Chattel slavery in the United States ended 150 years ago, and yet its legacy reverberates today in harmful practices and beliefs that are still being perpetuated and continue to impact descendant communities in various ways – from education to healthcare to the economy and our criminal justice system.
We invite you to participate in the inaugural two-day symposium of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (H&LS) initiative, Reckoning with History, Shaping Our Future. This symposium will feature powerful dialogues and performances that aim to educate...
Aga Khan Lecture Series: "The Sufi Shrines of Khuldabad" Mohit Manohar: Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Chicago. ...
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...