Professor Matthew P. McKelway will participate in "Daitan futeki na suibokuga: Rosetsu hamidashi to bidashi" ("Daredevil of Ink Painting: Rosetsu Out of Bounds"), one of three 90-minute "High Vision" programs on NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) devoted to the masters of Japanese ink painting. The first program will be broadcast on February 8 at 8 p.m.
Professor McKelway will discuss his interpretation of the screen painting by Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799). His discussion will be featured along with that of other Japanese scholars.
Matthew P. McKelway is Atsumi Associate Professor of Art…
The Department of Art History and Archaeology is pleased to announce the establishment of the Ary Stillman Fellowships in Modern Art, funded by a major gift from the Stillman-Lack Foundation and supplemented by the John Kluge bequest. The fellowships, which will be awarded to Ph.D. students in the field of modern art, honor the memory and the artistic legacy of Ary Stillman (1891–1967).
Born in Russia, where he received his early training, Stillman moved to the United States as a young man, later living in Europe and in Mexico. He worked in an impressive range of styles and exhibited widely…
Two Professors Emeriti of the Department of Art History and Archaeology have received prestigious international awards. On November 29, at the French Consulate in New York, Professor Theodore Reff was presented with the Insignia of Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the highest rank in this order of merit established by the government of France. On November 30, at the home of the Consul General of Japan, in the name of the Emperor, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, an order of merit established in 1888, was conferred upon Professor Miyeko Murase. These…
Columbia University's Media Center for Art History (MCAH) has launched an interactive website developed for the groundbreaking international loan exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and the British Museum in London. The exhibition is currently on view in Cleveland, Ohio through January 17, 2011.
The website was funded by CMA and produced by the staff of the Media Center under the direction of Holger A. Klein, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology…
This spring former students and friends of Professor Emerita Miyeko Murase ('62 PhD) gathered in New York at a dinner hosted by Joan B. Mirviss ('76 MA) to celebrate the establishment of a travel fund in the field of Japanese art named in her honor. A graduate of the Department and long time member of the faculty (1962-1996), Professor Murase trained generations of scholars and curators who now hold positions in the field of East Asian art throughout the world.
The fund was initiated by a generous challenge grant from an alumna with a goal of raising $250,000 to endow the fund in perpetuity…
This coming winter, members of the faculty of the Department of Art History and Archaeology will hold two of the most prestigious visiting appointments in the discipline of art history. Zainab Bahrani will be Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, while at the same time Barry Bergdoll will be Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge.
The Slade professorships were established by a bequest from the philanthropist Felix Slade in 1869. The first to hold the professorship at Oxford was John Ruskin. Currently, Slade Professors at the two institutions…
Stepping out of the elevator on the 8th floor and turning left, visitors to Schermerhorn Hall see, through a large glass panel, a dramatically lighted fragment of a classical sculpture and behind it a great wall of books housed in glass-fronted cases.
During the 2009-10 academic year, two newly endowed professorships were given to the Department of Art History and Archaeology by alumni of Columbia College.
In July 2009, with the approval of the Trustees, Branden Joseph was named the Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art. This professorship was the gift of Mr. Frank Gallipoli ('86 BA).
In May, Stephen Murray was named the Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History. The gift of Mr. Bernard Selz ('60 BA) and Mrs. Lisa Selz, this professorship is the second position in the department they…
Thanks to Professor Mylonopoulos' efforts, the Department of Art History and Archaeology has established an internship program for undergraduate and graduate students with the National Museum in Athens. Details about the application process, requirements, and funding will be announced in the early fall.
In addition, this fall Professor Mylonopoulos will be co-teaching a graduate seminar entitled Greek Emotions in Image and Text with Professor Angelos Chaniotis, a historian currently at All Souls College in Oxford who will be joining the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in…