Kellie Jones's book Mickalene Thomas, co-authored with Roxane Gay and Mickalene Thomas, was named one of the Best Black Art Books of 2022 by Culture Type. The book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Thomas's work.
Julia Bryan-Wilson has been named a 2024 Visiting Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The mission of The Phi Beta Kappa Society is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, foster freedom of thought, and recognize academic excellence.
Professor Emerita Vidya Dehejia is one of two recipients of the 2023 Freer medals from the National Museum of Asian Art. Read more about the Freer Medal and this year's recipients on the Smithsonian's website.
The award ceremony honoring Professor Dehejia will be held in April:
Freer Medal Lecture and Award Ceremony: Honoring Vidya Dehejia
April 28, 2023, from 6–8 p.m. EST at the Freer Gallery of Art
Tickets are free, and registration is required here.
The Media Center for Art History is delighted to announce that it is the recipient of a two-year Digital Art History grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for the digitization and online dissemination of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology’s Lantern Slide Collection. The collection contains approximately 77,000 glass lantern slides collected by the department starting in the early 20th century. An important image resource, the collection offers a glimpse into the early years of the department, not only containing rare photographs of art, architecture, and archaeological…
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor Contemporary Art and LBGTQ+ Theory
Subhashini Kaligotla, Barbara Stoler Miller Associate Professor of Indian and South Asian Art
Barry Bergdoll has won an Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition, for History and Writing, from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art.
This May, he received an honorary doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.
Bergdoll was also elected a Fellow of the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts. The Academy’s members mentor younger artists in the community, with the intention of extending the legacy of the Hamptons as one of the country’s most storied art colonies.
Please visit the Wallach website for more information about the shows Living With Ghosts and A.K. Burns' Negative Space: Prepositions of the Future.
The Department of Art History and Archaeology is pleased to announce the formation of the Arts and Race Critical Collective (ARCC), a graduate student-led initiative that aims to build sustainable networks and promote academic advancement for students of color. Click here for more information about the ARCC.
For more information, please visit the Society of Columbia Graduates.
Nicole Meily is one of three recipients of the 2021 Chinweike Okegbe Service Award. This award (formerly GSAC Service Award) is presented annually by the Arts and Sciences Graduate Council to three members of the GSAS community (students and non-students) for service to the Columbia graduate community. This award is a student initiative; selections are made entirely by graduate student representatives from GSAS based on student nomination letters spanning across all disciplines. The nomination letters submitted on Nicole's behalf emphasized her dedication to the graduate students in Art History…
El arte antes de la historia: Para una historia del arte antiguo andino (or, Art before History: Toward a History of Ancient Andean Art) addresses the methodological stakes and intellectual potential for writing the history of art in an era of world history without textual archives.
Michael Cole's newest book, Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work, was reviewed in the London Review of Books.
Holger A. Klein has written an op-ed piece for the Art Newspaper, Why we should be concerned about President Erdogan turning museums into mosques.
Columbia has established the Hans Hofmann Professorship of Modern Art with a generous gift from the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust. Globally renowned scholar Kellie Jones, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, will be its inaugural incumbent.
The social protests of the past two weeks call upon us all to advocate for justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Sean Monterossa, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee and the many, many other victims of anti-Black violence in this country. The Columbia Department of Art History and Archaeology mourns their deaths and stands against racism. We condemn violence and bias and the marginalization of Black, Indigenous and all Peoples of Color and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality, citizenship status, religion, ability, socioeconomic status and the intersectionality…
Professor Zainab Bahrani joins more than 250 newly elected members of the Academy in 2020.
The Academy is both an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members and an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions, and perspectives to address significant challenges.