Doctoral candidate Alba Campo Rosillo will deliver an online lecture on the portraits of James Knox Polk painted by George Peter Alexander Healy between 1846 and 1858 for the President James K. Polk Home and Museum. In this lecture, Campo Rosillo will discuss presidential portraiture in relation to Grand Manner aristocratic painting. She will reveal the strong grip the plantation economy had on the country’s political power, as well as the intimate connection between cotton plantations and aristocratic life-styles at the time. The lecture, titled “From President to Aristocrat: G.P.A. Healy’s Portraits of President James Polk,” will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020 from 8 p.m. EDT to 9 p.m. EDT. Registration is required.
Professor Ikem S. Okoye will present Elusive Things: Materialities and Spatialities in the vicinity of Nigér" as part of the School of Architecture and Planning 2020-21 lecture series, supported by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at Harvard University and MIT. The talk will be live-streamed and available as a videocast. For additional information, visit the AKPIA events webpage or the MIT Architecture events calendar.
Graduate student Kristen Nassif with lead a virtual gallery talk at the Delaware Art Museum. She will discuss Loïs Mailou Jones's Parade des Paysans (1961), a recent acquisition by the museum. Free registration is required.
