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February 28: Franz and Fanny The Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project is a three-part, free concert series in UNC Chapel Hill's Person Recital Hall which brings UNC's historical instrument collection together with artists committed to presenting inspired, visceral, historically informed performances of the 19th-century chamber music repertoire. This season's programming features music of female composers... Read More →
“The Ecology of Ephemeral Dyes: Textile Colorants Beyond Colonial Trade Networks in Early Modern South and Southeast Asia” 215 Phillips Hall This talk brings together poetry, dye recipes, textiles, and their representations in painting to explore the vivid but quickly fading pink and yellow dyestuffs that were used in early modern South Asia and maritime... Read More →
“Beyond European Palettes: The Overlooked Contributions of Indigenized Artists in the Historiography of Painting in Mexico” 115 Howell Hall In this talk, Emmanuel Ortega analyzes the genealogy of the nomenclature involved in art history’s considerations of indigenized forms of art and the erasure of over five hundred years of influence to better articulate the processes... Read More →
James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence Graham Memorial 039 Friday: 2:00-5:30 pm Saturday: 9:30 am-12:15 pm Over two days, invited scholars will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition, which opened on the fashionable Boulevard des Capucines in Paris in April of 1874. Originally known by the corporate name Société anonyme des... Read More →
“’Indigenous Storywork’ and Native American Photography: Writing a Visual History of the Ho-Chunk Nation” Howell Hall room 115 Amy Lonetree is an enrolled citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly... Read More →
James M. Johnston Center of Undergraduate Excellence, Graham Memorial Hall April 28-29, 2023 Through a generous gift to the UNC Arts and Sciences Foundation, William G. Rand established this lecture series in memory of his late wife, Bettie Allison Rand. This funding allows the Department of Art to bring one or more eminent art historians... Read More →
“Rivals on the Fenway: Isabella Stewart Gardner, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Destiny of the American Art Museum” Phillips Hall, room 215 Andrew McClellan is currently a Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center and on leave from the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at... Read More →
FEATURING: Donald L. Oehler, clarinet Nicholas DiEugenio, Leah Peroutka, violins Sam Gold, viola Brent Wissick, cello $15 general admission, $10 students and UNC faculty/staff. This performance is part of the William S. Newman Artists series. Tickets are available for purchase at the door or online (order form coming soon).
The great fire in the famous Notre Dame Cathedral badly damaged a great Parisian monument, but it seemed to affect French national identity almost as profoundly as it damaged the church itself. How does the history of this iconic cathedral embody the complexity of French culture and national memory? This question shapes the themes of... Read More →
Please join us for a fun ramble on the campus at UNC-Chapel Hill for an architecture tour highlighting many of the interesting stories built into its history and written about in The Campus at Chapel Hill: 225 Years of Architecture. The tour will be led by JJ Bauer (Faculty, Department of Art and Art History) and... Read More →
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