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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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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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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…
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.
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.