Our 2026 Regents’ Lecturer events in Art History with the artist Walead Beshty are scheduled, for Mondays November 2, 16 and 30, in Royce Hall 306. All events will begin at 5:00 PM Aesthetics, an open seminar Walead Beshty Artist and theorist Walead Beshty will lead a series of three open seminars organized around his...

Entitled "Fugitive Tiepolo!" this talk ask the question, what are the relations between poetry, painting, and art-historical practice? And how might the connections between them be re-framed? This lecture considers the work of Saint Lucian poet (and painter) Derek Walcott, concentrating on the pictorial imagination of his book-length poem Tiepolo’s Hound (2000). Tracing the strange...

This year's annual UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Symposium will be held at the Hammer Museum's Nimoy Studio on Friday, November 13, 2026. This year's theme is Bodies Under Duress: Violence, Pressure, and the Visual. Across art and visual culture, bodies have served as both the objects upon which power is exercised and the...