For the Center for the Humanities, John Klein marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henri Matisse on December 31 with a meditation on the “slow looking” the artist’s work rewards.
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November 27, 2019
October 4, 2019
In September Professor John Klein gave the paper "Shchukin as Incubator: Decoration and Patronage" at an international conference on the Russian collector Sergei Shchukin, held at the Pushkin State Art Museum, Moscow.
September 16, 2019
Doctoral students Kirsten Marples and Allison Perelman both delivered public gallery talks at the Saint Louis Art Museum this past month, in conjunction with the exhibition "Paul Gauguin : The Art of Invention."
September 4, 2019
Dr. Ila Sheren will be giving a talk, "Human, Nonhuman, Both or Neither? Bear 71 as Border Crosser" at the New Media Caucus Symposium at the University of Michigan on September 20: https://events.umich.edu/event/63626.
September 4, 2019
On Thursday, October 3, Dr. Ila Sheren will give the talk "Border Art for a Border Ecology" at the Liquid Borders/Fronteras Liquidas Conference hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Washington University in Saint Louis (https://rll.wustl.edu/events/south-midwest-v-international-conference-latin-american-cultural-studies).
April 22, 2019
In April 2019, Professor William Wallace received the Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Faculty Award, and Curator of Visual Resources Betha Whitlow received the Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Staff Award. These awards are nominated and voted on by graduate students to recognize contributions to their life and work on campus. Ph.d. Candidate Lindsay Sheedy presented Professor Wallace with his award, while M.A. student Holly Chen presented Betha with her award.
Lindsay Sheedy, Betha Whitlow, William Wallace, and Holly Chen
April 22, 2019
Art History majors Ebonie Pollock and Madison Wrobly were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa on April 18, 2019. Sophomore Art History major Jonathan Cher received Phi Beta Kappa's Wheeler Book Award, which recognizes superior course selection and achievement during a student's first three semesters at WUSTL.
Ebonie Pollock Madison Wrobley
Ebonie Pollock, Professor Vincent Sherry (English), and Professor Elizabeth Childs (Art History)
Jonathan Cher
April 8, 2019
The Department of Art History and Archaeology is pleased to announce that Nathaniel Jones' book Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome has been published by Cambridge University Press.
October 30, 2018
Professor Klein’s new book, Matisse and Decoration, was published by Yale University Press. You can see a short page-turn video here.
June 14, 2018
The exhibition "Balance and Opposition in Ancient Peruvian Textiles" will open in the main hall of the Saint Louis Art Museum starting June of 2018. The show is curated by Dr. Deborah Spivak, current Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Ancient American Art, who will be teaching courses for the Department of Art History and Archaeology this coming fall.
April 11, 2018
Currently, Professor Angela Miller is teaching the seminar "The City in American Arts and Popular Culture, 1910-1940" at Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, MO. She has joined a widening group of faculty participating in the Prison Education Project, launched in 2014 and sponsored by Washington University. Find out more about PEP here.
February 9, 2018
The Department of Art History and Archaeology was cited in the announcement of the "Faculty for the Next Generation" grant of $1.5 million given by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Center for the Humanities to stimulate innovations in the training of PhD students.
Read more about the Mellon grant here.
February 5, 2018
Angela Miller will receive $50,400 to continue the project “Countermoderns: Reason and Magic in the Artistic and Literary Circle of Lincoln Kirstein.” Kirstein was a founder of the New York City Ballet, and an advocate for gay and bisexual artists such as Jared French, Paul Cadmus, and George Tooker.
January 8, 2018
Dr. Wallace was nominated by the Dean of Arts & Sciences for this celebrated award. To read more about the honor, click here.
December 7, 2017
In October 2017, Prof. Elizabeth Childs, who is on sabbatical this year, delivered two talks in Europe. The first concerned the aesthetic and cultural meanings of the tropical woods used by Paul Gauguin in the sculptures produced in his first trip to Tahiti (1891-93). She delivered her paper "L'alchimie des tropiques: matérialité de la sculpture tahitienne de Gauguin," in the international colloquium "Gauguin, le droit de tout oser" at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, in conjunction with the exhibition "Gauguin l'alchimiste" on view at the Grand Palais. She also reviewed the exhibition (at its Chicago venue, in the summer of 2017) for The Burlington Magazine (vol. CLIX, September 2017), pp. 761-762. You can read the review here.
October 10, 2017
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Alexis Clark has reviewed Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? (ed. Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski) and Cultures of International Exhibitions, 1840-1940: Great Exhibitions in the Margins (ed. Marta Filipovà) for the fall 2017 issue of Oxford Art Journal.
September 26, 2017
James Anno (PhD Spring 2017) assumed his new position at the Capodimonte in Naples Italy, where he will oversee and help promote the collections of 15th and 16th century Italian art. Dr. Anno worked with Professor William Wallace on a dissertation on Michelangelo. His position at the Capodimonte is supported by the American Friends of Capodimonte. Anno will also be involved with writing didactic materials at the museum. His appointment received notices in two city editions of national newspapers. With Anno are his wife and two young children, who are attending Italian schools.