History of Art and Architecture

Past Events

Upcoming Events
Sat
Jan
28
2017

Symposium: Reinterpreting "Lion Attacking a Dromedary"

Commemorates the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s reinterpretation and reinstallation of the popular diorama long known as “Arab Courier Attacked by Lions” and now named “Lion Attacking a Dromedary” during the 150-year anniversary of the original display at the 1867 Paris Universal Exposition.

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Wed
Jan
25
2017

Colleen O'Reilly and Aisling Quigley Colloquium

Botany Hall: Dioramas in Context

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Wed
Jan
18
2017

Rae Di Cicco Colloquium

An Enduring Double Standard: Kineticism, Appropriation, and the Limits of Modernism

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Wed
Dec
07
2016

Isabelle Chartier Colloquium

Cataloguing the UAG: the website, the database and online exhibitions

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Wed
Nov
30
2016

Mrinalini Rajagopalan Colloquium

Bodies, Buildings, and Global Imaginations: A Proposal for the Course, Global Architectural History I (Fall 2018) Mrinalini Rajagopalan

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Thu
Nov
17
2016

The Moment of the Fall in Renaissance Art - Lecture

The Moment of the Fall in Renaissance Art:  The Ethical Challenge of Adam and Eve Professor Joseph Koerner, Harvard University

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Wed
Nov
16
2016

Guest Colloquium - Kristin Romberg, University of Illinois

The Tectonics of Minimalism Kristin Romberg, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Wed
Nov
09
2016

Elizabeth Self Colloquium

Yodo-dono’s Patterns of Patronage: Yōgen’in Temple and the Asai FamilyElizabeth Self

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Sat
Nov
05
2016

Living Histories of Contemporary Art

 Living Histories of Contemporary Art New Media between Latin America and New York in the 1960s–70s This scholarly symposium has been organized by Jennifer Josten, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, and Katherine Brodbeck, Associate Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art.

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Fri
Nov
04
2016

New Exhibition Opening!

Chinese Apartment Art: Primary Documents from Gao Minglu's Archive, 1970s-1990s, and Paradoxes of Play: Concrete and Conceptualist Proposals from Brazil and Beyond.

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