The point of departure for this creation is the result of five years of research by the Nigerian choreographer into body memory. This urban piece for ten dancers and a musician, designed after a creation residency at the Centre Pompidou, presents the work of a new generation of dancers trained in Lagos by Qudus Onikeku. Their movements express […]
In twelfth-century monastic culture in Europe, the fragility of life and the inevitability of death became codified in images of the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. A fifteenth-century treatise by Denis the Carthusian titled De quatuor hominis novissimus (The Four Last Things of Man) is visualized in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. […]
JumpstART 2021 features two public lectures:Duane Bray, UF alumnus, partner and global head of talent at IDEO, will speak on Human Centered Design in the 21st Century on February 4.William Strickland, community leader, author, and president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, Pgh, will speak on The Art of Leadership on February 5. Sign up […]
Part of the forth coming exhibition Plural Domains/Selected Works from the Collection of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Fall 2021. In this installation, the artist pushes traditional audio- visual methods by using multiple channels rather than a single one to transform the space into a fragmented experience for the viewer. By liberating the audio from […]
Live on YouTube, hosted by Heartwood SoundStageJoin University of Florida’s Jacaré Brazil and Jomion and the Uklos of Bénin in a musical dialog exploring the past and present connections between the West African Republic of Benin and Brazil. These two ensembles will explore the mutual histories of samba, the style of bossuhoho, and the many […]
These exhibitions will be guest-curated by Gean Moreno, curator and director of the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Moreno says that he hoped to “involve the Art and Art History Department’s graduating students in a process very similar to the one that they will be involved in […]
Suzanne Preston Blier is one of the most preeminent art historians working on Africa today. She is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her most recent book, Picasso’s Demoiselles: The True Origins of a Modern Art Masterpiece (Duke University Press, 2019) was the finalist for […]
How do improvisation, race, and artificial intelligence intersect with one another? Could the concept of improvisation, broadly considered, help center COTA in an AI university, as well as advance the college’s pursuit of equity and transformation?Join seven College of the Arts faculty as they investigate the nexus of improvisation, race, and AI, and their evolving […]
Joseph Beuys, a German artist from the 20th century, was of the firm belief that “we are all artists.” As organizers of this exhibition, we wanted to take that quote one step further, to challenge the notion of what it means to put together an exhibition, or what is appropriate enough to be included in […]
Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson lectures on the work of Louise Nevelson, the Ukrainian-American sculptor whose career intersected with the feminist art movement. Her talk focuses particularly on Mrs. N’s Palace (1964-77), Nevelson’s largest sculpture. Comprised of some hundred found objects, painted black, the work echoes both public monument and intimate, domestic environ.