Koerner

When Joseph Koerner first began teaching Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch at Harvard in the 1990s, he saw him as the “typical medieval artist” preoccupied with sin, chaos, and danger. But as Koerner uncovered more information about how Bosch’s works have...

Congratulations to Professor Joseph Koerner, who was recently elected to be a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Founded in 1707, the Society of Antiquaries is a learned society consisting of archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and art...

In a recent episode of The Clark Art Institute's podcast, "In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing", Professor Joseph Koerner spoke on the themes of history, trauma and wonder: "Caro Fowler speaks with Joseph Leo Koerner, professor of art...

Joseph Koerner heard a familiar sound while on a trip to Washington, D.C., in May: the hum of billions of cicadas emerging after 17 years of dormancy. The Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture felt unsettled by the eerie whine...

Joseph Leo Koerner’s curatorial intervention—“Earth Tidings,” a stand-alone exhibit featuring fifteen major paintings and drawings, including Joos van Craesbeeck’s remarkable Temptation of St. Anthony and two works by Caspar David Friedrich and —is...

Professor Joseph Koerner has been announced as the 2020 recipient of the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art by the College Art Association. Joseph Leo Koerner is the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award...

Joseph Koerner’s film The Burning Child , released earlier this year, will be screened this autumn with Professor Koerner in conversation at the Getty Museum (Tuesday, October 15, 6:30pm, ), the Whitney Museum of American Art (Sunday November 17, 3pm, )...

Joseph Koerner’s film The Burning Child, released this year, will be screened this autumn with Professor Koerner fielding questions at: the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sunday, September 22 ), the Tisch School of Art at NYU (Friday, September 27), and the...