Professor Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin, from the Museum of Northern Arizona and Northern Arizona University, will deliver the 2025 Distinguished Lecture in the Art of the Ancient Americas. Her talk is titled, Artifacts and Ancestors: exploring archaeological collections with Hopi and Pueblo artists. Abstract: What happens when artists and archaeologists meet up on ancient sites or […]
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 […]
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? […]