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  1. Professor Tiffany E. Barber’s New Book Featured on UCLA Newsroom

    What Beyoncé’s music says about the desire for freedom and recognition In a book about Black women visual artists, UCLA professor Tiffany E. Barber draws comparisons to...

  2. Professor Tiffany E. Barber to Release New Book on May 23

    COMING SOON: Professor Tiffany E. Barber’s Book Release — Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation on Fri, May 23 in...

  3. Professor George Baker interviewed by Washington Post About Picabia’s Life and Work

    “Gabriële was the brains behind Picabia,” said George Baker, the chair of the art history department at UCLA and the author of “The Artwork Caught by the...

  4. Professor Stella Nair to present “The Inca ‘House for Listening’” at Stanford University

    Professor Stella Nair will present alongside Professor of Music Jonathan Berger (Stanford University) “The Inca ‘House for Listening’” at the upcoming Society of Architectural Historians conference at...

  5. Professor Zirwat Chowdhury is featured speaker at Cornell’s Pulse of Art History Lecture Series

    On April 15, Professor Zirwat Chowdhury presented “Clarinda’s Power of Circulation” at Cornell University. Her talk situates the compositional form of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s portrait of The...

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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.