DEPT LECTURES

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DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR LECTURESHIP

Generously funded by the UCLA Arts Council, the Distinguished Scholar Lectureship brings to the Department an esteemed senior figure in the field of art history on an annual or biannual basis.  In addition to a public lecture, the Distinguished Scholar shares his or her work through additional lectures, seminars, or courses, allowing for deeper and extended engagement with Art History faculty, students, and others in the UCLA community.

2015 Distinguished Scholar Geeta Kapur (center) at the exhibition opening of "Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem" at The Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Honorees

2019
Hal Foster
Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology
Princeton University

2015
Geeta Kapur
Independent art critic, theorist, and curator
Delhi, India

2013
T.J. Clark
Professor Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley

2012
Thierry de Duve
Professor Emeritus
University of Lille III

2011
Jaś Elsner
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Oxford University and the University of Chicago

2008
Joan Holladay
Professor
University of Texas at Austin

2008
Hal Foster
Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology
Princeton University

 

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 dedication to the challenges of graduate study as a returning student enlivened and expanded the scholarly perspective of the program. To honor her memory, her family, with the generous support of many friends, established the Patricia McCarron McGinn Fund to aid students engaged in the study of art history at UCLA and to sponsor the McGinn Lectureship.

2010 McGinn Lecture honoree Professor Steven D. Nelson lecturing at Harvard University.

Recent Honorees

2023
Miwon Kwon
“Through the Remains of Future Dreaming: Gerard & Kelly’s Art of Allegorical Constellations”

2022
Glenn Wharton
“Why Conserve Cultural Heritage? Reframing a Discipline”

2021
Zirwat Chowdhury
“The Horror of Conversation”

2020
Dell Upton
“Seeing a New South: Race and Aspiration in the Post-Emancipation Landscape”

2019
Kristopher Kersey
“Imaging the Mind in Medieval Japanese Buddhism”

2018
Lamia Balafrej
“The Art of Concealing Labor: Sugar and Architecture in 16th-century Morocco”

2017
David Scott
“Surrogates and Copies: From Veronese to Duchamp”

2016
Bronwen Wilson
“Blindness, Uncertainty, and Sensation”

2015
Sharon Gerstel
“Of Bodies and Spirits: Soundscapes of Byzantium”

2014
Stella Nair
“Alcohol, Sex, and Inca Architecture”

2013
Donald F. McCallum
“Where has everybody gone? People in the Painting of Matsumo Shunsuke”

2012
Meredith Cohen
“When Gothic Became French”

2011
Saloni Mathur
“Charles and Ray Eames in India”

2010
Steven D. Nelson
“Karmen Geï: Sex, the State, and Censorship in Dakar”

Past Honorees

Dell Upton, 2009
Charlene Villasenor Black, 2008
Z.S. Strother, 2007
George Baker, 2006
Burglind Jungmann, 2005
Irene Bierman, 2004
Miwon Kwon, 2003
Lothar von Falkenhausen, 2002
Albert Boime, 2001
Cecelia F. Klein, 2000
Cecile Whiting, 1999
Robert L. Brown, 1998
Donald McCallum, 1997
Susan B. Downey, 1996
David Kunzle, 1995
Anthony Vidler, 1994
Joanna Woods-Marsden, 1993
Albert Boime, 1992

GRETCHEN TAYLOR MILLSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP

This annual lecture series was established in 2011 by John Millson, a former mathematics professor at UCLA (1980-90), in loving memory of his wife Gretchen Taylor Millson.  Each year the Department invites a distinguished woman artist or art historian to give a lecture in Gretchen’s honor, who was especially interested in the overlap of feminism and art.

Gretchen Taylor Millson was born in Los Angeles on June 20, 1938 and graduated from UCLA in 1961 with a B.A. in Art. Known in the art world as Gretchen Glicksman, she worked at a number of distinguished arts institutions during her career, including the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), the International Exhibition Program of the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), and the University Art Museum in Berkeley.  With urging from Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro, she opened Womanspace in 1973, the first gallery in Los Angeles entirely devoted to art by women.

2015 Millson Lecture speaker Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture at Columbia University.

Honorees

2023
Hollis Clayson
Professor Emerita of Art History
Bergen Evans Professor Emerita in the Humanities, Northwestern University
Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, 2022-23, The Huntington Library                                                        “The Dark Side of the Eiffel Tower”

2022
Mary Kelly
Judge Widney Professor
Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California
“The Practical Past: Situating feminism’s intergenerational legacy in project-based works from 1973 to the present”

2019
Mary Miller
Director
J. Paul Getty Research Institute
“The Splendid and Ever-revealing Maya Murals at Bonampak”

2018
Z.S. Strother
Riggio Professor of African Art
Columbia University
“Masks and the Aesthetic Emotions”

2017
Rose Marie San Juan
Professor
University College London
“The Rib Within: Eve and Early Modern Wax Anatomical Sculpture”

2016
Michele Bogart
Professor
Stony Brook University
“Hot Town, Sculpture in the City: Power, Process, Patronage, and Public Art in New York After 1955”

2015
Mabel O. Wilson
Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor, Architecture
Columbia University
“Other Monumentalities: Race, Style, and National Architecture”

2014
Madeline H. Caviness
Mary Richardson Professor Emeritus
Tufts University
“The Jewish Hat: Badge of Shame or Mark of Honor?”

2013
Anne Wagner
Chair Emerita, Dept of Art History
University of California, Berkeley
“Rosemarie Trockle’s Wonderland: A Feminist World View”

2012
Sally Stein
Professor Emerita, Dept of Art History and Visual Studies
University of California, Irvine
“Between f/stops and F-starts: Women and Photography between the “Waves” of Feminism”

2011
Faith Wilding
Artist, and formerly Associate Professor of Performance Art
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Bread and Roses: Making Feminist Art and Politics”