Antlff renewed as CRC

Dr. Allan Antliff (history in art) has been renewed as holder of the Canada Research Chair in Modern Art for a second five-year term. In addition to bringing $100,000 per annum to the Faculty of Fine Arts, he has also been awarded a Canada Infrastructure Grant to equip a web-based virtual anarchist archive in MacPherson Library’s Special Collections. His highly acclaimed books include: Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde (2001), Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology (2004), and Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (2007). He has hosted several radio programs for CBC “Ideas” and published numerous articles, essays and art reviews.