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Subhashini Kaligotla's Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India wins SAH's Alice Davis Hitchcock award for 2024.

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Julia Bryan-Wilson named President of the 2024 International Jury for the Venice Biennale

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Barry Bergdoll is the 2024 recipient of a Humanities Faculty Award for Academic Excellence

This award recognizes academic excellence in any field of the humanities at Columbia University

MODA Curates announces - Looking for Ourselves: Gauri Gill’s The Americans, 2000–2007

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Ioannis Mylonopoulos organizes virtual exhibition for his fall term 2023 Art Humanities class

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Anne Higonnet named Barbara Novak Professor of Art History at Barnard College
MA Students Curate an Art Exhibition on Campus

Ava Robles and Lucie Schwartz gained hands-on experience, thanks to the MA in Art History Presents project.

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Job Posting: Walter Burke Assistant or Associate Professor, Northern European Art History, ca. 1400-1700

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It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Allen Staley, Professor Emeritus of Art History

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Allen Staley, Professor Emeritus of Art History, on Monday 2nd October, 2023. Professor Staley was a faculty member in the Art History department from 1969-2000.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/allen-staley-obituary?id=53244845

Lisa Trever's book, Image Encounters: Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History, awarded Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize

Bard Graduate Center is pleased to announce that the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize for the best book on the decorative arts, design history, or material culture of the Americas published in 2022 has been awarded to Image Encounters: Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History by Lisa Trever (University of Texas Press).

Read more here: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/about/news/993/03-oct-2023-2022-horowitz

The department is delighted to welcome Jin Xu

Jin Xu, Jane and Leopold Swergold Associate Professor of Chinese Art History

Holger Klein has been selected to be a Michael I. Sovern / Columbia University Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, beginning in March of 2024.

The American Academy in Rome supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community. For more information on this year's Fellows, please visit the American Academy in Rome's website.

Kellie Jones's book Mickalene Thomas named one of the Best Black Art Books of 2022 by Culture Type

Kellie Jones's book Mickalene Thomas, co-authored with Roxane Gay and Mickalene Thomas, was named one of the Best Black Art Books of 2022 by Culture Type. The book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Thomas's work.  

Julia Bryan-Wilson named 2024 Visiting Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society

Julia Bryan-Wilson has been named a 2024 Visiting Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.  The mission of The Phi Beta Kappa Society is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, foster freedom of thought, and recognize academic excellence.

Vidya Dehejia named recipient of the 2023 Freer Medal by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art

Professor Emerita Vidya Dehejia is one of two recipients of the 2023 Freer medals from the National Museum of Asian Art. Read more about the Freer Medal and this year's recipients on the Smithsonian's website.

The award ceremony honoring Professor Dehejia will be held in April: 

Freer Medal Lecture and Award Ceremony: Honoring Vidya Dehejia
April 28, 2023, from 6–8 p.m. EST at the Freer Gallery of Art
Tickets are free, and registration is required here.