Department News
December 2021
AHAR Statement on Graduate Student Strike
Avinoam Shalem receives multi-year Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories Grant
October 2021
Holger Klein curates "The Way We Remember" at the Wallach Art Gallery
April 2021
Nicole Meily, Graduate Programs Manager, receives a 2021 Chinweike Okegbe Service Award
December 2020
September 2020
Holger A. Klein Writes Op-ed on the Conversion of Kariye Museum
Arts and Race Critical Collective
Michael Cole's Sofonisba Monograph Reviewed in the London Review of Books
June 2020
Kellie Jones Named Inaugural Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art
April 2020
Zainab Bahrani elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
March 2020
Michael Cole, first Howard McP. Davis Professor of Art History
February 2020
Avinoam Shalem appointed 24th Director of the American Academy in Rome
January 2020
Stephen Murray receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Picardy, Jules Verne
Media Center awarded 2-year Digital Art History Grant by the Kress Foundation
November 2019
Denise Murrell '13 PhD named associate curator for 19th and 20th century art at the Met
October 2019
Mellon Post Doctoral Teaching Fellowships/Lectureships for 2020-2022
Open rank position: Art History with Expertise in LGBTQ Scholarship
May 2019
Meredith Gamer receives 2018-2019 Faculty Mentoring Award.
April 2019
Watch Zainab Bahrani in conversation on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq and Syria
Zainab Bahrani named 2019 Carnegie Fellow
Kellie Jones elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
January 2019
Avinoam Shalem named 2018/19 Getty Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute
December 2018
October 2018
David Freedberg to receive the Sigillum Magnum of the University of Bologna
September 2018
MA in Art History Presents: Looking East: James Justinian Morier and Nineteenth-Century Persia
August 2018
May 2018
Michael Waters named as a 2018/2019 I Tatti Fellow
Branden Joseph awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
Kellie Jones receives Honorary Degree from Amherst College
April 2018
Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asian Art History
March 2018
Eleonora Pistis leads an Early Modern Architecture Workshop on Piranesi
MODA CURATES 2018 opens March 24 at the Wallach Art Gallery
Barry Bergdoll curates "Mies's McCormick House Revealed: New Views"
February 2018
Inaugural MODA Alumni Crafts Talks February 27
Kellie Jones awarded the inaugural College Art Association Award for Excellence in Diversity.
Simon Schama co-hosts new TV series, Civilisations, on BBC Two
Aaron Rio, Minneapolis Museum of Art, lecture On the Margins of Japanese Ink Painting History
January 2018
Avinoam Shalem's newest book now in print - The Chasuble of Thomas Becket
December 2017
Mellon Post Doctoral Teaching Fellowships/Lectureships for 2018-2020
September 2016
Prof. Kellie Jones, recipient of 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, interviewed in the L.A. Times
May 2016
The Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art announces two Post Doctoral positions
Columbia's Global Programs in Art History and Archaeology -- Summer 2016
March 2016
Prof. Vidya Dehejia's Mellon Lecture excerpted in Art Newspaper
February 2016
Announcement: Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art
Prof. Rosalind Krauss -- Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by CAA
January 2016
Professor Robert Harrist -- "The Joy of Looking" in Columbia College Today
December 2015
November 2015
Announcement: Meredith Gamer and Michael J. Waters will join faculty in Fall 2016
May 2015
Caleb Smith Memorial Fellowship For MA Students
March 2015
Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Doctoral Summer Travel Fellowships for 2015
February 2015
Ghosts of the Past: Nazi-Looted Art and Its Legacies Conference
August 2014
June 2014
April 2014
March 2014
A Symposium in Honor of Miyeko Murase, Atsumi Professor Emerita
February 2014
Professor Ioannis Mylonopoulos Receives a 2014 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award
April 2013
Barry Bergdoll Receives 2013 Architecture Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
Mellon Post Doctoral Teaching Fellowships/Lectureships for 2013-15
November 2012
Barnard Art History Seminar Application Deadlines Extended to November 7
October 2012
Now on View at MoMA PS1: "Now Dig This!," Curated by Professor Kellie Jones
September 2012
August 2012
May 2012
Professor Rosalind Krauss Elected to the American Philosophical Society
April 2012
Professor Barry Bergdoll Named a 2012 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
February 2012
Professor Holger A. Klein Receives a 2012 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award
January 2012
Professor Vidya Dehejia Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India
Mellon Post Doctoral Teaching Fellowships/Lectureships for 2012-14
November 2011
October 2011
Professor Kellie Jones Curates "Now Dig This!" at the Hammer Museum
Mapping Gothic France: Digital Insights Into the Genius of Medieval Cathedrals
September 2011
MODA Students Launch Online Journal
August 2011
Building the Great Cathedrals Nominated for Two Emmy Awards
May 2011
Professor Rosalind Krauss Receives Honorary Degree from Harvard University
Professor Holger A. Klein Receives the Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching
Professor Ioannis Mylonopoulos Receives a 2011 Faculty Mentorship Award
March 2011
February 2011
Undergraduate Open House to be Held on Feb. 17
January 2011
Professor McKelway to Appear in "Daredevil of Ink Painting: Rosetsu Out of Bounds" on NHK
December 2010
Professors Theodore Reff and Miyeko Murase Honored at Ceremonies in New York
Media Center for Art History Develops Interactive Website for Treasures of Heaven Exhibition
November 2010
October 2010
Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983
September 2010
Professor Murray to be Featured on Building the Great Cathedrals, Oct. 19 on NOVA/PBS
August 2010
Dual Slade Professors, Oxford and Cambridge
The Judith Lee Stronach Center, One Year Later
Miyeko Murase Travel Fund Launch
June 2010
Professors Murray and Joseph Named to Endowed Professorships