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Prof. Rebecca in conversation with artists in the exhibition

Normal L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lectures in Art History

Support for our annual art history speaker series comes from the estate of Dr. and Mrs. Norman Goldberg. Dr. Goldberg had a lifelong interest in British landscape painting and was the author of John Crome the Elder. The department has hosted a number of prominent art historians to speak at the Goldberg Lectures since their inception in 2001.

Upcoming Lectures

Tuesday, October 22, 2024
4:10pm, 203 Cohen Memorial Hall

Tanya Sheehan, Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art, Colby College
“Public Art, Public Health: Jacob Lawrence and the Murals of Harlem Hospital”

When Jacob Lawrence first painted the free clinic of Harlem Hospital in 1937, Harlem’s largest public healthcare facility was teaming with artists who were hired by the federal government and working under the supervision of Lawrence’s art teacher and mentor, Charles Alston. Although Lawrence was too young to work officially on Alston’s team, significant connections to the murals can be found in his artwork, in the murals themselves, and in their shared participation in a discourse on race, medicine, and health in urban America. In exploring these connections, this talk shows how Black life could and could not be represented on the walls of Harlem Hospital, and how a commitment to the publicness of Black care took shape in Lawrence’s private images.

Poster for Goldberg Lecture, Public Art, Public Health. Poster is yellow and red with image of Jacob Lawrence's painting Free Clinic

Past Lectures

Peggy Wang, Bowdoin College, 4:10p.m., 203 Cohen Memorial Hall

Peggy Wang Norman L. & Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture Poster - Pop and the People: Re-thinking Wang Guangyi's Great Criticism series
Gail Fenske, Roger Williams University, 4:10p.m., 203 Cohen Memorial Hall

Gail Fenske Norman L. & Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture Poster - New Perceptual Experiences: Architects, Artists, and the Skyscrapers of New York

Julie Nelson Davis, "The Ghost in the Brush: Katsushika Ōi and the Hokusai Legacy"

Julie Nelson Davis Norman L. & Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture Poster - The Ghost in the Brush: Katsushika Ōi and the Hokusai Legacy
Ömür Harmanşah, "The Archaeology of Landscapes and Architectural Heritage in a Changing Climate: Fieldwork in/for the Anthropocene"

Ömür Harmanşah Norman L. & Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture Poster - The Archaeology of Landscapes and Architectural Heritage in a Changing Climate: Fieldwork in/for the Anthropocene

Robert Bork, "Designing Chartes Cathedral: A Geometrical Perspective"

Robert Bork Norman L. & Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture Poster - Designing Chartres Cathedral: a Geometrical Perspective

Matthew P. Canepa, "Sculpting in Time: Creating the Iranian Past and Future through the Natural and Built Environment"
Tamara I. Sears, "Liberating Reverberations: Cosmology, Ecology, and Landscape in Early Medieval India"

Jordana Moore Saggese, "On the Ropes: Boxing and Black Sexuality in American Art"
Michael Yonan, "Stories in Porcelain: Matter, Narrative, and the Figural Ideal"
Renée Ater, "Death, Remembrance, and the Slave Past"
Kathryn M. Rudy, "Rubbing, touching, and kissing medieval manuscripts in the late middle ages"
Bernard Frischer, "Adventures in Digital Heritage"

Lisa Reilly, "The Multilingual Mediterranean: The Cappella Palatina in Palermo and the Court of Roger II"
Bettina Bergmann, "Across the Universe: the Bird’s Eye View in Roman Art"
David M. Lubin, "Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution"

Jeffrey Collins, "Ship Shape: Incense Boats across the Early Modern Globe"
Stanley Abe, "Duplication in Chinese Sculpture"

John Ott, "Hale Woodruff's Antiprimitivist History of Global Art"
D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Beyond Vision: Embodied Senses in Islamic Gardens"
Margaret M. Miles, " Transferred Temples and Augustan Renewal in Athens"

Brian Daniels, "Protecting Cultural Heritage in Syria and Iraq:  Lessons Learned in the Present Crisis"
William E. Wallace, "Drawing a Life of Michelangelo"

S. Hollis Clayson, "Confinement and Absorption: Pierre-Auguste Renoir's and Edvard Munch's Paris Threshold Pictures"
Robert G. Ousterhout, "The Life and Afterlife of Constantine's Column"
Patricia Leighten, "The Secret Life of Henri Cartier-Bresson"
Michael Leja, "Cubism in Bondage: Morgan Russells' Synchronism"

Amy McNair, “Heroic Abandon: The 1300-Year Life of Yan Zhenqing’s Imperial Commissioner Liu Letter"
Andrew Graciano, "Joseph Wright’s Academy by Lamplight (1769) in Context"
Huey Copeland, "Relative Fictions, or, Incidents in the Life of Modernism"
Peter Parshall, "The Concept of Aesthetic Disinterest: G.B. Piranesi and the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755"

Julia K. Murray, "The Cult of Confucius and the Shrine of His Robe and Cap"
Robert Storr, "The Work of Carrie Mae Weems"
Giles Knox, "Paragone and the Hand of the Artist: Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer"
Dorothy Johnson, "Elective Affinities: Romantic Art and the Natural Sciences from Girodet to David d'Angers”

Padma Kaimal, "Many Paths to the Divine: The Dynamics of Vision in a Hindu Temple"
Eugene Wang, "What Did It Mean to Be Moon-Struck in Early 20th Century China? Changes in Visual Media in
a Radical Age"

Helen C. Evans, "Byzantium, an American Perspective (1874-Today)"
Barbara Barletta, "The Temple of Athena at Sounion: An Ionic Temple in Attica"
Michael Hatt, "Cowboy Republicanism: Frederic Remington, Sculpture, and Political Culture"

Anne Dunlop, "Gold, Earth, and Stones: Pigments and the Imagined World in Early Italian Painting"
Mary D. Sheriff, "The Dislocations of Jean-Etienne Liotard, Called the Turkish Painter"

Wendy Wassyng Roworth, "Collecting for Profit and Pleasure: Angelica Kauffman as an Artist-Collector in
Eighteenth-Century Rome"
Maurie McInnis, "Remembering and Remaking: Virginia's Washington Monument"

Larry Silver, "Rembrandt’s Faith"
Marsha Haufler, "Sino-Tibetan Tangkas for the Ming Court"

Richard T. Neer, "Wonder, Radiance & the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture"
Robert Bagley, "An Underground Palace in Ancient China: The Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng"

Jonathan M. Reynolds, "From Pilgrimage Site to Architectural Monument: Photography and a Modernist
Reinterpretation of Ise Shrine"
Sarah Burns, "Virgins in the Wilderness: Winslow Homer’s Ambiguously New Women"

Annemarie Weyl-Carr, "Crusader Cyprus: Forms of Convergence in a Complex Land"
John Beldon Scott, "The Shroud of Turin as Visual Culture"

Barbara Stafford, "Artificial Intensity: Images, Instruments, and the Technology of Amplification"
Christopher Johns, "Women Artists and Ancien Régime Academies: The Curious Case of Rosalba Carriera"

Timothy Barringer, "Languages of Labour in Victorian Art and Criticism"
Susan Huntington, "The Early Buddhist Art of India and the Emperor’s New Clothes"

John Clarke, "Visual Representations: Sexual Cultures and Viewers in Ancient Rome"
Alan Wallach, "Thomas Cole and the Railroad"