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2023 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture With Featured Speaker Miwon Kwon

UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2023 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture with featured speaker Professor Miwon Kwon. Professor Kwon will present her talk entitled Through the Remains of Future Dreaming: Gerard & Kelly’s Art of Allegorical Constellations on Monday, March 6 at the Luskin Center’s Optimist Room. The lecture will begin at 4 pm followed by a reception.

Lecture by the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Claudia Zapata

UCLA Dodd Hall, Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

The UCLA Department of Art History presents a lecture by the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Claudia Zapata on Tuesday, May 2 at 4 PM in Dodd 275. All are welcome! Their talk is entitled “Latine/x and Chicanx Artists in Web3.” Description Web3 is an aspirational and present technological shift and social movement to create a new internet architecture that emphasizes...

2023 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture

UCLA Faculty Center 480 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA

The UCLA Department of Art History is pleased to announce Hollis Clayson’s “The Dark Side of the Eiffel Tower” as the 2023 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture. The lecture will examine aspects of the famous Parisian Tower’s past that have been forgotten or erased including a stint as the prime focus of French industry anxiety, service...

Ephemeral Architecture Symposium

UCLA Dodd Hall, Room 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Please join us in Dodd Hall 247, Thursday May 18, from 4-6, for three talks, followed by a discussion with light refreshments. It’s an opportunity to hear about Paul Niell’s research (Stella Nair’s collaborator in “The Forgotten Canopy”) as well as the that of two early career architectural historians who have participated in the Center’s Core...

Professor Stephen Whiteman talk: “Beyond the ‘Global Renaissance’: Imperial Gardens and Early Modern Cosmopolitan Rule in Qing-era Eurasia,” on May 24, 2023

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Jean Denis Attiret (Wang Zhicheng王致誠, 1702-1768), Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining 郎世寧, 1688-1766) and others, Imperial Banquet in the Garden of Ten Thousand Trees (Wanshuyuan ciyan tu 萬樹園賜宴圖), 1755. Affixed wall painting mounted as a scroll, ink and colors on silk, 221.2 x 419.6 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing. Professor Stephen Whiteman of the Courtauld Institute of Art...

Department of Art History Welcome Back Luncheon

Fowler Museum

The UCLA Department of Art History will hold the Welcome Back Luncheon on Wednesday, September 27 from 12 PM to 1:30 PM on the Terrace at the Fowler Museum. Come with you hats and sunglasses to grab some lunch and chat with the faculty, graduate students and staff at our first event of the academic...

UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Student Symposium, October 27, 2023

The Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

The 58th Annual UCLA Art History Department Graduate Student Symposium entitled In/On/Across Bodies of Water, will be held on Friday, October 27, 2023 at the Hammer Museum. Contact/Information: Bodiesofwater23.wordpress.com Bodiesofwater23@gmail.com

UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Lecture with Sally Stein

Main Conference Room, UCLA Young Research Library 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA

The UCLA Department of Art History presents the UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Lecturer for 2024: Sally Stein. Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, Department of Art History & Visual Studies, UC Irvine, will deliver a talk entitled “The Cons and Pros of Portraiture In Contemporary Art Discourse and Practice”. Stein reconsiders the now-classic essays by Benjamin...

March 30 symposium to explore what we don’t talk about when we talk about hate

Royce 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

This event which is sponsored by the UCLA Department of English, will propose that a range of disciplines across the humanities have shared and suggestive investments in questions of hatred. We will explore hatred as a human emotion not as it is simply decried or enabled in particular works of art, but as it is...

UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Sally Stein Presents Her Second Talk on April 16th

Royce 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

Sally Stein, the UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Lecturer for 2024, will deliver her second talk in this two-lecture series on Tuesday, April 16th.   Please join us for her upcoming talk entitled, “For Pleasure or Profit & Power? The Beckoning (& still early reckoning) of Color in Interwar American Mass Media & Culture.” After a...

“Archival Challenges and Strategies Seminar” presents Naveena Naqvi and Yuthika Sharma.

UCLA Dodd Hall, Room 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

The UCLA Department of Art History is thrilled to present, “Archival Challenges and Strategies Seminar”, organized by Professor Zirwat Chowdhury. The event will feature two guest speakers. Naveena Naqvi, Assistant Professor for the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, will be delivering a lecture entitled, “The Marginal Archive and the Probable...

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