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AHA students might remember the taste of fresh ric

AHA students might remember the taste of fresh ricotta ravioli in their Sienese cookery class, or the moment they stood centimetres in front of the Last Caravaggio with no crowds, or how the sun warmed their faces with an Aperol Spritz on the Venetian Canal. Whatever
it is, an AHA student will remember that they didn't just learn history and history of art - they walked through it, under it, above it, questioning it, eating it, feeling it and savouring it. Throwback to AHA semester 2020, photos by @hope_keithahn and @maisiemolotphoto
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#ahacourses #arthistory #gapyear #gapyearitaly #artgapyear #rome #romanforum #ancienthistory #studyabroad #2020gapyear #2021gapyear #semesterabroad #sunset #roma #italia #travelgram

Join us tonight! Trinkets and Talismans of the Ava

Join us tonight! Trinkets and Talismans of the Avant-Garde: Small Sculptures of the 20th Century by Sophie Mei Birkin @sophie.m.e.i (31st March 2021 6pm)Sculpture is often wedded to ideas of solidity, permanence, site specificity and immobility. However, the history of sculpture is rich with examples of small portable works of art: from the pocket-sized works of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska to Eileen Agar and Paul Nash’s collection of fragments of wood, rocks and bones. These works were often highly personal, designed to be held, demanding a tactile response from the beholder. Some sculptures adopted talismanic properties, inspiring further artistic production from their owners who considered them (un)lucky charms. In this lecture, we will explore the challenge posed by small artworks to the traditional conception of what sculpture is, and look at how twentieth-century artists pushed the medium to its limits. Link in bio for tickets #avantgarde #sculpture #arthistory #onlinelecture #ahacourses #gapyear #historyofart

🇮🇹Gap Year Courses in Italy 🇮🇹What i

🇮🇹Gap Year Courses in Italy 🇮🇹What is it that you remember most from your AHA Course? For so many students it isn't about seeing the Sistine Ceiling, the Trevi Fountain or Botticelli's Primavera for the first time. It's the hidden gems they'd never heard of. AHA loves to look where no one else is looking. It's about Steve showing us the doodles on the back of Michelangelo's Slaves while everyone else crowds around David. It's about Luke asking the bus driver to make a stop by a tiny dying city slowly crumbling into the valley - a hauntingly beautiful sight. It's about the local restaurants - a different one every night - where we're welcomed by warm staff and fed like family. AHA follows no set syllabus, history isn't as fixed as we sometimes think it is. We need to continue to challenge it and question the truths we're told. On AHA we want enquiring minds and those who are confidently curious about life. If you bring us that spirit we promise you'll leave us with so much more.
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THE LIFE AND ART OF PEGGY GUGGENHEIM, BY ISABELLA

THE LIFE AND ART OF PEGGY GUGGENHEIM, BY ISABELLA BOORMAN, 24TH MARCH 2021 6PM GMT (link in bio for tickets)Peggy Guggenheim’s life was never far from controversy. Born in 1898 in New York into the Guggenheim family, one of the world’s leading families in the business of silver, copper and lead mining, she was aged just thirteen when her father tragically died on the Titanic and as a young heiress lived in bohemian Paris at the height of the 1920s. Her friendships and relationships with influential artists and writers such as Marcel Duchamp and Samuel Beckett, would come to engage her into the world of art collecting and from the 1930s up to the 1970s she amassed one of the most highly regarded modern art collections in the world, featuring works by Picasso and Alberto Giacometti. As a champion of modern art she represented artists at her galleries in New York and London, and provided crucial support to then unknown artists such as Jackson Pollock. In this lecture, Isabella Boorman explores the dazzling life of Guggenheim, a self-confessed ‘art addict’ and focuses on key artworks from her personal major modern art collection, which would come to form the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, one of Italy’s most visited and iconic museums.
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