Worshipped by later folk artists as the God of Painting, Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760) was also praised by Tang art historian Zhang Yanyuan as someone who “did not look back and will have no successors.” But alas this Sage of Painting (Hua Sheng) left no work to us (imagine if we could only read about...
Mahindra Center for the Humanities Visual Representation, Materiality, and the Medium Seminar chaired by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth David Joselit - "Television's Partitioned Publics" Tuesday, April 13th at 5:30pm EST
The Visual Representation, Materiality, and the Medium Seminar Series, chaired by Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, is excited to host Professor David...
The third in a series of six lectures, looking at the challenges we face as artists and citizens as we reinvent our culture with ambiguity and beauty. The third lecture will consider language, lyrics and the narrator.
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, designed by Le Corbusier and built in 1963, is one of the most important examples of modernist architecture in the United States. Despite its radical design and the aspirational ideals embedded in its architecture, however, the building does not take into account the diversity of bodies that use its space. This problem is not unique to the Carpenter Center but common for buildings of its age. As we assess...
The Art, Art History, and Film Department welcomes Boston College Professor of Art Sheila Gallagher for a virtual Colloquium Lecture, "Alone/Together." Gallagher will present her recent work created as a solo practitioner and in collaboration with students and other artists. Spanning various disciplines, her illustrated talk will explore themes of art and spirituality, the role of the art object in healing, and the pivotal role that uncertainty plays in the creative process.
MIT Architecture | Spring 2021 Lecture Series A Research Studio conversation with Catie Newell, Virginia San Fratello, Brandon Clifford, and Zain Karsan In collaboration with the Architecture and Urbanism Group 6:00 PM, ...
This symposium seeks to better understand both how Byzantines themselves understood being conquered and, as importantly, what being conquered in Byzantium can mean for us now.
