With the cold weather moving in forcefully across New England, what better way to spend your time staying warm at home than with some exciting virtual events? Here just are a few upcoming webinars that provide the opportunity to learn about art history, the Adobe Suite, or the Louvre. Finding new ways to come together as a community and work as a team remotely has been such a necessary learning curve, but Zoom has it’s fun aspects as well. Now we have the opportunity to visit an artist’s studio from across the country, hear how David Zwirner handles the pandemic, or even see collections from overseas in a way we had not normalized before the days of COVID-19.
Technological Revolutions and Art History Part IV: Cultural Heritage and the Ethics of Digitization
Etchings of Paris: The Pont-Neuf. Charles Meryon (French, 1821–1868) Courtesy of the Frick Collection.
March 11, 2021
11 am – 1 pm EST
”Historically, science and the humanities were not considered two discrete disciplines: the separation of these two branches of knowledge developed only in the modern era. For art historians in the twenty-first century, this divide is only widening as some scholars embrace technological advances while others remain unconvinced that computational techniques and tools can bring meaningful changes to the field.”
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2. Four Tips to Master the Art of Adobe inDesign
March 23, 2021
1 pm – 1:40 pm EST
Learn a variety of design skills, including essential shortcuts, cutting-edge tips, and techniques for working with Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Image courtesy of the Louvre Museum
3. Louvre Museum Live Interactive Virtual Tour
February 13th, 20th, 27th
March 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th
11 am - 12 pm EST
“Live interactive virtual tour through The Louvre Museum. What is a Virtual Guided Tour? It is not virtual reality. It is a licensed guide led webinar packed with photos, videos, polls and a fully interactive chat function which makes this anything but a lecture video. There is also a live Q&A at the end satisfying all your questions about the Louvre and Paris. Whether you’ve never been abroad or spent every summer in France, enjoy this exciting, interactive experience from the comfort of your home.”
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4. Race, Gender, and Intermedia Art Practice in Paris c. 1900 by Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
February 26th, 2021
12pm - 2pm EST
“What were the opportunities and limitations in late nineteenth-century Paris for artists (broadly defined) who were not white and male? This pair of events brings together research presentations and roundtable discussion in response to passages from art historian Emily C. Burns’s book-in-progress, Performing Innocence: Cultural Belatedness and U.S. Art in Fin-de-Siècle Paris. Burns analyzes how the encounters in the French capital reshaped American culture, fueled by the idea that the US had no culture, no history, and no tradition. The sections were pre-circulated to participants and will be briefly summarized at the start of the Feb 26 event.”
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5. Regency Aesthetics: The Costumes, Locations, and Décor of Bridgerton by Homewood Museum
March 1st, 2021
12pm - 1pm EST
“When Bridgerton hit streaming services in December 2020, history enthusiasts everywhere asked the question: how historically accurate is it? In this virtual lunchtime lecture, Michelle Fitzgerald, curator of the Johns Hopkins University Museums, will talk about the material world of the show and what it might be able to teach us about the real early nineteenth-century.”
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