Monday, November 8, 2021

RACAR Fall 2021 Issue Now Available

The Fall 2021 issue of the Canadian art historical journal RACAR (Revue d’art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review) is now available.  This special issue, entitled "Revised Commemoration" in Public Art: What Future for the Monument?, explores important current debates on the functions, forms, and content of public monuments, and the disruptions... More

Monday, September 27, 2021

Call for Papers: Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art (Carleton University Workshop, Thursday March 10, 2022)

Call for papers:  Towards a multi-temporal pluriverse of art Decolonizing universalized historiographic and temporal frameworks Workshop at Carleton University, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts, and Culture, Thursday, March 10, 2022 This event is organized and supported in the context of the Ruth and Mark Phillips... More

Friday, August 13, 2021

Fall 2021 Information and Resources

The main office for the School for Studies in Art and Culture, located in SP423, will reopen on August 23rd. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. We request that appointments are made in advance to meet with any member of our staff. We... More

Friday, June 25, 2021

Congratulations to our Graduates!

Hearty and most deserved congratulations to all our graduates in Art & Architectural History! After the disruptions and challenges faced over the past two years, we join your family and friends in celebrating your... More

Friday, April 2, 2021

HTA Podcast: Medieval Chats, Episode 5

Conversation with Dr. John Goodall: the Castle This is the fifth in my series of ‘medieval’ podcasts – that is, podcasts created as part of my 2nd-year undergraduate course on medieval architecture and art at Carleton University. These podcasts are part of my re-thinking of what a ‘lecture’ can be in the age of... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Canadian Gothic: A Public Presentation for Heritage Ottawa

I was delighted to give a public talk for Heritage Ottawa last March on the topic of Canadian Gothic. In it, I tried to answer a question that I'm sure has been nagging at you for years: how did a style of architecture invented near Paris in the 1140s end up in places like... More

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Lecture, Mia Yu: Engaging ‘Global’ China: Then and Now

Art & Architectural History invites you to the upcoming guest lecture Engaging ‘Global’ China: Then and Now by the Beijing-based art historian and curator Mia Yu, which will take place Thursday, April 1, 2021, 9:00 am (EST) on Zoom (https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/91662681637) The lecture will provide an in-depth overview on how different... More

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Congratulations Jessa Laframboise

Congratulations to Jessa Laframboise! "With so many great professors and so many fond memories to look back on, it is hard to just pick one. So, to start I want to say thank you to the faculty and to my peers in the art history cohort for being part of my journey at Carleton.... More

Monday, March 22, 2021

HTA Podcast: Medieval Chats, Episode 4

The Life, Death and Cult of Thomas Becket: A Conversation with Dr. John Jenkins I vividly recall watching the movie Becket on late-night TV at the age of ten. The story of the medieval archbishop who is gruesomely murdered in his own cathedral has enthralled me ever since. Thanks to Dr. John Jenkins, I... More

Friday, March 19, 2021

Wednesday, March 24 – The Continual Creation of Culture: Memory, Diaspora, and Material Culture

Join Professor Michael Windover in conversation with Debasri Basu. This session explores material culture and its relation to history, memory, media, and popular culture, exploring its historiography, socio-political consequences, and temporal complexities.  Debasri Basu discusses objects of material culture through her research in partition... More

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Art History Graduate Student Society (AHGSS) inaugural digital zine project

The Art History Graduate Student Society (AHGSS) at Carleton University is launching an inaugural digital zine project that aims to showcase how members of the Carleton University community have creatively reflected upon their experiences of the pandemic. The publication will feature pieces which consider the intersecting themes of art, education,... More

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Lecture: Doris Sung, “Where Are The Women In Contemporary Chinese Art?”

Art & Architectural History invites you to the upcoming guest lecture Where Are the Women in Contemporary Chinese Art? by Doris Sung, Assistant Professor of Art History, The University of Alabama, which will take place next Friday, March 12, 11:30 am  – 12:30 pm (EST) on Zoom: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/91758765250 Doris Song’s... More

Thursday, March 4, 2021

HTA Podcast: Medieval Chats, Episode 3

Professor Malcolm Thurlby on the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture Once upon a time, a young lad named Malcolm was being benignly guided through the A-Level study of chemistry, physics and biology. Then one day, he happened across a picture of the south door of Kilpeck Church, dating from about 1134. From that moment... More

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Guest Lecture: Peggy Wang on Contemporary Chinese Art

Art & Architectural History invites you to the upcoming guest lecture Pop and the People: Re-thinking Wang Guangyi’s Great Criticism series by Peggy Wang (Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College), which will take place next Friday, Feb 26, 11:30 am  – 12:30 pm (EST) on Zoom (Join Zoom... More

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

HTA Podcast: Medieval Chats, Episode 2

Dr. Hugh McCague on Geometry and Romanesque Design The spaces, volumes, complex curves and lines of medieval design were generated by manipulating simple shapes - circles and squares, mostly - in a process we call Constructive Geometry. I spoke with one of the country's leading experts on this, Dr. Hugh McCague, about how geometry... More

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Guest Lecture: Orianna Cacchione on Contemporary Chinese Art

Art & Architectural History invites you to the upcoming guest lecture “To Enter Art History - Determining the Canon and Institutional Critique in Contemporary Chinese Art” by Orianna Cacchione (Curator of Global Contemporary Art, Smart Museum and Lecturer Contemporary Art, Asian Art, University of Chicago), which takes place next Friday,... More

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

HTA Podcast: Medieval Chats, Episode 1

A Conversation with Professor John Osborne I'm teaching a course on medieval architecture and art this term, and I've decided that part of the content will take the form of podcasts. These will be informal chats with experts in various aspects of medieval art and culture. And, I'll post them here, so that everyone... More

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

New Book Co-Edited by Mitchell B. Frank: History and Art History

History and Art History: Looking Past Disciplines, a collection of essays edited by Carleton’s Mitchell Frank (Art History/ICSLAC) and Nicholas Chare (Université de Montreal) was just released by Routledge. Spanning a diverse range of time periods and places, the essays in the volume cumulatively showcase ways in which ongoing dialogue between... More

Thursday, November 5, 2020

Getting a Leg Up: The Practicum

I often say to students: whatever you do after graduating, whether you're applying to a job or to grad school, everyone you’re competing against will also have a degree. People will want to see what else you’ve done – what other signs of skill, initiative and motivation you bring to the table. One of... More

Monday, October 26, 2020

HTA Podcast: When Buildings Say “Boo!”

Why do some places seem "spooky"? We have a look at what's "in the air" in scary spaces, and where it might have come from. Happy Hallowe'en! Read more about my guest Charis Cotter's books here, and be sure to order them from your favourite local independent bookstore. You can check out my guest... More

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

My Friend Allie

Dr. Allison Sherman was an outstanding scholar of Renaissance art, an inspirational teacher, and the truest, most generous friend a person could ever hope to have. She died of breast cancer on April 26th, 2017, at the age of thirty-seven. This week, on what would have been Allison’s 41st birthday, the blow of that... More

Saturday, October 10, 2020

Standing Tall

I’ve been preparing asynchronous lectures on Greek and Roman architecture for the last three weeks, which means I’ve been looking at a lot of columns. In fact, not just looking at them, but marveling at them. What beautiful things! Such a simple idea, turned into such a varied, subtle and sophisticated form! So today’s... More

Friday, September 4, 2020

Fall 2020 Orientation

Welcome to Art and Architectural History at Carleton! For returning students, we are excited to reconnect with you in class. For new students, we look forward to discussing your programs at our live Orientation events, scheduled on Sept. 8 (be sure to check your Carleton email for access links and passwords). Please see the... More

Friday, September 4, 2020

RENDER Vol. 8

Volume 8 of RENDER, the journal of the of the Art History Graduate Student Society, is now available online. Edited by Katie Lydiatt, this edition features articles by Marilyn Adlington (OCAD), Lauren Lussier (SSAC), Ginny Stovel (SSAC) Beth Shepherd (SSAC), Madeline Bogoch (Concordia), and Sneha Kumar (SSAC). Read it... More

Thursday, August 20, 2020

The HTA Podcast: Episode 1

  https://soundcloud.com/user-272231815/avrc-photo-collection RSS Feed Episode 1 of the HTA Podcast. Produced by the History and Theory of Architecture program at Carleton University. Today we look at a great – but little-known – collection of architectural photographs in our Audio-Visual Resource... More

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Reconquista

Last Friday, Muslim services were held under the great dome of the Hagia Sophia for the first time in 86 years. For some, this was a moment of great joy, a return of Islam to one of its great spiritual homes. For others, it was a catastrophe – a victory for cultural regression and... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

2020 Grad Showcase – Art History

Congratulations to ALL our SSAC Grads!... More

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Muriel Foulger Art History Travel Award – Applications due February 5

Awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Director of the School for Studies in Art and Culture, to deserving undergraduate or graduate students in the Art History program.  The purpose of this fund is to assist with the costs of travel and accommodation for research or conference trips related to their studies.  Multiple awards... More

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Art’s Role in Changing How We Think About the World

By Harry Wilson Photos by Fangliang Xu In Great Britain, it’s personified by Nigel Farage. In France, Marine Le Pen. In Japan, Shinzo Abe. In Canada — briefly, before a federal electoral flameout in October — Maxime Bernier. And south of the border . . . well, who doesn’t know about Donald Trump? The... More

Friday, July 5, 2019

Barry Padolsky’s Letter to Justin Trudeau

Many of you will have read about Barry Padolsky's open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the Château Laurier. Here is the letter in full, with illustrations, reproduced with Mr. Padolsky's permission. WHY THE PROPOSED ADDITION TO OTTAWA'S CHATEAU LAURIER SHOULD BE REDESIGNED AN OPEN LETTER TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN... More

Thursday, July 4, 2019

What Could the Château Laurier Addition Look Like?

In a piece in today’s National Post, Larco representative Dennis Jacobs used what I call the “Disneyland Cliché”: What they want to see is a replica Disneyland version of the hotel. We can’t give them Disneyland, but they still want it. He doesn’t say who “they” are, nor how he knows what “they” want... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Carleton Researcher Receives Banting Fellowship to Study the Historic Use of Images in Popular Communication

Carleton University postdoctoral researcher Kathryn Desplanque from the School for Studies in Art and Culture has received a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. “This is a strong indicator of the breadth and depth of Carleton research in the arts and social sciences,” said Rafik Goubran, vice-president (Research and International).... More

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Taking Responsibility

The vote on the Château Laurier that City Council will have tomorrow is profoundly important. Not because of its potential impact on what gets built (I remain pessimistic about that), but because it is City Council’s last chance to atone for evading its responsibility a year ago, when it voted to “conditionally accept” the... More

Thursday, May 23, 2019

History and Theory of Architecture: 1600 to the Present

Enjoy your summer learning about the History and Theory of Architecture: 1600 to the Present! During July and August, ARTH 1201 will be held on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6-9pm in the Azrieli Pavilion. This course introduces key monuments and themes of Western architecture from about 1600 to the present. This period witnessed... More

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Notre-Dame Cathedral: CBC interview with HTA Professor Peter Coffman

One of the most iconic buildings in the world, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, was heavily damaged by fire on April 15. Peter Coffman, supervisor of the History and Theory of Architecture program, spoke to the CBC’s Robyn Bresnahan about it the day after.... More

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