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Art, Art History & Visual Studies Visiting Artist Lecture Series Fall 2018 9/5/18, 6:30pmCarlos Hernandez Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater 10/12/18, 5:30pmIsabella Alexander Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater 10/25/18, 8pmHelga Fanderl Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater 11/6/18, 4pm... read more about Fall 2018 »
Paul Jaskot, professor of art, art history and visual studies and director of the Wired! Lab at Duke, is the joint recipient of a 3-year National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant of $296,455, along with Anne Knowles (University of Maine, Orono) and Anika Walker (Washington University, St. Louis). Knowles is project director, with the grant based at the University of Maine, and Jaskot and Walker are co-project... read more about NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant »
Located at the Umass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts in downtown New Bedford. Video by Steven Richard, 2018. read more about Bill Seaman: Suspended Sentence »
University of Oregon Welcomes Duke AAH&VS Alumna Lindsey Mazurek Lindsey Mazurek will join the Department of History at the University of Oregon in Fall 2018. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and taught in the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University. Her research focuses on questions of ethnicity, migration, materiality, and identification in... read more about Alumna Lindsey Mazurek joining University of Oregon Dept. of History »
Laura Moure Cechini’s essay, "A House No Longer Divided: Patronage, Pluralism, and Creative Freedom in Italian Pre- and Postwar Art" was recently published in Postwar Italian Art History Today, Bloomsbury Publishing. bloomsbury.com/us/postwar-italian-art-history-today-9781501330056 read more about Alumna Laura Moure Cechini Publication Contribution »
A lecture by Nicola Suthor History of Art, Yale Monday April 16 5 pm Reception at 4:30pm Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 First Floor read more about Macchia versus Memory? Outlining inner images »
Is technology making or breaking our world? That question is central to THE_OPER&, a bold new opera to be developed and premiered at Duke University that uses the high-drama framework of opera and advanced technology to explore ideas of apocalypse, renewal, and survival in the modern age. During each performance, a computer system preloaded with video, sound, and poetic text fragments generates an original world,... read more about World Premiere by Dept. Faculty »
Duke Art, Art History & Visual Studies Reception College Art Association’s Annual Conference in Los Angeles Friday, February 23, 2018 5:30-7:00 pm, Los Feliz Room, Lobby Level, Westin Bonaventure Hotel 404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles http://conference.collegeart.... read more about Duke Reception: CAA Conference L.A. »
Grand Opening Party on Sat, Feb 3, 1-4 PM (free; no RSVP required). Explore the Ruby and see upcoming public programs at www.artscenter.duke.edu #theruby #dukearts The Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke is now open for arts events, classes, and more! Grand Opening Party Saturday, February 3, 1–4 PM (Free; no reservations required) Rubenstein Arts Center... read more about Rubenstein Arts Center now open »
“The Aesthetics of Water: Wellheads, Cisterns, and Fountains in the Venetian Dominion” Patricia Fortini Brown Professor Emeritus, Princeton University 6 PM, Thursday, December 7, 2017 Nasher Museum of Art Duke University Co-sponsored by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. read more about Art History Lecture »