Announcements

Julia Bryan-Wilson joins Jolene Rickard as plenary speakers, along with keynote Sanford Biggers, at the Textile Society of America conference in October 2020. The virtual symposium will be held on October 15-17, registration ends on October 14.

Aglaya Glebova received a Graham Foundation Publication Award for her monograph, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Photography in the Age of Stalin (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2021), which reexamines the alleged end of modernism in the 1930s Soviet Union through the photographic work of Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891–1956), a key figure in European interwar art.  Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

Elaine Yau (PhD '15) is mentioned in Roberta Smith's New York Times review of  Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective at BAMPFA. Yau, a Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, is the co-curator of the exhibition and author of the foundational essay on the artist in the exhibition catalogue.  

Doctoral Degree

Matthew Culler

Karine Douplitzky

Jessica Flores García

Elizabeth McFadden

Sasha Rossman

Bachelor of Arts Degree

Mimy Arias

Sadie Bennett

Blaire Borkowski

Madison Brooke

Elina Choi

Rileigh Clarke

Jamie Danis

Frances Dyson

Chelsea Glickman

Benjamin Good

Echo Hansen

Yiman Hu

Yueqiu Hu

Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards

Jess Bailey
Paul Mellon Centre Junior Fellowship, London, UK

Sarah Cowan
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend

On March 3, 2020, When All That Is Solid Melts into Air: Exploring the Intersection of the Folk and the Modern—an exhibition of modern and contemporary South Asian art—opened at BAMPFA, merely days before the shelter in place guidelines were announced. But we can still see the exhibition through this new virtual tour.

Big Give, UC Berkeley’s annual 24-hour online fundraising blitz, is happening now!  You can make a donation to support the History of Art department during Big Give 2020 starting at 9pm on Wednesday, March 11 through 9pm on Thursday, March 12.  Follow us on Facebook, Instagr

Enrollment is now open for History of Art's Summer Session 2020 courses:  

Summer 2020 / Session A (6 weeks, May 26-July 2)

Histories of Photography HA 182, M-W 2-4pm, Delphine Sims

Summer 2020 / Session D  (6 weeks, July 6-August 14)

The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology has announced the appointment of Dr. Lauren Kroiz as the Museum’s next Faculty Director for a five-year term, effective January 1, 2020.

An essay by assistant Professor Anneka Lenssen has been awarded the 2019 Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation's Prize for a Critical Essay on Contemporary Art. Lenssen's prize-winning essay, "Abstraction of the Many?