News

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• ### Project co-led by Thiago Puglieri receives $330,000 Getty grant
• ### 2026 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture featuring David Schneller on Mar. 9
• ### Professor Lamia Balafrej appointed Tomás Harris professorship
• ### New Art History courses coming in Spring 2026
• ### UCLA Art History Dept Colloquium featuring Tiffany Barber, Jan. 28
• ### Indigenous people are partners in this cultural conservation research
• ### ‘We don’t have to leave our communities behind when we enter academic spaces’
• ### Professor Kristopher Kersey at Oxford University on Nov. 19, 2025
• ### Alumnus David Bardeen received the 2025 Carl S. Meyer Prize awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society
• ### UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium featuring George Baker on Nov. 5
• ### Walter Hopps Colloquium and Book Event with Jennifer Sichel, Nov. 17
• ### Global Antiquity Distinguished Speaker Series with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Fri. Nov. 14
• ### Sound check: Stella Nair studies an Inca building designed for acoustics
• ### Sharon Gerstel receives Public Impact Research Award for project empowering Greek artisans
• ### Artistry of ancient Greece on display at Getty Villa – and in 3 campus events this fall
• ### The 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium, Fri. Nov. 14, 2025
• ### Walter Hopps Colloquium begins this October with Julian Myers
• ### Deadline Extended: The 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium
• ### Grad Student Andrew Hansung Park Chosen as Fellow by The Smithsonian American Art Museum
• ### Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen speaks to China Plus
• ### PhD Candidate Natalie Zhang Named Tyson Scholar by Crystal Bridges Museum
• ### PhD Student Sofia Pitouli Named Paul Mellon Fellow at CASVA
• ### Professor Lamia Balafrej Named Berenson Fellow at I Tatti
• ### Professor Stella Nair to present at “Microhistories of Architecture” conference in Zurich
• ### Doctoral Candidate Mal Meisels to Curate “Queer Kin: Histories of Subversive Love” at Clark Library
• ### Professor Meredith Cohen to present at Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome
• ### Professor George Baker to Release New Book on May 20
• ### Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen quoted in The Global Times
• ### Professor Lamia Balafrej to present at the University of Oxford
• ### Professor Tiffany E. Barber’s New Book Featured on UCLA Newsroom
• ### Professor Tiffany E. Barber to Release New Book on May 23
• ### Professor George Baker interviewed by Washington Post About Picabia’s Life and Work
• ### Professor Stella Nair to present “The Inca ‘House for Listening’” at Stanford University
• ### Professor Zirwat Chowdhury is featured speaker at Cornell’s Pulse of Art History Lecture Series
• ### Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen to present Distinguished Opening Lecture “What the Stone Faces Tell Us” on May 25
• ### Professor Saloni Mathur to moderate online roundtable “Art and Hope in Times of Crisis” on May 2
• ### Professor Saloni Mathur to host panel “Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, and the Legacies of Modernism” at MoMA on April 30
• ### Kellie Jones to present the 2025 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture on May 5
• ### Recent Graduate AJ Meyer awarded the 2025 ALAA Dissertation Award
• ### In memoriam: Susan Downey, 86, scholar of ancient art and archaeology
• ### Professor Stella Nair to deliver “Inca Architecture and the Acoustics of Empire” at The Huntington
• ### Professor Sharon Gerstel to present keynote address “Interwoven Stories: The “Generation of the 1930s” and a Laconian Village” at the Benaki Museum in Greece
• ### Professor Lamia Balafrej to deliver “Race Before Technology: On Medieval Talismans” at Rice University
• ### Professor Saloni Mathur presents “Baggage Claims: Contemporary Art’s Migration Imaginary” at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore
• ### Professor Emeritus Dell Upton publishes new book, “Landscapes in the Making”
• ### Professor Kris Kersey’s first book receives the Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research
• ### 2025 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture with Featured Speaker Tiffany Barber
• ### Mona Lisa beyond borders: Of hordes, theft and nationalism (and Leonardo in Westwood)
• ### Professor Thiago Puglieri Explores True Blue
• ### Grad student Natalie Zhang to be featured at the 2025 Getty Graduate Symposium
• ### George Manginis presents, “Pretty in Pink: A Portrait of Queen Olga of Greece at the Benaki Museum.”
• ### Dr. Serdar Yalçin’s presents “From One Hand to Another: Turbulent Lives of Cylinder Seals from Ancient Western Asia.”
• ### Global Antiquity’s Faculty Lunch Series features Professor David Schneller.
• ### In Fowler Museum exhibition, ancient Peruvian objects reveal search for meaning, connection with nature
• ### UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lecture presents Mark Godfrey
• ### Faculty New Book Event and Discussion followed by holiday celebration
• ### Emeritus Professor Dell Upton contributes to “Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design”
• ### Summer 2025 Travel Study Info Session: Art History – Madrid & Paris
• ### Professor George Baker to speak and share excerpts of his book at the Menil Collection
• ### Professors Hui-shu Lee and Lothar von Falkenhausen to participate in the 2024 Sammy Yukuan Lee lectures on Chinese Art and Archaeology.
• ### Charlene Villaseñor Black to speak at Fowler Museum Gallery Talk on October 25
• ### Prof. Kristopher Kersey named the Ishibashi Visiting Professor
• ### The 59th Annual UCLA Graduate Symposium on October 18
• ### Visual arts specialist Robert Gore named UCLA Librarian of the Year
• ### Prof. Saloni Mathur announced as MoMA Scholar in Residence
• ### Congratulations to the Class of 2024!
• ### Call for Papers for the 59th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium entitled In Crisis
• ### “Treasures of Peru” trip lead by Prof. Stella Nair in Summer 2025
• ### Professor Thiago Puglieri appointed Getty Scholar for 2024-2025 academic year
• ### Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen to be featured speaker at UCLA Fowler Museum
• ### On ZOOM: Joan Kee talk on Thursday, May 30 at 5 PM
• ### CANCELLED: 2024 Millson Lecture on Monday, May 6th
• ### CANCELLED: “New Perspectives on Chandigarh and Le Corbusier” Discussion Panel on Monday, May 20.
• ### CANCELLED: “Archival Challenges and Strategies Seminar” presents Naveena Naqvi and Yuthika Sharma.
• ### Professor Thiago Puglieri to deliver talk at Columbia University on April 18th
• ### The 2024 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture featuring Kellie Jones
• ### Professor Zirwat Chowdhury to be featured speaker in UCSC’s lecture series, Crossings, on April 17, 2024.
• ### Professor Stella Nair to be a featured speaker at Harvard University on April 5, 2024.
• ### The Mellon Foundation awarded a $1 million grant to UCLA’s Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation
• ### Sylvia Tongyan Qiu to deliver lecture for the Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies’ Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship program
• ### The 2024 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture presents Charlene Villaseñor Black
• ### Professor Hui-shu Lee to deliver three part lecture series on Chinese art history.
• ### Professor George Baker’s Q&A in the Bruin Bookshelf Spotlight
• ### Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black to present the 2024 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture on March 4
• ### Professor Hui-shu Lee to deliver keynote lecture at Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World symposium
• ### RESCHEDULED for Tuesday, April 16th: UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Lecture
• ### Canceled today.
• ### In Memoriam: Professor Anthony Vidler (1941-2023)
• ### UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Sally Stein Presents Her Second Talk on Feb. 5th.
• ### Sally Stein delivers the first of two lectures: “The Cons and Pros of Portraiture in Contemporary Art Discourse and Practice.”
• ### Professor Lamia Balafrej to deliver talk at the Index of Medieval Arts’ “The Medieval Multiple” on January 27th.
• ### In memoriam: David Kunzle, 87, a founder of comics scholarship with wide-ranging interests
• ### Professor Stella Nair to present research in “Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas: Land from Water”
• ### UCLA Arts Council Distinguished Scholar Lecturer Sally Stein to deliver talk on Monday, January 22, 2024
• ### Professor Zirwat Chowdhury offers perspective on William Blake’s exhibition at the Getty Center
• ### Professor Thiago Puglieri quoted in UCLA College Magazine: “The Next 100 Years”
• ### Professor Chowdhury to lead an artist’s walk through at the Hammer Museum on February 13
• ### Global Antiquity Workshop, “(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds” on December 4-5
• ### The Florentine Codex: Public Event at the Fowler Museum
• ### “Converting Natural Resources: Representations, Performances, Narratives” Two Day Conference
• ### Artist Talk with Sanford Biggers and Tiffany E. Barber
• ### Screening of Mãri Hi – The Tree of Dream
• ### Moche Deathscapes: Performance, Politics, and the Creation of Myth in Huaca La Capilla–San José de Moro (AD 650–740), Peru
• ### Reconsidering the Generation of the 1930s: The Roots and Breadth of Greek Modernism Conference
• ### Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, Conference 1: Global Edo: Edo in the World and the World in Edo
• ### Register now for the 58th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium on Oct. 27th
• ### MOCA Store Presents George Baker’s Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography Conversation and Book Signing
• ### Art History Department Welcome Lunch on September 27th at 12 PM
• ### Register to attend the UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium
• ### Professor Bronwen Wilson’s Two New Publications Available Now
• ### Professor Stella Nair appointed as a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks for Pre-Columbian Studies
• ### Professor Meredith Cohen Receives the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
• ### Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black Feature on UCLA Residential Life
• ### Joanna Woods-Marsden (1936-2023)