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Michelle Young, Class of '04, publishes new book - "The Art Spy: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance Spy Rose Valland"

August 15, 2022

Michelle Young, HAA '04 will be publishing a nonfiction book about the female French Resistance member and art historian Rose Valland, entitled The Art Spy: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance Spy Rose Valland with HarperOne (an imprint of Harper...

Harvard Art Journal, Vol. VI - Special 25th Reunion Edition, May 2018

July 22, 2022

In May of 2018, a 25th anniversary reunion issue of the Harvard Art Journal was published. The Department of History of Art and Architecture has been given permission to host and provide access to this edition which is available here. HAA is grateful to...

HAA PhD candidate Louis Copplestone awarded the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship

July 06, 2022

Congratulations to HAA PhD candidate Louis Copplestone for recently being awarded the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship in History of Art and Visual Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Louis’ major field is South Asian art and architecture, with a...

New Publication “Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art”, by Patricio del Real

June 27, 2022

Professor Patricio del Real’s new publication “Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art” will be published at the end of August. The book provides “a nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art’s carefully...

Congratulations to HAA Undergraduate Degree Recipients 2022

May 27, 2022

Congratulations to all the degree recipients of the A.B. in History of Art and Architecture, 2022: Nuri Bhuiyan Alexis Boo Mark Chearavanont Kelsey Chen (Joint with Social Studies) Paige Coolidge George Cozens Sinead Danagher Paola Foster Andrew Haimovici...

HAA Student Prize Winners AY 21-22

May 27, 2022

Please join us in celebrating this years student prize winners from HAA. The Matthew Abramson '96 Prize for Best Senior Thesis in History of Art and Architecture - Congratulations to Paul Tamburro, who won for his senior thesis Orality and the Maya...

Stephanie Tung, Class of ’06, appointed as Byrne Family Curator of Photography at PEM

May 17, 2022

Stephanie Tung, class of ’06, has recently been appointed as the Byrne Family Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum. The role… “… oversees one of the nation’s oldest and largest photography collections. Formerly serving as PEM’s Assistant...

Brandon Presser, Class of '05

May 05, 2022

Since graduating, Brandon Presser, HAA Class of ’05, has worked in the Louvre, in Tokyo as an architectural apprentice, and in Thailand as a scuba diving professional. From there, he became the youngest person to join the writing team at Lonely Planet...

Professor Sarah Lewis selected as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow

May 04, 2022

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Lewis for being selected to the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow class. Established in 2015, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program awards scholars whose works address important issues confronting our society. Find out more here...

Professor Suzanne Blier elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 29, 2022

Congratulations to Professor Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, for her recent election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and...

Jack Alessio Pretto, Class of ’14

April 26, 2022

Jack Alessio Pretto, HAA Class of ’14, spent six years at Calvin Klein, first working on their built environments, and then as an art director. Before leaving, he art-directed the Calvin Klein Global Pride 2021 campaign where he had the privilege of...

Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Class of '07, opens new exhibition "Born of Informalismo: Marta Minujín and the Nascent Body of Performance"

April 18, 2022

Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann graduated from Harvard (AB-HAA) in ’07 and went on to complete a PhD in art history from Columbia University. Her research for her dissertation, “Populist Counter-Spectacles and the Inception of Mass Media Art in Argentina,”...