Year: 2021

Congratulations to Lyn Korenic, who retired on July 1st as head of Kohler Art Library after a nearly 40-year career as an art librarian. Lyn held her position at the Kohler since 1999—only the second person to hold …

Lindsay Wells (Ph.D. 2021) has published her article “Vegetal Bedfellows: Houseplant Superstitions and Environmental Thought in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals” in the Spring 2021 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Lindsay’s article received the 2020 Rosemary VanArsdel Prize …

Happy Fourth of July from the UW–Madison Department of Art History!

Art History 300/Classics 300: The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece  is a first-year friendly course that has no prerequisites and can be used as a humanities breadth and L&S credit. Professor William Aylward will be …

Happy Father’s Day to all of our Art History Dads!

Today we recognize and celebrate the national holiday, Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas first learned of the Emancipation Proclamation. Today we honor Black Americans and reflect on their activism to …

Art History 202: History of Western Art II, From Renaissance to Contemporary is a first-year friendly course that has no prerequisites and can be used as a humanities breadth and L&C credit. Prof. Anna Andrzejewski will be teaching …