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Read more at: The Department congratulates MPhil Student Cecilia Zhou on winning the Gordon Duff Prize

The Department congratulates MPhil Student Cecilia Zhou on winning the Gordon Duff Prize

10 July 2024

The Gordon Duff Prize is awarded annually for an essay on a subject relating to the science or arts of books and manuscripts. It is open to all University of Cambridge members, students, staff and alumni. A copy of the winning essay is deposited in the Manuscript Department of the University Library. More information about...

Read more at: The Department is pleased to congratulate alumna Isobel Muir on her recent appointment as Associate Curator of Post-1800 Painting at the National Gallery

The Department is pleased to congratulate alumna Isobel Muir on her recent appointment as Associate Curator of Post-1800 Painting at the National Gallery

11 June 2024

Muir, who completed the History of Art Tripos in 2014 and recently passed her PhD (a CDA with the National Gallery and Durham University), will be working on the Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition.

Read more at: The Minister for Arts and the future for UK art history: Cambridge convenes a high-level policy meeting

The Minister for Arts and the future for UK art history: Cambridge convenes a high-level policy meeting

16 May 2024

Lord Parkinson gave the keynote speech at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Impact Acceleration Award (IAA) policy meeting. View the full transcript of the speech here: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/arts-heritage-minister-lord-parkinsons-speech-to-the-arts-and-humanities-research-council

Read more at: The Department deeply regrets to note the death of Dr William Noel following a road accident in Edinburgh on April 10. He was 58

The Department deeply regrets to note the death of Dr William Noel following a road accident in Edinburgh on April 10. He was 58

3 May 2024

Dr Noel (Will) was a distinguished alumnus of the Department, and was John T. Maltsberger III '55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University at the time of his death. A graduate of Downing College, Will went on to PhD study with Professor George Henderson, graduating in 1992. A...

Read more at: We are delighted to announce that William Aslet has passed their PhD! We congratulate Dr Aslet for this fantastic achievement

We are delighted to announce that William Aslet has passed their PhD! We congratulate Dr Aslet for this fantastic achievement

29 April 2024

Dr Aslet’s thesis is entitled: ‘James Gibbs’s Early Career: The Formation of a European Architect’ and was supervised by Dr Frank Salmon .’

Read more at: Junior Research Fellow in the Department Dr Saul Nelson has just had a book entitled 'Never Ending Modernist Painting Past and Future' published by Yale University Press

Junior Research Fellow in the Department Dr Saul Nelson has just had a book entitled 'Never Ending Modernist Painting Past and Future' published by Yale University Press

24 April 2024

A new history of postwar painting that explores how the desire to look backward shaped some of the period’s most radical artmaking This incisive account of modernism’s postwar development examines how painters, such as Joan Mitchell, Barnett Newman, and Rose Piper, invoked tradition in order to respond to, participate in...

Read more at: Seismic Graduate Student Symposium Takes Place in New York

Seismic Graduate Student Symposium Takes Place in New York

15 April 2024

The 12 th Annual Cambridge-Columbia Symposium took place in New York on Friday 5 th April, thanks to the generosity of sponsor Dr John Weber and the support of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology. The event saw six Cambridge PhD students present papers alongside six counterparts from Columbia...

Read more at: The Department congratulates Charlotte Macey on being selected to compete in the women's lightweight Boat Race crew 2024

The Department congratulates Charlotte Macey on being selected to compete in the women's lightweight Boat Race crew 2024

19 March 2024

The lightweight Boat Race is held the day before the openweight boat races on the same course from Putney to Mortlake. The lightweight crew have trained alongside the openweights since August 2023. Charlotte Macey will be joined in the women's lightweight crew by Georgia Gollogly from the Department of Architecture. For...

Read more at: The Department congratulates MPhil student Kenneth Coplan on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2024

The Department congratulates MPhil student Kenneth Coplan on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2024

14 March 2024

Kenneth Coplan is joined in the squad by Sean Hayes, a PhD student from the Department of Architecture. The 169th Men's Race will take place on Saturday 30th March from 15:46 between Putney and Mortlake. For more information visit: https://www.theboatrace.org/squads/cambridge-mens-2024#

Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate Dr Georgios Markou on his appointment as Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at Cyprus University of Technology

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Georgios Markou on his appointment as Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at Cyprus University of Technology

8 December 2023

Dr Markou will take up his position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at Cyprus University of Technology on 2 January 2024 and we wish him well in his new role. Dr Markou read Archaeology and History of Art at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, before going to the University of Warwick...

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