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SUMMARY:Art History Department Welcome Back Luncheon\, Sept. 23rd
DESCRIPTION:The annual Welcome Back Lunch will be held in the faculty lounge at 12 PM\, Wednesday\, September 23\, 2026.  Please join us to grab a bite and greet the incoming graduate students!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/art-history-department-welcome-back-luncheon-sept-23rd/
LOCATION:Faculty Lounge\, Dodd 221B\, Dodd Hall
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261006T160000
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series - Ellie Mackin Roberts
DESCRIPTION:The 2026-27 Art Council Lecture Series begins with “From Loom to Goddess: Weaving\, Cognition\, and Women’s Religious Experience in Ancient Greece” presented by Ellie Mackin Roberts. \nAn RSVP is required here by October 1st. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-ellie-mackin-roberts/
LOCATION:UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T150000
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series – Abbey Stockstill
DESCRIPTION:Abbey Stockstill\, Associate Professor and Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair\, in the Department of Architectural History\, at the University of Virginia will be presenting a UCLA Art Council Lecture Series presentation entitled “None Like It in Islam”: Material Aesthetics Between Andalusi Production and Maghrib Patronage \nDescription:\nTo look at the art of medieval North Africa is to enter a scene in which familiar motifs\, transformed by material and arrangement\, compose a new visual world. \nAn artistic explosion occurred in the twelfth-century Mediterranean\, as emergent dynasties from the western extremes of the region brought together new avenues of material exchange\, craftsmanship\, and ideologies. Despite this wave of production\, modern scholarship has struggled to articulate the impact of this period\, falling back on outmoded tropes of artistic “influence” and equating ornamental expense with quality. This talk explores how this dynamic has obscured the real innovation of the period\, and argues for a more subtle\, intermedial aesthetic vision.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-abbey-stockstill/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261023T190000
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SUMMARY:Anton Vidokle\, Oct. 23
DESCRIPTION:Anton Vidokle is an artist and editor of e-flux journal. He was born in Moscow and lives in New York and Berlin. Vidokle’s work has been exhibited internationally at Documenta 13 and the 56th Venice Biennale. Vidokle’s films have been presented at Bergen Assembly\, Shanghai Biennale\, Berlinale International Film Festival\, Forum Expanded\, Gwangju Biennale\, Center Pompidou\, Tate Modern\, Garage Museum\, Istanbul Biennial\, Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Tensta Konsthalll\, Blaffer Art Museum\, Stedelijk Museum\, Lincoln Center\, MMCA Seoul\, the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art\, and others. He served as chief curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale:\nCosmos Cinema\, and in 2024 he was appointed artistic director for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Department of Art History.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/anton-vidokle-oct-23/
LOCATION:UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios\, 3600 Hayden Ave\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
CATEGORIES:Art History co-sponsored event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T130000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Dell Upton\, Oct. 28
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Dell Upton on Wednesday\, Oct. 28 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for his talk\, The Decapitation of a Great Blockhead.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-dell-upton-oct-28/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T170000
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SUMMARY:2026 Regents' Lecturer Events: Walead Beshty
DESCRIPTION:Our 2026 Regents’ Lecturer events in Art History with the artist Walead Beshty are scheduled\, for Mondays November 2\, 16 and 30\, in Royce Hall 306. All events will begin at 5:00 PM \n\nAesthetics\, an open seminar\nWalead Beshty \nArtist and theorist Walead Beshty will lead a series of three open seminars organized around his forthcoming book\, Worlds of Appearance: An Introduction to Aesthetics in Practice (University of Chicago Press\, 2026)\, exploring the foundations of aesthetics\, its use in reflexive disciplines in the field of art\, and its emergent forms. The seminars are open to all and each session will consist of a lecture followed by open and exploratory discussion. \nSession 1: Monday\, November 2nd\, 5pm\nThe Circulation of Appearances: A General Aesthetic Model \nPolis and the Commune – The Aesthetic Commons – Inclusion\, Exclusion\, and the Sensible – Perception and Modeling (Abstraction) – Communication (Transmission vs. Communion) – Tools and Extraction – Object and Thing – Apparatuses and Incorporation – Fit and Ritual – Convention – Power and Aesthetic Management – Empathy – Instrumental (Vernacular) Aesthetics/Aesthetics Under the Duress of Urgency \nSession 2: Monday\, November 16th\, 5pm\nArtistic Conditions: A Special Aesthetic Model \nInstrumentality vs. Reflexivity – Corporate Media Formats (A Special Case of Instrumentality) – Representation and Framing – Exhibition and Display as Representational Formats – Artistic Methodologies – The Readymade and Reframing – Misrecognition and Strategies of Estrangement – Allegory and Mis en abyme – Bricolage – Creolization – Counterfeiting\, Piracy\, and Shanzhai \nSession 3: November 30th\, 5pm\nEmergencies: On Information\, Noise\, and Emergent Forms \nInformation Theory – Neo-liberalism and Information Models – Information and Probability – Digitization – Correlation and Empathy – Meaning – Noise\, the Parasite\, and the Third – Noise as Resistance – The Aesthetics of Emergent Forms – The Appearance of the Excluded \nBeshty’s book from which the seminars stem will be just out by November this quarter. A publication page is attached\, and the link for the publication follows: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo277099462.html
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/2026-regents-lecturer-events-walead-beshty/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series – Jeremy Melius
DESCRIPTION:Entitled “Fugitive Tiepolo!” this talk ask the question\, what are the relations between poetry\, painting\, and art-historical practice? And how might the connections between them be re-framed? \nThis lecture considers the work of Saint Lucian poet (and painter) Derek Walcott\, concentrating on the pictorial imagination of his book-length poem Tiepolo’s Hound (2000). Tracing the strange intimacies Walcott explores between the visual world of Giambattista Tiepolo and his own – two prospects onto the ends of empire – it considers his engagement in relation to the eccentric scholarly literature this eighteenth-century painter continues to accrue. \nIn doing so\, the lecture seeks to bring into focus the consequence of Walcott’s elliptical approach to the image for art history\, arguing for a form of art writing that might come to turn on its own obliquity. \nThis lecture is open to the public and all are welcome to attend!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-jeremy-melius/
LOCATION:UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T093000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Symposium\, Fri. Nov. 13
DESCRIPTION:This year’s annual UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Symposium will be held at the Hammer Museum’s Nimoy Studio on Friday\, November 13\, 2026. This year’s theme is Bodies Under Duress: Violence\, Pressure\, and the Visual. \nAcross art and visual culture\, bodies have served as both the objects upon which power is exercised and the means through which its effects become visible\, imaginable\, and contested. Bodies Under Duress invites scholars to consider how visual and material practices register the forces exerted upon bodies\, while also asking not only what happens to bodies under violence\, but how violence is made possible\, legitimized\, enacted\, and remembered or forgotten.  We are honored to welcome Meredith Gamer\, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University\, as our keynote speaker. Specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art\, her research explores the intersections of visual culture\, violence\, punishment\, and power. Her recent book\, City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London (2026)\, examines the relationship between art and public execution. \n\n\nThe symposium is open to the public and all are welcome to attend!\n\n\nCheck out the program schedule here\n\nKindly RSVP here
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-graduate-symposium-fri-nov-13/
LOCATION:The Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
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