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Professor Kavita Singh (5 November 1964—30 July 2023): The Department of History of Art, and our University of Cambridge community, mourns the loss of Professor Kavita Singh (5 November 1964—30 July 2023), the 2022-2023 Slade Professor in Fine Art

17 October 2023

Professor Singh was a leading scholar in the study of South Asia’s court painting and contemporary politics of collecting and museums. She served as the Dean at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, where she taught since 2001, and was distinguished for the energy she brought to her...

The Department welcomes Professor Pascal Griener as our new Slade Professor of Fine Art for 2023-24. The lecture series is entitled 'The fate of Art in the Industrial Age: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), and the Gates of Hell (1880-1917) in context'.

12 October 2023

The 2023-2024 Professor of Fine Art is Professor Pascal Griener. This lecture series is entitled: 'The fate of Art in the Industrial Age: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), and the Gates of Hell (1880-1917) in context'. The history of the human race on earth now has a name: the Anthropocene . During the nineteenth century, the...

Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women’s Liberation: a new book by Dr Amy Tobin has been published by Yale University Press and is featured in their 'Fifty Books for Fifty Years'

11 October 2023

This book offers a fresh look at the history of feminist informed art making, focusing on the 1970s when the Women’s Liberation Movement was most active. Rather than tell this story through one artist, or one medium or one strand of feminism, I wanted to register the complex ways artists negotiated women’s liberation...

Cultures of Camouflage and Mimicry Among Humans and Other Animals: CRASSH Research Network Seminars convened by Professor Caroline van Eck

10 October 2023

Camouflage is not the exclusive domain of animals. Humans also practice it, in hunting, war and fashion, social behaviour, and the arts. It is not restricted to artefacts; it also occurs in social behaviour, when people disguise their social status, desires, or motives behind appearances they judge to be more acceptable or...

Engaging Pembroke: inaugural exhibition curated by Professor Rosalind Polly Blakesley

3 October 2023

The development of the Old Press / Mill Lane site by Pembroke College has created a dynamic new city quarter, as well as providing additional accommodation for the College, publicly accessible gardens, and exhibition and performance spaces. This inaugural exhibition features Cambridge-based artists Xinyi Bi , Rebecca Ilett...

Dr Amy Tobin has major article on 'Candace Hill-Montgomery, Against Containment' published in Art History Journal

2 October 2023

The article was published in Art HistoryVolume 46, Issue 1 and can be read here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8365.12709

The Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate Will Aslet on being elected to the Scott Opler Fellowship in Renaissance Art and Architectural History at Worcester College, Oxford

31 July 2023

To find out more, visit: https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/about/scott-opler-fellowship-renaissance-art-and-architectural-history

The Department would like to congratulate Professor Deborah Howard on winning the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023

20 June 2023

Professor Deborah Howard has won the award for the project ' Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto in the Age of Palladio '. All winners are now up for a Public Choice Award and voting is open here: https://vote.europanostra.org For more information about the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards visit...

Announcing the 2023/24 CVC Visiting Research Fellows

12 June 2023

With great pleasure, we announce the 23/24 cohort of Visiting Research Fellows as Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (Michaelmas 2023), Professor Carol Payne (Michaelmas 2023), Dr Elizabeth Emrich-Rougé (Lent 2024), and Kimberley Foster (Easter 2024). (Residency terms indicated). . These researchers will join us and departments...

SADE. Freedom or Evil: an exhibition curated by Head of Department Professor Alyce Mahon has opened at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

11 May 2023

Sade was a clandestine and censored writer who was imprisoned, but is now a classic author for French literature. He was acclaimed as a revolutionary who supported freedom, whilst arousing scandal and outrage. The exhibition looks at the stereotypes associated with his name and explores the aesthetic, philosophical and...

Professor Kavita Singh (5 November 1964—30 July 2023): The Department of History of Art, and our University of Cambridge community, mourns the loss of Professor Kavita Singh (5 November 1964—30 July 2023), the 2022-2023 Slade Professor in Fine Art

The Department welcomes Professor Pascal Griener as our new Slade Professor of Fine Art for 2023-24. The lecture series is entitled 'The fate of Art in the Industrial Age: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), and the Gates of Hell (1880-1917) in context'.

Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women’s Liberation: a new book by Dr Amy Tobin has been published by Yale University Press and is featured in their 'Fifty Books for Fifty Years'

Cultures of Camouflage and Mimicry Among Humans and Other Animals: CRASSH Research Network Seminars convened by Professor Caroline van Eck

Engaging Pembroke: inaugural exhibition curated by Professor Rosalind Polly Blakesley

Dr Amy Tobin has major article on 'Candace Hill-Montgomery, Against Containment' published in Art History Journal

The Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate Will Aslet on being elected to the Scott Opler Fellowship in Renaissance Art and Architectural History at Worcester College, Oxford

The Department would like to congratulate Professor Deborah Howard on winning the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023

Announcing the 2023/24 CVC Visiting Research Fellows

SADE. Freedom or Evil: an exhibition curated by Head of Department Professor Alyce Mahon has opened at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

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