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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…