The volume Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas, to which our faculty member Lisa Trever contributed an essay on late eighteenth-century tomb illustrations, is being awarded the Association for Latin American Art's annual book award on February 12, 2014, at the College Art Association meeting in Chicago. This award, supported by the Arvey Foundation, is for the best scholarly book published on the art of Latin America from the Pre-Columbian era to the present.

Julia Bryan-Wilson is currently in residence at The Courtauld Institute as the Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor.   The visiting professorship is designed for scholars of American art whose work plays a defining role in the disciplines of art and architectural history and conservation. Professor Bryan-Wilson will be sharing her research with The Courtauld community formally (through lectures and seminars) and informally.

Professor Margaretta Lovell  has been awarded the College Art Association's prestigious award for Distinguished Teaching of Art History.  She will receive her award at the Convocation of the 2014 College Art Association meetings in Chicago this February.  Congratulations!

Jason Hosford, one of our Digital Curators, has been elected Chair of the Northern California chapter of the Visual Resources Association.  The VRA is dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management especially within educational and cultural heritage environments.  Jason's election to chair our local chapter of the VRA after just a year in the profession is an honor for him and for our department.  Congratulations, Jason!

Visual Culture and British India, History of Art 192F.2

This seminar, taught by the Department's visiting British art specialist Imogen Hart, engages with recent groundbreaking scholarship in the field of art and the British Empire, focusing on visual material relating to British India in the nineteenth century. See the rest of the description here. 

Professor Andrew Stewart has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.  This honor testifies to the "exceptionally high regard in which [he is] held by the Humanities community in Australia."  Congratulations!

PhD candidate Will Coleman was awarded the Second Annual Sir Denis Mahon Essay Prize for unpublished work on an early modern topic by a scholar under 30. Will will receive a £1,000 prize and a trip to the U.K. to present his winning essay, "'To live in accord with nature': Rubens's Houses and the Construction of Neostoic Leisure," at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, on November 8 of this year. Congratulations, Will! 

Update 5:45 p.m., October 1, 2013:  We expect to re-open the Department office at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 2.  Power is being restored to the Library and other affected buildings (information here).  Update 6:40 a.m., October 1, 2013:  Doe Library is still without power and the Department will be closed until further notice.  Classes may resume as power has been restored in other buildings, incuding Moffitt Library.  Please contact your instructor for more information.  10:06 p.m., September 30, 2013:  A Berkeley campus evacuation is in effect and the department office will be closed until further notice.  Please see the campus website for more information. Contact your instructor directly for updates about class meetings, office hours, etc.

 The August 8th issue of the London Review of Books includes a laudatory review of Anne Wagner and Tim Clark's exhibition of paintings of L. S. Lowry at Tate Britain. It begins:

Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, curated by the American art historian Anne Wagner and her British husband T.J. Clark, is the most radical and exciting re-evaluation of a British artist I have ever encountered, and a thrilling display of how paint conveys ideas, time, place, building a self-contained world at once absorbing and convincing in its relation to lived experience. So, more or less (I have tinkered with it only a bit), began Jackie Wullschlager’s review of the Lowry exhibition (until 20 October) in the Financial Times. I was planning to begin with a similar bang myself, but as she went off first I just add my full endorsement.

Students, faculty, staff, and families and friends came together on September 8 at the home of Todd Olson and Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby for a gathering to celebrate the beginning of the fall semester.  We are so lucky to be in this beautiful place with all these wonderful new people!  And it's a matter of record that History of Art does the best potlucks around; the food, as usual, was magnificent.  Happy New School Year!

For more photos of the event, see https://berkeley.box.com/s/q759o6cbx2opqm7iu6m4