Announcements

Congratulations to Elizabeth Fair for being chosen for the 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art award.

See details here:  https://www.acls.org/news/acls-announces-2024-luce-acls-dissertation-fel...

Congratulations to Aglaya Glebova. Her book Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin has won the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize, the most coveted prize for modernists and open to all disciplines, not just art history.

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Eclipse and Revelation, Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts, edited by Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish.

The department congratulates PhD student Michele D’Aurizio for securing a Spring 2024 appointment as a predoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, at Max Planck Institute for Art History in Florence, Italy. While in residence at the Max Planck Institute, Michele will be at work on the research project “Alighieri Boetti’s tecnica povera.” Read more about it here: https://www.biblhertz.it/3467711/D_Aurizio_Michele

Berkeley News has published an article about the BAMPFA pop-up exhibition which was the final project for Professor Sugata Ray’s Art and Climate Change, a course offered as part of a new program for first-year students by the College of Letters and Science.

Read the article here.

What can art, architecture, design, and performance practices offer to current debates on climate change and environmental justice? Curated by students in UC Berkeley Professor Sugata Ray’s Fall 2023 College of Letters & Science First-Year Pathways course Art and Climate Change, this Five Tables presentation highlights artworks in the BAMPFA collection that reflect, mediate, and delve into the interconnected ecologies of life.

The department is pleased to announce the publication of The Imagined New, (or, what happens when History is a Catastrophe?) Working through Alternative Archives | Art, History, Africa and the African Diaspora (2023).

The department is pleased to announce that an essay by Whitney Davis, on James McNeill Whistler’s appropriations of Asian folding screens in the early 1870s, will be featured in the catalog for a major international exhibition on Asian and Western screens opening at the Prada Foundation in Milan in November.

The History of Art Department is pleased to announce the publication of Consumption, Ritual, Art and Society:Interpretive Approaches and Recent Discoveries of Food and Drink in Etruria (2023). Edited by Lisa Pieraccini and Laurel Taylor. From the Brepols website: Food determines who we are. We are what we eat, but also how we eat, with whom we eat, where we eat and, in some cases, even why we eat.