Visual Arts

Modern and Contemporary Studies

MUNGANGA - a documentary

Francianne dos Santos Velho shares her experiences as a research assistant in the HERA project Night Spaces: Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe. She directed the documentary MUNGANGA (2022), which connects with her PhD project on migrant workers in Brazil and the Netherlands.

Francianne dos Santos Velho • 12-05-2022

Modern and Contemporary Studies

Digital Theology: A Short Introduction through Art

Nobody knows exactly what is going on, especially when the subject is that of theology, belief and myth. In spite of doubt, some people try their luck and open up about their faith through art.

Bernardo Bremm • 30-09-2021

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Where have all the women gone? Challenging structural patriarchy and rethinking feminist art history

Where have all the women gone? It can be difficult, sometimes, to find evidence of female participation in the arts and culture of the early modern period. Catherine Powell explores how we can locate women and their participation by asking different questions.

Catherine Powell • 15-10-2020

Modern and Contemporary Studies

Rumor or Reality? Moscow Conceptualism as a Challenge for our Contemporary Art Canon

What is Moscow Conceptualism? A late Soviet art movement that is part of our contemporary art canon or a rumor? Cultural historian Dorine Schellens sheds light on this question by looking at the interconnection between academic and artistic worlds.

Dorine Schellens • 05-12-2019

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

The Omval Defaced: Thoughts on Rembrandt’s Anonymous Interlocutor

This post examines a curious late state of Rembrandt's etching, The Omval—largely dismissed in the literature as a defacement or mutilation of the copperplate—and asks what we might gain from giving it another look.

Jun Nakamura • 27-09-2019

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

It’s a Small World: The Dollhouse in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

A small corpus of extant seventeenth-century Dutch dollhouses shares traits with other contemporary collecting practices, but demonstrates different potentials for microcosmic thinking.

Jun Nakamura • 21-02-2019

Classics and Classical Civilisation

Switching the academy for the Academy

How can academics benefit from listening to artists and professionals? Matthew writes about attending an intersectoral conference.

Matthew Payne • 10-01-2019

Blogs

MUNGANGA - a documentary

Digital Theology: A Short Introduction through Art

Where have all the women gone? Challenging structural patriarchy and rethinking feminist art history

Rumor or Reality? Moscow Conceptualism as a Challenge for our Contemporary Art Canon

The Omval Defaced: Thoughts on Rembrandt’s Anonymous Interlocutor

It’s a Small World: The Dollhouse in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

Switching the academy for the Academy