Monday, February 27, 2023

Student Blog: A Summer Job in Heritage with the DND

As we head into the home stretch of the academic year, students are starting to consider what they’ll be doing for the summer. Some of our students in the History & Theory of Architecture program have landed very exciting summer jobs in which they’ve been able to apply the skills they’ve learned at Carleton.... More

Friday, January 27, 2023

2023 SAH International Conference

The Society of Architectural Historians, in partnership with Carleton AAH, will host its 76th Annual International Conference in person in Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 12–16, 2023. SAH members from around the world will convene at the Hôtel Bonaventure Montréal to share new research on the history of the built environment. The program... More

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Giving Tuesday: Help Support AAH Field Trips

Carleton’s Art and Architectural History faculty is seeking to raise funds for annual out-of-town field trips for our students to broaden their perspectives, to introduce them to a variety of art forms from around the world, and to encourage social interactions among our student body.  We believe that experiencing art and architecture in person... More

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Congratulations to Andy Burns, Winner of the Carleton President’s Medal

At this year’s Fall Convocation on Saturday, November 12, History and Theory of Architecture (HTA) student Andy Burns will receive the 2022 President’s Medal. This prize is awarded to the Carleton student with the highest standing in a general degree program of studies. Andy is the first HTA student to receive this prestigious award.... More

Monday, November 7, 2022

Art and Architecture Professor Ming Tiampo publishes new book Jin-Me Yoon: Life & Work

Professor Ming Tiampo has published a new book on contemporary artist Jin-Me Yoon with the Art Canada Institute. From the publisher: In Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work, Ming Tiampo reveals how Yoon’s multidisciplinary art—which includes photography, video, and performances—investigates how we engage with our surroundings and offers hope for a... More

Saturday, November 5, 2022

HTA Podcast: Something Old, Something New

A conversation with architect Barry Padolsky about the lantern tower at the Canadian Museum of Nature. As some readers of this blog will know, bad modern additions to historic buildings really bug me. Good ones, though, get me excited. And in my view, the lantern tower at the Canadian Museum of Nature is a... More

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Ruth Phillips is Awarded the UAAC Lifetime Achievement Award

At this year’s Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) conference in Toronto, Carleton Professor Emerita Ruth Phillips received the 2022 UAAC Lifetime Achievement Award, which is presented to a senior scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession over the whole of a career either through leadership, creation,... More

Monday, October 31, 2022

New Book by SSAC Director Mitchell Frank

AAH Associate Professor and Director of the School for Studies in Art and Culture Dr. Mitchell Frank has published a new book The Met and the Masses in Postwar America: A Study of the Museum and Popular Art Education.  From the publisher: This book explores the collaborations, during the mid-20th century, between the Metropolitan... More

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

New Book co-edited by Dr. Carol Payne

"A multigenerational discussion of culture, history, and naming centring on archival photographs of Inuit whose names were previously unrecorded." AAH Professor and FASS Associate Dean Dr. Carol Payne has co-edited a new book called Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming. From the publisher: For over two decades, Inuit collaborators... More

Saturday, October 15, 2022

HTA Podcast: What’s so “Classic” about “Classical” Architecture?

A conversation with Professor Pierre du Prey. In the latest edition of the HTA Podcast, I chat with architectural historian Pierre du Prey about what “Classicism” in architecture means, the contribution of good architecture to our quality of life, and the importance of informed public opinion to the quality of our built environment.... More

Thursday, October 13, 2022

Virtual Lecture on the Marketing of Early Radio Culture in Canada

Professor Michael Windover will be appearing virtually as part of the Canadian Society for Ornamental Design's ORNAMENTUM Lecture series. His talk - titled 'Retailing Radio: How the T. Eaton Company Sold the Idea of Radio in 1920s-1930s Canada' - will consider the role of the T. Eaton Company in promoting and fostering radio culture in... More

Monday, October 10, 2022

AAH Professors Participating in UAAC

Carleton Art and Architectural History Professors Mitchell Frank, Gül Kale and Michael Windover are participating in the upcoming Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, the largest annual conference in Canada for visual arts-based research by art and architectural historians, professors, artists, curators, and cultural workers. ... More

Monday, September 26, 2022

Chancellor’s Professor Brian Foss featured on CBC Ideas

Dr. Brian Foss recently joined Nahlah Ayed on CBC Radio's Ideas to discuss the art of Joyce Wieland, a leading artist of her time and a prescient observer of Canada's struggles with identity and inclusion. Read more and listen to the episode on the CBC Ideas website or  CBC... More

Monday, September 19, 2022

Call for Papers! Worlding Art History through Syllabi

Two faculty members, Birgit Hopfener and Ming Tiampo are co-organizing a hybrid workshop on Global Art History Pedagogy, 11 October 2022 The recent ‘global turn’ in art history and curatorial practice has prompted the question of how to reflect this through pedagogy. The workshop Worlding Art History through Syllabi takes up the notion of... More

Monday, May 2, 2022

Postcard from Venice

Dear Mom and Dad, This is such an amazing place: the streets are canals, the buses are boats, and everything – every building, every bridge, every view – is so beautiful. My apartment's just a short walk from the Doge's Palace and the Accademia Art Museum. Our first dinner was fresh fish and produce... More

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Small Modernisms Symposium (May 12-13)

On May 12-13 at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, we will be hosting “Small Modernisms,” a symposium dedicated to exploring the role of the built environment in shaping Canadian society in the decades following the Second World War. Through an emphasis on the small-scale and intimate, the paper presentations and architectural walking... More

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

New Book from Professor Jill Carrick

Daniel Spoerri: Topographies: Networks of Exchange is a new collection from Carleton Art & Architectural History Professor Jill Carrick and co-editor Déborah Laks. From the publisher: Daniel Spoerri's oeuvre occupies the intersection of several artistic trends and tendencies. Most commentators on his work, on the other hand, considered him a... More

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The 2022 Shirley Thomson Lecture with Dr. Heather Igloliorte

On March 23rd, please join us for INUA: New Ways Forward in Inuit Exhibition Practices by Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University Research Chair in Circumpolar... More

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Workshop: Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art

“Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art: Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks” seeks to contribute to the decolonization of universalized historiographic frameworks and temporal concepts of art through combinations of Western critique and epistemological research into art’s multiple relations to time and... More

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

New book from Distinguished Research Chair John Osborne

Out of the Studio, by John Osborne and Peter Smeaton, documents the life, oeuvre, and achievement of Charles Smeaton and his younger brother, John. Launched by the opening of their “photographic gallery” in 1861, they developed a reputation in Quebec for images of contemporaneous people, places, and events taken in challenging outdoor... More

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship Lecture: Claire Farago

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture is excited to announce the upcoming lecture by Professor Claire Farago. Professor Farago is an Art Historian and Professor Emerita at University of Colorado Boulder specializing in Early Modern art, theory, and criticism, as well as museum and collecting practices. Her talk... More

Friday, December 17, 2021

Winter 2022 Information and Resources

Winter 2022 Semester Following public health regulations, facilities at Carleton Univeristy have reopened and in-person courses (as per the winter 2022 schedule) and activities have resumed as of Monday, February 7, 2022. Everyone coming to campus must complete the COVID-19 screening self-assessment in cuScreen. The School for Studies in Art and... More

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Artist Talk: Olivia Johnston and Kathryn Desplanque

Join Carleton graduates Olivia Johnston and Kathryn Desplanque on Thursday, December 2nd for a talk entitled Embodying Saintly Gestures. Photographer and art historian Olivia Johnston's series of saints images makes use of the visual language applied to those most revered in Christian devotional objects of centuries past to contemporary... More

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

In Memoriam: Lilly Koltun

We are saddened to hear the news that Dr. Lilly Koltun, Adjunct Research Professor in Art and Architectural History at Carleton, passed away on November 21. Her connections to Carleton go back to 1979, when she was a lecturer in the Art History program.  In 1993 she became an external faculty member for the... More

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Conference News: Worlding Through the Caribbean

"Explore the legacies of Caribbean thought on global art histories and public culture." Dr. Ming Tiampo and Dr. Birgit Hopfener (Carleton Art & Architectural History) are among the organizers of the forthcoming Tate Modern conference consent not to be a single being: Worlding Through the Caribbean. The three day event, takes the Caribbean... More

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

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