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Department and University Celebrate Top Rankings in Complete University Guide 2026

12 June 2025

The Department is delighted to announce that it has been ranked first in the UK in the Complete University Guide 2025 . This outstanding recognition reflects the department’s continued commitment to academic excellence, world-leading research, and exceptional student experience. We are equally proud to share that the...

Call for Sessions: Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference

11 June 2025

We are delighted to announce that next year’s conference will be held in collaboration with this department. The Annual Conference attracts around 400 attendees each year and is popular with academics, curators, practitioners, PhD students, early career researchers and anyone engaged with art history research. Members of...

The Department congratulates PhD student Ane Cornelia Pade on being awarded The Burlington Magazine scholarship for the study of French eighteenth-century fine and decorative art

9 June 2025

The scholarship provides funding over a 12-month period to those engaged in the study of French 18th-century fine and decorative art to enable them to develop new ideas and research that will contribute to this field of art historical study.

The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art is proud to retain our Athena Swan Bronze Award for Gender Equality

13 May 2025

The Athena Swan award is a national framework used in higher education and research to promote gender equality and advance the careers of women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) and other fields. It recognises institutions and departments that demonstrate a commitment to creating a more...

The Department congratulates MPhil student Luca Ferraro on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2025

4 April 2025

The 170th Men's Race will take place on Sunday 13 th of April March from 2:21pm between Putney and Mortlake. For more information and details on how to watch: https://www.theboatrace.org/spectator-information

Dr Laura Slater will be speaking at a research seminar in Paris in April 2025

19 March 2025

Dr Laura Slater, Associate Professor in the History of Medieval Art and Architecture, will be speaking at the Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire/Seminar in Franco-British History in Paris (Maison de la Recherche de l’université Paris IV-Sorbonne) on Thursday 3rd April on: ‘Philippa of Hainault: Queenship, Music and...

Associate Professor of the History of Art, Frank Salmon, will feature on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' programme with Melvin Bragg at on Thursday 6 February

29 January 2025

Dr Salmon and two other colleagues will be discussing the life and work of the English architect John Soane (1753-1837), who rose from being a bricklayer's son to become the architect of the Bank of England and of King George IV's entry spaces to the House of Lords. For this, among other public works, Soane received a...

Professor Emeritus Paul Binski has recently published a new book entitled 'Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages'

20 January 2025

How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new approach, Architecture and...

Elections to the Slade Professorship of Fine Art, 2025–2030

16 December 2024

The Department is pleased to announced that the following persons have been elected by the ad hoc Board of Electors to the Slade Professorship of Fine Art: 2025–26 Professor Terence Smith, University of Pittsburgh 2026–27 Professor Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths , University of London 2027–28 Professor Tamar Garb, University...

Professor Alyce Mahon’s new exhibition Surrealism in the Service of Distraction is currently on show at the Galerie Raphael Durazzo, Paris, until 23 November 2024, as part of the centennial celebrations of Surrealism by France’s Comité des Galeries d’Art

25 October 2024

Focused on Surrealists Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Dorothea Tanning, in dialogue with contemporary painters Sara Anstis, Piper Bangs and Ginny Casey, the exhibition celebrates the subversive potential of ‘distraction’ for women artists. https://www.raphaeldurazzo.com/exhibitions/19-le-surrealisme-au-service-de-la-...

Department and University Celebrate Top Rankings in Complete University Guide 2026

Call for Sessions: Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference

The Department congratulates PhD student Ane Cornelia Pade on being awarded The Burlington Magazine scholarship for the study of French eighteenth-century fine and decorative art

The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art is proud to retain our Athena Swan Bronze Award for Gender Equality

The Department congratulates MPhil student Luca Ferraro on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2025

Dr Laura Slater will be speaking at a research seminar in Paris in April 2025

Associate Professor of the History of Art, Frank Salmon, will feature on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' programme with Melvin Bragg at on Thursday 6 February

Professor Emeritus Paul Binski has recently published a new book entitled 'Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages'

Elections to the Slade Professorship of Fine Art, 2025–2030

Professor Alyce Mahon’s new exhibition Surrealism in the Service of Distraction is currently on show at the Galerie Raphael Durazzo, Paris, until 23 November 2024, as part of the centennial celebrations of Surrealism by France’s Comité des Galeries d’Art

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