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UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lecture featuring Mark Godfrey

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

The Department of Art History proudly presents the UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lecture featuring Mark Godfrey, Director, New Curators, and guest curator of Kerry James Marshall: The Histories, Royal Academy of Arts, London. In his talk, “Kerry James Marshall: The Histories” Godfrey discusses: “The ‘histories’ in play in Marshall’s practice are multiple and intertwining....

2025 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture with Featured Speaker Tiffany Barber

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

The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2025 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture with featured speaker Tiffany Barber. Professor Tiffany Barber will deliver a presentation entitled “Kara Walker, Contemporary Art, and the Black Female Bottom” on Monday, March 3, at 4pm in the Laureate Room of the Luskin Conference Center.  All are welcome.

Department of Art History Honors Thesis Symposium

Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Please join us for the Department of Art History Honors Thesis Symposium on Fri, May 2 from 1-3pm in Dodd 275! We’ve got an incredible lineup of theses that you won’t want to miss. See you there!

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Kellie Jones to present the 2025 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture on May 5

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

The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2025 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...

Annual Book Giveaway

Dodd Hall, Second Floor 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Please gather your friends & join us at the UCLA Art History Annual Book Giveaway which will take place in the hallways of Dodd Hall 2nd floor from 9am-4pm on Mon-Fri, June 2-6. These books have been generously donated by our Faculty and there are A LOT of fantastic finds. You will NOT want to...

“Asia is One” Film Screening

Dodd Hall Room 147 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Asia is One Directed by Nihon Documentarist Union Japan, 1973, 16mm transferred to digital format, 96 minutes Friday June 6 2025, 6:30 pm Dodd 147 Open to the Public In Japanese, Chinese, and Atayal with English Subtitles by Keung Yoon Bae, Kimberley Sanders, and Mayako Liu Filmed just prior to Okinawa’s reversion to Japanese control in...

Walter Hopps Colloquium with Julian Myers, October 20, 2025

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

The Walter Hopps Colloquium, an ongoing series of lectures and discussions in modern and contemporary art, funded in part via the Hopps Chair, will begin with a lecture on artist Edward Keinholz, with whom Hopps founded the Ferus Gallery in 1957. This fall quarter, the colloquia will run alongside Professor George Baker's graduate seminar AH232...

Vittoria di Palma at AH 203 Graduate Seminar

Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Vittoria di Palma speaks at Professor Stella Nair's Art History 203: Wastelands and Waterways graduate seminar class to discuss her book, "Wastelands, a History." Her visit is sponsored by the Center for Early Global Studies at UCLA.  

UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with George Baker, Nov. 5

Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker George Baker on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for his talk, Paul Thek and the Italian South: From Pop to the Popular, From Process to Procession. All are welcome!

The 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium, Fri. Nov. 14, 2025

The Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

The 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium will be held on Friday, November 14th at the Hammer Museum’s Nimoy Studio. This year’s theme considers revolution as a mode of imagining new ways of seeing, knowing, and acting in the field of art history. The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. Sohl Lee, whose work...

Walter Hopps Colloquium with Jennifer Sichel, November 17, 2025

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

Please save the date for the next Hopps Colloquium. It will be a lecture and book event, celebrating the publication of Jennifer Sichel’s new book from University of Chicago Press, in the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection series: Criticism Without Authority: Gene Swenson’s and Jill Johnston’s Queer Practices (2025). The Walter Hopps Colloquium, an ongoing...