To celebrate the publication of Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 and Code: From Information Theory to French Theory, in this public conversation Jeffrey West Kirkwood, Bernard Geoghegan, and Antonia von Schöning will debate the role of human sciences—as laboratories of administration, modelling, bureaucracy, experimentation, and instrumentation—in the genesis of modern digital cultures. Following initial discussions, the floor will open for interventions and provocations from the public.  ..read more

Nineteenth Century Ottoman Lighthouses: Making of a Coastal Landscape Respondent: Sam Grinsell, UCL Bartlett; 16 May 2023, DocTalks x MoMA, 4-6 PM CET, 10-12 AM EST Forum Link: https://doctalks.net/Home-Set ..read more

VizCult: The Art History Department’s Visual Culture Workshop presents Hala Auji, Associate Professor and Hamad bin Khalifa Chair of Islamic Art, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University. “Facing Pages: Arabic Publishing, Portraiture, and the Making of Public Intellectuals” Wednesday, April 26 at 5:15 pm in FA143. Open to all ..read more

On Friday, April 14, 2023, doctoral candidate Pei-Chun Viola Hsieh delivered her talk “Spheres of Indeterminacy: Tactile Politics in Wang Te-yu’s Inflatable Art, circa 1996” at the Symposium on the History of Art, hosted annually by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and The Frick Collection More information may be found at: Symposiafrick.org ..read more

“Crossing the Boundaries,” the Art History Graduate Student Union’s annual conference, returns after a one-year hiatus next Friday 21 April in the Kenneth C. Lindsay Study Room of the Binghamton University Art Museum. Featuring recent graduate research, it will also honor the rich work produced under the mentorship of SUNY Distinguished Professor John Tagg, with a panel of alums from around the world speaking to his legacies and their own groundbreaking scholarship. The day concludes with a keynote talk by Siona Wilson, Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island-CUNY. All are welcome ..read more

VizCult: The Art History Department’s Visual Culture Workshop presents the 2023 Ferber Lecture Risham Majeed, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Ithaca College “Against Primitivism: Meyer Schapiro on African and Medieval Art” Wednesday, April 12 at 5:15 Please note that the talk will not be held in the usual location, but in the IASH Conference Room (LN-1106) Open to All ..read more

Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action Book Launch and Discussion at Printed Matter Chelsea March 30, 2023 6-8pm Up Against the Real: Black Mask From Art to Action by Nadja Millner-Larsen follows the history of the anti-art group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. The group shut down the Museum of Modern Art, fired blanks during a poetry reading, stormed the Pentagon during an antiwar protest, and dumped garbage into the fountain at Lincoln Center. Black Mask published a Dadaist broadside until 1968, when it changed its name to Up ..read more

Friday 14 April 12 PM PST $15 non-members For registration, see https://lacphoto.org/events/photography-history-and-ideas-2023/ Revitalizing the social history of art, John Tagg’s writing on the histories of photography transformed the understanding of the field’s emergence, function and presence in Britain and the US, inspiring generations of artists, writers and scholars. In honor of his recent retirement and the launch of the exhibition Rhetorics of Documentary at Binghamton University, join him in conversation with art historian and the exhibition’s curator, Tom McDonough and LACP’s Exec ..read more

Congratulations to doctoral candidate Mariah Postlewait, who has been appointed Kettering Curator of Photography and Special Projects at the Dayton Art Institute! More information can be found here: https://artdaily.cc/news/154746/The-Dayton-Art-Institute-announces-Mariah-Postlewait-as-Kettering-Curator-of-Photography-and-Special-Projects-#.ZBh2xi-B1hG ..read more

Na’ama Klorman Eraqi (PhD 2013) has published her most recent essay, “Acting Out for the Camera: Performing Mizrachi Masculinity and the Politicization of the Jerusalem Neighborhood of Katamon Tet,” in the March 2023 issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. The essay analyses photographs taken by Yàakov Shofar in 1978 showing teenage boys from Katamon Tet, an impoverished Mizrahi neighborhood of Jerusalem, performing for the camera. It argues that the images, first published in Shofar’s photo books Finding a Way Out (1981) and Born in Israel (1984), speak to the ..read more