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.

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”.

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?

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".

In March 1, Krista Thompson will present, "The Art of Black Study: Tom Lloyd and the Art Workers' Coalition," the first lecture in the Spring installment of our lecture series "Light in Theory & Practice."

PhD Alum Emily Monty Fellow at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti

Assistant Professor Lindsay Caplan wrote a review of Sarah Rosalena’s exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art at the Pizzuti, "In All Directions" for "The Brooklyn Rail."

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.