This study day, organized in conjunction with the BMA exhibition Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art, invites conversation and reflection on the environmental, economic, social, and political consequences of the Dutch Republic’s engagement with the water. This convening aims to address how artists, their contemporaries, and the objects on view reveal both an […]
Asking Historical Questions of Contemporary (Indian) Art This talk uses Shilpa Gupta’s Listening Air (2019–2023) to consider how best to take a squarely art historical perspective on contemporary art. By historical, I mean one driven less by the question, what does this work of art mean? than by the question, how did this work of art come to be? […]
A symposium at Johns Hopkins University The question of what fashion means—is it a form? Is it a temporal indicator? Is it a moral category?—has many answers. This complexity is the main reason why fashion studies can be so elusive, whether by material culture specialists, anthropologists, or art historians. Four art historians will reflect on […]
