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It’s Elemental: Earth

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Third in a series of four biannual exhibitions curated by students enrolled in ARTH335: Exhibition Design, It’s Elemental: Earth considers how earth—in all of its…

Marriage and Sunder

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Leah Niederstadt publishes on traditional African wedding paintings that serve as both art and wedding license. She has also contributed to a book, a case…

Simile + Metaphor: Red Necklace

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August 28–November 3, 2018 Contemporary painter and mixed media artist Barbara Owen creates a site-specific installation featuring her work with cut paper. Owen, who works…

Fiber/Paper/Love

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Explore and interpret fiber’s use and forms in innovative ways.

Horrors and Honors

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In her new book, Professor of Art History Touba Ghadassi writes about monsters, dwarves and the history of difference.

Public Art in South Africa

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Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and Art History Kim Miller and her coauthor examine how South Africa deals with public art, how it…

Artist Talk by Shelley Reed

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November 3, 2015 Boston-based painter Shelley Reed will shed light on her process of creating large-scale black-and-white paintings that draw from art history and will…

Contemporary Art: How does it become art history?

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Dr. Kalb will address the ways in which undergraduate art history textbooks are researched, written, and published.

From Diss to MS: How and Why Art History Research Gets Published

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March 3, 2015 Workshop: Katie Hornstein, Assistant Professor, Modern European Art, Dartmouth College Dr Hornstein’s current project Picturing War in France, 1792-1856 focuses on the…

Art History on the Move: Interpretation in the Age of Digital Technology

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February 24, 2015 Sarah Ganz Blythe, Deputy Director for Exhibitions, Education, and Programs, RISD Museum Providence Dr Ganz Blythe will discuss the relationships between the…

Colleen Mangan ’13 on Princess Marie Czartoryska

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In this uncut sheet of carte-de-visite portraits, Princess Marie Czartoryska wears traditional Polish dress. Colleen Mangan ’13 reads that choice as reflecting her family’s political belief that Polish nobility and…

David LaFleche ’14 on Les Halles

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David LaFleche ’14 notes that, unlike other 19th-century scenic photographs of the city which tend to emphasize wide empty streets and imposing French architecture, this…