Past events
Thu, 16 October 2025
12:30PM
Power Reading Group: 65,000 Years
The Power Institute's regular reading group, focusing on new ideas and research in art history and visual culture.
Wed, 15 October 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #4
Dylan He, Noah Farrugia, and Sage Belgum
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.
Fri, 10 October 2025
9:00AM
Believing what you see: Trust and vision from the French Revolution to Generative AI
A day-long symposium on the truth of images in public life, and the relationship between visual understanding and societal trust
Thu, 9 October 2025
3:00PM
Tania Bruguera’s Permanent Revolution
Hilary Thurlow
A presentation on the influential and politically complex work of contemporary Cuban artist Tania Bruguera.
Wed, 8 October 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #3
Bomi Park, Maeve Sullivan, and Maia Hjelmar Morgan
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.
Wed, 24 September 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #2
Leighlyn Aguilar, Taleah Rust, and Valesca de Jongh
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.
Wed, 17 September 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #1
Deena Loukadellis, Dominique Park, and Raha Shahidi
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.
Thu, 11 September 2025
3:00PM
Curious Reincarnations: Counter-Histories of Diem Phung Thi
Roger Nelson
A presentation on the recently recovered artist Diem Phung Thi, and on the implications of their remarkable work for art history in Southeast Asia.
Fri, 5 September 2025
9:45AM
JW Power and Interwar Abstraction
Deborah Barnstone, Donna West Brett, Rebecca Edwards, Giles Fielke, Kate Kangaslahti, Sophie Matthiesson, Keith Rathbone, and Anthony White
A symposium exploring the radical ideas underpinning avant-garde art in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.
Mon, 1 September 2025
9:00PM
Curating New Perspectives
A new suite of student-led exhibitions