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We are delighted to share six new episodes as part of Relevance of Place, an online film series that invites artists, architects, designers, and creative thinkers to explore the meaning of “place” as a global, local, and personal concept, as well as “place” as it refers specifically to Tippet...Read more about Shannon Jackson hosts six new artist interviews with Tippet Rise Art Center

The Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage (FESCH) has won a major grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support provenance research on ancient art
and artifacts. The Phase II Research and Development grant from the Division of Preservation and
...Read more about Lisa Pieraccini, Advisory Council Member for MAPRA announces a major grant from the NEH to The Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage

Congratulations to Henrike on her award!

After winning, a few weeks, ago the category Art History / Criticism, Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility has now also won the PROSE award for excellence in Humanities, as one of four top winners across all categories of the year....Read more about Henrike Lange has received the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award for excellence in Humanities

Be a shining star!

The Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary non-tenure track Lecturer positions to teach courses in History of Art. These courses include, but are not limited to, courses in Contemporary Art, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture,...Read more about Lecture position open for History of Art

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-...Read more about Elizabeth Fair is 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art

Henrike Lange’s book, Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility (Cambridge University Press), has won the 2024 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism. The AAP’s annual PROSE Awards recognize significant contributions in scholarly...Read more about Henrike Lange has received the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism

Congratulations to Aglaya Glebova. Her book Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin has won the Modernist Studies...Read more about Aglaya Glebova's book wins the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize

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.

From the Oxford University Press website: Two questions guide this seven-year...Read more about New publication by Henrike Lange

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...Read more about Michele D’Aurizio named a Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute

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...Read more about Student exhibition highlights art, science and new pathways

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...Read more about 5 tables of Art and Climate Change

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,...Read more about New Publication By Zamansele Nsele

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...Read more about Congratulations to Whitney Davis