News
Stay up to date with everything happening in our department!
You will find all the latest news about our amazing faculty and graduate students programs and achievements below. For more details on our latest departmental events and programs and to RSVP to attend, please check out our Upcoming Events page here.
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Professor George Baker interviewed by Washington Post About Picabia’s Life and Work
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Professor Stella Nair to present “The Inca ‘House for Listening’” at Stanford University
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Professor Zirwat Chowdhury is featured speaker at Cornell’s Pulse of Art History Lecture Series
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Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen to present Distinguished Opening Lecture “What the Stone Faces Tell Us” on May 25
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Professor Saloni Mathur to moderate online roundtable “Art and Hope in Times of Crisis” on May 2
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Professor Saloni Mathur to host panel “Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, and the Legacies of Modernism” at MoMA on April 30
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Kellie Jones to present the 2025 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture on May 5
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Recent Graduate AJ Meyer awarded the 2025 ALAA Dissertation Award
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In memoriam: Susan Downey, 86, scholar of ancient art and archaeology
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Professor Stella Nair to deliver “Inca Architecture and the Acoustics of Empire” at The Huntington
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Professor Sharon Gerstel to present keynote address “Interwoven Stories: The “Generation of the 1930s” and a Laconian Village” at the Benaki Museum in Greece
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Professor Lamia Balafrej to deliver “Race Before Technology: On Medieval Talismans” at Rice University
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Professor Saloni Mathur presents “Baggage Claims: Contemporary Art’s Migration Imaginary” at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore
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Professor Emeritus Dell Upton publishes new book, “Landscapes in the Making”
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Professor Kris Kersey’s first book receives the Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research
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2025 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture with Featured Speaker Tiffany Barber
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Mona Lisa beyond borders: Of hordes, theft and nationalism (and Leonardo in Westwood)
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Professor Thiago Puglieri Explores True Blue
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Grad student Natalie Zhang to be featured at the 2025 Getty Graduate Symposium
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George Manginis presents, “Pretty in Pink: A Portrait of Queen Olga of Greece at the Benaki Museum.”
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Dr. Serdar Yalçin’s presents “From One Hand to Another: Turbulent Lives of Cylinder Seals from Ancient Western Asia.”
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Global Antiquity’s Faculty Lunch Series features Professor David Schneller.
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In Fowler Museum exhibition, ancient Peruvian objects reveal search for meaning, connection with nature
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UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lecture presents Mark Godfrey
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Faculty New Book Event and Discussion followed by holiday celebration
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Emeritus Professor Dell Upton contributes to “Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design”
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Summer 2025 Travel Study Info Session: Art History – Madrid & Paris
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Professor George Baker to speak and share excerpts of his book at the Menil Collection
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Professors Hui-shu Lee and Lothar von Falkenhausen to participate in the 2024 Sammy Yukuan Lee lectures on Chinese Art and Archaeology.
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Charlene Villaseñor Black to speak at Fowler Museum Gallery Talk on October 25
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Prof. Kristopher Kersey named the Ishibashi Visiting Professor
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The 59th Annual UCLA Graduate Symposium on October 18
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Visual arts specialist Robert Gore named UCLA Librarian of the Year
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Prof. Saloni Mathur announced as MoMA Scholar in Residence
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Congratulations to the Class of 2024!
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Call for Papers for the 59th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium entitled In Crisis
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“Treasures of Peru” trip lead by Prof. Stella Nair in Summer 2025
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Professor Thiago Puglieri appointed Getty Scholar for 2024-2025 academic year
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Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen to be featured speaker at UCLA Fowler Museum
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On ZOOM: Joan Kee talk on Thursday, May 30 at 5 PM
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Statement of the Undersigned Members of UCLA Art History Faculty in Response to the Attacks of April 30-May 2, 2024
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CANCELLED: 2024 Millson Lecture on Monday, May 6th
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CANCELLED: “New Perspectives on Chandigarh and Le Corbusier” Discussion Panel on Monday, May 20.
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CANCELLED: “Archival Challenges and Strategies Seminar” presents Naveena Naqvi and Yuthika Sharma.
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Professor Thiago Puglieri to deliver talk at Columbia University on April 18th
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The 2024 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture featuring Kellie Jones
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Professor Zirwat Chowdhury to be featured speaker in UCSC’s lecture series, Crossings, on April 17, 2024.
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Professor Stella Nair to be a featured speaker at Harvard University on April 5, 2024.
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The Mellon Foundation awarded a $1 million grant to UCLA’s Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation
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Sylvia Tongyan Qiu to deliver lecture for the Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies’ Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship program
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The 2024 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture presents Charlene Villaseñor Black
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Professor Hui-shu Lee to deliver three part lecture series on Chinese art history.
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Professor George Baker’s Q&A in the Bruin Bookshelf Spotlight
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Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black to present the 2024 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture on March 4
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Professor Hui-shu Lee to deliver keynote lecture at Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World symposium
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RESCHEDULED for Tuesday, April 16th: UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Lecture
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Canceled today.
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In Memoriam: Professor Anthony Vidler (1941-2023)
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UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Sally Stein Presents Her Second Talk on Feb. 5th.
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Sally Stein delivers the first of two lectures: “The Cons and Pros of Portraiture in Contemporary Art Discourse and Practice.”
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Professor Lamia Balafrej to deliver talk at the Index of Medieval Arts’ “The Medieval Multiple” on January 27th.
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In memoriam: David Kunzle, 87, a founder of comics scholarship with wide-ranging interests
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Professor Stella Nair to present research in “Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas: Land from Water”
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UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Lecturer Sally Stein to deliver talk on Monday, January 22, 2024
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Professor Zirwat Chowdhury offers perspective on William Blake’s exhibition at the Getty Center
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Professor Thiago Puglieri quoted in UCLA College Magazine: “The Next 100 Years”
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Professor Chowdhury to lead an artist’s walk through at the Hammer Museum on February 13
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Global Antiquity Workshop, “(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds” on December 4-5
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The Florentine Codex: Public Event at the Fowler Museum
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“Converting Natural Resources: Representations, Performances, Narratives” Two Day Conference
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Artist Talk with Sanford Biggers and Tiffany E. Barber
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Screening of Mãri Hi – The Tree of Dream
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Moche Deathscapes: Performance, Politics, and the Creation of Myth in Huaca La Capilla–San José de Moro (AD 650–740), Peru
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Reconsidering the Generation of the 1930s: The Roots and Breadth of Greek Modernism Conference
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Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, Conference 1: Global Edo: Edo in the World and the World in Edo
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Register now for the 58th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium on Oct. 27th
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MOCA Store Presents George Baker’s Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography Conversation and Book Signing
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Art History Department Welcome Lunch on September 27th at 12 PM
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Register to attend the UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium
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Professor Bronwen Wilson’s Two New Publications Available Now
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Professor Stella Nair appointed as a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks for Pre-Columbian Studies
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Professor Meredith Cohen Receives the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
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Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black Feature on UCLA Residential Life
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Joanna Woods-Marsden (1936-2023)
