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Emma Mohrmann, a junior in the A&A Practice of Art track, recently participated in visual artist Kyoko Ibe’s paper-making workshop, hosted by Visual Arts Lecturer Daniel Heyman at 185 Nassau. Having worked in paper previously, Mohrmann was inspired to…
Co-taught by A&A Professors Bridget Alsdorf and Irene Small, ART 565: “Seminar in Modernist Art and Theory: Before and After Gender” revisits major approaches to feminist art history from the nineteenth century to the present, while considering how queer, trans, masculinity, and decolonial studies have transformed art-historical analysis…
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Violence might involve the fixation of our memorized images in words, because, as Italo Calvino says in his book Invisible Cities, “memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased”. Yet, the continuing defamation of the imagined image of the prophet Muhammad in the West, and the imagined descriptions of holy spaces strongly associated…
Gordion, in central Turkey, was the capital of the Phrygian empire in Anatolia until about 600 B.C. By the mid 6th century, it came under Persian control as the Medes expanded their territory westward from their Iranian heartland. During the over 200 years of Persian control, the residents of Gordion imported a surprising amount of high quality…
