JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYEST. 1876
America’s First Research University
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 […]
Andrew Griebeler, Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.
Please join us to hear Catriona MacLeod, University of Chicago present the talk Blurred Edges: Interactions Between the Blot and the Cut and Experimental Romantic Paper Practices. This event is hosted by the The German program at Johns Hopkins.
Experience an unforgettable evening with celebrated artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña as she leads a participatoryperformance and reads from her new work, The Deer Book / Libro Venado (Radius Books, 2024). Joined by award-winningpoet and translator Daniel Borzutzky, Vicuña offers a meditative tribute to the deer, imagining it as a creature thatmoves between worlds. Please […]
Professor Tamara Sears, Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers University will give a talk: "Landscapes of Life and Death: Temples, Tombs, and Tigers in the Forests of Central India."
Please join us for the Air as Archive workshop with Emi Ferguson on 10/7 with a follow-up performance on 10/8. This event will be co-hosted by The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
John Lenti, Theorbo Emi Ferguson, Flute Ah Young Hong, Soprano Miranda Cuckson, Violin UNWRUNG stages a dialogue between the visual arts and music in antiquity and modernity, exploring questions of historical reconstruction and the aestheticization of violence across time and artistic media. A group of extraordinary musicians including--Emi Ferguson, Ah Young Hong, John Lenti, & […]
Please join us to hear Abbey Stockstill, Associate Professor and Chair, Architectural History, University of Virginia School of Architecture present the talk Aḥmar in the Maghrib: Landscape, Identity, and Color in the Islamic West. Dr. Stockstill is the author of Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib (Penn State Press, 2024).
Please join us for a conversation around Documenting Industry, featuring editors Rebecca Brown, Ranu Roychoudhuri along with contributing author Mircea Raianu. The event will open with introductions by Aamir Aamir Mufti and Alessandra Amin will serve as respondent. This event is co-sponsored by the Global South Humanities Initiative.
Please join us for a talk by Stefano de Bosio, Senior Lecturer in Art History at Freie Universität Berlin (FUBiS) and 2025 Gerda Henkel Fellow at the Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York. His talk is titled: The Alps as a Contact Zone: Art, Place, and Identity, c. 1500.
Please join us to hear Professor Mia Yinxing Liu, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University present a Work in Progress talk.