After an 11-year closure, the Royal Museum in Antwerp has reopened. While the museum's exterior remains the same, previously unused space inside the building has changed dramatically. An old masters curator and current Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art & Architecture here at Brown, Koen Bulckens, notes for The New York Times, “We have these two different worlds, which each has a distinct identity... On the one hand, we have classical art in the classical building with the grandeur of 19th-century public spaces. And on the other hand, this slick, modernist, white-cube museum.” Read more about the museum and its reopening from Nina Siegal in The New York Times.

Patrick Nasta '22, Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and History. His career interests revolve around sustainable architectural design and renewable urban agriculture. Beginning in October '22 he will spend a year in Pollenzo, Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship to study for a Masters in Gastronomy with a focus on World Food Cultures and Mobility.

In March 2022, Oliver Coulson traveled to Spain to speak at the conference, The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages.

Pamudu forms part of the final cohort of the IDRF: the 2022 cycle will be the program’s last.

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture is pleased to announce our call for applications, for our annual prizes and funding opportunities.

This research roundtable studies the transgressive potential of color when employed by people of color — its potential to challenge the fixity of racial hierarchies and subvert hegemonic structures.

On Wednesday, April 27, Professor Gretel Rodríguez appears as a panelist in the “The Architecture of Imperialism: A Roundtable at the Periphery of Early Empires.” 

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture has a lively start to the month of April.

The On Speculation lecture series continues with educator, researcher, and curator, Dr. Mpho Matsipa. She presents “Black Time and African Spatialities” on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 5:30 pm, in Petteruti Lounge. 

Professor Erica Kinias is one of just four recipients of the 2022 Olivia Remie Constable Award.

On March 23, 2022, Professor Gretel Rodríguez was named one of the ten 2022 recipients of the Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art.

We look forward to sending out a new date and seeing you, hopefully, very soon.

The hybrid conference is sponsored by a grant from the Mellon Sawyer Foundation.

Professor Arabindan-Kesson uses historical case studies and contemporary art to analyze the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the Black body in U.S. culture.

The Spear Lecture takes place on Thursday, March 10, 2022 in List Art Center 120.

On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, Harvard University Professor Jinah Kim presents, “Color Coding Knowledge: Five Colors of Indian Esoteric Buddhism.”

On view across Brown’s campus is an exhibit of student work from Professor Itohan Osayimwese’s Fall 2021 course.

Ella Comberg has published two articles: one in the Brown Alumni Magazine, and one in Hidden City Philadelphia. 

HIAA Professor Holly Shaffer has edited the fifty-first issue of Ars Orientalis, published by the Freer and Sackler Galleries at Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, and the University of Michigan.

Submissions may address specific objects in the Joukowsky’s collection, or the field of archaeology in general.

The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) announces that Professor Itohan Osayimwese will deliver the 2022 Eduard F. Sekler Talk at the SAH 2022 Annual International Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Department applauds these students for their excellent projects, and celebrates the innovative leadership of Professor Osayimwese and graduate TAs, Pamudu Tennakoon and Dandan Xu.

The edited volume that is the planned outcome of the project will be produced through an innovative collaborative writing process.

On December 4, Professor Jeffrey Muller’s class, “Dutch and Flemish Art: Visual Culture of the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century,” paid a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Alexis Lowry, Curator at the Dia Art Foundation in New York, has been named a 2022 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

This event will be held in List Art Building, Room 110. Insomnia Cookies will be served.

Prof. Gretel Rodríguez presents a talk, Roman Triumphal Arches: Looking at the Arch at Orange on October 28 at 3 pm via Zoom.

Professor Shaffer's essay, "Eclecticism and Empire, in Translation," was published in August in Modern Philology.

The project maintains that such transparency is essential to both complicating the dominant narratives of the field, and understanding the current terrain curators face.

On Thursday, April 29, the HIAA department came together to honor our PhD and undergraduate students who are graduating this spring.

The AIIS Committee lauded Professor Shaffer for her “imaginative use of a ‘grafted arts’ framework to examine the artistic creations and collections that resulted from the intermixing of the Marathas and the British in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.”

Architecture Instructor, Julian von der Schulenburg taught two remote classes in Fall 2020.

Divya Rao Heffley, the Associate Director for the Office of Public Art, works with artists and communities on residencies and commissions that address a range of contemporary issues, that seek to foster social justice and cultural equity in public spaces.

Cloth, Comfort and Care: New Scholarship on South Asian Textiles will be a conversation with renowned art historians.

Professor Jeffrey Moser will present a workshop at the Sheridan Center on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at noon.

Join the HIAA DUGs and faculty to discuss two selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art.

On February 11 at 5 pm, our department will host a reception for faculty, staff, alumni and friends. Please email Nancy_Safian@brown.edu for a link to the session.

Neumann's smaller companion book presents 100 selected texts about this much-discussed building.

Students in “A Global History of Art and Architecture” find inspiration in art historical objects spanning the globe and across time periods.

As our concentration has grown we've been able to welcome new faculty, including Craig Barton '78, our department's first Professor of the Practice in Architecture.

We are delighted to announce a series of graduate student achievements.

Hui-Hung Chen is currently a full professor in the Department of History at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, U.S., in 2004. She was awarded a Visiting Scholar of the Harvard Yenching Institute, U.S., in 2013-2014.