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Events from April 24 – March 26, 2021 › Distinguished Speaker Series › – Art History Graduate Student Organization Events from April 24 – March 26, 2021 › Distinguished Speaker Series › – Art History Graduate Student Organization

Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Deborah Ascher Barnstone, “The Color of Modernism: Paints, Pigments and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany”

Date: Friday, November 05 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm EST. Registration: http://bit.ly/3DtZWQe   One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about early modernism is that it was white. This was never true anywhere in Europe, least of all in Germany where Bruno Taut published his famous “Call to Coloured Architecture” in 1919 before leading a … Read More

Distinguished Speaker Series: Cuauhtémoc Medina, “Designing an Era: Vicente Rojo’s Role in Mexican Culture”

Cuauhtémoc Medina Designing an Era: Vicente Rojo’s Role in Mexican Culture Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3I4mppE Mexicans from the second half of the 20th century were likely to have found a common element in the identity of the posters, book covers and cultural supplements and magazines they consumed: most of them were likely to have been designed by … Read More