The Robert B. Silvers Foundation today announced art historian T. J. Clark and critic Tausif Noor as the winners of its second annual Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writers. Clark is professor emeritus of art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently the author of...Read more about ArtForum: T.J. Clark and Tausif Noor win 2023 Grace Dudley Prize for Art Writing
History of Art offers our heartiest congratulations to PhD student Tausif Noor for winning not one but two recent prestigious awards for excellence in art writing! Tausif received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2022 to support short-form writing And, he has been named a winner...Read more about Tausif Noor wins awards
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!
Dr. Nana Adusei-Poku is joining us as an assistant professor in African Diasporic art history this Fall ’22. Her research and teaching interests include four central themes or areas: artistic production from the African Diasporas; cultural shifts and their articulation at...Read more about Welcome New Faculty 2022-2023
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-...Read more about Professor Emerita Joanna G. Williams obituary
We are excited to share with you the 2021-2022 issue of our departmental newsletter. A huge thanks goes to Julia Bryan-Wilson, Justin Underhill, Heather Reilly, and Julie Wolf.Read more about Newsletter 2021 - 2022
