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Excerpt: “Mental Traveler”
The author’s memoir of the life and death of his son, Gabriel Mitchell, who struggled with schizophrenia for 20 years until his suicide at the age of ...
Into quarantine
Two alumni tackle the history and architecture of locked-down spaces.
In 2009, two Art History alumni, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, both AM’01, ...
Cheese Plates and Swamps
More from Darby English on Creativity
Darby English, the Carl Darling Buck Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art and Cultural Studies, had more to...
Two Perspectives on Creativity
What does it mean to make art, and how do we interpret it once it exists? An art historian and one of the artists he studies discuss the nature of cre...
Migration, Belonging, and Design
The US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale examines citizenship and borders.
During its May to November run, the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale drew 2...
Two Perspectives on Monuments
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A monument can be a memorial, a work of art, a physical object, or something else entirely. Its meaning shifts depending on the audience and era. Engl...
Unification
Wu Hung, who helped to establish contemporary Chinese art history, works toward a global approach.
Wu Hung, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished...
Two Perspectives on Ghosts
From antiquity to modern times, ghosts have served as cultural metaphors, storytelling devices, and figures in religious or afterlife beliefs. Faculty...
Two Perspectives on Modernism
An art historian and a literature scholar discuss modernism in their disciplines.Beginning as a reaction to the growing industrialization of Europe, t...
Outside the Frame
A new generation investigates art across centuries and continents.“I don’t look like a regular art historian,” admits Niall Atkinson.His shoulder-leng...