Latest Information and News • In her joyful new role as university distinguished professor of art history emerita, AC has stepped down from teaching, but not from public lecturing which, as she confesses, she thoroughly enjoys since she is no longer responsible for listeners remembering what she says! • On October 27 AC included her recent gift to the DMA, Anne Whitney‘s life-size, marble Lady Godiva, in her lecture: "Who Ever Heard of a Woman Sculptor? 19th-Century American Women Artists in Rome." • New York˜s Neue Galerie was again the site for AC˜s lecture on November 17, "German and Austrian Art: The Decisive Decade: 1907-1917" • "Alessandra Comini und Neulengbach" is the title of a symposium to be held in that town on 16 June 2012 to celebrate 48 years since AC�s discovery of Egon Schiele�s prison cell (now a museum), and the 100th anniversary of the artist�s imprisonment there. • On June 3 AC‘s alma mater (class of 1956), Barnard College,presented her with its "Distinguished Alumna Award" in New York. AC�s mother, Megan Laird, also attended Barnard (class of 1929). • AC participated in and served on the honorary board of George Lepauw˜s International Beethoven Project in its ambitious inaugural festival which presented the composer as man and muse, with new portraits, new films, and new music, along with plenty of Beethoven day and night. • "Through A Viennese Looking-Glass Darkly: Sch�nberg and His Circle" was the subject of AC‘s recent lecture at the Neue Galerie Museum in New York. The shift from national idols to private identities is discussed. AC returns to NYC in June to receive Barnard College�s Distinguished Alumna Award. • In London, AC joined the existential psychotherapist Anthony Stadlen in an all-day seminar devoted to the famous contradictory concepts of music exchanged between Sibelius and Mahler during their brief acquaintanceship in Helsinki 100 years ago.