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February 6, 2023

In Memoriam: Andrew F. Stewart

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

October 6, 2022

World Art History Lecture Series

Thursday, October 6

Kamini Vellodi

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Theory, and History of Art and Director of Research Excellence, Edinburgh College of Art,University of Edinburgh, UK

“Diagramming ‘World Art’”

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

July 21, 2022

Welcome New Faculty 2022-2023

Nana Adusei-Poku

June 22, 2022

Professor Emerita Joanna G. Williams obituary

Professor Emerita Joanna G. Williams, distinguished scholar of South and Southeast Asian art, passed away at her home in Berkeley on June 16, 2022, at the age of eighty-four. She was one of the foremost scholars of South and Southeast Asian art and architecture and, indeed, one of the most well-regarded for her seminal work on fourth- and fifth-century sculpture and architecture as well as later folk traditions. Born in southern Indiana, Williams received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1960 and a M.A. from Radcliffe College in 1961. She then received a Ph.D.