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Professor Angela Miller has chapter included in new volume on MoMA and Modern Art in America
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."
Professor William Wallace's Latest for The Art Bulletin
The essay, titled "Drawing Limits: Michelangelo Grows Old," is featured in the March 2021 issue of The Art Bulletin.
Applications Open for Postdoctoral Fellow In Ancient Mediterranean Art History and Archaeology
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).
The Department presents Diverse Careers in Art History and Archaeology: PhD Alumni Panel
The Department of Art History and Archaeology is pleased to offer a panel highlighting diverse careers in Art History and Archaeology, featuring our own alumni. This event will be 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?
Applications Open for Postdoctoral Fellowship in Late Medieval Art
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
Art Events on Campus this Fall!
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
2019-2020 Newsletter of the Department of Art History and Archaeology
The inaugural newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology was published in August 2020.
Professor Kristina Kleutghen Becomes a Faculty Associate
Professor Kleutghen will serve as the Faculty Associate for the Lee and Beaumont Resident Halls.
Professor Elizabeth Childs publishes essay on Gauguin and the Marquesas Islands
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 Kristina Kleutghen Participates in the Humanities Digital Workshop
Professor Kleutghen is working with three summer fellows and Art History Majors on a significant digital art history project.
Professor Nicola Aravecchia Wins Grants for His Sabbatical
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 Kristina Kleutghen Presents at "Art History in Quarantine: Digital Transformations, Digital Futures
Professor Kleutghen speaks on teaching with OER's in Introduction to Asian Art.
Announcing the Mark S. Weil and Joan Hall-Weil Fund for Art History
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 Angela Miller Article Published in the June Issue of Art Bulletin
Read Professor Angela Miller's major Art Bulletin article, "Vibrant Matter: The Countermodern World of Pavel Tchelitchew"
Professor John Klein Discusses Removal of Confederate Monuments with the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
Read Klein's advocacy of the removal of Confederate memorials.
Professor William Wallace's Michelangelo, God's Architect is on Washington Post's Cultural To-Do List
Washington Post Theater Critic Peter Marks includes Michaelangelo, God's Architect on list of "ideas for satisfying your imaginative appetite."
Professor John Klein's Matisse and Decoration Reviewed in Burlington Magazine
Read Karl Buchberg's glowing review of Matisse and Decoration.
Professor William Wallace's Michelangelo, God's Architect reviewed by New York Review of Books
Read Ingrid Rowland review of Michelangelo, God's Architect for the New York Review of Books.
A Statement on the Role of Humanities Research and Education in Times of Crisis
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 Receive Tenure
Professor Nathaniel Jones and Professor Ila Sheren were awarded tenure in the spring of 2020.
Faculty and Graduate Students Attend the CAA Annual Conference 2020 in Chicago
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
Renaissance Ramble in Washington DC: Looking at Verrocchio and Berraguete
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.
Professor John Klein marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henri Matisse
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.
Art history and archaeology students explore Gauguin in London
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 to speak at the Liquid Borders/Frontera Liquidas Conference
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 giving talk at New Media Caucus Symposium, University of Michigan
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