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The Department is delighted to announce that Dr Daniel Zamani, whose PhD In search of the Holy Grail : medieval tropes and the 'occultation of surrealism' in the work of André Breton, ca. 1928-1957 (2017) was supervised by Professor Alyce Mahon, has been appointed Artistic Director of the Museum Frider Burda, Baden Baden...

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.

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...

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...