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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…
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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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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.
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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Best Art Books of 2017 - The New York Times
One of the most magnificent medieval textiles in the Mediterranean region is the Chasuble of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered by the knights of King Henry II and canonized three years later by decree of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Cathedral of Fermo, which holds the chasuble, the embroidered blue silk vestment was donated to Fermo by Bishop Presbitero in the twelfth century. But despite its importance, its outstanding preservation, and the presence of Arabic inscriptions, the chasuble has never been the subject of a comprehensive study.
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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, 2018. PhD or equivalent required. The degree must have been awarded between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2018. 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…
Two Post Doctoral 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, 2016. Ph.D. or equivalent required. The degree must have been awarded between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2016. Specialization may be in any field of the history of Japanese, Chinese, or Korean art. In addition to conducting their own research, Postdocs teach Art Humanities: Masterpieces of East Asian Art, or Art Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Art. In…
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…
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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.