Events

Events organized by AHNCA

About AHNCA

Founded in 1993, the association today has more than 250 members. AHNCA's goal is to foster communication and collaboration among all who are interested in art and visual culture produced between 1789 and 1914.
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Nineteenth-Century Caricature: It’s Okay to Laugh

September 29, 2023 1:30 pm
Please join us on Friday, September 29 at 1:30PM ET for the Virtual Salon “Nineteenth-Century Caricature: It’s Okay to Laugh.” This series of online events is cosponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. In the past, caricature was of marginal interest to most art historians, but in the wake of visual...
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African Arts

April 21, 2023 1:00 pm
Please join us on April 21 at 1PM Eastern Time for African Arts, a Virtual Salon co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required:  https://tinyurl.com/African-Arts  For this event, we are fortunate to host three speakers and a moderator to discuss this important area of nineteenth-century studies: Kristen Windmuller Luna (Moderator), Sandrine Colard, Helina Gebremedhen, and Constantine...
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Art and the Environment

March 10, 2023 12:00 pm
Please join us on March 10 at 12PM ET for Art and the Environment, a Virtual Salon co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required: http://tinyurl.com/art-and-environment For this event, we are fortunate to host three scholars who will discuss this important...
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Virtual Salon on Clark Exhibition of Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the BnF

February 1, 2023 7:00 pm
The Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and the Dahesh Museum join with the Clark Art Institute for a Virtual Salon on theClark’s current exhibition Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Focusing on select drawings from the exhibition, curators Esther Bell, Anne Leonard, and Sarah Grandin will offer a varied and lively picture of artistic practices...
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The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture

January 13, 2023 11:00 am
Please join us on Friday, January 13 for “The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture,” a Virtual Salon discussing the exhibition of this title currently at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Its co-curators, Adrienne L. Childs and Nicola Jennings, will be joined by art historian Lynda Nead in a discussion moderated by Isabel L. Taube...
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Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World

December 6, 2022 7:00 pm
Please join us on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 7PM ET for “Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World,” a Virtual Salon with Bob Brier, moderated by J. David Farmer. This series of online events is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. This Salon honors the hundredth anniversary of the...