Please join us on Thursday, December 5th for the Art History Department’s New Book Event and Discussion featuring our faculty who have recently published books. The discussion will be held at 4 PM in Dodd 247 followed by the department’s holiday celebration in the faculty lounge. All are welcome!
The Department of Art History proudly presents the UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lecture featuring Mark Godfrey, Director, New Curators, and guest curator of Kerry James Marshall: The Histories, Royal Academy of Arts, London. In his talk, “Kerry James Marshall: The Histories” Godfrey discusses: “The ‘histories’ in play in Marshall’s practice are multiple and intertwining....
The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2025 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture with featured speaker Tiffany Barber. Professor Tiffany Barber will deliver a presentation entitled “Kara Walker, Contemporary Art, and the Black Female Bottom” on Monday, March 3, at 4pm in the Laureate Room of the Luskin Conference Center. All are welcome.
The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2025 Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lecture, featuring Kellie Jones, Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art, Art History & Archeology, and Chair, African American & African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University. Professor Kellie Jones’ lecture, “Suzanne Jackson: Ecologies of Abstraction,” considers the creative practice of painter, poet, and dancer...
Please gather your friends & join us at the UCLA Art History Annual Book Giveaway which will take place in the hallways of Dodd Hall 2nd floor from 9am-4pm on Mon-Fri, June 2-6. These books have been generously donated by our Faculty and there are A LOT of fantastic finds. You will NOT want to...
The Walter Hopps Colloquium, an ongoing series of lectures and discussions in modern and contemporary art, funded in part via the Hopps Chair, will begin with a lecture on artist Edward Keinholz, with whom Hopps founded the Ferus Gallery in 1957. This fall quarter, the colloquia will run alongside Professor George Baker's graduate seminar AH232...
Vittoria di Palma speaks at Professor Stella Nair's Art History 203: Wastelands and Waterways graduate seminar class to discuss her book, "Wastelands, a History." Her visit is sponsored by the Center for Early Global Studies at UCLA.
Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker George Baker on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for his talk, Paul Thek and the Italian South: From Pop to the Popular, From Process to Procession. All are welcome!
The 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium will be held on Friday, November 14th at the Hammer Museum’s Nimoy Studio. This year’s theme considers revolution as a mode of imagining new ways of seeing, knowing, and acting in the field of art history. The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. Sohl Lee, whose work...
Please save the date for the next Hopps Colloquium. It will be a lecture and book event, celebrating the publication of Jennifer Sichel’s new book from University of Chicago Press, in the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection series: Criticism Without Authority: Gene Swenson’s and Jill Johnston’s Queer Practices (2025). The Walter Hopps Colloquium, an ongoing...
Seth Denizen (WashU) speaks at Professor Stella Nair's Wastelands and Waterways (AH 203) graduate seminar about his book "Thinking Through Soil."
Come grab a taco and toast to the end of the year!
