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Natalia Di Pietrantonio PhD ‘18 presented on "Erotic Archives: Wajid 'Ali Shah and His Patronage of Book Arts" at University of Washington.In 1849, Wajid ‘Ali Shah penned the ‘Ishqnama manuscript. Its story recounts how Wajid ‘Ali, the last king and ruler of Avadh (Uttar Pradesh), maintained his lovers, how he wisely disposed of them, and the...
Affective Communities: Imagining Saigon/Vietnam presented at University College London on Feb 11, 2021, 5:30pm via Zoom.During the attack on the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021, among the signs and symbols was the flag of the former Republic of Vietnam, more commonly known as South Vietnam, whose capital city of Saigon fell to communist...
Radical Alternatives: Art & Spatial Politics in IranThe Pulse of Art History - Pamela Karimi 2.16.21Please register in advance for this talkIn this talk, Pamela Karimi explores the spatial turns that have animated Iranian art scenes since the 1990s. She illuminates the economic, social, intellectual, and visceral forces that have driven...
Seth Siegelaub (1941–2013) was the first dealer and exhibition organizer in New York to focus on conceptual art. “Better Read Than Dead” was the title that he had chosen for an anthology of his own writings—one of the projects for which he never found the time. This book brings together his personal notes, public interviews, and precious few...
Asli Menevse, History of Art PhD candidate, is participating in CAA’s 2021 virtual conference with her talk, titled: “Golden Calf to Raging Bull: The Printed Faces of Capitalism.”Asli’s talk is part of a larger project which attends to the visual representations of Capitalism in the works of fin-de-siècle French graphic artists with radical...
Announcing the B-ExamforSadia ShiraziHistory of Art and Archaeology, and Visual StudiesDissertation Title:Fugitive Abstraction: Zarina, Mohamedi and Lala RukhFebruary 4, 202111:00 amVia Zoom
Elizabeth Giorgis PhD ’10 awarded the 2020 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize for her 2019 book Modernist Art in Ethiopia.The African Studies Association (ASA) presents the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African studies published in the previous calendar. Modernist Art in Ethiopia (Ohio University Press, 2019) was...
VISST 2000 Introduction to Visual Studies (AMST 2000/ ARTH 2000/ COML 2000)SPRING 21J. RickardTR 1-2:15 *ONLINESections: DIS 201 & 205 R 2:40-3:30 203 & 207 F 10:10 -11:00 202 & 206 R 3:45 – 4:35 204 & 208 F 11:20-12:10 This course introduces the...
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) announced four new appointments, including hires for three newly created positions. Kanitra Fletcher, PhD '19, is the Washington, D.C., museum’s first-ever associate curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic Art.
Professor Alexandridis will give a talk for the Free University of Berlin on January 18th at 12:15 PM EST titled "Gipse im Rassediskurs der Aufklärung und des Kolonialismus"(Plaster Casts in Enlightenment and Colonialist Discourses on Race).More information about the talk, given in German, is on The Free University of Berlin's website....
Join Sara Garzón (PhD candidate) on Dec 10, 2020 at 1:00pm for a discussion of the topics, provocations and imaginaries explored in the recently-published editorial project, Worldmaking Practices: A Take on the Future.Hear the project’s editor Sara Garzón and three of the contributing artists – Alan Poma, José Luis Macas, and Patricia Domínguez...
SPRING 2021 VISST 2000 Introduction to Visual Studies (AMST 2000/ ARTH 2000/ COML 2000)J. RickardTR 1-2:15 *ONLINESections: DIS 201 & 205 R 2:40-3:30, 203 & 207 F 10:10 -11:00, 202 & 206 R 3:45 – 4:35, 204 & 208 F 11:20-12:10 This course introduces the field of Visual Studies. Visual Studies...
ARTH 4353/ 6153 Sardis: A City at the Crossroads (ARKEO 4353/ 7353, CLASS 4755/7755)SPRING 21A. Alexandridis/ B. AndersonW 12:25-2:20 HYBRID, in-person and online elements By permission of instructorSituated at the crossroads between the Mediterranean in the West and the Anatolian plateau in the East, Sardis successively belonged to the...
ARTH 3651 Women in New Media Arts (VISST 3651/ FGSS 3655) - SPRING 21M. FernandezMW 11:25 – 12:40 - ONLINEThe work of women has been central to the development of new media art. These rich and varied practices include installation, virtual reality environments, net art, digital video, networked performance, tactical media, video games, remix...
ARTH 4153/6153 Topics in Feminist Media Arts: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts (FGSS/ VISST) - SPRING 21M. FernandezW 9:05 – 11:00 am - ONLINEWhile some feminist works of art in new media address traditional feminist concerns such as the female body, identity, representation, feminist history, and consumerism, others directly...
ARTH 4310/ 6310 Methods in Medieval, The Late Medieval Devotional Image - SPRING 21(JWST 4310/6310, MEDVL 4310/6310, NES 6700/4700, RELST 4310/6310, SPAN 4570/6590)C. RobinsonM 7:30 – 9:25 pm - ONLINEA commonplace in the scholarly literature surrounding late medieval visual culture in Spain is that it was always "late". The Spaniards...
SPRING 2021ARTH 2355 Introduction to Medieval Art & Culture (MEDVL 2355)B. Anderson & C. RobinsonTR 2:45-4:00 - ONLINE -Sections: 201 F 1:30 – 2:20 202 F 2:40 – 3:30Survey lecture course covering the creation, encoding, and reception of Medieval (roughly AD 500-1500) European, Byzantine, and Islamic...
CCA announces the Distinguished Scholar session at the 109th CAA Annual Conference will honor History of Art Professor, Salah M. Hassan.Salah M. Hassan is the Director of The Africa Institute and the Goldwin Smith Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History and Visual Culture in the Department of Africana Studies and Research Center,...
ARTH 3620 After Nature: Art and Environmental Imagination - SPRING 21K. PresuttiMW 2:45-4:00 - ONLINEThis course looks at what it means to make art in, of, and after nature, and asks how that art might contribute to shaping the world we live in. Tracing a trajectory from the collection and display of natural history specimens to views of...
ARTH 4621/6621 Art and Empire in Britian and France - SPRING 21K. PresuttiT 9:05 am - 11 am - onlineThis seminar explores the images and objects produced, collected, and displayed in the context of the British and French empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on a range of perspectives—including postcolonial studies,...
History of Art Professor Kaja McGowan was invited to present a paper entitled, "'Oh You With a Body of Clouds!': Gender and Difference in 14th Century East Java" for a New Research Workshop entitled "Past and Present of Southeast Asia."The pre-recorded talk is available here.From 1149 to 1485, the Vietnamese port called Van Don (“cloud...
Ethiopia: Modern Nation – Ancient Roots conference, co-organized by Elizabeth Giorgis, PhD ‘10 and History of Art faculty Salah Hassan on behalf of The Africa Institute, was held October 17-25, 2020.The conference invited a range of interdisciplinary scholars to consider issues of Ethiopian modernity within a national and international context....
Yasufumi Nakamori (PhD ’11), Senior Curator at Tate Modern has co-curated the exhibition, Zanele Muholi, which runs from November 5, 2020 till March 7, 2021. Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. From the early 2000s, Muholi documented and celebrated the lives...
History of Art faculty Iftikhar Dadi and Salah Hassan present on Nov 6 and 13 at the Textual Abstraction Within Transnational Modernism Symposium. Organized by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in collaboration with The Courtauld. This symposium explores how Arabic letters were transformed into abstract visual forms across North Africa,...
Visual Culture Colloquium presents Compelling Issues: Transnational Socialist Aesthetics in Chinese Printmaking, 1931-1945NOVEMBER 10, 2020 4:30 pmRegister for this lecture hereThis short presentation, followed by discussion, addresses the highly codified history of modern printmaking in early-twentieth-century China, revising it through...