Art Context Courses Events

This class investigates the five artists included in Truth Told Slant: Contemporary Photography and their extraordinary subjects. Together, we’ll contextualize the works in this show within the history of photography and question our own stance as an audience of this moment, a time when truth can feel elusive or obscured.

This multiweek course, led by Julia Forbes, will explore the history of ceramics across time, geography, and cultures.

Organized around objects in the exhibition Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and in the High’s collection, this four-week course will explore the relationships between local and nonlocal, nature and artifice, religious and secular, and freedom and control. Central to the examination of prints, paintings, decorative objects, and more will be an awareness of the human costs associated with globalization and how art can highlight and elide complex historical narratives.