Department of Art History

From City to Text to Image: Pieter van den Broecke and Safi ibn Vali in Seventeenth-Century Mocha

Seminar with Cécile Fromont (Art History, Yale) on selections for her newly edited volume, with pre-circulated readings.

A light lunch will be served.

On January 15, Martha Rosler will be in conversation with Neubauer Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete to discuss the current gallery exhibition, Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals – the first exhibition by the acclaimed New York–based photo and video artist to center primarily on her interest in flowers, gardens, and associated “green” motifs.

"What I've Learned from Talking to Artists"

Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor of Art History, Visual Arts, and the College; Chair, Department of Visual Arts

Register in advance for this Zoom meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All are welcome to join. Please let Sophie and me know if you have any questions.

"The edges of the interview: informal relationships and the challenges of translation"

Maggie Borowitz, PhD Candidate, Art History

Special Event

Lori Waxman, critic for the Chicago Tribune and Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

in conversation with: Rachel Cohen, Professor of Practice in the Arts, Department of English and Program in Creative Writing

This event is organized by the Smart Museum of Art and co-sponsored by the RAVE and Speaking of Art workshops. 

"'That artwork doesn't exist': Productive misreadings of performance documentation and what happens when you find out the 'truth'"

Nancy Lin, PhD Candidate, Art History

Title TBD

Alaka Wali, Curator of North American Anthropology, The Field Museum

"Interviewing a musician who is also an ethnomusicologist"

Joe Maurer, PhD Candidate, Music

"We've Seen It All"

Leslie Wilson, Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts, Smart Museum