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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2024 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture, featuring Charlene Villaseñor Black, Art History Professor and Faculty Chair of the Chicana/o and Central American Studies. Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black will be delivering a lecture entitled, “Art against Necropolitics”: Can art act in the face of violence? Beginning in the...
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...
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...
The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2024 Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lecture, featuring Kellie Jones, Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art, Art History & Archeology, and Chair, African American & African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University. Professor Kellie Jones' lecture, “Suzanne Jackson: Ecologies of Abstraction,” considers the creative practice of painter, poet, and dancer...
UCLA Department of Art History Chair Saloni Mathur will be hosting a panel discussion entitled, “New Perspectives on Chandigarh and Le Corbusier.” The enlightening conversation will feature: Maristella Casciato, Senior Curator and Head of Architectural Collections at the Getty Research Institute, and author of Le Corbusier, Album Punjab,1951 (2024). Vikramaditya Prakash, Professor of Architecture at...
The Department of Art History is pleased to co-sponsor a gallery talk at the Fowler Museum featuring Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies and Associate Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center Charlene Villaseñor Black and Lilly Endowment Curator of Art and Religion Patrick A. Polk. Illuminating commentary on the exhibition Descanse en Paz:...
