McGinn Lecture
PATRICIA MCCARRON MCGINN LECTURES
The annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture was inaugurated in 1992 to showcase the scholarship of a faculty member in the Department. It was established in honor of Patricia McCarron McGinn (1927 – 1991), who was an outstanding student in the UCLA Department of Art History. Her enthusiasm, depth of commitment, and dedication to the challenges of graduate study as a returning student enlivened and expanded the scholarly perspective of the program. To honor her memory, her family, with the generous support of many friends, established the Patricia McCarron McGinn Fund to aid students engaged in the study of art history at UCLA and to sponsor the McGinn Lectures.
Honorees
2025
Tiffany Barber
“Kara Walker, Contemporary Art, and the Black Female Bottom”
2024
Charlene Villaseñor Black
“Art against Necropolitics”
2023
Miwon Kwon
“Through the Remains of Future Dreaming: Gerard & Kelly’s Art of Allegorical Constellations”
2022
Glenn Wharton
“Why Conserve Cultural Heritage? Reframing a Discipline”
2021
Zirwat Chowdhury
“The Horror of Conversation”
2020
Dell Upton
“Seeing a New South: Race and Aspiration in the Post-Emancipation Landscape”
2019
Kristopher Kersey
“Imaging the Mind in Medieval Japanese Buddhism”
2018
Lamia Balafrej
“The Art of Concealing Labor: Sugar and Architecture in 16th-century Morocco”
2017
David Scott
“Surrogates and Copies: From Veronese to Duchamp”
2016
Bronwen Wilson
“Blindness, Uncertainty, and Sensation”
2015
Sharon Gerstel
“Of Bodies and Spirits: Soundscapes of Byzantium”
2014
Stella Nair
“Alcohol, Sex, and Inca Architecture”
2013
Donald F. McCallum
“Where has everybody gone? People in the Painting of Matsumo Shunsuke”
2012
Meredith Cohen
“When Gothic Became French”
2011
Saloni Mathur
“Charles and Ray Eames in India”
2010
Steven D. Nelson
“Karmen Geï: Sex, the State, and Censorship in Dakar”
2009
Dell Upton
“New Mythic Geographies of the American South”
2008
Charlene Villaseñor Black
“Art and Inquisition: Censorship in the Hispanic World”
2007
Zoë Strother
“Power and Parody: Representing the European in Central African Art (1850-present)”
2006
George Baker
“The Squatter: Reconsidering Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”
2005
Burglind Jungmann
“Birthday Banquet for an Invisible Queen: A Korean Screen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art”
2004
Irene Bierman
“Disciplining the Eye: Seeing Medieval Islamic Cairo”
2003
Miwon Kwon
“The Other Otherness: The Art of Do-Ho Suh”
2002
Lothar von Falkenhausen
“The Late Western Zhou Ritual Reform: Reconstructing Intellectual Trends from the Visual Record”
2001
Albert Boime
2000
Cecelia Klein
1999
Cecile Whiting
1998
Robert Brown
1997
Donald McCallum
1996
Susan Downey
1995
David Kunzle
1994
Anthony Vidler
1993
Joanna Woods-Marsden
“Celebrity Portraiture in the Renaissance: Titian’s Portraits of the Famous Satirist, Pietro Aretino”
1992
Albert Boime
“Van Gogh’s Starry Night: Mad Astronomer or Sane Artist?”
