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 • May 12, 2022
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 • September 30, 2021
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 • October 15, 2020
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 • December 05, 2019
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 • September 27, 2019
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 • February 21, 2019
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 • January 10, 2019 • 1 comment
