Professor Jennifer Nelson will be teaching ART HIST 360 | Gore Luxury Identity Mimesis: Northern Renaissance TR 1:00–2:15PM. Sophomore standing, Humanities Breadth, L&S credit. Register here. Description: Why do Netherlandish Lamentations feature bloody, putrefying wounds? Why is a skull distorted across the front of Holbein’s Ambassadors? Is …
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Spring 2023 Course Highlight | AH 556/856 From Magic to Art
This spring, Professor Daniel Spaulding will be offering AH 556/856 From Magic to Art | Thursdays 4:30–7:00PM | Humanities Breadth, L&S Credit. Email Prof. Spaulding for consent to enroll at: dmspaulding@wisc.eduDescription: From the beginning, it seems, human life has involved mimetic …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight: ART HIST 373 Great Cities of Islam
Next semester, Spring 2023, Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be teaching ART HIST 373 | Great Cities of Islam MWF 11:00–11:50AM. This will be first time that this course will be taught since Fall 2019! Sophomore standing, Humanities Breadth, …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | Venice: The Arts of Empire & Cultural Encounter
Professor Thomas Dale will be offering AH 415/715 | Venice: The Arts of Empire & Cultural Encounter MWF 9:55–10:45AM. Sophomore standing, Humanities Breadth, L&S Credit, Cross-Listed MEDIEVAL 415. Register here. Description: Enduring for almost an entire millennium, Venice, a city of …
Faculty News | Prof. Andrzejewski at University Roundtable
On November 16, Professor Anna Andrzejewski will deliver a talk titled “Madison Made: Marshall Erdman’s Contributions to Postwar Architecture,” for the University Roundtable. Advanced registration is required, here.Caption: Mary Ellen and Walter Rudin House, Madison, 1959 (Marshall Erdman, …
Introducing Asst. Professor Steffani Bennett, the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art
Last month began a new era in Japanese art history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with Assistant Professor Steffani Bennett, the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art, joining our Badger community. A specialist in …
TODAY!!! Indisposable: A conversation on crip curating
Indisposable: A conversation on crip curating For this first colloquium, distinguished alumna Jessica A. Cooley (Ph.D., 2021) will be in conversation with Professor Jill H. Casid about the exhibition Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning (Oct. 1-Dec. 10, …
Faculty News | Profs. Bennett and Dale Honored with Investiture Ceremony
You may see some familiar faces in the photos!!! UW–Madison College of Letters & Science hosted their first investiture ceremony for professors with new named chairs and professorships. Professors Steffani Bennett and Thomas Dale were …
THIS THURSDAY! Echoing Overseas: Curator in Conversation
Echoing Overseas: Curator in ConversationThursday, September 22nd, 2022 | 6:00–8:00pm CTChazen Museum of Art | 750 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706Pre-registration is strongly encouraged, you can register here. Chi-Lynn Lin, Art History Ph.D. Student and curator of Echoing Overseas: …
Faculty News: Professor Guillermina De Ferrari’s Co-Edited Book is Out Now!
Professor Guillermina De Ferrari‘s co-edited volume The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms is now available. The book was co-edited with Mariano Siskind and you can purchase it here. Description: Highlighting key trends …