Art History at Columbia University
When the National Research Council, in its most recent report, rated Columbia as the foremost institution in the nation for art history scholarship, it again recognized a legacy of excellence dating back more than seven decades. Meyer Schapiro earned Columbia's first Ph.D. in the field in 1929 with a dissertation that was to revolutionize the study of Romanesque art. In the years since, scholars here have shaped nearly every area of study in the field: art and architecture of the Americas until 1550 to postmodern, style analysis to critical theory.
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Announcements
Julia Bryan-Wilson named President of the 2024 International Jury for the Venice Biennale
Barry Bergdoll is the 2024 recipient of a Humanities Faculty Award for Academic Excellence
MODA Curates announces - Looking for Ourselves: Gauri Gill’s The Americans, 2000–2007
Ioannis Mylonopoulos organizes virtual exhibition for his fall term 2023 Art Humanities class
Anne Higonnet named Barbara Novak Professor of Art History at Barnard College