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What is the future of the history and art of the distant past? For decades, art and architectural historians have discussed declining interest in the study of topics prior to the modern era and the growing emphasis among emerging scholars and in current undergraduate curricula on modern and contemporary art.
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Statement of Purpose Workshop

In our ongoing effort to nurture more inclusive communities in and through the study of the history of art and the history of architecture, the Department of the History of Art & Architecture at Brown University is actively seeking PhD applicants from widely different backgrounds.
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The Architectural Review

Book review: "Architecture Against Democracy"

Read this book review referencing Professor Itohan Osayimwese's chapter, “Afro-Caribbean Migration and Detention at Ellis Island,” published in "Architecture against Democracy: Aesthetics, Nationalism, and Power," 140-62, edited by Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman for University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
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The Discreet Charge of the Old Indies

A tropical menagerie set in a lush landscape surrounds almost imperceptible human characters and architectural structures in the eight tableaux of the "Old Indies", a Baroque tapestry from the French Royal Factory of the Gobelins.
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Light in Art & Architecture, A Symposium

Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and the Brown Arts Institute, we welcome you to participate in the second installment of IGNITE events in the History of Art and Architecture Department, a two-day symposium celebrating Leo Villareal's luminous art installation at The Lindemann Performing Arts Center, "Infinite Composition".
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Architecture Concentrator Senior Exhibition

On Friday, May 17th, senior architecture concentrators will open an exhibition of their work at 271 Thayer Street. Refreshments will be provided; all are welcome!
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HIAA Honors Presentations

Honors students in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture will present their theses/capstones. Reception to follow; all are welcome!
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This seminar and public gathering explored the concept of “The Glass Mosque” by way of the hand, storytelling and the book arts, composition and sound, and art and architectural history. This event brought the public together with students in the course to think alongside artist Shahzia Sikander and Professor Holly Shaffer.
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Graduate student Fosca Maddaloni to Present at the 2024 Frick Symposium on the History of Art. Her talk is titled “Emblematic Pairs: Sixteenth-Century Affective Encounters of Porcelain and Metalwork”.
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A fundamental dimension of divine essence in ancient Mediterranean beliefs is the radiance of divine beings. How was it experienced in ritual practice? And how did space, natural or artificial, condition modes of interaction with the divine?
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Graduate student Mohadeseh Salari Sardari was recently published in the Iranian Studies Journal (Cambridge University Press). Her article is titled "Andre Godard and Maxime Siroux: Disentangling the Narrative of French Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Iran".
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Architecture Studio Orientation

The department is hosting an Architecture Studio Orientation, required for all students enrolled in a studio course this Spring. Join us for free pizza and meet your Spring cohort!
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Historians of British Art

Professor Holly Shaffer Wins Historians of British Art Award

Congratulations to Professor Holly Shaffer, Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities, whose book "Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760–1910" (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press, 2022), won a Historians of British Art Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800–1960.
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Nude painting flourished among Arab artists in the 20th century during a period of cultural renaissance. Now these rarely seen works are on view at the Wallach Art Gallery.

Sara Aridi interviews Adrienne Minassian Professor of Islamic Art & Architecture, Margaret Graves, and discusses her research alongside other art historians focused on the Arab world.
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Politics and Architecture: Professor Dietrich Neumann opened an intervention and exhibition at Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion (1929/1986) in Barcelona, Spain on Saturday, November 11.
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Sustainability in Architecture Workshop

The Brown Architecture DUG invites you to a workshop to learn about sustainability in architecture led by Nicole Samios ‘24 and Christian Wu '24.
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An essay for Outland written by Assistant Professor Lindsay Caplan. Caplan writes, "The significance of contemporary generative art hinges on how it brings disparate kinds of similarity and difference into unreconciled—and productive—tension."
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A review of the exhibition at the MFA Boston, "Michaelina Wautier and The Five Senses: Innovation in 17th-Century Flemish Painting," which was curated in part by HIAA Professor Jeffrey Muller and graduate students in the department practicum. Written by Caroline Van Cauwenberge, Curatorial Associate, The Leiden Collection, New York.
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A review of Sonal Khullar's recently published anthology, "Old Stacks New Leaves." The publication contextualizes the historical and contemporary book traditions in South Asia and features a chapter from Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities, Holly Shaffer.
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"The Imagined New | Working through alternative archives is envisioned as a 3-volume, open-access publication in which African and African diasporic art practices are framed as an alternative set of archives, in which intersecting histories, presents and possible futures are (re)conceived, embodied and performed as radical claims to Black life.
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Local students from high schools such as Central Falls, Hope High, Classical, and E Cubed, visited the Department of the History of Art & Architecture to see what it's like to be a student in the department. Students were able to tour List Art Building, peek into classes, and examine and discuss the artwork found throughout the building.
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At the CCA, Higgerson will be conducting research for her developing dissertation, tentatively entitled "Alpine Imaginaries: Organicism, Vernacularism, and Authenticity in the Modern Alps." The project aims to theorize a history of vernacular Alpine architecture's relationship with modernism through its varied and recurrent intersections with the movement.
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