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We would like to congratulate HAA Graduate Student Tai Mitsuji for winning the 2023–2024 Bowdoin prize. Presenting unseen and unpublished light-sheet enhanced images from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Tai Mitsuji’s paper demonstrates how Édouard...

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. Max Boersma – Technical Difficulties: Abstraction's Entanglements in the World...

Congratulations to all the degree recipients of the A.B. in History of Art and Architecture, 2023: Yasmeen Alfaqeeh Calla Bai Brandon Israel Calderón Hannah Chew Rosie Collier Kenny Coplan Adam Dwyer Daria Evdokimova Anna Gong Zoë Hopkins Elizabeth...

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...

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...

March 10–May 27, 2023 Friday | Saturday 12:00–6:00 pm Lower Level of 485 Broadway, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 The Cave Dance project harnesses the power of machine learning to reconstruct and reimagine the dance culture of Dunhuang, a complex...

A trailer for the book is available through this link. The exhibition catalog Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums: 2022), which includes numerous contributions from members of the department, has been named...

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...

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...

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...