Daniel Zolli (PhD, 2017), who is currently Assistant Professor of Art History and Agnes Scollins Carey Memorial Early Career Professor in the Arts at the PennState College of Arts and Architecture has been awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association for his article, “Making Up Materials: Donatello and the Cosmetic Act.”...

The Department of History of Art and Architecture extends heartfelt congratulations to the eleven graduate students who received PhD degrees during the 2022–2023 academic year.
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Congratulations to all the degree recipients of the A.B. in History of Art and Architecture, 2023:
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Congratulations to HAA graduating seniors Rosie Collier and Adam Dwyer on winning the 2023 Hoopes prize for their respective theses: Prayer in the Perilous Realm: The Impossible Landscape of Hieronymus Bosch’s Hermit Saints, and Operative (Work)Space: Rethinking the Office Layout Informed by Traditional Japanese Building Practice.

The Hoopes Prize, funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, recognizes excellent undergraduate work, usually in the form of a senior thesis.

Scott Rothkopf, HAA Class of ’99, has recently been appointed as the Director of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Scott previously served as the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator in 2015, and Senior Deputy Director in 2018. Prior to his work at the Whitney, Scott served as the Senior Editor of Artforum International from 2004 through 2009. He began his curatorial career at the Harvard University Art Museums, organizing Mel Bochner: Photographs, 1966–1969 (2002) and Huyghe + Corbusier:...