In late sixteenth-century Italy, the rhetorical foundations of sacred visual art were laid out directly by Gabriele Paleotti (1522–1597), the Bishop of Bologna, who wrote in his famous post-Tridentine treatise that images "are supposed to move the hearts of observers to devotion and the true cult of God". Given the long-standing elevation of clarity in … Read More

In the 1830s, Lt. Thomas Bacon recalled the grand celebrations on Christmas Eve given by the Begum Samru, dowager ruler of a small principality in northern India. High mass was followed by nautch (Indian dance), fireworks, and sumptuous feasts for a large number of guests. Bacon was an officer with the East India Company (EIC), and he found it hard to reconcile that the … Read More

Abstract: When Colombian artist Beatriz González brought furniture assemblages associated with the most private spaces of the domestic sphere into the museum, they disrupted spectators’ expectations. In dialogue with a rapidly globalizing art world, they engaged concurrent artistic practices such as assemblages, ready-mades, and installations. They also made visible the porous and mutually reinforcing domains … Read More

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