History of Arts and Architecture

Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature, houses a vast repository of paintings. How does the novelist, in his frequent reference to both famous and obscure works of art, manage to evoke emotion, character, history? How do the verbal and the visual interact and illuminate one another?

Learn more about the History of Art & Architectural Studies Major, Minor, and offerings, including our annual NYC trip, Spring MFA Bus trip, and upcoming residencies and guest lectures.

Pizza and refreshments will be provided.

This lecture will focus on architectural representations and their relationship to conceptual frameworks both within the architectural project and beyond to varying ontologies. The talk will consider the way in which architectural representations are not just embodiments of architectural knowledge, but also ways of seeing and being in the world. The deliberate questioning of what to represent and how to represent is a disciplinary responsibility that is companion to the act of world building.

Come listen to speeches from College members, a performance by Riddim World Dance Troupe as well as other dance performancers.  Stay for the opening reception, watch a light show by the Theatre Department and finish off the evening with live music by Soop Spoons and Mutual Friends.

Film Screening of the documentary Spaces of Exception (2018, 90 minutes), followed by Q&A with filmmakers Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, moderated by Professor James Sanchez.

“The Light of the Levant: Early Photography and the Late Ottoman Empire” traces nearly a century of photography in the region. Curated by History of Art and Architecture faculty Pieter Broucke and Sarah Rogers, the exhibition includes the work of foreign and local photographers, both professional and amateur, to showcase the various scientific, commercial, ideological, and personal uses of the new medium and highlight a network of circulation in which images transported ideas about cultural otherness, imperial desires, and notions of modernity.

Opening Celebration of the newly renovated Johnson Memorial Building

The students in HARC 257-The Bayeux Tapestry model context, and the afterlife, and will present a poster session of their semester-long engagement with this monument.

Studio Art Presents: 

Animations by the ART 0155A, Cartoon, Caricature & Animation Class

Join us for snacks, drinks, and fantastic movies.

Commencement reception for History of Art & Architecture and Music seniors and their families.