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PhD Candidate Oliver Coulson, Frick-IFA Symposium

4/14, 9:30 am, on Zoom


Coulson’s research considers the impact of the Lollard heresy on the art and architecture of late-medieval England. His will explore the idea that an unusual prevalence of angel sculptures in the roofs of churches in East Anglia is connected to fears about the spread of Lollardy in the region.


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HIAA Graduate Student Q&A Lunch

4/17, 12:00 pm, 271 Thayer Street


Please join HIAA graduate students for a Q&A panel on their pathways to the PhD program and beyond. Lunch will be served, registration required.


RSVP by April 10th.

Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke), “Gas Mask Nation”

4/20, 6:30 pm, List 120


Dr. Weisenfeld is Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. Her field of research is modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. On 4/20, she will discuss her book, Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan, with Brown University faculty Kerry Smith (History), Douglas Nickel (HIAA), and Wai Yee Chiong (Associate Curator of Asian Art, RISD).


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Trip to the MFA Boston to see “The Five Senses,” Michaelina Wautier

4/22,1:30 pm, Huntington Ave Entrance, MFA Boston


Join HIAA Professor Jeffrey Muller and the Early Modern World and HIAA DUGs on a trip to the Boston MFA to view the ongoing exhibition Michaelina Wautier and ‘The Five Senses.’ The show was curated by six Brown HIAA doctoral students alongside those of the MFA’s Center for Netherlandish Art.


Students, register with rachel_moss@brown.edu by April 12th.

Art Crime Panels

4/10 and 4/11 from 6:00-7:00 pm on Zoom


Join the Brown Arts Review for a two-day panel featuring a Q&A with Founder of the FBI Art Crime Special Unit and Art Theft Private Investigator, Robert Wittman (4/10) and a talk with the Security Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Anthony Amore, on the stolen Rembrandt paintings as well as with an Art and Cultural Property Theft writer for The New York Times, Tom Mashberg (4/11).


Register.

“[Black] Art and Moral Integrity”: Philosophers on Diversity," Anita Allen (University of Pennsylvania)

4/14, 3:30-5:30 pm, 85 Waterman Street


Can encountering artwork in a museum or other exhibition space improve our ethics? Dr. Allen will examine this question in relation to an award-winning work of art—The Probable Trust Registry #1-3—by the Adrian Piper.


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Vital Signs: The Visual Cultures of Maya Writing

Every Sunday, 4/16-5/21, 2:00 pm, National Gallery East Building Auditorium and YouTube Live


Brown Professor Stephen Houston, Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, and HIAA Affiliate has a number of upcoming Andrew Mellon Lectures, which explore the complex system of Maya writing from ancient Mexico and Central America in a six-part series.


Learn more and register.

Apply for HIAA Student Awards


Apply for the Rebecca Moholt Vanel Fund and the Flexible Flyer Fellowship Award. Applications due May 1st to lindsay_caplan@brown.edu and nancy_safian@brown.edu.


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Preregister for Fall Courses


Make sure to meet with your advisor to plan for next year's courses!


View HIAA Fall ‘23 courses.

HIAA Roundtable: Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University)

4/20, 12:00 pm, List 423


Please join us for a roundtable led by Gennifer Weisenfeld, Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.


RSVP via Google Calendar.

Call for Papers: Premodern Unfreedoms: Global Approaches to Exploitation, Enslavement, and Trafficking (University of Illinois)


This interdisciplinary conference aims to interrogate the state of the field for slavery, and broader practices of unfreedom and trafficking, in the global premodern world. Contact chloe3@illinois.edu with questions.


Submissions due May 1st to premodernunfreedoms@gmail.com.

Photos by Leo Selvaggio.

This week we are looking at snapshots from the History of Art and Architecture course, "Intro to the Built Environment.”


Students in HIAA0065 explored the idea of drawing as a complex trace that is produced by use and action. Challenging the notion of drawing as a static representation, students participated in a collective meal which was documented via cyanotype photography. As students dined, table cloths treated with a light reactive chemical were exposed to UV lights. The result was a sort of architectural blueprint — a cyanotype of a shared experience.


The course is taught by Kent Kleinman (Faculty Director, BAI & Professor of the Practice, History of Art and Architecture) and was supported this semester by TA and HIAA PhD student Yannick Etoundi. The cyanotype breakfast took place at the Granoff Center for the Arts with support from the Brown Arts Institute.