History of Design and Curatorial Studies

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History of Design & Curatorial Studies Considers Color in Annual Symposium

April 15, 2015 | Faculty News

COLOR/FORMS, the twenty-forth annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium, will take place at the Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on April 23 and 24. The event…

“The Stuff of Our World”: Director Sarah Lichtman on Bonham’s Darwinian Artifact

October 9, 2014 | Faculty News

Students Respond to MoMA’s Design and Violence Site

December 16, 2013 | External Partnerships

Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” Uffizi Gallery, Florence Inspired by the Museum of Modern Art’s experimental web exhibition Design and Violence, students in…

Perspectives in World Art and Design

February 7, 2011 | Faculty News

In the fall of 2010, ADHT launched two pilot sections of PWAD1.  Employing the lecture/recitation model for a total of 150 students, two sections led…

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Offered jointly with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York, the History of Design and Curatorial Studies program leads to a master of arts degree. Graduates go on to careers as historians, curators, and scholars in museums, universities, historic houses, auction houses, and galleries.

Visit the main Parsons site for more information about the MA in History of Design and Curatorial Studies.