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Over the last several years, universities and museums have partnered with commercial technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their AI products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises, however, are not supported by the reality of what computer vision—the branch of AI most relevant to the history of art—can achieve. So why have major institutions in education and the arts been so quick to take up these firms’ offers?

Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an artist like no other. Working as an architect, printmaker, polemicist, archaeologist, interior designer, and art dealer, he created works that even today define our notions of Ancient and Modern Rome, and which helped establish a taste for Neoclassical design that spread across Europe. His powers of invention were prodigious, and his influence enormous—maddeningly so for some of his contemporaries.

Learn more about this concert’s music in a free pre-concert lecture by Professor Emeritus of Music Larry Hamberlin.

Learn more about this concert’s music in a free pre-concert lecture by Professor Emeritus of Music Larry Hamberlin.

Food Drive at the MAC

Physical connoisseurship of works of art informs the analysis, authentication and conservation of art. Examples illustrating these topics will focus on the conservation of paper and the printmaking process of Giovanni Piranesi. Lecture by Theresa Fairbanks Harris, Senior Conservator, Works on Paper, Yale University Art Museums.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an artist like no other. Working as an architect, printmaker, polemicist, archaeologist, interior designer, and art dealer, he created works that even today define our notions of Ancient and Modern Rome, and which helped establish a taste for Neoclassical design that spread across Europe.

The photographs of Lebanese American artist, Rania Matar tells the stories of young women through portraits taken throughout Lebanon, France, Egypt and the United States.

Student lecture by Stephanie Quichimbo ’25, Robert F. Reiff Curatorial Intern.

Pre-colonial and post-colonial South American art differ greatly in medium, with a shift from stonework and textiles to paintings, reflecting changes in subject matter and ideology. Our Lady of Cocharcas exemplifies how cultural hybridity influenced colonial art, as indigenous communities may have adopted European figures to assert their identity while outwardly conforming to Spanish rule.

On October 18, 1951, Robert Rauschenberg wrote a letter to his gallerist, Betty Parsons, announcing a new series of work “dealing with the suspense, excitement, and body of an organic silence.” Despite an initially negative reception, his White Paintings have since been recognized as a critical precursor to Conceptualism and Minimalism. Rauschenberg felt it essential to maintain the pristine, white surface of the paintings, and, as such, allowed the series to be repainted and refabricated.

Remarks and awards for Russian department seniors and their families.