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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
