The exhibition will demonstrate how stories can shift entrenched attitudes toward immigration and how art can foster connections between migrants and the communities in which they become a part.
Helen invited writer Lawrence Weschler and art historian Claudia Swan to interrogate what is at stake—politically, financially, and art historically—in reattributing works by Vermeer.
The exhibition opens on February 17, 2024.
Dr. Childs received the Rotating Graduate Studio Award from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, & Equity for the Spring of 2025.
Check out the fourth volume of the newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology published this October!
The keynote was delivered at the opening event for the exhibition Matisse by Matisse
The field trip was supported by a generous gift from a recent alumna.
Dr. Swan will be presenting at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute for the Early Modern Visual and MaterIal Culture Seminar on April 14th.
The grant is for faculty and staff who want to implement pedagogical strategies that integrate a literacy-based approach into a selection of their 2023-2024 undergraduate courses
The field trip was supported by a generous gift from the parents of a recent graduate
Dr. Sheren will be presenting at the Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference on March 31st.
In spring 2023, the first grants from the Mark S. Weil and Joan M. Hall Endowment roll out to support the work of four members of the faculty of the Department of Art History & Archaeology
Harper Tooch (MA Student) joins Dr. Aravecchia in excavating at Amheida at the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt.
As a part of WashU's Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures, Dr. Ila Sheren will collaborate with WashU faculty in a cross-disciplinary project, Moving Stories, in 2023.
Dr. Ila Sheren shares her research on Teresa Margolles's Pistas de Baile with the Department of Political Science
Dr. Nicola Aravecchia and Dr. Julia Troche (Missouri State University) tell the history of the event and give details of this year's symposium.
The publications include an article and a review.
Dr. Nicola Aravecchia Publishes articles in Journal of Late Antiquity and Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt.
This essay was written in honor of the late Mark S. Weil, the E. Desmond Lee Professor Emeritus for Collaboration in the Arts and former chair of Art History and Archaeology.
The Department of Art History and Archaeology mourns the passing of our esteemed colleague.
Professor John Klein gave a lecture entitled, “Picasso’s Guernica: For the Moment, For All Time.”
Dr. Swan's books are reviewed by CAA and Hyperallergic.
The second volume of the newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology was published in August 2021.
The topic was “Crossing Borders, Constructing Canons: ‘Post-Impressionism’ in Britain, America and Beyond.”
Dr. Aravecchia discussed his work in the Dakhla Oasis.
Dr. Jones received this honor in recognition of his distinguished first scholarly book in the field of classical studies.
Our current PhD Students have been busy pursuing research, making progress in their degree, and contributing meaningfully to the field, despite the disruptions of the past year.
Dr. Miller's chapter, titled "American Exceptionalism at the Modern, 1942-1959: Dorothy Miller's Americans," was included in the edited volume Modern in the Making: MoMA and the Modern Experiment 1929-1949. The book was edited by Sandra Zalman and Austin Porter and published by Bloomsbury Press in 2020. Additionally, she presented a paper at this year's CAA titled "From Democratic Pluralism to Corporate Hegemony: US Art after 1943," part of the panel "Toward a Concrete Transaction: Global Methods for Art in Capital."
The essay, titled "Drawing Limits: Michelangelo Grows Old," is featured in the March 2021 issue of The Art Bulletin.
The Department seeks a specialist in ancient Mediterranean art history and archaeology for a one-semester postdoctoral teaching fellowship (January 1 to June 30, 2022).
This event was of interest to anyone who has ever been asked (or who have asked themselves): what can I do with a PhD in Art History and Archaeology?
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellow in Late Medieval European Art (13th through 15th century), a joint teaching-curatorial position with the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis and the Saint Louis Art Museum
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 M. Hall Fund for Art History.
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."
Read Karl Buchberg's glowing review of Matisse and Decoration.
Read Ingrid Rowland review of Michelangelo, God's Architect for the New York Review of Books.
Chairs and directors of humanities departments and programs at Washington University in St. Louis give voice to the concerted purpose of the humanities within the University and the world, a purpose grounded in a range of distinct disciplines, methods, and subject matter.
Professor Nathaniel Jones and Professor Ila Sheren were awarded tenure in the spring of 2020.
From February 12 to February 15, department faculty members, graduate students, and one undergraduate major attended the College Art Association's 108th Annual Conference in Chicago, IL
In Early December 2019, Professor Wallace accompanied five graduate students to Washington DC with the primary goal to see the exceptional exhibitions of Andrea del Verrocchio and Alonso Berruguete at the National Gallery of Art.
For the Center for the Humanities, John Klein marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henri Matisse on December 31 with a meditation on the “slow looking” the artist’s work rewards.
As part of the course "Paul Gauguin in Context," a group of students traveled to London over fall break for an immersive experience studying the artist's work and life.
Dr. Ila Sheren will give the talk "Border Art for a Border Ecology" at the Liquid Borders/Fronteras Liquidas Conference hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature
Dr. Ila Sheren will be giving a talk, "Human, Nonhuman, Both or Neither? Bear 71 as Border Crosser" at the New Media Caucus Symposium at the University of Michigan on September 20