Graduate Student Feier Ying Published in Various Journals

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!

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.

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.

Professor Jeffrey Moser led a research trip to the Cleveland Art Museum and Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College

The Departments of the History of Art & Architecture and Visual Art are pleased to welcome Amira Osman to give the Fall 2023 Spear Endowed Architecture Lecture on November 29th, at 6 pm, in List Art Building, 120.

Jamaican Curator Dr. Anthony Bogues Leads MoCAAD’s Revolution with ‘This Life’ Exhibition

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.

Join the HIAA DUG for a tour of "The Performative Self-Portrait," a photography exhibition currently on view at the RISD Museum.

The Brown Architecture DUG invites you to a workshop to learn about sustainability in architecture led by Nicole Samios ‘24 and Christian Wu '24.

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."

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.

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.

Ph.D. student Yannick Etoundi was recently selected for the Cogut Collaborative Humanities Doctoral Certificate, as well as the Cogut Doctoral Certificate Fellowship.

Ph.D. Candidate, Dominic Bate, was awarded a Summer Travel Fellowship from the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, CT.

"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.

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.

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.