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March 10, 2023

Big Thanks for Big Give

Thank you for supporting History of Art—our teaching, learning, research, administration—our entire community.

March 9, 2023

BIG GIVE 2023 Today

Help Berkeley’s Light Shine Brighter

Today is Big Give, when the entire Berkeley community comes together for 24 hours in support of our students, faculty, and programs.
Your support for the Department of History of Art strengthens our entire community of faculty, students, and staff.

March 5, 2023

Big Give 2023 coming soon

Help Berkeley’s Light Shine Brighter

Thursday, March 9 is Big Give, when the entire Berkeley community comes together for 24 hours in support of our students, faculty, and programs.

Your support for the Department of History of Art strengthens our entire community of faculty, students, and staff.

February 6, 2023

In Memoriam: Andrew F. Stewart

In Memoriam

Andrew F. Stewart
Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies, Emeritus
UC Berkeley
(Aug. 23, 1948 – Jan. 13, 2023)

Exhibit: Letters – How Artists Reimagined Language in the Age of Decolonization

5:00 - 6:30 pm | 3/15/2023 | Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library (North entrance) 

January 26, 2023

New publication from Aglaya K. Glebova

The Department is delighted to announce the publication of Aglaya Glebova’s new book  Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin. 

From the Yale University Press website: Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko’s photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin’s Soviet Union

January 11, 2023

History of Art Commencement 2023
History of Art Commencement exercises will take place on Tuesday, May 16th at 9:00 a.m. in the auditorium at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Save the date!

November 2, 2022

Celebrating Graduate Student Achievements in 2021-2022

We are very proud to celebrate (a bit belatedly) some of the recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our graduate students over the course of last academic year–now supporting advanced training and innovative scholarship! 

Graduate Predoctoral Fellowships/Awards

Joseph Albanese

-Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Spain

Elizabeth Fair

-Outstanding GSI Award

November 1, 2022

World Art History Lecture Series

Tuesday, November 1

Stephen Whiteman

Senior Lecturer in Art and Architecture of China and Head of Research Degree Programmes, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK

“The Word Itself: The Language of Mapping in China”

Tuesday, November 8

Matthew Spellberg

Dean of the College, Outer Coast College, Sitka, Alaska

World Art History Lecture Series

Tuesday, November 1

Stephen Whiteman

Senior Lecturer in Art and Architecture of China and Head of Research Degree Programmes, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK

“The Word Itself: The Language of Mapping in China”

Tuesday, November 8

Matthew Spellberg

Dean of the College, Outer Coast College, Sitka, Alaska