History of Arts and Architecture

Remarks and awards for seniors and their families in the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) room 232 followed by a joint reception in the MAC upper lobby.

Join us to kick off Johnson Memorial Building’s 50th Anniversary celebrations! The Johnson Pit will come to life with dancing, DJs, food and drink, and a photo booth. Dress in your best 60s themed or formal attire. Get ready to create some good memories before Johnson’s renovation this fall.

Come and celebrate Johnson Memorial Building’s 50th Anniversary with a lecture on the history of the building delivered by former professor Glenn Andres, followed by associate professor John McLeod, who will discuss the upcoming renovation of the building. Reception to follow with refreshments.

Annabelle Selldorf is the Principal of Selldorf Architects, a 70-person architectural design practice that she founded in New York City in 1988. Selldorf Architects creates public and private spaces that manifest a clear and modern sensibility to enduring impact. Since its inception, the firm’s design ethos has been deeply rooted in the principles of humanism. At every scale and for every condition, Selldorf Architects designs for the individual experience. Creating buildings and spaces that bring people together and foster community is fundamental to the firm’s work.

Do you love art? Come meet the faculty from the History of Art & Architectural Studies faculty at this information session, and hear more about our major and minor requirements.

Mark Aronson, painting conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, Louis Kahn’s last building, will discuss the ways in which architecture, light, and the lighting interact with each other, how they influence the way in which paintings age, and how a conservator must negotiate a balance between the scientific understanding of light, the aging of works of art, and the way in which audiences like to see them. Co-sponsored by the Johnson Endowment Fund.

Photo Credit: Henry Robert Morland (British, 1730-1797), The Ballad Singer, ca. 1764 (detail)

Artist talk with Dario Robleto-The Poetry of Prisms: Awe as a Form of Knowledge in Art and Science

This epic film by renowned artist Ai Weiwei is a detailed and heartbreaking exploration of the global refugee crisis. Captured over the course of a year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent stories that stretches through Afghanistan, Greece, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey, and beyond. From teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders, ‘Human Flow’ witnesses its subjects’ desperate search for safety, shelter, and justice. (2017, dir. Ai Weiwei, 140 min.) Free and open to the public.*

Take a painting break. Yinglei Zhang, will be holding drop-in Chinese painting workshops. Workshop is open to students, faculty, and staff. Sponsored by the Johnson Enrichment Fund.

Take a painting break. Yinglei Zhang, will be holding drop-in Chinese painting workshops. Workshop is open to students, faculty, and staff. Sponsored by the Johnson Enrichment Fund.