Check out the 8-week exploration into Islamic Art and Architecture from the comfort of home. PhD Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim will guide you through India, the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain!
Faculty News: Prof. Andrzejewski Receives IRH Summer Research Fellowship
Professor Anna Andrzejewski has received a Summer Humanities Research Fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities to work on her book project, Building Paradise: Housing, Leisure, and Retirement in South Florida after World War II.
Fall 2020 Course Highlight: AH 409 Interpreting Contemporary Art
Our newest member to the UW-Madison Department of Art History Faculty, Professor Daniel Spaulding, will be teaching AH 409: Interpreting Contemporary Art this Fall 2020 semester! His class will be Tuesday/Thursday, 1:00–2:15pm in room L150 …
Art During Quarantine: Emeritus Prof. Henry Drewal’s Artful Avian Architecture
Emeritus Professor Henry Drewal shares his works of Avian Architecture during quarantine. “During this period of ‘sheltering at home’ I have continued to make homes for birds in a series I call Avian Architecture (see https://www.henrydrewal.com/myart.html). …
Today is the Last Day of Spring 2020 Classes!
It’s been a rough month and a half, but we made it to the last day of Spring 2020 classes!
Alumni News: Matthew Rarey (PhD, 2014) Wins Curators’ Award for Excellence
Matthew Rarey’s (PhD, 2014) co-curated exhibition, Afterlives of the Black Atlantic, at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, won the 2020 Association of Art Museum Curators’ Award for Excellence for an exhibition from an organization with …
Summer 2020 Course Highlight: Intro to Afro-American Art
Summer 2020 Online Art History 242: Introduction to Afro-American Art Professor Anthony Black (MFA/PhD Candidate, English) will broaden your knowledge of the history of art in America. Enroll here: https://enroll.wisc.edu/search?term=1206&subject=180
CVC Webinars: April 28th & 30th
The first of two webinars hosted by The Center for Visual Cultures is tomorrow from 5:00–7:00pm. Check out the full schedule above.
Art During Quarantine: Avanelle Cochran
UW-Madison Art History Alum, Daniel Cochran (PhD, 2018), has submitted artwork on behalf of his 9-year old daughter, Avanelle. The first image contains two watercolor landscapes: Left: Fall Foliage, 2020; Right: The Driftless, 2020 The …
Faculty News: Affiliate Prof. Nadler Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Congratulations to department affiliate Professor Steven Nadler (William H. Hay II Professor and Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities, Director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities) on his election to the American Academy of Arts …