History of Arts and Architecture

History of Arts and Architecture HARC

“Migrants at Work: The Production of Christian Ivories in 17th-century Southeast Asia”

5:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: History of Arts and Architecture

Guest Lecturers Jessie Park, Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery, give a public lecture.

Virtual Middlebury

FREE
Open to the Public

Wondering About Wonder: Hindu Temple Ritual, Aesthetics and Creativity

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History of Arts and Architecture, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology, South Asian Studies, and International & Global Studies

Through her decades-long ethnography of Hindu temple rituals in the city of Bangalore, India, Tulasi Srinivas analyzes wonder as an anthropological concept; moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder- a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. In this talk, Srinivas asks— What is the purpose of wonder and how does it link with creativity? Can it inform our practices of ethnography, our understanding of India, and of ourselves?

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Virtual Bauhaus

12:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture

Explore the Bauhaus school in Dessau in virtual reality! Create a performance on the Bauhaus stage, make a sculpture in one of the school’s workshops, get a glimpse of student life, and explore the architecture of the Dessau building, inside and out. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Virtual Bauhaus

4:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture

Open to the Public

Virtual Bauhaus

4:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture

Open to the Public

Virtual Bauhaus

4:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture

Open to the Public

Tintoretto at 500: Celebrating a Venetian Renaissance Master

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: History of Arts and Architecture

Robert Echols ’69, curator of landmark retrospective shows in Venice and Washington, honors the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto with a new assessment of the painter and his contribution, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the organization of a major international art exhibition. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public

Thinking Big, Designing Small: Turning Constraints into Architectural Opportunities

7:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: History of Arts and Architecture

Cameron Visiting Architect Lecture, Elizabeth Herrmann, AIA (President, Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture + Design):
Thinking Big, Designing Small: Turning Constraints into Architectural Opportunities
Architect Elizabeth Herrmann is founder of the award-winning, Bristol, Vermont firm, Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture + Design. In this lecture, she will discuss recent work, her approach to design and practice.

Sponsored by the Cameron Visiting Architect Program and organized by the Architectural Studies Program

Johnson Classroom 204

Open to the Public

Thesis Art Exhibition

6:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: History of Arts and Architecture

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Students enrolled in ART 700 exhibit works in various media in this culminating exhibition, showcasing the work of advanced students completing semester long independent studio art.

Johnson Atrium

Sonic Preservation of the Berlin Wall

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: History of Arts and Architecture

Pamela Jordan of the Netherlands’ HEAD-Genuit-Foundation analyzes the Berlin Wall as a sonic infrastructural space. Propaganda broadcasts, guard dogs, gunfire, and sirens were violent, auditory markers along the barrier. The patent differences in the two sides’ soundscapes coerced silence on the East, actively demarcating a territory of surveillance and hostile control. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public