News
Wednesday, January 2nd
Dr. Krista Thompson, the Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, will deliver her lecture "Tom Lloyd and the Boundaries of Art History," at the Keynote Address of the 48th Annual Middle Atlantic Symposium on March 1st.... [more]
Thursday, November 1st
Dr. Adrienne Childs, who received her Ph.D. from the Department in 2002, returns to campus to deliver the fall keynote lecture at the David C. Driskell Center on Friday, November 16th at 6 pm, following a reception at the Center at 5 pm. It will be wonderful to see Dr. Childs, who also was a resident scholar at the Center for many years, back on campus!... [more]
Wednesday, October 24th
What is nature? What is civilization? How can the two co-exist? Art has been proposing a series of answers to these questions since long before the crisis of climate change.
Dr. Joshua Shannon is offering "Art and the Environment" this spring at The Phillips Collection at the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at Art and the Environment as either a Non-Credit Workshop or For-... [more]
Wednesday, September 19th
The Baltimore Museum of Art has appointed Asma Naeem (PhD, UMD) Chief Curator, effective September 24th, 2018. Dr. Naeem previously served as Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Media Arts at the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian... [more]
Wednesday, September 19th
Madeline Gent, hired just late last year as executive director of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, is garnering praise for her transformative work leading the venerable Pittsburgh institution, according... [more]
Wednesday, September 19th
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Portrait Gallery has organized a significant symposium on portraiture, at which several department alumni will feature, either as speakers or moderator. The Edgar P. Richardson Symposium will be held... [more]
Saturday, July 28th
Students in Professor Jason Kuo's spring class, under his direction, have curated an exhibition at the Brentwood Arts Exchange, Transient Identity: Figure & Form. Drawing on the work of three artists, Lorenzo Cardim, Victor Ekpuk and Wilfredo Valladares, students have curated an exhibition that explores the transient nature of identity through a range ofart in a variety of media.
Sunday, July 15th
Dr. Ashley Lazevnick has been awarded the University of Maryland - Phillips Collection post-doctoral fellowship for academic year 2018-2019. Dr. Lazevnick, who recently completed a dissertation at Princeton University on the use of the term "precision" in art criticism, poetry. philosophy, and science in the early-twentieth century, will expand her project this year while at the University of... [more]
Monday, July 2nd
The Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture are delighted to announce the appointment, effective July 2, of Christian "Chris" Cloke as Associate Director of the Michelle Smith Collaboratory.
Thursday, May 17th
Dr. Adrienne L. Childs and Dr. Susan H. Libby, both of whom earned their PhDs in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, have together edited The Black Figure in the European Imaginary, the catalogue of an exhibition of the same name at the... [more]
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