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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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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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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…
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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.
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.