History of Art and Visual Culture – RISD Academic Affairs

Schiff Works on the Critique

Written on August 1, 2017. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Karen Schiff (Lecturer, Liberal Arts) recently gave a lecture, Abstraction in the Public Sphere, at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Schiff has also published an essay, Consideration (As An Antidote to Critique), in...

Bergstein lecture and work published

Written on June 20, 2017. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Mary Bergstein (Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture) presented a lecture at the University of Heidelberg Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies on April 22. The topic of the conference was “An Interdisciplinary Anthropology of Perception...

Taborska lecture in Warsaw

Written on June 19, 2017. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Agnieszka Taborska (Senior Lecturer, HAVC) gave a lecture on female Surrealists at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland. The lecture was about the myth of a muse / femme-enfant / sorceress as well as about the recently “discovered”...

Scanlan Awarded Best Article Prize

Written on June 14, 2017. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Suzanne Scanlan (Lecturer, History of Art + Visual Culture) and Caroline Castiglione (Professor, Departments of History and Italian Studies, Brown University) were awarded the Best Article Prize, 2016-17 for their co-authored article, Death Did Not...

Campbell Featured in New Edited Volume on Ifá

Written on March 22, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Bolaji Campbell (Professor, History of Art + Visual Culture) has contributed a chapter entitled Of Color, Character, Attributes, and Values of Orunmila to a new edited volume Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance, edited by Jacob K. Olupona...

Taborska essay featured

Written on January 8, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Agnieszka Taborska’s (Senior Lecturer, HAVC) essay “The Sea, or the Poet at Work,” published in the October issue of Asymptote, has been discussed in The Paris Review.

Silberstein talk at Textile Museum symposium

Written on December 7, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Rachel Silberstein (Assistant Professor, HAVC) gave a talk at the Textile Museum symposium, Picturing China: Qing-Dynasty Photography and Fashion. The changing fashions John Thomson found in mid-nineteenth-century China were, in part, stimulated by...

Lambrecht and the Vagabond Puppeteers

Written on December 3, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Winnie Lambrecht’s (Senior Lecturer, HAVC) 2014 short film about The Vagabond Puppeteers will be screened with Q & A, followed by the Quahog Quorale and audience participation. Puppetry and Politics in 1939: The Vagabond Puppeteers explores...

Taborska at the Museum of the History of Katowice

Written on November 20, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Agnieszka Taborska (Senior Lecturer, HAVC) presented a lecture “Hans Bellmer, Unica Zurn and Headless Women” at Hans Bellmer exhibition in the Museum of the History of Katowice in Katowice, Pl, Bellmer’s place of birth. She discussed Bellmer and Zürn’s...

Gizycki’s films at film festivals

Written on November 16, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts.

A documentary by Marcin Gizycki (Senior Lecturer, History of Art and Visual Culture) and Peter O’Neill (Professor, Film/Animation/Video), “A Magic-Lantern Life: The Story of American Magic-Lantern Theater,” will be shown at the New Haven International...

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