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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…
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Francesco de Angelis was nominated Corresponding Member of the Accademia dei Lincei, in the Class of Moral, Historical, and Philological Sciences (category: Archaeology). With roots dating back to the seventeenth century—it was originally established in 1603, with Galileo Galilei among its early members—the Accademia dei Lincei is Italy’s most prestigious cultural institution. Its mission is to promote, coordinate, integrate, and disseminate scientific knowledge in its highest forms within the framework of the unity and universality of culture. De Angelis will be inducted into…
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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.
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…
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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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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
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Francesco de Angelis was nominated Corresponding Member of the Accademia dei Lincei, in the Class of Moral, Historical, and Philological Sciences (category: Archaeology). With roots dating back to the seventeenth century—it was originally established in 1603, with Galileo Galilei among its early members—the Accademia dei Lincei is Italy’s most prestigious cultural institution. Its mission is to promote, coordinate, integrate, and disseminate scientific knowledge in its highest forms within the framework of the unity and universality of culture. De Angelis will be inducted into…
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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Francesco de Angelis was nominated Corresponding Member of the Accademia dei Lincei, in the Class of Moral, Historical, and Philological Sciences (category: Archaeology). With roots dating back to the seventeenth century—it was originally established in 1603, with Galileo Galilei among its early members—the Accademia dei Lincei is Italy’s most prestigious cultural institution. Its mission is to promote, coordinate, integrate, and disseminate scientific knowledge in its highest forms within the framework of the unity and universality of culture. De Angelis will be inducted into…
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Francesco de Angelis was nominated Corresponding Member of the Accademia dei Lincei
Francesco de Angelis was nominated Corresponding Member of the Accademia dei Lincei, in the Class of Moral, Historical, and Philological Sciences (category: Archaeology). With roots dating back to the seventeenth century—it was originally established in 1603, with Galileo Galilei among its early members—the Accademia dei Lincei is Italy’s most prestigious cultural institution. Its mission is to promote, coordinate, integrate, and disseminate scientific knowledge in its highest forms within the framework of the unity and universality of culture. De Angelis will be inducted into the Accademia in November, during the inaugural ceremony of the 2026-27 academic year.
Susanna Berger Awarded the 2026 Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society
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.