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Professor John Klein Discusses Removal of Confederate Monuments with the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

7.6.20

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

7.6.20

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

7.6.20

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

7.6.20

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

6.19.20

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.

PhD Candidate Tola Porter Speaks on "Public Art-Commissions, Collection, and Engagement" Panel

6.16.20

Tola Porter recently participated in the Mildred Lane Kemper Virt​ual Panel Discussion entitled: Public Art - Commissions, Collections, and Engagement. 

Professor Nathaniel Jones and Professor Ila Sheren Receive Tenure

6.15.20

Professor Nathaniel Jones and Professor Ila Sheren were awarded tenure in the spring of 2020.

Allison Perelman receives Pollard-Stein Award for Excellence in Teaching

6.15.20

PhD candidate Allison Perelman has been awarded this year's Pollard-Stein award for excellence in teaching.

Orin Zahra, PhD Candidate and Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, is liaison curator for "Graciela Iturbide's Mexico"

3.4.20

Orin Zahra, PhD candidate and Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, was featured in a CNN article on the exhibition Graciela Iturbide's Mexico on February 27, 2020.

Faculty and Graduate Students Attend the CAA Annual Conference 2020 in Chicago

2.17.20

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

Professor Elizabeth Childs speaks at the National Gallery, London

12.15.19

In December 2019, Professor Elizabeth Childs delivered "Gauguin in Colonial Tahiti: Dream, Reality and Encounter" at the National Gallery, London

Renaissance Ramble in Washington DC: Looking at Verrocchio and Berraguete

12.15.19

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.