Our teaching staff are all much in demand internationally and our graduates fill top posts in UK art and other higher education institutions, as well as in other walks of life. Whether you are visiting the site to learn about all the research and teaching activities that are going on here or because you are thinking of applying to study with us we hope you will find much that is of interest.

This term we are hosting the Slade Lectures in Fine Art, which will be given by Professor Tim Barringer of Yale University on the subject of art and music in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. We also welcome Professor Matthew McKelway who will lecture on Japanese fan painting and lead a graduate seminar. This is the first in a termly series of a research exchanges with Columbia University in the City of New York that will see Professor Deborah Howard visit Columbia from Cambridge. Our regular Research Seminar series has an impressive range of speakers from the United States, Europe and the UK on the theme of ‘Visualizing Knowledge’, while we have mounted a joint lecture series with the Department of Slavonic Studies on ‘Display in Russian Culture’. Meanwhile, sixteen of our undergraduates have just benefited from an internship programme at the Fitzwilliam Museum, specially designed to introduce them to the work of a museum.

We hope you enjoy navigating our site and that you will feel free to contact us if you want further information about our activities.

Dr Frank Salmon
Head of Department