Sally Stein, the UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Lecturer for 2024, will deliver her second talk in this two-lecture series on Tuesday, April 16th. Please join us for her upcoming talk entitled, “For Pleasure or Profit & Power? The Beckoning (& still early reckoning) of Color in Interwar American Mass Media & Culture.” After a...
The UCLA Department of Art History is thrilled to present, “Archival Challenges and Strategies Seminar”, organized by Professor Zirwat Chowdhury. The event will feature two guest speakers. Naveena Naqvi, Assistant Professor for the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, will be delivering a lecture entitled, “The Marginal Archive and the Probable...
UCLA Department of Art History Chair Saloni Mathur will be hosting a panel discussion entitled, “New Perspectives on Chandigarh and Le Corbusier.” The enlightening conversation will feature: Maristella Casciato, Senior Curator and Head of Architectural Collections at the Getty Research Institute, and author of Le Corbusier, Album Punjab,1951 (2024). Vikramaditya Prakash, Professor of Architecture at...
The 59th Annual UCLA Graduate Symposium will be held on October 18 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm at the UCLA Hammer Museum and features keynote speaker T.J. Demos. This year’s theme is entitled “In Crisis” and will examine how art history has responded to crisis through a range of time periods, regions, cultures, and...
The Department of Art History is pleased to co-sponsor a gallery talk at the Fowler Museum featuring Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies and Associate Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center Charlene Villaseñor Black and Lilly Endowment Curator of Art and Religion Patrick A. Polk. Illuminating commentary on the exhibition Descanse en Paz:...
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.
Please join us for the Department of Art History Honors Thesis Symposium on Fri, May 2 from 1-3pm in Dodd 275! We’ve got an incredible lineup of theses that you won’t want to miss. See you there!
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...
Asia is One Directed by Nihon Documentarist Union Japan, 1973, 16mm transferred to digital format, 96 minutes Friday June 6 2025, 6:30 pm Dodd 147 Open to the Public In Japanese, Chinese, and Atayal with English Subtitles by Keung Yoon Bae, Kimberley Sanders, and Mayako Liu Filmed just prior to Okinawa’s reversion to Japanese control in...
