HAA Events

Speaker: Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University How blue is Krishna? The Hindu god Krishna is most often depicted blue today, but in pre-modern Indian art his...

Design increasingly shapes the future not through objects alone, but through systems—interfaces, environments, infrastructures, algorithms, and protocols that organize relations, behavior, and perception. As design expands into planetary, computational...

Art history has long framed modernism as a Western, twentieth-century phenomenon, positioning it within a largely Euro-American narrative of rupture and innovation. If, however, modernism and postmodernism are recast as heuristic rather than strictly...

Invited Speaker: Professor Eugene Y. Wang The 14th MaMa Charitable Foundation Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies, HKU Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University Cosmic art imagines humanity’s place in the vastness of the...

Invited Speaker: Professor Eugene Y. Wang The 14th MaMa Charitable Foundation Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies, HKU Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University Cosmic art imagines humanity’s place in the vastness of the...

Invited Speaker: Professor Eugene Y. Wang The 14th MaMa Charitable Foundation Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies, HKU Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University Cosmic art imagines humanity’s place in the vastness of the...

The symposium gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars, thinkers, and museum professionals to investigate the history, status, and future of exhibiting art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-speaking Caribbean and Amazonia from plural sociological...

In this presentation, he will examine the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba at the threshold of the early modern period, focusing on the controversy surrounding the construction of the cathedral crucero within the former mosque in 1523. Drawing on archival...

Patricio del Real presents his book, Constructing Latin America. Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art (Yale University Press, 2022)—a nuanced look at how, through architecture exhibitions, this New York institution became a key...

Organized by Professor Seth Estrin. The conference "Rethinking Archaic Sculpture" creates a forum to re-examine the corpus of sculpture from Archaic Greece, including how it is studied and the major questions that we ask of this material. Hosted in...