History of Art and Architecture

Past Events

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Fri
Dec
09
2022

HAA Winter Graduation Celebration

Please join the Department of History of Art & Architecture in the Frick Fine Arts cloister for our winter graduation celebration/reception to honor our December graduates.

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Wed
Dec
07
2022

CANCELLED: The Oppositional Landscape Photography of Charles “Teenie” Harris

In this colloquium, graduate student Kale Serrato Doyen will present her MA thesis titled The Oppositional Landscape Photography of Charles “Teenie” Harris.

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Wed
Nov
30
2022

Constellations Track: Alone Together/Shelter in Place

In this conversation, Scott and Alex will discuss each other’s recent exhibitions, consider how their processes of making were shaped by conditions of social distancing, and reflect upon the encounter of their work at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.

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Thu
Nov
17
2022

Reading in Community: The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

HAA faculty and graduate students will gather to discuss selections from the twentieth-anniversary edition of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz. 

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Wed
Nov
16
2022

Curating Through Relational Ethics

Dr. Janet Marstine will present on the theme of curating through relational ethics, which is the underlying theme of her latest anthology, Curating Art.

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Wed
Nov
09
2022

Constellations Track: Global South Solidarity on Paper, 1920-1970

Diana Flatto will present selected material from her exhibition currently on view in Hillman Library’s Archives and Special Collections Gallery, Revolutionary Print Media of Latin America: Global South Solidarity, 1920-1970.

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Wed
Nov
02
2022

Dance as Destiny: A Feminist Reconsideration of the Indian Danseuse in her Many Forms

This presentation, a rehearsal for a talk at the Cincinnati Art Museum as part of their exhibition Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art, offers a critical rethinking of female dancers in Indian art as more than passive receptacles of heterosexual male desire or predictable ciphers of femininity. 

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Wed
Oct
26
2022

Eclipse Spirits in Dunhuang Visual Culture

The medieval circulation of Central and South Asian astrology to China resulted not only in new mantic techniques and doctrines but also in new practices of visual representation. This talk addresses the case of the eclipse, among the most ominous astral phenomena in premodern China.

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Wed
Oct
19
2022

Constellations Track: Making Matters #1

For the first in a series of three colloquia in Fall 2022 designed to spark new conversations in the department’s Constellations program, Christopher Nygren will present selected material from his forthcoming essay “From the Quarry to the Studio”. 

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Tue
Oct
18
2022

Thinking Indigenous Curating: Inuit Knowledge and Contemporary Exhibition Practice

The Inaugural Terry Smith Lecture in Contemporary Art. Speaker: Heather Igloliorte

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