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2026 Annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture featuring David Schneller

UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

This year's lecture will be presented by Professor David Schneller, Assistant Professor of Art History, on Monday, March 9, 2026.  All are welcome but kindly RSVP in advance by emailing: ycastellanos@support.ucla.edu or call (310) 825-0913 by March 2.  

CANCELLED: 2025-26 UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lectureship in Art History – Hilton Als, Part Two

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, part two of the UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lectureship with Hilton Als is cancelled.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your understanding. Hilton Als delighted the audience in part one of the 2025-26 UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lectureship in Art History...

UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Felix Ho Yuen Chan, Apr. 22

Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Felix Ho Yuen Chan on Wednesday, Apr. 22 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for his talk, Work on literacy: Sidney D. Gamble's "May Fourth China" Photographs (1917-1925).  

UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Susan Dackerman, May 6

Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Susan Dackerman on Wednesday, May 6 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk, The Paleontology of Print: Lithographic Limestone and the Nature of Reproducibility.  Summary: When in 1796, the Munich playwright Alois Senefelder developed a method of printing from the surface of the...

Palestine 36 screening, May 7th

Kinsey Pavillion, 1220B

Please join us for a screening of the film Palestine 36 on Thursday, May 7.  Doors will open at 4 PM.

Jolene Rickard to present the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture, May 11

UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lecture, featuring Jolene Rickard, Associate Professor, Departments of Art History + Visual Studies, Art American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, Cornell University. Professor Rickard's lecture is entitled, “Creative Defiance as Sensory Ecologies.” The Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lectureship was established in memory...

No Place Like Home, Eighteenth-Century London in an Age of Change

Williams Andrews Clark Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angelese, CA

The Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA Department of Art History, and the Winter 2026 Ahmanson Seminar are pleased to present the exhibit opening of "No Place Like Home, Eighteenth-Century London in an Age of Change" Meet the Curators on May 12th.  All are welcome!

“Building Guanajuato: Architecture and Infrastructure in a Late Colonial Mining City,” with Dr. Luis Gordo Peláez

Zoom

The Architecture Working Group is pleased to announce that their next event will be held on Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM PT via Zoom. With the support of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, and the UCLA Department of Art History, we will be joined by Dr. Luis Gordo Peláez, Associate Professor in the School...

“Fowler Talks: Across Borders, Across Time,” May 20th

Lenart Auditorium at the Fowler Museum

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Peru, on Wednesday, May 20th, the Fowler Museum, in collaboration with the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Waystation Initiative, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, Andean Laboratory at UCLA, and the Consulate General of Peru in Los Angeles, will host "Fowler Talks:...

Art Council Lecture Series – A Conversation with Annemarie Jacir

UCLA Dodd Hall, Room 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

On Wednesday, May 20, at 2 PM, PT the Art History Department will host Writer and Director, Annemarie Jacir for a conversation about her film "Palestine 36." Ms. Jacir will be appearing virtually for this event.  Guests may attend in-person in Dodd 247 or attend via webinar. Kindly RSVP here to receive the webinar information prior...

UCLA Art History and Classics Annual Book Giveaway

Dodd Hall, Second Floor 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Please gather your friends & join us at the UCLA Art History & Classics Annual Book Giveaway which will take place in the hallways of Dodd Hall 2nd floor from 9am-4pm on Mon-Fri, June 1-5. These books have been generously donated by our Faculty and there are A LOT of fantastic finds. You will NOT...