Department of the History of Art

Presenters include Dora Malech (editor in chief, The Hopkins Review) Jennifer Stager & Leila Easa (guest editors of Locating a Collective Lyric “I”: A Special Folio for The Hopkins Review; open access in 2025); Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Naomi Shihab Nye & Marion Winik; and Pia Hargrove, Bethany Dixon, Michele Carlson (Related Tactics), Steven Leyva & Jennifer Keohane, Ella Gonzalez, and Alessandra Amin. Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University; co-sponsored by Bird in Hand & The Ivy Bookshop; […]

The Johns Hopkins History of Art Department and The Archaeological Institute of America Baltimore Society welcome graduate and undergraduate students for a unique opportunity to engage with distinguished museum professionals, hear about their work and professional development, and ask questions about museum-oriented careers.  Featuring Guest Speakers: Daniel H. Weiss; Homewood Professor of the Humanities at […]

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.

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?   […]

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 […]