Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Nelson for the publication of her article “A Ming Chinese and Spanish Imperial Collaboration in Southeast Asia: The Boxer Codex” in the latest issue of The Art Bulletin.You can access Prof. Nelson’s article here. Abstract: The …
This Year in the Art History Department | Looking Back at 2022
2022 was a major year for the Department of Art History as we hired a new Department Administrator, Peggy Hacker, and Professor Steffani Bennett as the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art. We also celebrated the career …
Happy New Year! 2023!
The Department of Art History wishes you a safe, healthy, and happy new year! 🎆 2023 is shaping up to be another exciting chapter in the history of our department!
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | Global Modernism
Professor Daniel Spaulding will be teaching ART HIST 408/600 | Global Modernism TR 9:30–10:45 AM during the Spring 2023 semester. Sophomore Standing | L&S credit | Register hereDescription: What does twentieth-century modernism look like from a global perspective? Is it possible to speak of …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | Outsider Art in America
Ever considered yourself an outsider? Enroll in AH 303 | Outsider Art in America TR 2:30–3:45 PMSophomore Standing | L&S Credit | Humanities Breadth | Register hereDescription: This course examines creative circumstances and visual/material motifs in works of visionary and outsider …
Student Spotlight | Tong Su Awarded SAH Dissertation Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Tong Su, who has been awarded the 2023 Society of Architectural Historians Dissertation Research Fellowship! Her research focuses on the art and urbanism of late imperial China from the 17th to the 19th century. …
Happy Holidays from the UW–Madison Department of Art History!!!
Happy Holidays from the UW–Madison Department of Art History!!!
Student Spotlight | Ahmed Abdelazim Attends AMCA and MESA
Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim‘s project was selected for the graduate student workshop at the Association of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA) that took place from November 3rd–6th at the University of …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | History of Western Art I: From Pyramids to Cathedrals
Professor Nick Cahill will be offering AH 201 | History of Western Art I: From Pyramids to Cathedrals TR 1:00–2:15 PM | No Prereqs! | L&S Credit | Humanities Breadth | Register hereDescription: Examines the arts and cultures of Europe and the …
Alumni Update | Marcela Guerrero (PhD, 2015) Curates “no existe un mundo poshuracán”
Opening to rave reviews, including by renowned New York Times Art Critic Holland Cotter (which you can read here), Marcela Guerrero’s (PhD, 2015; Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art), no existe un mundo poshuracán: …