The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts fosters study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, urbanism, photography, and film from all places and periods.
We support research in the visual arts from scholars in art and architectural history as well as those in related disciplines. The Center is also committed to broadening areas of research pertaining to visual and architectural worlds while fostering increased diversity in academic and arts professions.
Our annual report has been published since 1981 and records the activities and research conducted at the Center during each academic year.
Center 44
Record of Activities and Research Reports
June 2023–May 2024
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Dean’s Report: Sonnambula, joined by Juilliard students from the music and drama divisions, performing in the National Gallery of Art Library at Women in Art and Music: An Early Modern Global Conference, October 2023
People: Visiting guest artist Dario Robleto leads a talk on his work Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas, April 2024
Programs: Fernanda Pitta presents during Braided Histories: Modernist Abstraction and Woven Textiles, May 2024
Publications: Cover detail of Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
Research Reports: East Building
Research Initiatives: Moses Bank, Wall Paper (detail), 1934, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paperboard, Index of American Design, 1943.8.16032
About: Nancy J. Troy on a tour of Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction