Jay Buchanan received the Spectrum Office’s Gloria Anzaldua Advocacy at Intersections Award on March 20th, and he presented with his award at the ceremony.
The article explores the art of the embodied experience in a discussion of the statue of Laocoön and His Sons.
The exhibition will demonstrate how stories can shift entrenched attitudes toward immigration and how art can foster connections between migrants and the communities in which they become a part.
Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Maggie Crosland, Ph.D. student Jessica Baran, Ph.D. candidate Hoyon Mephokee, Ph.D. 2023, Julie James, and Ph.D. student Jay Buchanan will be presenting their papers at the 2024 CAA conference in Chicago.
The American Institute of Maghrib Studies (AIMS) has awarded Lacy Murphy The Mark Tessler Graduate Student Prize for her paper, “A Visual Battleground with Multiple Fronts: World War II Propaganda in French Algeria.”
Helen invited writer Lawrence Weschler and art historian Claudia Swan to interrogate what is at stake—politically, financially, and art historically—in reattributing works by Vermeer.
We invite you to The Luminary this Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, for an opening celebration of Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives. The space will be open from 2-5pm.
Department of Art History and Archaeology graduate students Claire Lyman and Mary Sulavik joined Dr. Nicola Aravecchia, Archaeological Director of the Amheida project, on a trip to the ancient site of Amheida in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis.
Jay Buchanan will be presenting at the 2024 CAA conference. Jay’s paper, “Xiyadie's Gate: Antimonumentalizing Tian'anmen and Papercutting Queer Endurance” will conclude the "Queer Monuments" panel chaired by Blake Oetting (NYU-IFA) and Dr. Nick Morgan (Hampden-Sydney).
Lacy's writing will appear in the exhibition catalogue for “Matisse & the Sea,” taking place at the Saint Louis Art Museum this spring.
Lacy will be teaching two lectures for the Department this Spring: "The "Orient": Europe and Islamic Art from 1851 to Today" and "By Sea and Sand: Modern Art in the Mediterranean."