17 Oct 2023
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
12 Oct 2023
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'.
11 Oct 2023
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'
10 Oct 2023
Cultures of Camouflage and Mimicry Among Humans and Other Animals: CRASSH Research Network Seminars convened by Professor Caroline van Eck
3 Oct 2023
Engaging Pembroke: inaugural exhibition curated by Professor Rosalind Polly Blakesley
2 Oct 2023
Dr Amy Tobin has major article on 'Candace Hill-Montgomery, Against Containment' published in Art History Journal
31 Jul 2023
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
20 Jun 2023
The Department would like to congratulate Professor Deborah Howard on winning the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023
12 Jun 2023
Announcing the 2023/24 CVC Visiting Research Fellows
11 May 2023
SADE. Freedom or Evil: an exhibition curated by Head of Department Professor Alyce Mahon has opened at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
27 Apr 2023
A newly commissioned artwork by alumna Sophie Mei Birkin has been unveiled at Trinity Hall
27 Apr 2023
Elain Harwood 1958-2023
25 Apr 2023
The Department would like to congratulate Dr Christina J. Faraday on the publication of her new book 'Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England'
24 Apr 2023
The Department of History of Art is delighted to announce that the 2023 Slade Lecture in Fine Art with Professor Kavita Singh, 'Endless Prospects: View From a Terrace in 18th-Century Lucknow', will take place on Friday 28th of April (online via Zoom)
13 Mar 2023
Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowships 23/24