Announcements

Tomorrow is Big Give, and we're shining a light on History of Art.

Your gift propels the cultural and creative experience of Berkeley students, allowing them to learn from global art histories and to craft imaginative skills in the domain of art and culture.

This year, our biggest BIG GIVE hope is to upgrade our event and educational spaces in Doe Library. Our renovation will provide a welcoming gathering space for students, faculty, and community, while also giving them a deeper, multi-sensory experience of the arts of the globe, past and present.

Congratulations to Anneka Lenssen, who has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs.

This award recognizes faculty (including both Senate and non-Senate faculty) who have provided GSIs outstanding mentorship in teaching at Berkeley and in preparing for teaching in future careers. Faculty receive this award based on nominations from their GSIs. 

A group exhibition for the first-year Art Practice MFA cohort, titled Revolt Against the Sun, opened in the Worth Ryder Art Gallery on January 29, 2025. In addition to featuring the work of six artists (Eleni Berg, GG, Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán, Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩, Swaleha, Zuhoor Al Sayegh), it features catalog essays written by History of Art graduate student Kimberly Yu. Acting as an interlocutor as well as an interpreter for the exhibition, Kim undertook studio visits and attended meetings with the exhibiting artists.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society is excited to announce that Professor Shannon Jackson is a 2025-2026 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar! 

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Ribera’s Repetitions Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples by Professor Todd Olson. 

The Cal Alumni Association's latest magazine issue, California, has published a wonderful article about our alums who have become curators.

Read the story, written by Dano Nissen'18 here.

Aglaya Glebova's book, Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin (Yale UP, 2022), has been shortlisted for the 2024 Best First Book Award by The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). Congratulations Aglaya.

The Historic New England’s Book Prize Committee has selected our own Margaretta Lovell’s book,  Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America, as an Honor Book for the 2024 Historic New England Book Prize.