PATRICIA MCCARRON MCGINN LECTURESHIP The annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lectureship 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...
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...
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...
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 59th Annual UCLA Graduate Symposium will be held on October 18 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm at the UCLA Hammer Museum and features keynote speaker T.J. Demos. This year’s theme is entitled “In Crisis” and will examine how art history has responded to crisis through a range of time periods, regions, cultures, and...
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:...
