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Shigeatsu Shimizu, Associate Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology
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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…
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This award will support a study of historic gardens in Suzhou, China, and Seoul, Korea as part of his research project, "Nature in Cities: Urban Gardens in Pre-Modern East Asia." The field research will contribute to a book project examining the relationship between eighteenth-century imperial gardens in Beijing, urban gardens in China’s Lower Yangzi region, and royal gardens of Korea’s late Joseon dynasty. The research will also help him develop an undergraduate travel seminar on urban gardens in pre-modern East Asia.
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With a gift from an anonymous donor, Columbia University has established the Howard McP. Davis Professorship of Art History. The professorship honoring Davis, a respected scholar and longtime Columbia teacher of Renaissance art, will support a Columbia art historian of European art and architecture in the period from 1300 to 1700.
Michael Cole, professor and chair of the Department of Art History and Archeology, is the first Davis Professor of Art History.
Avinoam Shalem has been appointed the 24th Director of the American Academy in Rome. The appointment, which is based in Rome, will begin in July 2020.
"I very much look forward to continuing the Academy’s long tradition of promoting innovative thinking," Shalem said, "by encouraging an interdisciplinary approach that examines in-between zones, such as those between art and art history, history and prose, music and philosophy, and architecture and archaeology."
Founded in 1894, the American Academy in Rome is a leading international center for independent study and advanced research…
“Things are apart and you bring them together for strength”
-Workshop artist, September 2019
On January 23, 2020, Art X Social Justice opened their inaugural exhibition Stories in Paper on the eighth and ninth floors of Schermerhorn Hall. The artworks were made by incarcerated artists in a series of six workshops conducted within New York State’s prison system in fall 2019. Laura Betancur, Expressive Arts Therapist and El Museo del Barrio educator, led the workshops with the assistance of graduate students from the Department of Art History and Archaeology. …
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 Photograph Collection. The collection contains over 105,000 photographic prints collected by the department’s Visual Resources Center starting in the early 20th century.
Professor Emeritus Stephen Murray received an honorary doctorate from the University of Picardy, Jules Verne in northern France. The honor celebrated the university's fiftieth anniversary and the eight hundredth birthday of the Gothic cathedral of Amiens. Murray, who has written three books on Amiens Cathedral, is the first American scholar to receive such an honor from the University of Picardy.
Denise Murrell will hold the newly created full-time position of associate curator for 19th and 20th century art. Her appointment is one of the first hires made by the Met’s director, Max Hollein. Read more about Denise in the New York Times's profile of Max Hollein.
Three Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships/Lectureships will be offered in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University for a period of two years beginning July 1, 2020. PhD or equivalent required. The degree must have been awarded between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2020. Specialization may be in any field of art history. In addition to conducting their own research, Mellon Fellows/Lecturers teach Art Humanities. In the second year, they have the option of teaching an undergraduate seminar in their own field of specialization in lieu of one semester of Art Humanities…
The Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University invites applications for an open rank position (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor) in Art History with an emphasis on LGBTQ art practices, theories, methodologies, and/or movements, including feminist and queer theory, intersectionality, and trans studies. Scholars working in any geographic or historic context are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be expected to have and maintain a strong research agenda, demonstrate a commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching and mentoring, and participate in interdisciplinary…
Meredith Gamer has been selected as one of the two recipients of the 2018-2019 Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award. The Arts and Sciences Graduate Council (ASGC) instituted this award in 2004 to commemorate excellence in the mentoring of PhD and Masters (MA) students.
The Center for Comparative Media, the newest center in the Division of Humanities, has launched their website. Announcements, information about upcoming events, and associated courses are now available at comparativemedia.columbia.edu.
The Center, directed by Noam Elcott (AHAR) and Brian Larkin (Anthropology, Barnard), "gathers scholars and students from diverse disciplines to map and interrogate our mediated world across expanses of time (history and archaeology), space (globalization), and across diverse media technologies and techniques from ancient scripts and contemporary…
Posing Modernity at the Wallach Art Gallery, which started as Denise Murrell's 2013 PhD dissertation, is now expanded at the Paris Musée d'Orsay as Le modèle noir and is being hailed by French national media as a cultural break-through.
Le modèle noir has been featured in:
- The Washington Post
- CNN
- Vanity Fair (French)
- Huffington Post (French)
- La Croix (French)
- Les Voix du Monde (French)
- l'Humanité (French)
- Le Point (French)
- Le Point (French)
- Libération (French)
- France Culture (French)…
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Anne Higgonet was awarded a Radcliffe Institute fellowship for 2019-20 and will spend the year at Harvard University. The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program annually selects and supports 50 leading artists and scholars who have both exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments.
Zainab Bahrani has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Bahrani is the first Columbia University faculty member to win this prestigious Fellowship. Each year the Andrew Carnegie Fellows program awards grants to a select group of extraordinary scholars and writers whose groundbreaking work decodes some of the world’s most intractable problems. Bahrani has focused her work in the area of monument preservation, conservation, and the politics of cultural heritage. Since 2003, Bahrani has written widely on the destruction of the cultural heritage of Iraq.
Kellie Jones was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as part of its 239th class. Membership in the Academy honors the outstanding achievements of individuals in academia, the arts, business, government, and public affairs. According to David W. Oxtoby, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, "With the election of these members, the Academy upholds the ideals of research and scholarship, creativity and imagination, intellectual exchange and civil discourse, and the relentless pursuit of knowledge in all its forms."
Learn more about the The Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship here.
The College Art Association announced today the recipients and finalists of the 2019 Awards for Distinction. Zeynep Çelik Alexander's book, Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design, will be awarded the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award at the convocation of the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York, Wednesday, February 13.
Avinoam Shalem has been named a Getty Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute during the Spring 2019 semester. Every year since 1985 the Research Institute has invited scholars, artists, and other cultural figures from around the world to work in residence at the Institute on projects that bear upon its annual research theme; the 2018-19 academic year will be devoted to "monumentality." While in residence, Scholars pursue their own research projects, make use of Getty collections, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty Center and the Getty Villa…
Barry Bergdoll (Columbia University) and Jean-Philippe Garric (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) were selected as grantees in the Alliance Program's 2018 call for Joint Projects for their project “Overlapping perspectives on an artistic correspondence: editing the Roman letters of Léon and A.L.T. Vaudoyer (1826-32)”.
Their project aims to prepare a critical edition of this correspondence by bringing together a scholarly world as vibrant and interdisciplinary as the world’s described by the Vaudoyers. Historians of architecture, of archaeology, of language,…
David Freedberg received the Sigillum Magnum of the University of Bologna, the highest honour of the Alma Mater, from Rector Francesco Ubertini on October 10, 2018. The event is presented in collaboration with Genus Bononiae - Musei nella Città and the Accademia Nazionale di Agricoltura di Bologna, which will give him the title of Honorary Academician.
Read more from the University of Bologna.
In Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media, Elcott explores how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, and addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production - such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories - and their sites of reception. Artificial Darkness won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award and was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize.
Jones will be a senior consultant to the recently-announced African American Art History Initiative, through the Getty Research Institute. The Initiative's first major acquisition is the papers of assemblage artist Betye Saar.
“The Getty is telling the world, through its actions, that American art has many facets,” said Jones. “The Getty has set out to create benchmarks and expand the field of art history. This initiative and its focus on archives is another approach to embracing a bigger idea of what art history is, by creating an important repository that will greatly impact the…
Curated by Ada Berktay, Yixu Chen, Nina Elizondo Garza, Makiko Kawada, Wanshi Ma, Amanda Morrow, Allyson Richardson, Euan Wall, Cydney Williams, and Mo Zhang, candidates in the MA in Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, under the guidance of Frédérique Baumgartner, director of the MA in Art History, and Roberto C. Ferrari, curator of Art Properties.
September 24-December 14, 2018
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
For more information, visit MA in Art History Presents.
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This award will support a study of historic gardens in Suzhou, China, and Seoul, Korea as part of his research project, "Nature in Cities: Urban Gardens in Pre-Modern East Asia." The field research will contribute to a book project examining the relationship between eighteenth-century imperial gardens in Beijing, urban gardens in China’s Lower Yangzi region, and royal gardens of Korea’s late Joseon dynasty. The research will also help him develop an undergraduate travel seminar on urban gardens in pre-modern East Asia.
Eleonora Pistis, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, is the winner of the 2025 Berger Prize, the leading book prize in the field of British art history.
Her study—Architecture of Knowledge: Hawksmoor and Oxford (London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2024)—has been defined by the Chair of the judging panel as “A rare example of true interdisciplinarity,” a one that “breaks new ground in the field of intellectual history as well as architectural history.
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This award will support a study of historic gardens in Suzhou, China, and Seoul, Korea as part of his research project, "Nature in Cities: Urban Gardens in Pre-Modern East Asia." The field research will contribute to a book project examining the relationship between eighteenth-century imperial gardens in Beijing, urban gardens in China’s Lower Yangzi region, and royal gardens of Korea’s late Joseon dynasty. The research will also help him develop an undergraduate travel seminar on urban gardens in pre-modern East Asia.
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Jin Xu was Awarded the Early Career Scholarship Support Grant by Columbia University Faculty Advancement
This award will support a study of historic gardens in Suzhou, China, and Seoul, Korea as part of his research project, "Nature in Cities: Urban Gardens in Pre-Modern East Asia." The field research will contribute to a book project examining the relationship between eighteenth-century imperial gardens in Beijing, urban gardens in China’s Lower Yangzi region, and royal gardens of Korea’s late Joseon dynasty. The research will also help him develop an undergraduate travel seminar on urban gardens in pre-modern East Asia.
Zainab Bahrani is the winner of the 2025 CAA/American Institute for Conservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation
Eleonora Pistis' book Architecture of Knowledge wins the prestigious 2025 Berger Prize
Eleonora Pistis, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, is the winner of the 2025 Berger Prize, the leading book prize in the field of British art history.
Her study—Architecture of Knowledge: Hawksmoor and Oxford (London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2024)—has been defined by the Chair of the judging panel as “A rare example of true interdisciplinarity,” a one that “breaks new ground in the field of intellectual history as well as architectural history.