Ted Barrow

Ted Barrow teaches in Barnard College's Pre-College Program over the summer, focusing on the relationship between art and film in New York City, and has taught art history courses at Baruch, City College, the College of Staten Island, and Brooklyn College. Barrow currently teaches at Cooper Union, writes his dissertation on tropical watercolors and runs a popular satirical Instagram account about skateboarding (@feedback_ts).

Past Olios with Ted Barrow

Anglo-Artists in the Caribbean: Exploring Race, Place, and other Tropical Topics
This Olio explores the way in which Anglo-American artists like John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer chose their motifs while visiting Florida and the Bahamas, and how these images, which focused on Afro-Caribbeans, reflect and, in some cases, reject dominant stereotypes.

Venue: None

Teacher: Ted Barrow

July 23, 2020, 8 p.m.

Escape From The City
The city has always inspired, generated, and compromised creativity. While we are all in this moment of social-distancing and quarantine, it is a good opportunity to consider the ways in which previous generations of artists have responded to a retreat from the city in their art.

Venue: None

Teacher: Ted Barrow

June 10, 2020, 8 p.m.

Red and the Sack of Rome
During the 15th and 16th centuries, as bankers became popes and the Holy Roman Empire was set against Rome itself, red was reinterpreted from a color of royalty to the code of the clergy. How might this material history of art inform our understanding of globalization today?

Venue: None

Teacher: Ted Barrow

Feb. 2, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Rap & The Italian Renaissance
Join us on a Sunday afternoon to explore the intersections of Hip-Hop and Italian Renaissance art with art historian Ted Barrow.

Venue: Living Room

Teacher: Ted Barrow

Oct. 13, 2019, 2 p.m.

Olio FieldTrip | Skateboarding and Modern Art
Think Olio FieldTrips may be the most fruitful way to spend a Sunday in NYC. Join us for the first one of the season with art historian Ted Barrow. We'll start in Harlem and make our way to Central park with architecture and skateboarding inspired stops along the way. *Lunch included*

Venue: Living Room

Teacher: Ted Barrow

Sept. 29, 2019, 1 p.m.

The Long History of Selfie Culture
Does it seem like our current culture is the most self-obsessed to date? People have been saying that for 500 years. Join art historian Theodore Barrow in the Strand's rare book room for a deep dive into the selfie and the modern self through the lens of art history.

Venue: Strand Bookstore

Teacher: Ted Barrow

June 27, 2019, 7 p.m.

Madame(s) X: Muses, Makers, & Shifting Identities
Behind some of the defining works of early modernism lie the remarkable biographies of the women who inspired the art. What did it mean to toe that line between art and life in an age when women’s rights were strictly curtailed?

Venue: Strand Bookstore

Teacher: Ted Barrow

April 9, 2019, 7 p.m.

Catfishing: The Artist as Trickster in Factual Fictions
Join us at the beautiful Blender Workspace for an interdisciplinary Olio that draws on folk mythology, literature and 500 years of visual art to decipher the line between perception and deception.

Venue: Blender Workspace

Teacher: Ted Barrow

March 28, 2019, 7:30 p.m.

*Sold out* Living Room Salon | Pigment, Power, and Pathos: Red from the Renaissance to Rococo
We associate red with lust, hunger, and rage and over time the meaning of this powerful color has changed dramatically. Join us on this Sunday afternoon in Bed Stuy to look at the history of the color red with art historian Ted Barrow.

Venue: Living Room

Teacher: Ted Barrow

Feb. 12, 2019, 7:30 p.m.

Museum Visit | Strange Beauty in the Italian Renaissance * Sold Out*
What can we learn from this enigmatic work? How does art change over time? And what might the siege of Florence teach us about the perseverance of beauty and ideas in the midst of political turmoil today?

Venue: The Morgan Library & Museum

Teacher: Ted Barrow

Jan. 4, 2019, 7 p.m.

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