Events at: Lasserre

06th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium

A Modern Day Victor Samerjian, “Reception of Surrealism in New York: 1948-1955” Robert Lindsay, “Wilfredo Lam: Painter of Negritude” Andrea Thomsett, “Charles Estienne’s Critical Discourse and the Search for Revolt” Allan Langdale, “Picasso and the ‘Corrida’ Images of the 1950’s” Julia Browne, “Picasso’s Ceramics: The Past Tradition” Alexander Alberro, “Calling From the ‘Charnet House’: 1945-1946” […]

16th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium

Critical Chaos – The Positioning of Visual Culture Within Art History William MacGregor, Keynote Speaker, Killiam Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Fine Arts, UBC Lynn Ruscheinsky, University of British Columbia, “Ballgowns and buckskins: sex, the Body and the Making of a Mohawk Princess” Sarah Louise Schrank, University of California San Diego, “Creating Bohemia: Space, Commercialism and […]

Vanessa Kam: Artists’ Archives: Views from *herein

The Diana Cooper Memorial Lecture Series First inaugural lecture honouring: The Role of Librarians in Intellectual Inquiry This talk will examine the work and archives of two contemporary artists: Felipe Ehrenberg and Lynn Hershman.  Both artists consider their archives, and the associated documents and multimedia objects therein, to be works of art.  Ehrenberg, a self-identified […]

VASA and AHSA host a BBQ Mixer

Location: In front of Lasserre, 6333 Memorial Road, UBC Free BBQ outside of Lasserre! We are thrilled to announce the first collaborated event of the 2009-2010 year between the Art History Students’ Association and the Visual Arts Students’ Association. On Thursday, October 8th from 11:30 to 2:00pm, we will be holding a free BBQ outside of […]

Interference

Interference is the first interactive art installation produced by the AVAST team. It is an experiment in the physical properties of light and sound. Interference is the first interactive art installation produced by the AVAST team. There will be a short opening reception and demonstration of the installation on Monday, June 4, at 11:00am. AVAST is […]