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Art History

Why Study Art History?

 

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Art History professor with undergraduates from 2025.

In Art History, we study the art and architecture of cultures around the world and across millennia. We take a variety of approaches to our objects, but focus on understanding their aesthetic and historical significance as well as their social relevance.  

 

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Warnock Lecture Series

October 21, 2026: Irene Small (Princeton University

February 24, 2027: Nassos Papalexandrou (University of Texas at Austin)

May 19, 2027: Ilona Katzew (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

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Faculty Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight

Congratulations to Professor Krista Thompson, who has been named the Bahamian Pavilion curator at the 61st Venice Biennale.

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Warnock Gift

The Liz Warnock Gift to Art History provides generous funds to support an array of programming in the department.
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Professor Jesús Escobar and Kyle Stephan (Affiliate Faculty, Block Museum of Art) are co-curating “Pasados Presentes: Cultural Memory in the Americas,” an exhibition that will open at the Block Museum of Art on February 3, 2027. Winter and Spring Quarter programming will include talks by contemporary artists and leading art historians of Latin American art history. Information can be found on the Block’s website.

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Congratulations to 2026-2027 Undergraduate FRANKE Fellows Alan Silva and Vicky Wang!
Congratulations to Ashley Kim (Art History Major, Class of 2027), who will spend the Fall Quarter ’26 at the University of Oxford.
Congratulations to Min Kyung Lee (PhD 2013) on winning the Spiro Kostof Book Award for "The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris."
Congratulations to Alissa Schapiro (PhD 2024) on being appointed the Senior Curator at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley.

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