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Three Mellon Post Doctoral 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, 2013. Ph.D. or equivalent required. The degree must have been awarded in 2012 or 2013 or applicants must have a firm scheduled date of defense on or before May 24, 2013. Specialization may be in any field of art history. In addition to conducting their own research, Fellows teach Art Humanities. In the second year, Fellows have the option of teaching an undergraduate seminar in their own field of specialization…
Please note that the deadline for submitting applications for Barnard Art History seminars has been extended to Wednesday, November 7.
Barnard Art History seminars (AHIS BC prefix) are limited to 15 undergraduate students and require an application. Travel seminars are limited to 14. Applications are due on Wednesday, November 7, in the Barnard Art History Department office.
Rosters will still be decided by November 14. The Art History Department will post rosters outside of the department office on the 5th floor of Diana Center. An application form is available on the Barnard College…
It is with deepest sadness that I must announce the death of Professor Emerita Natalie Kampen on Sunday, August 12. Below are some words from Barnard's President, Debora Spar, and Professor Helene Foley of the Columbia Classics Department that capture what Tally meant to the Barnard and Columbia communities.
— Holger A. Klein, Department Chair
Professor Holger A. Klein has received a 2012 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award. Funded through the generosity of Columbia trustee Gerry Lenfest (LAW '58, HON '09), the award recognizes faculty who demonstrate unusual merit as teachers of undergraduate and graduate students as well as outstanding scholarship and service to the university.
This is the sixth year since 2006 that a member of the Department of Art History and Archaeology has received the award. Other recipients include:
- Stephen Murray, Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History, 2011
- Francesco de…
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, arranged by the Curator of the Royal Academy Schools, Ms. Eliza Bonham Carter, will…
Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, has been awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India.
The Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri are given to those who have carried out exceptional work in various fields, including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, and civil service. The Padma Bhushan is awarded for distinguished service of high order.
The awards will be distributed by the President of India at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, the official residence…
Three Mellon Post Doctoral Teaching Fellowships/Lectureships will be offered in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, for 2012-14. Specialization may be in any field of art history. In addition to conducting their own research, Fellows teach Art Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Art, part of the Core Curriculum of Columbia College (or an equivalent course in African, Islamic, South Asian, or East Asian art). In the second year Fellows have the option of teaching an undergraduate seminar in their own field of specialization in lieu of one semester of Art Humanities…
Building the Great Cathedrals, featuring Professor Stephen Murray, has been nominated for Two Emmy Awards. The program first aired on PBS October 19, 2010, as part of the NOVA series.
PBS received 32 nominations for the 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, announced July 18, 2011. Building the Great Cathedrals received nominations for Outstanding Science and Technology Programming and Outstanding Cinematography, News Coverage/Documentaries.
France's Amiens Cathedral was one of the medieval marvels of architecture highlighted in the NOVA program, a documentary produced by Providence-based…
University Professor Rosalind Krauss received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Harvard University at their 360th Commencement on May 26, 2011.
The citation for her degree was read at the ceremony in Cambridge by University President Drew G. Faust:
In a long and remarkable career of many parts—art historian, critic, curator, and founder-editor of the journal October—Rosalind Krauss has played a defining role in our understanding of post-1960s avant-garde art in America. Her highly influential books and essays, marked by her partisan brilliance, have proposed a range of compelling…
Professor Ioannis Mylonopoulos, who will spend the academic year 2011-12 as a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, will receive a 2011 Faculty Mentorship Award at the Ph.D. and M.A. convocation on May 15.
The Faculty Mentorship Award is given every year by the graduate students in Arts and Sciences to two faculty members who have gone above and beyond their duty to assist, guide and nurture their students along their path of learning and personal development. This award recognizes and shows appreciation for faculty members who have provided…
The 50th annual Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching, which honors a Columbia professor for commitment to undergraduate instruction as well as for "humanity, devotion to truth and inspiring leadership," was presented to Professor Holger A. Klein on May 3, 2011. The recipient of the award is selected by the student members of the Academic Awards Subcommittee of the Columbia College Student Council, with administrative support and guidance from the Academic Affairs staff of the College.
Throughout the academic year, the student members of this committee devote significant time and intellectual attention…
Through the generosity of The Cathedral Fund and Columbia College alumnus Mr. Greg Wyatt, the Department of Art History and Archaeology will award a four-week summer research fellowship at the Royal Academy in London for a Ph.D. student. The fellowship includes a stipend of $3,330, 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 access to other institutions…
The Department of Art History and Archaeology invites Columbia undergraduates to an open house on Thursday, Feb. 17 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Judith Lee Stronach Center, 826 Schermerhorn Hall. Come meet with faculty to learn about the major, senior thesis, travel, and other special opportunities in the department.
Good food will be served, including a mediterranean sampler and luscious desserts catered by Butterfield Market.
At 7:30, undergraduates are invited to stay for the Graduate Film Federation. Xueli Wang will introduce Last Year at Marienbad (1961), directed by Alain Resnais…
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…
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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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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."
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…
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Michael Waters has been named as a 2018/2019 I Tatti Fellow. His current project examines the multifaceted relationship between printed images and Renaissance architecture through an object-based approach.
Branden Joseph has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. His current project, tentatively titled Forms of Life, examines the works of punk poet Kathy Acker, underground filmmaker Jack Smith, conceptual artist Lee Lozano, and visual artist Carolee Schneemann.
Kellie Jones received an honorary doctorate as an influential leader in the field of Art History from her alma mater Amherst College. Jones received the honor during the 197th Commencement on Sunday, May 20, 2018.
As part of the series New Work in the Arts & Humanities: East and West, taking place at the American Academy in Rome on 18 May, Avinoam Shalem sets the methodological and historiographic stage for the symposium. His keynote lecture, Through the Backdoor: The Histories of 'Islamic' Art and Architecture in Italy, will be livestreamed here.
Anne Higonnet will be delivering a three-part series of talks inspired by the collection at the Met, titled The Better Angels of Our Wardrobes: Art, Clothing, and the Catholic Imagination, showing how painters from Hieronymus Bosch to Fra Angelico provided inspiration for some of the most astonishing and thought provoking fashions.
Higonnet was also interviewed by The Guardian and Elle Magazine about the art behind the fashions in the exhibit and on the red carpet.
A Symposium on the history of art, science, and religion in Jesuit China
Two Postdoctoral Research Scholarships/Lectureships will be offered by the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University for a period of two years beginning July 1, 2018. Ph.D. or equivalent required. The degree must have been awarded between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2018. Specialization may be in any field of the history of Japanese, Chinese, or Korean art. In addition to conducting their own research, Fellows teach Art Humanities: Masterpieces of East Asian Art, or Art Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Art. In the second…
MODA Curates is an annual opportunity offered by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies program (MODA) for outstanding curatorial proposals related to students' theses. The sixth iteration of this series is presented for the first time alongside the First-Year MFA Exhibition, in the spacious new Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. It features two exhibitions exploring pioneering, experimental artistic practices.
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The lectures in 612 Schermerhorn Hall are open to the public. The number of participants in the afternoon workshop at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library is restricted. For this reason, we kindly ask you to confirm your attendance for one or both of the sessions. Please email [email protected] by March 20th. If you have any questions, please email Eleonora Pistis.
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The exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 B.C.—200 A.D., co-curated by Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, on view at the Onassis Cultural Center New York from March 9 to June 24, 2017 and at the Acropolis Museum in Athens from July 18 to November 19 2017, has won the Global Fine Art Awards' 2017 Youniversal Award, the audience award determined by popular vote. The show received the highest number of votes in the four-year history of the award. Almost 100,000 visitors saw the exhibition in New York and Athens. The 85 nominees…
The inaugural MODA Alumni Craft Talks will take place on Tuesday, February 27th, 2018. The event will begin at 6:30pm in 612 Schermerhorn Hall for Craft Talks by MODA graduates who will speak about their work as it relates to the intersection of critical thought and art world praxes. The four speakers are:
Simon Castets, Director of The Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art
Susan Thompson, Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Geneva Viralam, Director of Luhring Augustine
Doris Zhao, Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem
Due to a limited…
The exhibition accompanies the restoration of the original facade of Mies van der Rohe's McCormick House, previously hidden for over 20 years. Read more about the restoration at dailyherald.com.
Aaron Rio
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Curator of Japanese and Korean Art
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
Curated by Sarah Bigler, Pauline Delmar, Amy Hummerstone, Drew Lash, Elizabeth Lightfoot, Mark Paul, Julia Reynolds, Tori Schmitt and Hanna Wiegers, 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.
February 12-May 18, 2018
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
The show, rebooting the 1960s classic, looks at human creativity across cultures and around the world. Schama speaks more about the show in The Guardian and The Times.
The second episode in the series will feature Professor Emerita, Esther Pastzory.
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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.