Over the course of the fall, several exciting art events will be offered, including the Laboratory for Suburbia's first "Sprawl Session; "A Transitory Space," an exhibit of artwork by WUSTL MFA students with critical essays by WUSTL Art History and Archaeology graduate students; and Hostile Terrain 94, a multi-sited interactive memorial to the migrants who have been lost while crossing the southern U.S. border
The inaugural newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology was published in August 2020.
Professor Kleutghen will serve as the Faculty Associate for the Lee and Beaumont Resident Halls.
The essay titled "Rückzug: Gauguins letzte jahre auf den Marquesas-Inseln 1901-1903,' is in the catalogue for the exhibition Tikimania: Bernd Zimmer, Die Marquesas-Inseln und der Europäische Traum von der Südsee.
Professor Kleutghen is working with three summer fellows and Art History Majors on a significant digital art history project.
Professor Nicola Aravecchia will spend his 2020-2021 sabbatical at the Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia at the University of Sydney; the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University; and at Dunbarton Oaks, a Harvard University research institute in Washington DC.
Professor Kleutghen speaks on teaching with OER's in Introduction to Asian Art.
We are very pleased to announce an important new gift, in the form of the Mark S. Weil and John Hall-Weil Fund for Art History.
Professor John Klein on "slow looking" and the careful in-person study of artworks.
Read Professor Angela Miller's major Art Bulletin article, "Vibrant Matter: The Countermodern World of Pavel Tchelitchew"
Read Klein's advocacy of the removal of Confederate memorials.
Washington Post Theater Critic Peter Marks includes Michaelangelo, God's Architect on list of "ideas for satisfying your imaginative appetite."