News & Events

  1. Professor Lamia Balafrej to deliver “Race Before Technology: On Medieval Talismans” at Rice University

    Professor Lamia Balafrej will be delivering a talk at Rice University for the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Lecture Series. Her presentation, entitled “Race Before Technology: On Medieval Talismans”,...

  2. Professor Saloni Mathur presents “Baggage Claims: Contemporary Art’s Migration Imaginary” at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore

    Professor Saloni Mathur will be delivering a lecture entitled “Baggage Claims: Contemporary Art’s Migration Imaginary” for the NTU Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities Series on March 20th...

  3. Professor Emeritus Dell Upton publishes new book, “Landscapes in the Making”

    Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Dell Upton on the publication of his new book, Landscapes in the Making! In this release, Professor Upton and Stephen Daniels, Professor of...

  4. Professor Kris Kersey’s first book receives the Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research

    Congratulations to Professor Kris Kersey for receiving the Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research from the Medieval Academy of America! Professor Kersey’s first book, “Facing...

  5. 2025 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture with Featured Speaker Tiffany Barber

    The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2025 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture with featured speaker Tiffany Barber.  This event will take place on Monday, March...

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Mission Statement

The UCLA Department of Art History was one of the first in the United States to embrace a mission of comprehensive global coverage.

With this mission, the department has educated undergraduate and graduate students for decades with a broad-based understanding of art that comes from exposure to the artistic practices of a variety of “western” and “non-western” cultures through time and space.

With its requirements for study across the globe and for foreign language training above and beyond the college obligation, our department seeks to encourage students to question the art historical canon, to rethink the relationships between margins and centers, and to practice a socially and politically responsible art history.