# News Listing for Build List of posts showing all news items ## All news by news date [### Professor Ioli Kalavrezou Inducted to the Academy of Athens ](/news/2026/08/professor-ioli-kalavrezou-inducted-academy-athens) August 04, 2026 We would like to congratulate Professor Ioli Kalavrezou in recognition of her induction as a member of the Academy of Athens, the ceremony of which happened this past May. She takes a position specializing in Byzantine Culture. Prof. Kalavrezou was... ![Professor Ioli Kalazrezou and the president of the Academy of Athens](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-08/Ioli%20and%20the%20president%20of%20the%20Academi_1.jpg?itok=xhrh0nhj) [### HAA Alumna Makeda Best Appointed MoMA’s Next Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography ](https://press.moma.org/news/makeda-best/) June 03, 2026 The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointment of Makeda Best as the next Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography. MoMA has exhibited and collected photography since its founding in 1929, and formally established a Department of... ![Makeda Best Portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Makeda-Best_Photo-Unique-Nicole-768x1075.jpg?h=9877c0da&itok=aZJuzrhR) [### HAA 2026 Senior Thesis Prize Winners ](/news/2026/05/haa-2026-senior-thesis-prize-winners) May 26, 2026 From left to right: Charissa Shang, John Weaver, Catherine Mignone, Carrie Lambert Beatty. Congratulations to this year’s HAA prize winners: Abramson Prize: John Weaver, for his senior thesis Worldly Heaven: Elephanta’s Polyvalent Program and Sacred... ![from left to right: Charissa Shang, John Weaver, Catherine Mignone, Carrie Lambert Beatty](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/_NZF2735.jpg?itok=2s9dXRPq) [### Catherine Mignone, Marin Gray, and John Weaver Awarded Hoopes Prizes ](/news/2026/05/catherine-mignone-marin-gray-and-john-weaver-awarded-hoopes-prizes) May 22, 2026 Congratulations to our HAA Class of 2026 Hoopes Prizes Winners: John Weaver with "Worldly Heaven: Elephanta's Polyvalent Program and Sacred Geography", Catherine Mignone with "Sources are Forgotten: Diamonds and Ethnic Solidarity", and Marin Gray with "... ![Hoopes Prize Winners 2026](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/IMG_9424-2.jpg?h=35829651&itok=3LfpvfPO) [### HAA Graduate Student Ebonie Pollock Awarded Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2026 – 2027 ](https://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/fellows-recipients/fellow/ebonie-pollock/) May 06, 2026 The Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2026 – 2027 has been awarded to Ebonie Pollock, a PhD Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Harvard University, for her dissertation ​ “Gold Would Not Be Too Precious a Medium”... ![Ebonie Pollock Portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Pollock_Ebonie_00.jpg?itok=lQxlMzV4) [### Byron Otis and Marin Gray Awarded the Bowdoin Prize ](/news/2026/05/byron-otis-and-marin-gray-awarded-bowdoin-prize) May 04, 2026 Congratulations to Marin Gray (HAA class of 2026) and Byron Otis (HAA G3), who have both been awarded Bowdoin Essay Prizes for 2025-2026. They are two of only six awardees total for the year. The Bowdoin Prizes, some of Harvard’s oldest and most... ![Marin Gray (left), Byron Otis (right)](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/marinbyron.png?itok=-wJiMxFH) [### The Professor Jeffrey Hamburger Co-Edited "Power, Patronage, and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in American Collections" Has Been Released. ](/news/2026/04/professor-jeffrey-hamburger-co-edited-power-patronage-and-production-book-arts-central) April 29, 2026 Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Beatrice Kitzinger, and Joshua O’Driscoll. Studies and Texts 242; Text Image Context: Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination 11 xxvi, 378 pp. incl. 232 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-88844-242-0 This volume complements and... ![Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination 11 xxvi](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/9780888442420-768x954.jpg?itok=yabs3kl0) [### HAA Graduate Student Walid Akef Appointed Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in UMass Amherst ](https://www.umass.edu/art-history/news/welcoming-walid-akef) April 28, 2026 The Department of the History of Art and Architecture is pleased to welcome Walid Akef as a new faculty member who will teach Islamic Art and Architecture starting fall 2026. Akef is currently completing his PhD in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic... ![Walid Akef](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/IMG_4320.jpeg?itok=QsmflbqR) [### Mapping Color in History: What goes into the making of Krishna’s blues on paper or palm leaf? ](https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/mapping-color-in-history-harvard-university-11776590610126.html) April 21, 2026 How blue is Krishna? The poet can get away by responding with a metaphor, calling the dark god Ghanashyam, a storm cloud. Krishna, passionate lover, desired by many and desiring many, is the dark cloud, writes the poet, about to descend on the beloved... ![Detail from 'Toilet of the Nayaka', 1615.(Mapping Color in History)](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/krishna.jpg?itok=4dvJ2tCi) [### The Power of Looking: Cécile Fromont uses art to interrogate what societies choose to see—or ignore. ](https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/power-looking) March 23, 2026 Fromont focuses on how global exchange—through the intertwined histories of Christianity, empire, and the slave trade—shaped artistic practices and ideas about power, identity, and spirituality across continents. “What I’m interested in at the core is how... ![Professor Cecile Fromont](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/CecileFromont1-0397.jpg?itok=ethTZgWl) [### The Frick Collection Appoints HAA Alumnus Aaron Wile As New John Updike Curator ](https://artdaily.com/news/191217/Frick-appoints-new-John-Updike-Curator) February 20, 2026 NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection today announced the appointment of Dr. Aaron Wile as its new John Updike Curator. He will take up the post on April 6, 2026. In this senior curatorial role, Wile succeeds Dr. Aimee Ng, who became the museum’s Peter Jay... ![dr aaron wile portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.05.26-pm.png?h=1cadc5bc&itok=yAT7wZY0) [### Professor Sarah Lewis Honored As One of TIME Magazine's 2026 Closers ](https://time.com/collections/closers-2026/7353401/sarah-lewis/) January 27, 2026 Sarah Lewis is on a mission to make sure Black artists get their due. As a curator, an art and cultural historian, and an academic, Lewis is guided by a big question: “What is the role of art and culture for determining who counts, and who belongs, in... ![Sarah Lewis, Photo by Joyanne Panton](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/2026_TIME%20The%20Closers_IG%20Post_21January2026_SL.png?itok=-eIV3isv) [### Kongo Christianity: The Intersection of Two Worlds ](https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/kongo-christianity-intersection-two-worlds) November 20, 2025 [Professor] Cécile Fromont reflects on the history of Christianity in the Kingdom of Kongo and how it is expressed in Kongolese culture through the lens of a crucifix at The Met. When we look at Kongo Christian visual culture, we know there is an entire... [Cécile Fromont](/people/c%C3%A9cile-fromont) ![Kongo Christianity Thumbnail](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/kongo.jpg?itok=E_KFI74l) [### Professor Felipe Pereda Awarded Sheila ffolliott Prize for "The Man who Broke Michelangelo's Nose" ](https://www.sixteenthcentury.org/ffolliottprize) November 05, 2025 The Sixteenth Century Society has awarded Professor Felipe Pereda's The Man who Broke Michelangelo's Nose The Sheila ffolliott Prize for the Best Book in Art History for 2025. The Sheila ffolliott Prize recognizes the best book written in English and... ![The Man Who Broke Michelangelo's Nose](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/michanose.jpg?h=aee8341e&itok=JJlSUW0s) [### Vibrant global exchange: US researchers uncover the pigments in traditional Indian paintings ](https://scroll.in/article/1086724/vibrant-global-exchange-us-researchers-uncover-the-pigments-in-traditional-indian-paintings) October 24, 2025 By analyzing the chemical composition of pigments, Harvard’s Mapping Color in History initiative showcases a new layer of Indian art. Against a deep blue backdrop, sword-wielding demons attempt to disrupt a sacred ritual. Ram, who is dressed in a yellow... ![bvuznauduv](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/209723-bvuznauduv-1759498152.jpeg?itok=A5ejJoSr) [### Prof. Jinah Kim Collaborates on New MFA Exhibit focused on Red, Yellow and Gold in South Asian Paintings ](https://mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2025/10/mfa-exhibit/) October 08, 2025 “Color is elemental, a fundamental phenomenon of the natural world. In the hands of artists it takes many forms. Compared to the intermingled colors an Impressionist painter might use or muted hues a Chinese landscape artist would deploy, South Asian... ![Professor Jinah Kim](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/42-980x551.png?itok=XKDMB-Zw) [### Professor Sarah Lewis Wins 2025 American Book Award for Her Book The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ](https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/) September 17, 2025 Professor Sarah Lewis is among the winners of the 2025 American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation. "The 2025 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday, October 26, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., at the Maude Fife Room, Wheeler... ![Sarah Lewis Unseen Truth Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/616VsBdvQKL._SL1000_.jpg?itok=Au5PfPKD) [### Professor Cécile Fromont featured on Harvard Gazette Article "Seeing what you see" ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/seeing-what-you-see/) September 17, 2025 Cécile Fromont believes that something new can be revealed about an artwork or artifact every time someone lays eyes on it. It’s one of the reasons she loves the classroom environment, where she and her students can examine objects of visual and material... ![Cecile Fromont Gazette ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/fromontgazette.jpg?itok=EbbtobK3) [### HAA Graduate Student Icey Lin Received Outstanding Academic Award at Peking University International Forum ](/news/2025/09/haa-graduate-student-icey-lin-received-outstanding-academic-award-peking-university) September 03, 2025 Congratulations to HAA Ph.D. student Icey Lin for earning first place in the Art History panel at the 2025 International Doctoral Student Forum for Art Studies, hosted by Peking University. Her paper, “Life after Life: Re-interpreting Yingxian Timber... ![Icey Lin Portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/iceyimage003.png?itok=-QAnH4FN) [### Professor Eugene Wang Delivered Keynote at Peking University International Forum on “Intelligence and Art” ](/news/2025/09/professor-eugene-wang-delivered-keynote-peking-university-international-forum) September 02, 2025 Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, delivered the keynote address at Peking University’s 2025 International Doctoral Student Forum for Art Studies, organized under the theme “Intelligence and Art.” His lecture, “How Do We Code... ![Poster for Eugene Wang's How Do We Code Colors talk. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/ibluecolorsmage005.png?itok=EbMFvL_y) [### HAA Alumna Anne D’Alleva Selected as president of Binghamton University ](https://www.bupipedream.com/news/anne-dalleva-selected-president/168300/) August 21, 2025 Anne D’Alleva, the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Connecticut, was appointed on Tuesday morning during a closed executive session meeting. She will begin her duties on Nov. 1. Before becoming UConn’s first... ![Anne D’Alleva ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/IMG_9206-1024x683.jpeg?itok=1gvGL-3K) [### Veritalk: Professor Jennifer Roberts on How Art Helped NASA See First Image of Mars ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzWITRcg1y4) July 18, 2025 In the latest episode of Veritalk , Jennifer Roberts, the Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, explores the unexpected connections between art and science. She shares how NASA engineers used art materials while awaiting the first... ![Professor Jennifer Roberts](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/f8c34f89-c81e-4f2a-52a9-dadef5ed075a.png?itok=aBWnkrLx) [### Congratulations to the 2025 PhD recipients ](/news/2025/05/congratulations-2025-phd-recipients) May 30, 2025 The Department of History of Art and Architecture extends heartfelt congratulations to the thirteen graduate students who received PhD degrees during the 2024–2025 academic year. Bay Bakshi — Agitational Photography, 1930–1945: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Claude... ![PhD Recipients speaker with a professor during graduation reception](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-06/_NZF2828.jpg?itok=DRso6ivd) [### Congratulations to HAA Undergraduate Degree Recipients 2025 ](/news/2025/05/congratulations-haa-undergraduate-degree-recipients-2025) May 30, 2025 Congratulations to all the degree recipients of the A.B. in History of Art and Architecture, 2025: Kya Brooks Hanna Carney Priscilla Cheav Nick Chehwan Bristol Fales-Hill Candace Gardner Max Goeggel Jane Josefowicz Kardelen Kilic Eileene Lee Julian Li... ![Commencement ceremony in Harvard Yard.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/commenncementimg.jpg?itok=bvcvHGA0) [### HAA 2025 Senior Thesis Prize Winners ](/news/2025/05/haa-2025-senior-thesis-prize-winners) May 30, 2025 Congratulations to this year’s HAA prize winners (from left to right): Abramson Prize: Alejandra Riambau, for her senior thesis Tidal Shifts: Water as Metaphor in Cuban Contemporary Art The Matthew Abramson '96 Prize is awarded by faculty vote to the one... ![From left to right: Alejandra Riambau, Hanna Carney, Bristol Fales-Hill](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/_NZF3060.jpg?itok=u4ojh3PN) [### Professor Christina Maranci Awarded Havard College Professorship ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/05/5-faculty-members-named-harvard-college-professors-2/) May 08, 2025 “'I am delighted to recognize these five outstanding colleagues for their contributions to teaching, mentorship, and research,' Hoekstra said. 'Their passion, rigor, and creativity inspire our students every day, giving them the opportunity to ask big... ![Christina Maranci Profile](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-06/Christina_Maranci.jpg?itok=QL5u6CzH) [### Professor Jinah Kim: Uncovering the palette of the past ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/uncovering-the-palette-of-the-past/) March 31, 2025 When Jinah Kim learned in 2016 that Museum of Fine Arts conservation scientist Michele Derrick had detected cobalt in a 15th-century Indian manuscript, she was presented with an obvious explanation: the document had probably been retouched later... ![Jinah Jim in front of a museum shelf](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/020525_Jinah_Kim_Portrait_0047.jpg?itok=s7PTSaFJ) [### Professor Jeffrey Hamburger Honored at the Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America ](/news/2025/03/professor-jeffrey-hamburger-honored-centennial-meeting-medieval-academy-america) March 30, 2025 At the centennial meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, held this March in Cambridge, a session, ”Women’s Religious Communities: A Roundtable Discussion of Past Scholarship and New Directions,” was held in honor of the contributions of Prof. Jeffrey... ![Lecture Honoring Professor Jeffrey Hamburger ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-04/2025_MAA_Hamburger2025-04-21%20at%2016.07.43%202%281%29.jpeg?itok=9ei58ml-) [### HAA PhD Alumna Jordan Troeller to Publish "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury" via MIT Press ](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049498/ruth-asawa-and-the-artist-mother-at-midcentury/) March 26, 2025 The book be out May 6th, 2025. "How a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children. "For most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a... ![Ruth Asawa and the artist-mother at midcentury cover ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-06/81hqGrZTAwL._SL1500_.jpg?itok=nS_xfzKx) [### Professor Sarah Lewis Gave Remarks at the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination at the UN ](https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1161396) March 24, 2025 Professor Sarah Lewis, founder of Vision & Justice initiative, underscored the importance of Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, as the blueprint to eliminate racism and protecting human rights She said that many societies were built on racial... ![Sarah Lewis UN](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/image1170x530cropped.jpg?itok=idYU7W4x) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [4](?page=3 "Go to page 4") - [5](?page=4 "Go to page 5") - [6](?page=5 "Go to page 6") - [7](?page=6 "Go to page 7") - [8](?page=7 "Go to page 8") - [9](?page=8 "Go to page 9") - [ Last page 12 ](?page=11 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")