Thomas Cummins and Joanne Rappaport (Georgetown University) were awarded the 2012 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for their book Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, published by Duke University Press.

British Art Makes Comeback
HAA course explores museum's hidden treasures 
by John P. Aloian

Professor Yukio Lippit, guest curator of the Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800) exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Urban Utopias 
China’s swift march from communal housing to market mansions 
by John S. Rosenberg 
exhibition curated by Prof. Eugene Wang

Harold W. Forsyth, Ambassador of Peru has bestowed a Decoration of the Order “To Merit for Distinguished Services” in the Degree of “Great Cross”, upon Dr. Thomas B.F. Cummins Monday, December 12th, 2011.

Professor Emeritus James S. Ackerman, former Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts.

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 
11th International Architecture Exhibition 
La Biennale di Venezia

Harvard Gazette story

A passion for unloving art 
Professor is drawn to Russian, Soviet avant-garde
by Alexandra Perloff-Giles ’11
photo by Stephanie Mitchell

Professor Explores History of Photography 
by Rachel J. Sapire, Harvard Crimson Contributing Writer
 

Oleg Grabar 
1929-2011

International Conference on Mimar Sinan organized by Gülru Necipogğlu on behalf of the President of Turkey in Sinan's birthplace, Kayseri. Harvard presence in this event: Howard Burns, Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Alina Payne. 

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A focus on British art 
Exhibition finds the present reflected in 19th century works 
by Colleen Walsh

Art historian John Max Rosenfield received this year’s Charles Lang Freer Medal in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the field of Asian art history. Rosenfield, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of East Asian Art, Emeritus, at Harvard University, became the thirteenth recipient of the award on April 12, 2012.

Smithsonian News Release

Professor Emerita Irene J. Winter, former William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts.

Barnard Medal of Distinction 2009
Preeminent scholar. Beloved teacher and prolific author. Expert on the art and architecture of ancient Mesopotamia. With enviable authority and depth of knowledge, you unfailingly bring the past to light.... Read more about Irene Winter retires

Gülru Necipoğlu, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986) is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She has been the editor of Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture and Supplements to Muqarnas since 1993.

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Objects of instruction 
Faculty members discuss use of Harvard’s collections in teaching and learning 
by Paul Massari
photo by Kris Snibbe