Wall Street Journal selects "Caravans of Gold" for its 2019 Recommended Gift List
November 22, 2019 – from Wall Street Journal
2019 News
November
Graduate student Anna Dumont volunteers in Venice to save books damaged by record floods--interviewed by NPR
November 19, 2019 – from National Public Radio
October
Alumnus Nnamdi Elleh (PhD 2003) named Head of School of the Wits School of Architecture & Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in the Republic of South Africa
October 16, 2019
Travel with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and alumna Ashley Dunn (PhD 2019)
October 15, 2019
September
Professor Huey Copeland named the Andrew W. Mellon Professor for 2020-2022 at the National Gallery of Art
September 27, 2019
The Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art has appointed Professor Huey Copeland the Andrew W. Mellon Professor for 2020-2022 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Founded in 1994, the Mellon Professorship is one of the most prestigious awards an art historian can receive. Over the two consecutive academic years, the Mellon Professor is free to pursue independent research.
August
Professor Rebecca Zorach named to Art 50 List: Chicago’s Visual Vanguard 2019
August 29, 2019
May
Six Questions for Professor Hollis Clayson, author of Illuminated Paris
May 31, 2019 – from The Chicago Blog
Jonathan D. Katz (PhD 1995) is curator of groundbreaking exhibition on Stonewall Rebellion
May 29, 2019 – from artdaily.org
Graduate student Jessy Bell named winner of the 2019 Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectural Writing
May 20, 2019
April
Angelina Lucento (PhD 2014) awarded Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art 2019
April 24, 2019 – from American Council of Learned Societies
Graduate student C.C. McKee named Assistant Professor of Modern Art at Bryn Mawr
April 18, 2019
C.C. McKee (Ph.D. candidate) will join the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College this summer as Assistant Professor of Modern Art. McKee is a dual candidate at Northwestern University and the École des hautes études en sciences socials in Paris and will defend their dissertation before beginning in the fall.
Zirwat Chowdhury (PhD 2012) named Assistant Professor in Art History at UCLA
April 8, 2019
Zirwat Chowdhury (PhD 2012) will join the Department of Art History at UCLA this summer as Assistant Professor of 18th-/19th-Century European Art. Following the completion of her PhD, Zirwat held postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA and the Getty Research Institute, and she also taught as Visiting Assistant Professor and Visiting Faculty Member at Reed College and Bennington College respectively.
Graduate student Douglas Gabriel named 2019-20 Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies at Harvard University
April 5, 2019 – from Harvard University
Graduate student Benjamin L. Jones’ activities as an artist, activist and scholar are featured in an interview on the website “Visual Collaborative”
April 1, 2019
March
Block Museum in New York Times article about Raising the Cultural Bar on Campuses
March 12, 2019 – from New York Times
Raising the Cultural Bar on Campuses
February
Graduate student Antawan Byrd named to curatorial team for the second edition of the Lagos Biennial
February 25, 2019
Professor Huey Copeland is the 2019 Recipient of the High Museum’s David C. Driskell Prize
February 4, 2019
The Department mourns the loss of graduate student Alexandra 'Sasha' Novozhenova
February 1, 2019
January
Graduate student C.C. McKee awarded CAA Professional Development Fellowship
January 28, 2019