We are finishing our grading, and concluding a spring filled with hurried changes to our teaching strategies and a dramatic shift in our relationship to our institutions. Now it is time to engage in the critical process of reflection, as we seek a way forward for the coming year, filled as it is with uncertainties. This much is clear: the viral pandemic transforming our lives has amplified a sense of crisis that has, for years, permeated higher education. But while colleges and universities may now seem to be at the brink of a long-anticipated transformation, this is just one aspect of a broader condition of systemic crisis that may well come to define the early twenty-first century. The ecological, economic, political, and other systems that support organized human life seem poised for precipitous and turbulent change.
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May 5, 2020
PhD candidate Allison Perelman has been awarded this year's Pollard-Stein award for excellence in teaching. Allison has served as an MTE for the last three years in Intro to Western Art, Architecture and Design; Intro to Asian Art, and Intro to Modern Art, Architecture and Design.
May 5, 2020
Congratulations to our colleagues Nate Jones and Ila Sheren, who have both received tenure. They will both be promoted to the rank of Associate Professor on July 1, 2020. We are delighted to share this excellent, and much-deserved good news!
http://https://source.wustl.edu/2020/04/board-of-trustees-grants-faculty-appointments-promotions-8/
March 4, 2020
Orin Zahra, PhD candidate and Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, was featured in a CNN article on the exhibition Graciela Iturbide's Mexico on February 27, 2020. Follow this link to read the CNN article, "Graciela Iturbide's images reveal untold stories of indigenous Mexico."
Zahra was the liason curator for the exhibition, which was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition is on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. from February 28–May 25, 2020. Follow this link to go to the exhibition page on the NMWA's website.
February 17, 2020
From February 12 to February 15, a number of faculty members, graduate students, and one undergraduate major attended the College Art Association's 108th Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. For four days, attendees visted the conference's book fair, attended a variety of paper panels, participated in workshops, and networked with fellow art historians and museum professionals. Many attendees also visited nearby cultural institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
December 18, 2019
On December 7, 2019, Prof. Childs delivered a talk "Gauguin in Colonial Tahiti: Dream, Reality and Encounter" at the National Gallery, London, on the occasion of their exhibition "Gauguin: Portraits" which is at the museum until January 26, 2020. She also presented on the exhibition to a group of Washington U alumni in London, on that same trip.
December 18, 2019
In Early December 2019, Professor Wallace accompanied five graduate students to Washington DC (Julie James, Stephanie Dolezal, Emily Thompson, Hua Zhao, and Hannah Wier) with the primary goal to see the exceptional exhibitions of Andrea del Verrocchio and Alonso Berruguete at the National Gallery of Art.
December 5, 2019
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.
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.