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Professor Hamburger appointed the Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture, has been appointed the Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Art, for the academic year 2019–2020. Among the projects on...
Multiple Awards for Professor Roxburgh's "An Album of Artists’ Drawings from Qajar Iran"
An Album of Artists’ Drawings from Qajar Iran , ed. David J. Roxburgh (Cambridge, Mass., and New Haven: Harvard Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press, 2017). Has won the following awards: 50 Books | 50 Covers (Selected as one of the 50 best...
In Memoriam: Linda Marie Rodriguez
Linda Marie Rodriguez was a scholar of all things Cuban. Her attributes as a scholar are best represented in her main art historical project developed around José Antonio Aponte, a free black painter, born in Havana around 1760, who created a now-lost...
Professor Shawon Kinew speaks to the Harvard Gazette
New HAA faculty member, Shawon Kinew's interview with the Harvard Gazette
Oliver Wunsch and Jennifer Quick in the June 2018 issue of the Art Bulletin
Oliver Wunsch, "Watteau, through the Cracks,” pp. 37–60. Antoine Watteau’s paintings decayed rapidly. Soon after his death, his contemporaries bemoaned the cracks ravaging his works. They regarded the problem as the product of Watteau’s restless character...
Professor Neil Levine awarded the Médaille de l'Histoire de l'art by the Académie d'Architecture
The Académie d’Architecture started life in 1840 as the Société Central des Architectes (SCA). This was three years after its analogue in England, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and seventeen years before the American Institute of...
Professor Ioli Kalavrezou meets with the Head of the Greek Orthodox Church.
In Athens in early June, Professor Kalavrezou met privately with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, recognized as the “Green Patriarch” for his engagement in environmental issuesto discuss ecology, health care, and the relation...
Professor Sarah Lewis in The Harvard Crimson - ‘A Leader of Growing Stature in the Art World’: Sarah Lewis Makes Her Mark
See full Crimson article here.
Professor Lajer-Burcharth named Walter Channing Cabot Fellow
Walter Channing Cabot Fellow fellowships are given annually to few faculty in recognition of their achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history or art. The award reflects her outstanding contributions to her field, including...
Professor Joseph Connors - Harvard Gazette: A Detailed Narrative of Rome
‘Eternal City’ professor notes papal influences, legacy of Bernini in Harvard Art Museums lecture. Known as the “Eternal City,” a label that underscores its long history of both tests and triumphs, Rome is simultaneously the stuff of fantasy and fact...
David J. Roxburgh: Painting after the Mass-Produced Image. Bryn Mawr
Department Chair Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University “Painting After the Mass-Produced Image: Art in 19 th-Century Iran” Rulers of the Qajar dynasty (1779-1925) in Iran pursued a broad range of military...
Amelia Muller
Amelia Muller graduated from Harvard College in 2011 with a degree in History of Art and Architecture, magna cum laude with highest honors. Amelia remained in Cambridge following graduation, serving as a Harvard College admissions officer from 2011 to...
Professor Sarah Lewis: Helming New Yorker Instagram Account
See full article. Photo: A portrait of Douglas by Samuel Miller. Art Institute of Chicago
Harvard Gazette: Professor Joseph Koerner, The Burning Child
A time of change, a longing for home in Vienna Professor Joseph Koerner’s documentary in progress, "The Burning Child," traces the rise of creativity and the forces countering it in early 20th-century Vienna. Original article Documentary traces the rise...
Exhibition - Rome: Eternal City
On View January 20, 2018–May 6, 2018 University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums Rome, known as the “common fatherland,” was the goal of pilgrims, travelers, and artists from all over Europe. One of the most celebrated was Giovanni Battista Piranesi...
Exhibition - Looking Back: The Western Tradition in Retrospect
On View January 20, 2018–May 6, 2018 University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums The history of art is usually presented as a forward march, with individual works studied as points along a path of progress to the present. This installation—matching...
David Bindman & Suzanne Preston Blier: Art of Jazz: Form / Performance / Notes
Picture it: Saturday afternoons in the late 1970s, on a train bound from Yale University to New York, artist Romare Bearden, jazz critic Albert Murray, and writer Henry Louis Gates , Jr. are bound in deep conversation, pontificating on the nature of jazz...
Professor Sarah Lewis, NYT Book Review, The Rise: Dear Match Book: In Search of Works That Will Inspire the Artist in Me
In “The Rise,” Sarah Lewis, an art historian and curator, examines innovation with exhilarating range and fierce curiosity. She presents historical and contemporary examples such as the modern dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor, and the physicist Andre...
Professor Eugene Wang granted Harvard Global Institute award
Harvard Global Institute grants expand scope Eight projects to address climate change, urbanization, and human consciousness In its third year of awarding grants, the Harvard Global Institute (HGI) will fund eight projects that engage faculty across six...
Professor Sarah Lewis Receives 2017 Infinity Award from The International Center of Photography
The International Center of Photography (ICP) just awarded Sarah Lewis’s much-lauded Aperture issue “Vision & Justice” the 2017 Infinity Award in the Critical Writing and Research category). To celebrate this achievement, the ICP has released a short film...
Prof. Yukio Lippit has published a book out of the Getty Research Institute titled Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting.
Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
Alice Engel
Alice Engel graduated from Harvard College with a degree in History of Art and Architecture in 2004, and completed an MFA in Textile Design at Rhode Island School of Design in 2007. She currently works for Tiffany & Co., where she is an Interior Designer...
Anne Patrone
Anne Patrone graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a degree in the History of Art and Architecture. She had completed a number of internships in historical preservation while still in college, and though the original goal was to apply her degree to...
Anna L. Dickerman
Anna L. Dickerman graduated from Harvard University in 2005 with a degree in History of Art and Architecture, magna cum laude. While at Harvard, she sought to combine her interest in the brain and mind with her love of the arts, and ultimately won a...
Allidah Muiller
"I graduated from Harvard College in 2005 with a degree in History of Art and Architecture with high honors. While at Harvard, I honed my appreciation of works on paper as a study room assistant at the Fogg’s Mongan Center for Prints, Drawings and...
Matthew Lee
Matthew Lee graduated from Harvard College in 1992 with a degree in Fine Arts, magna cum laude, and soon after stuck his diploma in the gap between the fridge and the stove so he could begin boiling peanuts in earnest. As "Matt," he collaborates with his...
Sarah Lewis to give this year’s Ann Radcliffe Trust lecture during the Opening Days for new students at Harvard College
Sarah Lewis will give this year’s Ann Radcliffe Trust lecture during the Opening Days for new students at Harvard College. The Radcliffe Trust lecture is a key moment in the undergraduate experience, so, thanks to Professor Lewis, whom students nominated...
Eugene Wang to give the inaugural lecture for new lecture series at the SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies in London.
Eugene Wang, on October 6, 2017, will give the inaugural lecture for a new series of lectures in Chinese Buddhism at the SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies in London. https://www.soas.ac.uk/buddhiststudies/
Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art: Margaret Grace Innes and Jennifer Chuong awarded
The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art are awarded to graduate students in any stage of Ph.D. dissertation research or writing, for scholarship on a topic in the history of the visual arts of the United States. Although...