This paper studies the creation, circulation, and reception of two groups of photographs of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House, both taken by Hedrich Blessing. The first set, produced for a 1951 Architectural Forum magazine cover story, features curtains carefully arranged according to the architect’s preferences; the Museum of…[Read more]

A short note describing the difficulties that surround the definition of “art.”

A short note describing the difficulties that surround the definition of “art.”

Computational analysis of the potential historical professional networks inferred from surviving print impressions offers novel insight into the evolution of early modern artistic printmaking in Europe. This analysis traces a longue durée print production history that examines the changing ways in which different regional printmaking communities…[Read more]

These are catalogue entries for the following works: Francisco de Zurbaran, Veronica Veil, from the Sarah Blaffer Campbell Collection Ferdinand Bol, Portrait of Sir John Hebdon, from the Sarah Blaffer Campbell Collection

Adding to the long list of “post” conditions, the term “post-internet” offers a fairly recent attempt to characterize a certain social, political, historical, and material condition that artists, curators, educators, and critics are currently working with. For some, it provides a language to articulate the complex entwinements between online…[Read more]

As art educators, we have accustomed fight for our survival in educational systems where often our job isn’t valued or resourced or both. We know (or, at least, we are taught to know) that we are needed in this world, perhaps now more than ever. However, it is also important to critically investigate how is this need for art and education c…[Read more]

This talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?

This talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?

Adding to the long list of “post” conditions, the term “post-internet” offers a fairly recent attempt to characterize a certain social, political, historical, and material condition that artists, curators, educators, and critics are currently working with. For some, it provides a language to articulate the complex entwinements between online…[Read more]

As art educators, we have accustomed fight for our survival in educational systems where often our job isn’t valued or resourced or both. We know (or, at least, we are taught to know) that we are needed in this world, perhaps now more than ever. However, it is also important to critically investigate how is this need for art and education c…[Read more]

Adding to the long list of “post” conditions, the term “post-internet” offers a fairly recent attempt to characterize a certain social, political, historical, and material condition that artists, curators, educators, and critics are currently working with. For some, it provides a language to articulate the complex entwinements between online…[Read more]

As art educators, we have accustomed fight for our survival in educational systems where often our job isn’t valued or resourced or both. We know (or, at least, we are taught to know) that we are needed in this world, perhaps now more than ever. However, it is also important to critically investigate how is this need for art and education c…[Read more]

This talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?

This talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?

As one of the most important political and religious figures of the mid sixteenth century, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) has been the subject of valuable historical studies. Although the English prelate was also a humanist, part of a vast intellectual and artistic network he established during his travels to Italy, Flanders, Spain and E…[Read more]

As one of the most important political and religious figures of the mid sixteenth century, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) has been the subject of valuable historical studies. Although the English prelate was also a humanist, part of a vast intellectual and artistic network he established during his travels to Italy, Flanders, Spain and E…[Read more]

As one of the most important political and religious figures of the mid sixteenth century, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) has been the subject of valuable historical studies. Although the English prelate was also a humanist, part of a vast intellectual and artistic network he established during his travels to Italy, Flanders, Spain and E…[Read more]

Contemplates the exclusion of illustrators from art theory; critiques Harold Rosenberg’s position in light of his own work in the culture industries; matches illustrator Robert Weaver’s arguments with Rosenberg’s in a posthumous debate.

Contemplates the exclusion of illustrators from art theory; critiques Harold Rosenberg’s position in light of his own work in the culture industries; matches illustrator Robert Weaver’s arguments with Rosenberg’s in a posthumous debate.