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Recent PhD Orin Zahra receives honorarium from Smart History

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The essay on Hungarian-Indian modernist painter, Amrita Sher-Gil will be published on Smart History and Khan Academy.

William Wallace's article "A God Takes a Break from Mischief" published in Wall Street Journal

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This essay was written in honor of the late Mark S. Weil, the E. Desmond Lee Professor Emeritus for Collaboration in the Arts and former chair of Art History and Archaeology.

Graduate Student Alexis Carr's New Perspectives talk at the Kemper Art Museum

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Alexis Carr is a second-year graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. She will be giving a New Perspectives talk at the Kemper Art Museum titled "Mythologizing the West: A Conversation About American Identity, National Heros, and Their Representations" on January 27, 2022.

In Memoriam: Mark S. Weil, Emeritus Professor Art History

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The Department of Art History and Archaeology mourns the passing of our esteemed colleague.

Dr. John Klein gave the annual Thompson Lecture at the Flint Institute of Arts

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Professor John Klein gave a lecture entitled, “Picasso’s Guernica: For the Moment, For All Time.”

Mia Laufer named Associate Curator of the Des Moines Art Museum

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Jenny Wu reviews Hannah Wilke Show

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The show was held at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis

In Memory of Danielle Taylor Leventhal

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New Reviews for Books Published by Professor Claudia Swan

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Dr. Swan's books are reviewed by CAA and Hyperallergic.

2018 Alumna Chloe Cook is the Conservation Coordinator for the Menil Collection

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Alumna Chloe Cook shares news about a new position.

2020-2021 Newsletter of the Department of Art History and Archaeology

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The second volume of the newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology was published in August 2021.

Undergraduate Student Gloria Jin Publishes Paper in the Northwestern Art Review

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Undergraduate student publishes paper about the Imperial Court of Maria Theresa.