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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...

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...

Five students from Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger’s graduate seminar, “The Diagram Paradigm,” have published articles based on work that originated in different iterations of the class in the latest issue of RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 81/82, Spring/Autumn...

Professor Seth Estrin's latest book, Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens, has been shortlisted for the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award. “The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, named in honor of one of the...

Muqarnas , the first journal in English dedicated solely to the history of Islamic art and architecture, celebrates the publication of its 40th volume in 2024. Up to this day, Muqarnas and the Muqarnas Supplements remain a vibrant platform that facilitate...

The University of Sydney honoured Dr Alan Cholodenko for his outstanding contributions to the University, admitting him as an Honorary Fellow. Dr Cholodenko first began teaching at the University in 1978, and quickly became a pivotal figure in the...

Growing up in Kolkata, Vishal Khandelwal – now an Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture in Harvard’s Department of History of Art + Architecture – was first introduced to the art history field right before he left India to attend DePauw...

Nolan Boomer, current PhD student, was awarded the Peter C. Marizo prize for their essay, “Against Maritime Industry: Two Utopian Visions for Las Cruces, Chile" by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston...

Congratulations to Ebonie Pollock for being named as this year’s Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship recipient! Ebonie Pollock is a PhD Student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Harvard University, where she studies African Diaspora Art...