That HECAA meets only every five years makes it a useful yardstick of changes within the discipline. If HECAA at 25 reflected a burgeoning trend towards reimagining scholarship on eighteenth-century art and architecture in more expansive global terms, HECAA@30 remained fixed on the vast world beyond Europe but with an…
Liberté, Égalité, Festivité: The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics – by Matthew Gin
On July 26, the 2024 Olympic Games opened in Paris with a pageant staged on the Seine. For the Parade of Nations, tour boats ferried athletes from the Pont d’Austerlitz to a temporary rostrum in front of the Eiffel Tower where they were greeted by President Emmanuel Macron and VIPs…
Smell of the Sea: A Review of the Musée National de la Marine – by Kelly Presutti
Paris’s Musée National de la Marine, reopened in November 2023 after a multi-million-euro, six-year renovation, originated in 1748 with a donation of model ships from the naval engineer and renowned naturalist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. The initial collections were intended for study, open only to students and officers of the…
Curators’ Notes: Sad Purple and Mauve: A History of Dye-Making – by Clara Drummond and Sarah K. Rich
Sad Purple and Mauve: A History of Dye-MakingSeptember 2023—January 2024Eberly Family Special Collections Library, Penn State This exhibition grew out of a book. Two years ago, the Center for Virtual/Material Studies (CV/MS), housed in the Department of Art History at Penn State, approached the university’s Eberly Family Special Collections Library…
Curators’ Notes: Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories – by Joe Baker and Laura Turner Igoe
Our exhibition, Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories, was held at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Bucks County, Pennsylvania from September 9, 2023 to January 14, 2024. The first room featured a salon-style hang of prints, paintings, and textiles incorporating images of Penn’s Treaty, also known as the Treaty…