Shigeatsu Shimizu, Associate Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology
清水重敦 京都工芸繊維大学 准教授
Thursday February 11, 2016, 6:00-7:00 p.m. 612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Shigeatsu Shimizu is an associate professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, currently at Columbia University as a visiting scholar. He specializes in the theory of architectural restoration in Japan. His book Kenchiku hozon gainen no seisei shi (The Rise of Architectural Preservation in Japan, Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 2013) received the Prize of the Architectural Institute…
Through a fundraising effort spearheaded by Matthew P. McKelway, the Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art History, the Department of Art History and Archaeology will establish the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art and the Mary Griggs Burke Professorship of East Asian Buddhist Art History. Columbia University announced the gift from the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation on February 2, 2016.
The Burke Center will advance the understanding of the art and culture of Japan and its relevance to other fields of inquiry. The Burke Foundation’s…
December 8th, 6 pm, Schermerhorn 612
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
The talk will be followed by a small reception in the Stronach Center.
Meredith Gamer will be joining the department as Assistant Professor of European Art, 1700-1900. Dr Gamer earned her PhD from Yale with a dissertation on eighteenth-century British art, though her expertise extends to the broader Atlantic and British colonial worlds. She has already co-curated the major exhibition Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain and has worked extensively on the cataloging of Turner drawings at the Tate Britain.
Michael J. Waters will be the department's new Assistant Professor of Renaissance Architectural History.…
Louise Rice, Department of Art History, New York University
Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30 pm, Schermerhorn 612
Louise Rice, Department of Art History, New York University
Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30 pm, Schermerhorn 612
Friday at 4pm in 612 Schermerhorn Hall
In the summer of 2014, Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology initiated the excavation of the sanctuary of Poseidon in Onchestos (director: Professor Ioannis Mylonopoulos), the seat of the Boeotian Confederacy, under the auspices of the Athens Archaeological Society. The excavation focuses on two large areas (Site A: 0.6 ha; Site B: 1.03 ha) between Thebes and Haliartos. During the first campaign, a geomagnetic survey provided much information on architectural remains still hidden in the ground including the existence of a substantial…
Dear Colleagues, Students, and Friends,
With deep regret and sadness, I am writing to share the news that David Rosand, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History Emeritus, passed away peacefully on Friday morning, surrounded by his family.
David Rosand joined the art history faculty in 1964, having earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University. He served twice as the chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, was a devoted teacher and director of Art Humanities, and led the Columbia Society of Fellows…
The Department of Art History and Archaeology is pleased to announce the first Caleb Smith Memorial Fellowship, a competitive travel grant for MA students, whose thesis project involves the use of photographic documentation techniques and/or the use of digital media in innovative ways. Named after Caleb Smith, who served as the Director of the Media Center of Art History from 2009 until his untimely passing in February 2013, this endowed fellowship will be awarded annually to support the research of an MA student with the best thesis proposal that uses or develops new in situ digital…
Through the generosity of the Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology is pleased to announce five competitive Summer Fellowships for doctoral students in British, British Colonial, or European Art of the 18th and 19th centuries. Each fellowship carries a $5,000 stipend and is designed to support library, archival, and collection research in Europe of no less than one month between June 1 and August 31, 2015. The five fellowship recipients will be known as the Dr. Lee MacCormick Doctoral Summer Travel Fellows.
Zainab Bahrani wins the Lionel Trilling Prize for her book, The Infinite Image: Art, Time, and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity. (Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, 2014).
The Lionel Trilling Prize, named after one of Columbia University’s legendary professors, is awarded to the best book in any field of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences written in the previous calendar year by a Columbia professor.
Previous recipients of the award in Art History are:
Jonathan Crary, 2001 for Suspension of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, and…
Professor Zainab Bahrani has been selected to receive a three-year project grant from the 2014 Presidential Global Innovation Fund for Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments. It is the second departmental project funded through the presidential initiative that forms part of the Media Center's broader Archmap Project. Among last year's funded projects was Professor Holger A. Klein's Istanbul Research and Documentation Project.
Through the generosity of The Cathedral Fund and Columbia College alumnus Mr. Greg Wyatt, the Department of Art History and Archaeology will, once again, be able to award a four-week summer research fellowship at the Royal Academy in London for a Ph.D. student in the program. The fellowship includes a stipend of up to $3,500, a studio/office space in the Royal Academy, and access to the Academy library, which specializes in British art from the eighteenth century to the present. Affiliation with the Royal Academy will also facilitate access to other institutions in London.
The Cathedral Fund,…
Professor Holger A. Klein has received the 2014 Wm. Theodore de Bary Award for Distinguished Service to the Core Curriculum. The award was established in 1993/94 recognizing that the "Core needs support outside of the classroom as well as effective teaching in order to maintain its health and to enable it to flourish within a competitive University context." (de Bary).
Professor Klein is the third member of the Department of Art History and Archaeology who received the award. The other recipients are:
- David Rosand ('59 CC, '62 GSAS, '65 GSAS), Meyer Schapiro Emeritus Professor…
Professor Ioannis Mylonopoulos has received a 2014 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award. The award was created in 2005 by Columbia Trustee Gerry Lenfest ('58 LAW, HON '09) to honor exceptional faculty in the Arts and Sciences. The awards are given annually to recognize unusual merit across a range of activities including scholarship, University citizenship, and professional involvement, with primary emphasis on teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.
This is the seventh year since 2006 that a member of the Department of Art History and Archaeology has received…
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the recipients of its 2013 architecture awards. The Academy's architecture awards program began in 1955 with the inauguration of the annual Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, which is awarded to a preeminent architect from any country who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art. In 1991, the Academy began giving Arts and Letters Awards (formerly called Academy Awards) to honor American architects whose work is characterized by a strong personal direction. An additional award category was created in 2003…
Through the generosity of The Cathedral Fund and Columbia College alumnus Mr. Greg Wyatt, the Department of Art History and Archaeology will, once again, be able to award a four-week summer research fellowship at the Royal Academy in London for a Ph.D. student. The fellowship includes a stipend of up to $3,500, a studio/office space in the Royal Academy, and access to the Academy library, which specializes in British art from the eighteenth century to the present. Affiliation with the Royal Academy, arranged by the Curator of the Royal Academy Schools, Ms. Eliza Bonham Carter, will also facilitate…
Caleb Michael Smith, age 42, died after a brief illness on February 11, 2013 in New York City. The son of Warren Smith and the late Patricia Clark Smith, Caleb was the Director of the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University, where he was also finishing a master's thesis in American Studies.
Born in Wisconsin, Caleb grew up in New Mexico and graduated from UNM (BA '95, BFA '96). He moved to New York from Boston in 2000, and started working at Columbia University soon afterwards. Caleb famously walked and photographed every street of Manhattan, documenting his experience at newyorkcitywalk…