Alexandra J. Gold discusses artist book collaborations between contemporary painters and poets. Her presentation highlights Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley and renowned visual artist Robert Indiana’s Numbers (1968).
In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Igor Simões (State University of Rio Grande do Sul / Clark Fellow) explores the absence of Black Brazilian artists in the context of the international debate on art and the history of Afro-Diasporic art.
How does the built environment affect (in)equality? Giuseppina Forte, professor of architecture and environmental studies at Williams College, uses the origins of modern city planning as a starting point to introduce her new book project, The Self-Built City: Material Politics and Ecologies of Difference in São Paulo.
Erica Moiah James is an art historian, curator, and assistant professor at the University of Miami. Her research centers on Indigenous, modern, and contemporary art of the Caribbean, Americas, and the African Diaspora. In this Research and Academic Program lecture, James provides a careful study of Portrait of an Unknown Woman.
Curatorial Assistant for Works on Paper Allison Marino introduces the 2024 exhibition Paper Cities, examining how artists transformed cities from objective subjects into creative expressions within their work. The lecture focuses on well-known European and American cities depicted in works on paper from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth century.
