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New Publication by Margaretta M. Lovell

May 3, 2023

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Painting the Inhabited Landscape, Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America (2023). From the Penn State University Press website: The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to...Read more about New Publication by Margaretta M. Lovell

How art history and statistics helped a graduating student understand herself

May 2, 2023

When Alice Xie moved from China to California as a teenager, she experienced major culture shock. She understood the words people spoke, but conversations were still hard to follow. She often felt isolated and underestimated.

Through art, Xie found a way to explore and communicate about...Read more about How art history and statistics helped a graduating student understand herself

Reenactment of the Brancusi Trial of 1927-28

April 18, 2023

May 4, 2023 in 308 A Doe 10:00-12:00

HA 185 A

Prof. M. M. Lovell

Is it a Utensil? a Bird? an Artwork? and why does it matter? Constantine Brancusi v. United States was a landmark case concerning the definition of art--a unique object made by an artist--as

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"Colonization and Indigeneity: Etruscan Pasts and Native American Futures"

April 17, 2023

5:30 pm | 4/18/2023 | 308A Doe Library

Dr. Lisa Pieraccini: History of Art Lecturer, Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology Affiliate Faculty; Program Coordinator for the M. Del Chiaro Center for Ancient Italian...Read more about "Colonization and Indigeneity: Etruscan Pasts and Native American Futures"

Judith Stronach Graduate Travel Seminar in Art History Spring 2023 Symposium: Material Culture and Historic Preservation Workshop at a Seventeenth-century Manor House in Rural Spain

April 14, 2023

Professor M. M. Lovell

May 2 2:00-5:00 308 A Doe Library

Refreshments

Please Bring and Wear a Mask

Frederik Brauner, Architecture

Elizabeth Fair, Art History

Leah Grams, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology

Emily Kang, Art History

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Bhasha Chakrabarti, Shivani Sud, Mohit Manohar: Lectures by the recipients of the UC Berkeley South Asia Art Awards for 2023

April 14, 2023

12:00 pm | 4/19/2023 | 10 Stephens Hall

Lectures by the recipients of the UC Berkeley South Asia Artist Award and the UC Berkeley South Asia Art and Architecture Dissertation Award for 2023

The South Asia Artist Lecture for 2023...Read more about Bhasha Chakrabarti, Shivani Sud, Mohit Manohar: Lectures by the recipients of the UC Berkeley South Asia Art Awards for 2023

Bay Area Undergraduate Art History Symposium

April 7, 2023

1:00 pm | 4/15/2023 | CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS TIMKEN HALL, 1111 8TH ST SAN FRANCISCO | Until 4:30 pm | 4/15/2023

New publication by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

April 4, 2023

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Darcy’s new book, Creole. Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century (2022).

From Penn State University Press: This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of “Creole,” a label...Read more about New publication by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

ALEXANDRE DUMAS’S AFRO. Blackness caricatured, erased, and back again

April 4, 2023

12:00 pm | 4/12/2023 | BAMPFA | Until 5:00 pm | 7/30/2023

Opening of a new exhibit at BAMPFA.

Alexandre Dumas père, the celebrated and prolific 19th-century author of The Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask, and The Count of Monte Cristo, among many

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Book event celebrating the publication of Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby’s Creole. Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century

April 4, 2023

5:00 pm | 4/12/2023 | BAMPFA

Opening of “Alexandre Dumas’s Afro,” an exhibition guest co-curated by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Vanessa Jackson.

And a book event at 5 p.m. celebrating the publication of Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby’s

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Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again

April 4, 2023

1:30 pm | 4/29/2023 | Osher Theater, BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley | Until 3:00 pm | 4/29/2023

Roundtable Discussion in conjunction with the exhibition on view at BAMPFA, April 12-July 30, 2023. A conversation about Blackness,

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The Seventh Annual Berkeley/Stanford Symposium: In-Between: Art and Cultural Practices From Here

April 3, 2023
Friday, Apr 28, 2023 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Phyllis Wattis Theater, Floor 1

Free with RSVP

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“I say we’re caught between two worlds — at...Read more about The Seventh Annual Berkeley/Stanford Symposium: In-Between: Art and Cultural Practices From Here

Berkeley Book Chats | Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art

April 3, 2023

4/19/2023 | 12:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Henrike Lange

In Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility (Cambridge, 2023) Henrike Lange (History of Art and Italian) takes the reader on a tour

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New Publication by Lisa Pieraccini

March 12, 2023

The Department is pleased to announce the publication of Lisa’s new book, Etruria and Anatolia: Material...Read more about New Publication by Lisa Pieraccini