Please join Professor Jill Casid and Professor Anna Campbell for the opening event for the Chazen Museum of Art’s Faculty Exhibition 2020 on the evening of January 31, 2020. Both Prof. Casid and Prof. Campbell …
Save the Date! Feb. 11th–Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series
Save the Date for the UW-Madison Department of Art History’s First Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series on February 11th, 2020. Professor Shira Brisman (University of Pennsylvania History of Art Department) will be returning to …
Faculty News: Prof. Jennifer Pruitt’s New Book “Building the Caliphate”
Today (Jan. 16), Professor Jennifer Pruitt received the first copies of her new book Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture, which is being published by Yale University Press. The …
Faculty News: Book Party at CAA–Prof. Jennifer Nelson & Prof. Alex Dika Seggerman
If you will be at the College Art Association’s Annual Conference or in Chicago, you are invited to a book party celebrating two new books in modern and early modern art history: Alex Dika Seggerman‘s path-breaking Modernism …
Alumni Update: Berit Ness (M.A. 2015)
UW-Madison Alumna Berit Ness (right), Assistant Curator for Academic Initiative at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, and her colleague Issa Lampe recently partnered with the College Art Association on a piece for their RAAMP Video Practicum series. …
Alumni Update: Prof. Vivien Green Fryd (Ph.D. 1984) Latest Book “Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970”
UW-Madison Alumna Vivien Green Fryd (Ph.D. 1984), Professor of American and Contemporary Art at Vanderbilt University, published her latest book, Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970, earlier in 2019 with Penn State University …
Prof. Drewal Named Paul Mellon Senior Fellow
Recently retired Evjue-Bascom Professor Henry Drewal was named a Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. for the months of …
UW-Madison Alumnus Virgil Abloh Capsule Collection and Exhibition
UW-Madison Alumnus Virgil Abloh, creative director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear since 2018, has released a capsule collection in conjunction with the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris. In the Designboom article, …
Affiliate Faculty Prof. Sarah Anne Carter’s Forthcoming Edited Volume
Art History Affiliate Faculty Professor Sarah Anne Carter has co-edited the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture. Congratulations Prof. Carter!!!!! The book will be available in February 2020.
Interview with an Auditor Series: Dr. George Savage
Our second Interview with an Auditor is HERE! Check out our interview with Dr. George Savage, UW-Madison alumnus, senior auditor, and former American literature professor at UW-Whitewater through our Interview with an Auditor Series tab.