Nassos Papalexandrou, Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, will present the talk: Light for gods, light of gods: the ecospatial dimensions of divine radiance in the Ancient Mediterranean. Image: Interior of Idaean Cave on Crete, visit June 21, 2023, ca noon.
Claire Wintle, University of Brighton, Centre for Design History will speak on Shelving the Empire: Anxiety, Control, and Performative Change in Postwar Museum Storage. Talk will be in person, with reception to follow, and on-line, as part of AAP Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Management’s Curated Conversations. For those joining us on-line please register here: […]
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 […]
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? […]