., Akilah Chandler
Comparative analysis on a corporate sponsorship for art museums in Korea and the United States, Hayoung Chung
Chuck Close: The Cost of Behaving Badly, and #Metoo, Rebecca Cohen-Homapour
The Glass Ceiling: Female Artists' Gallery Representation in the New Millennium and a History of Imbalance, Caroline Currier
Diversity and Inclusion in Art Museum Board of Governance: Does The Boardroom Reflect the Community?, Margaret Farrell
Phenomenal Encounters: Perception as Medium in Art from Minimalism to the New Millennium, Ella Froelich
Current Issues in the Conservation of Contemporary Art and its Non-traditional Materials, Sandra Hong
Modern and Contemporary Female Expressions in the Islamic Art World, Zahra R. Karimi
Old Dog, New Tricks: Incentivizing price data disclosure in private art market sales, Eliza G. King
Behind the Scenes: The Role of Visual Art in Prestige Television, Lauren Lichtenberg
Museum Provenance and its Financial Impact: The Analysis of Museum Deaccessioning and the Value of Art, Kwoung jin Maeng
Hybridity, Subversion & Anthropophagy: Revisiting Colonial History in Brazilian Contemporary Art, Maria Eduardo Dittmar Silveira Nonato
High or Low? The Value of Transitional Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, Monica Peacock
Mistreating a Cultural Symbol: How We Are Failing Museums, Wonder Woman, and Everything in Between, Brandon Reis
Marketing Artists in the Digital Age, Victoria Rutledge