Seeing ourselves in different light

January 13, 2023

These days, we are surrounded by screens. But even before phones and tablets became our constant companions, projections and moving images captured our imagination. What these images mean and how we view them has long interested Giuliana Bruno, the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies. Read more Read more about Seeing ourselves in different light

Visiting Lecturer Young Joo Lee voted a favorite professor of the Class of 2023

October 25, 2022

Congratulations to Visiting Lecturer ...

Makeda Best's book receives 2022 PhotoBook Award

October 17, 2022

Our warmest congratulations to Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel...

Giuliana Bruno's launches new book "Atmospheres of Projection"

October 11, 2022

We are delighted to announce the launch of faculty member Giuliana Bruno's new book "Atmospheres of Projection". She would like to invite you any of her 3 seperate book launches:

Thursday Oct. 20, 6pm, at Center for Italian Modern Art, New York
I will present the book, focussing on visual arts, in conversation with Cecilia Alemani, Artistic Director of the 59th Venice Biennale and Donald R. Mullen, Jr....

Screening of Joana Pimenta’s film Dry Ground Burning – CCVA Theater, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker set for October 11th

September 22, 2022

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies is thrilled to invite you to a screening of AFVS faculty member Joana Pimenta’s recent film, Dry Ground Burning, co-directed with Adirley Queirós. Please join us at 6:00pm on October 11, in the Carpenter Center Theater. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Joana and Adirley.

Elle Pérez, Dominga Sotomayor, and Akosua Adoma Owusu selected for 2022 Venice Biennale

February 3, 2022

AFVS Faculty member Elle Pérez and AFVS Visiting Faculty members Dominga Sotomayor and Akosua Adoma Owusu have been selected for participation in the 2022 Venice Biennale. Also included on this list are CCVA Exhibiting Artist Candice Lin, former AFVS Visiting Faculty member Virginia Overton, and 2021 Solomon Fellow Sondra Perry.

The 59th International Art Exhibition,...

Karthik Pandian named recipient of 2022 Creative Capital Award

January 27, 2022

AFVS faculty member Karthik Pandian has been awarded a 2022 Creative Capital Award for his project Lucid Decapitation, produced in collaboration with Mike Forcia and an...

Artist talk "Print and Process After Johns" with Matt Saunders, Kahlil Robert Irving, and Tschabalala Self at the Whitney

January 27, 2022

Jasper Johns, Hand, 1963....

Elle Pérez opens shows in LA and Pittsburgh

July 13, 2021

AFVS Faculty member Elle Pérez opened Host, a solo exhibition at Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles on July 10th. The show will run until August 7th, 2021.

This comes on the heels of Elle Pérez, which opened at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, PA in April, and will run until August 22nd,...

Book cover of Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization

David Joselit's book Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization wins the 2021 Robert Motherwell Book Award

June 16, 2021

AFVS Faculty member Prof. David Joselit’s book Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization has won the 2021 Robert Motherwell Book Award from the Dedalus Foundation.

From the Dedalus Foundation website:

The winner of the 2021 Robert Motherwell Book Award is Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (Harvard University Press) by David Joselit.

In Heritage and Debt:...

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