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The Etruscans Uncovered is an exhibit in Doe Library’s Bernice Layne Brown Gallery from March 9 until August 31, 2026. The March 11th opening had a record-breaking attendance of over 130 people! (The Consul General of Italy was there). This exhibit presents a sampling of the large...Read more about Etruscans Uncovered: The Phoebe A. Hearst Collection at UC Berkeley

Chancellor Lyons and his cabinet of about 30 people spent 30 minutes with Lisa Pieraccini at the Etruscan exhibition in the Brown Gallery, Doe Library this morning. His staff reached out to Lisa and asked for a personal visit/lecture.

The exhibit presents a sampling of the...Read more about The Chancellor & Etruscans

Shiben Banerji's book, Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy (University of Texas Press, 2025), has won the 2026 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning. The AAP’s annual PROSE Award...Read more about Shiben Banerji received the 2026 PROSE Award for Architecture and Urban Planning

Yale Press has published a blog post about Atreyee Gupta's recent book Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India.

Please read the blog post here:...Read more about New Yale Press blog post on Atreyee Gupta's book

Encountering the Etruscans: Shedding Light on Ancient Italy at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum is a student-led exhibit from Lisa Pieraccini’s Fall 2025 seminar, The Etruscans Museums: Provenance, Collection & Curation. The students not only leaned about the Etruscans, but also about how...Read more about Encountering the Etruscans, a student-led exhibition from Lisa Pieraccini's seminar

Lauren Kroiz just won a publication grant from the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art for her forthcoming book Living Power: Women's Suffrage and Modern American Art (University of California Press, 2026).

Living Power explores the modernist aesthetics of...Read more about Lauren Kroiz wins a grant from Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art

The History of Art Department extends a warm welcome to our newest faculty.

Shiben Banerji, Associate Professor, Architecture and Urbanism, https://arthistory.berkeley.edu/people/shiben-...Read more about Welcome New Faculty

Greetings to Alumni, Students, Faculty, Staff, Supporters, and Partners,

All years have their challenges, but we are living in unprecedented times here in History of Art at UC Berkeley. That said, our department's ability to remain focused on our mission and responsive to dynamic...Read more about History of Art Newsletter 2025

We have an art history alumna (2010) who won a Pulitzer Prize! She wrote an honors thesis on viceregal Entrada ceremonies in New Spain and compared them to border art interventions. Public humanities!

Leah Binkovitz (History of Art, ‘10), a senior editorial writer at...Read more about Leah Binkovitz, History of Art (‘10), Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Congratulations to the Class of 2025 who participated in our Commencement ceremony!

Associate Professor Atreyee Gupta has announced the publication of her new book Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization and the Third World Project in India.

A revelatory look at modernism in India, exploring art’s role in decolonization and aesthetic discourse across...Read more about Congratulations to Atreyee Gupta on her new book

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History by Associate Professor Atyeyee Gupta and Okwui Enwezor (Editors).

Okwui Enwezor’s 2016 exhibition Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic...Read more about New Publication by Atreyee Gupta