Featured image: The students of ARHA 311: The Body in Medieval Art with Melanie Holcomb (sixth from left) in front of a twelfth-century Spanish fresco of a camel. Written by Nell Brayton ’27 On Friday, February 20, our class, a seminar on The Body in Medieval Art (ARHA 311) taught by Professor Joseph Ackley, journeyed … Read more
(Rewritten from a first-person account by Maggie Leeming. All photos provided by Leeming.) The halls of the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires (MALBA) beckoned in the fall of 2024, when Maggie Leeming ’26 did her study abroad program. Drawn by the museum’s unique position in the world of modern Latin American art and its impressive collection, Leeming found herself visiting MALBA more often than any other museums in the … Read more
(All photos by Valerie Gottridge) The Art History Majors Committee recently organized a field trip to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford to view a collection of rarely seen European drawings and attend a public lecture. According to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, it has acquired a diverse group of nearly 1,250 … Read more
Over commencement weekend graduating seniors gathered with their families and faculty in Zilkha Gallery for the Honors Theses Showcase. This was a celebration of the work of the Class of 2023 thesis students from the Department of Art and Art History. Each Art Studio senior was invited to select a single work from their thesis exhibition for this curated showcase of drawing, … Read more
Understanding China in the Age of the Unequal Treaties Around November, I was offered the exciting opportunity to curate a show for the College of East Asian Studies. The result was the exhibition, “Understanding China in the Age of Unequal Treaties” which is currently in the CEAS gallery. All works included are from the College … Read more