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CANCELLED: “Archival Challenges and Strategies Seminar” presents Naveena Naqvi and Yuthika Sharma.

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

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...

CANCELLED: “New Perspectives on Chandigarh and Le Corbusier” Discussion Panel on Monday, May 20.

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

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...

Charlene Villaseñor Black to speak at Fowler Museum Gallery Talk on October 25

The Fowler Museum at UCLA 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA

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:...

UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lecture featuring Mark Godfrey

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

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....

2025 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture with Featured Speaker Tiffany Barber

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

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.

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Kellie Jones to present the 2025 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture on May 5

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

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...

UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with George Baker, Nov. 5

Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

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, Fri. Nov. 14, 2025

The Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

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...

Walter Hopps Colloquium with Jennifer Sichel, November 17, 2025

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

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...

UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Tiffany Barber, Jan. 28

Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Tiffany Barber on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk, Contemporary Black Women's Art, Antiquity, and the Liquid Turn. Please RSVP here in advance

“How to Be a Guerrilla Girl” exhibit tour on February 13

J. Paul Getty Museum 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA

You are invited to a UCLA Art History Study Day and Visit to the Getty Museum on Friday, February 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM to tour “How to Be a Guerilla Girl” exhibition with “Käthe Kollwitz” and curators Zanna Gilbert and Kristin Juarez.  This Hopps Colloquium event is open to all Art History students, faculty...

UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Meredith Cohen, Feb. 25th

Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Meredith Cohen on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk, Digital Gothic: Quantifying Change in Medieval Architecture. All are welcome!