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Columbia has established the Hans Hofmann Professorship of Modern Art with a generous gift from the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust. Globally renowned scholar Kellie Jones, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, will be its inaugural incumbent.
The social protests of the past two weeks call upon us all to advocate for justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Sean Monterossa, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee and the many, many other victims of anti-Black violence in this country. The Columbia Department of Art History and Archaeology mourns their deaths and stands against racism. We condemn violence and bias and the marginalization of Black, Indigenous and all Peoples of Color and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality, citizenship status, religion, ability, socioeconomic status and the intersectionality…
Professor Zainab Bahrani joins more than 250 newly elected members of the Academy in 2020.
The Academy is both an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members and an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions, and perspectives to address significant challenges.
With a gift from an anonymous donor, Columbia University has established the Howard McP. Davis Professorship of Art History. The professorship honoring Davis, a respected scholar and longtime Columbia teacher of Renaissance art, will support a Columbia art historian of European art and architecture in the period from 1300 to 1700.
Michael Cole, professor and chair of the Department of Art History and Archeology, is the first Davis Professor of Art History.
Avinoam Shalem has been appointed the 24th Director of the American Academy in Rome. The appointment, which is based in Rome, will begin in July 2020.
"I very much look forward to continuing the Academy’s long tradition of promoting innovative thinking," Shalem said, "by encouraging an interdisciplinary approach that examines in-between zones, such as those between art and art history, history and prose, music and philosophy, and architecture and archaeology."
Founded in 1894, the American Academy in Rome is a leading international center for independent study and advanced research…
“Things are apart and you bring them together for strength”
-Workshop artist, September 2019
On January 23, 2020, Art X Social Justice opened their inaugural exhibition Stories in Paper on the eighth and ninth floors of Schermerhorn Hall. The artworks were made by incarcerated artists in a series of six workshops conducted within New York State’s prison system in fall 2019. Laura Betancur, Expressive Arts Therapist and El Museo del Barrio educator, led the workshops with the assistance of graduate students from the Department of Art History and Archaeology. …
The Media Center for Art History is delighted to announce that it is the recipient of a two-year Digital Art History grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for the digitization and online dissemination of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology’s Photograph Collection. The collection contains over 105,000 photographic prints collected by the department’s Visual Resources Center starting in the early 20th century.
Professor Emeritus Stephen Murray received an honorary doctorate from the University of Picardy, Jules Verne in northern France. The honor celebrated the university's fiftieth anniversary and the eight hundredth birthday of the Gothic cathedral of Amiens. Murray, who has written three books on Amiens Cathedral, is the first American scholar to receive such an honor from the University of Picardy.
Denise Murrell will hold the newly created full-time position of associate curator for 19th and 20th century art. Her appointment is one of the first hires made by the Met’s director, Max Hollein. Read more about Denise in the New York Times's profile of Max Hollein.
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, 2020. PhD or equivalent required. The degree must have been awarded between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2020. 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…
The Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University invites applications for an open rank position (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor) in Art History with an emphasis on LGBTQ art practices, theories, methodologies, and/or movements, including feminist and queer theory, intersectionality, and trans studies. Scholars working in any geographic or historic context are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be expected to have and maintain a strong research agenda, demonstrate a commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching and mentoring, and participate in interdisciplinary…
Meredith Gamer has been selected as one of the two recipients of the 2018-2019 Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award. The Arts and Sciences Graduate Council (ASGC) instituted this award in 2004 to commemorate excellence in the mentoring of PhD and Masters (MA) students.
The Center for Comparative Media, the newest center in the Division of Humanities, has launched their website. Announcements, information about upcoming events, and associated courses are now available at comparativemedia.columbia.edu.
The Center, directed by Noam Elcott (AHAR) and Brian Larkin (Anthropology, Barnard), "gathers scholars and students from diverse disciplines to map and interrogate our mediated world across expanses of time (history and archaeology), space (globalization), and across diverse media technologies and techniques from ancient scripts and contemporary…
Posing Modernity at the Wallach Art Gallery, which started as Denise Murrell's 2013 PhD dissertation, is now expanded at the Paris Musée d'Orsay as Le modèle noir and is being hailed by French national media as a cultural break-through.
Le modèle noir has been featured in:
- The Washington Post
- CNN
- Vanity Fair (French)
- Huffington Post (French)
- La Croix (French)
- Les Voix du Monde (French)
- l'Humanité (French)
- Le Point (French)
- Le Point (French)
- Libération (French)
- France Culture (French)…