This spring the course “Minoritarian Aesthetics” introduces graduate students to theories and critiques that emphasize the aesthetic or formal dimensions of art, literature, and film made by minorities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Miracles on the Border features fifty luminous retablos, painted personal expressions of gratitude dedicated to holy figures to consecrate miraculous events. Spanning the entirety of the twentieth century, these particular votives were offered by Mexican migrants or their families to...

Drawn entirely from the Museum’s exceptionally rich holdings in this area, Confronting Childhood can but hint at the complexities of representing children and childhood over a period of about two hundred years.

The responsibility for stewarding collections of such diversity demands that we explore both new and traditional ways of using these collections and of considering the wider visual world beyond.