In 2020, Professor of Art History Itohan Osayimwese was awarded the 2020 Schelling Architecture Foundation Theory Prize.

The Department of the History of Art & Architecture is proud to announce a diverse variety of faculty publications.

On Monday, Professor Dietrich Neumann gave the keynote opening address at Tirana Architecture Week at Polis University.

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.