Speaker: Adrienne L. Childs: Senior Consulting Curator, The Phillips Collection
This presentation is based on Childs's forthcoming book Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts. It is the first academic book of its kind to survey decorative...
Vellai Mozhi - Frankly Speaking is a powerful first-person account of a hijra-thirunangai-transfeminine experience in southern India. A. Revathi enacts her life as a Tamil trans woman, stringing stories about finding community, navigating family...
The Harvard Undergraduate Symposium in Premodern Studies
Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, the Department of Classics, Early Modern World at Harvard, and the Ancient Studies Program
Catalyst Conversations in partnership with the List Visual Art Center presents – Picturing Language: Artist Sarah Hulsey and Linguist Athulya Aravind
The persistence of language is a human experience. Both art and language act as a door to that experience. The structure of language is the structure of the brain, as linguist Noam Chomsky says, “language is not just a bunch of words statistically strung together. Structures governing words come from the mind.”
Kaufman Theater | Chrysler Museum of Art, One Memorial Place, Norfolk, Virginia 23510
Suzanne Preston Blier, PhD, set the art history world abuzz with her recent research on Pablo Picasso’s infamous work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In her book, Picasso’s Demoiselles, Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, notably one of the twentieth century’s most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her expertise in African art and newly discovered sources, Blier reads the painting not as a simple bordello scene but as Picasso’s interpretation of the diversity of representations of women from around the world he encountered in...