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More Residency Sites
October 27, 2018
Current IDSVA residency sites include Rome, Spannocchia Castle, Siena, Florence, Venice, Paris, Berlin, New York City, Athens, and Delphi.
Mexico City will start January 2020 for 1st and 2nd year students.
Barcelona and Madrid will start May 2019 for 3rd year students.
Casablanca will start May 2020 for 3rd year students.
Summer Faculty Announced
George Smith on The Artist-Philosopher in the Age of Addiction: Heidegger’s Climatology Reflections for the IDSVA Community
A Distilled Cry for Reason: A Messy Eulogy for Jürgen Habermas
Reimagining Space and Subjectivity: A Polyphony of Two IDSVA Authors
2026 Spring Conference Participants
Navigating the Driskell Fellowship Through Community and Confidence
To See is to Cite: A Conversation with Honorary Degree Recipient Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
Poetic Objectivity of a Lunar Flyby: The Enlivened Poetics of Mission Artemis II
THANK YOU for celebrating the IDSVA Commencement with us!
2026 Ted Coons Dissertation Prize Winner Announced
Rolling Admissions for Fall Enrollment– Your First Residency is in Mexico City
IDSVA presents a book launch with alumnae: Dr. Jessica Rodríguez-Colón & Dr. Katherine Farrington with Dr. Keren Moscovitch, moderator
Melvin Edwards (1937-2026)
Book Launch for "The Artist-Philosopher in the Age of Addiction: Heidegger’s Climatology" by George Smith
"Save the Date" & our 2026 Honorary Degree Recipient
Now Extending our PhD Program to BA/BFA Applicants
Winter 2026 Newsletter just launched!
Santiago Zabala’s Book Launch: Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings
Mortal Intertextuality: Orientation By Use of the Four-Dimensional Reading Game
Spuren de l’Athar أثر Post-Reality of Montresso
Searching for Hassan EI Glaoui's "Men on Ponies"
Marrakech: The Intersectionality of Reflection and Experience
Making the Moving Image: John Akomfrah’s Listening All Night to the Rain at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional
Meet our 2025 David Driskell Fellow, Santana Nash
Almost there! Participate in the match challenge today.
The Biennale Certificate in Philosophy and Art : Call for Participation (Venice, June 18—21, 2026)
Winter 2026 Faculty Announcement
Artist-Philosophers in Practice: Cultivating Community at SECAC
2025 Fall Conference Participants
The Inextricable Link Between Communities and Landscapes
2025 Honorary Degree Receipients
'Aztec Philosophy: Understanding A World in Motion' by James Maffie
Words About Lighting a Cigar and Spitting Veganisms
"Spannocchia"
Our Search for Henrietta and the Fractured Stories of Berlin
Reflection on Chef Craig's Dinner at Spannocchia Castle
Apathy and Emergency in the Arctic Circle
Composition, Politics and the Problem of Decision-Making in Latour and Serres: A Webinar Presentation by Professor David Webb
Book Launch: Santiago Zabala's "Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings"
In Conversation with Professor David Webb
Teotihuacán: A Transformative Experience
The Intersection of Mystery and Sacred in Mexico
Reverberations of Compost
Care and Good Company at the Student Exhibition 'Repair: The Artist-Philosopher in Practice'
Bodies of Resistance: Murals, Memory, and Marking Revolution
Simonetta Moro’s lecture: “Poetic Cartography: Notes for a Post-Metaphysical Theory of Mapping”
Yesterday
2024-2025 Year in Review
Message from the President
Recent Publications
IDSVA Announces the 2025 Ted Coons Prize Winner
2025 Summer Faculty Announcement
Writing in Collaboration (A Practice for Ecological Thinking)
Wonder at the Agora
Water
Winter - 2011 / Spring - 2012
Visit to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Winter 2010 / Spring 2011
Walking in Roma
Whitney Hunter On Being Named The David Driskell Fellow, 2013
Video: Stephen Greenblatt at IDSVA Commencement 2016 & Holberg Prize
Visit to Simonetta Moro’s Studio
¡Víva La Vida!
Walid Raad: Museum of Modern Art
Visit to Dia Beacon, NY
Venetian Biennale: East-meets-West
Venice Residency
Venice Residency June 2015
Virtual Open House for PhD Admissions
Updates to the Academic Calendar
Update on Accrediation
Time is the Greatest Gift
Travel Grant Announcement
Trees and Concentric Circles: Unveiling Berlin
Upcoming lecture featuring Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Trembling Thinking
Tune in for a talk about David Driskell's ceramic works by IDSVA's Gabriel Reed
They Call Us to More: Pipilotti Rist at The New Museum NYC
Topology on Ice: Antarctica & the Arsenale
Through the Looking Glass: Duveen and Berenson
Three Methods Applied to the Colby Campus
Three Questions For IDSVA’s Interim Director Margot Kelley
The Vattimo Dictionary book launch with IDSVA Professor Dr. Simonetta Moro - POSTPONED
Three Critiques of Anish Kapoor's "Untitled"
The World’s First PhD for Artist-Philosophers Announces Accreditation
The Vattimo Dictionary book launch
The Vision of David C. Driskell
The Trotsky House
The Strength of Weak Thought
The nowness of experience: a dinner conversation with Professor Ted Coons
The Virtual Residency: A Conversation Between Hannah Christian and Starr Page
The Master of Aix
The Silk Merchants, Experienced Phenomenologically
The Only Light We've Got: Soul of a Nation in Bentonville, Arkansas
"The Question of 'Africanness' and the Expanded Field of Sculpture" Symposium
The Ecological Work of Art with Giovanbattista Tusa
The Blazing World, Or the Climatological Imperative: From Inaction to Reimagination
The Experience of Time at The Studio Museum in Harlem
The First Annual IDSVA Student Exhibition, January 2015, NYC
The Margot and Robert Kelley Venice Biennale Residency
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