Lecture No Art, No History: Victorian Museums and the Metaphysics of the Subject Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 7:00 pm Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 12th Fl., Dean’s Conference Room   The lecture will explore conflicting paradigms for the organization of museums and exhibitions in nineteenth-century London: how museums were meant to be understood […]

Lecture Being Present at a Past: Astrolabe of the Enlightenment Monday October 18, 1999, 10:00 am -1:00 pm Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Rm. 636   This lecture will explore the theatricality and dramaturgy of Victorian museologies, with a focus on Sir John Soane’s home/museum in London. Professor Donald Preziosi, Professor of Art […]