Department of the History of Art

Sifting through the Treasure Chest: Coins, Currencies, and Material Exchange across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans at the Cusp of the Eighteenth Century Prof. Nancy Um, Binghamton University Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 at 6 pm EST Register: https://jhubluejays.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpce-rqTIiH9PjGIhZT6WHhaqBi1NJkF8_ "In 2014, a metal detectorist unearthed a late seventeenth-century silver coin from Yemen in Rhode Island, which shed […]

Please join the Department of the History of Art for a lecture by Prof. David Roxburgh’s (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History at Harvard University), on Thursday, December 2nd at 6:00 pm EST. The title of his talk is “Painting and Poetry in Muhammad Juki’s Shāhnāma.”

The History of Art Lecture Series presents a lecture by Dr. Sarah Lepinski  (Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Date: December 7th, at 6:00 PM. To RSVP for the Zoom lecture, email the event organizers: [email protected].

The Department of the History of Art presents a lecture by Prof. Daniela Bleichmar (USC) on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 6 p.m. via Zoom. See poster here

The Department of the History of Art, in conjunction with the Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe, presents a lecture with Prof. Philippe Cordez on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 6 p.m. in Gilman 50.

Prof. Philippe Cordez will lead a discussion on key notions, experiences, and skills in object studies and its connection to visual studies and art history. Readings will be distributed ahead of the workshop. The workshop will be held in Gilman 288.

The Seat of Kings: An investigation of Xultun's Northern Royal Complex presented by Heather Hurst from Skidmore College. Please see event information here.

Decentering the Museum: Tom Lloyd, Black Art Study, and the Art Workers’ Coalition In January 1969, the electronic light sculptor Tom Lloyd became a founding member of the Art Workers’ Coalition, a group of artists and critics who pressured New York’s mainstream museums to be more inclusive in the range of artists they exhibited and collected. This […]