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Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 December 2022)

12 December 2022

It is with great sadness that the Department of History of Art announces the death of Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 December 2022). Duncan was a leading authority on modern British art, and a much-loved teacher and colleague. A graduate of English from Clare College Cambridge, he began his career as an...

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Jennifer Powell on her appointment as the new Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and Barber Professor of Fine Arts.

15 November 2022

Jennifer will take up her duties as Director of the Barber Institute and Barber Professor of Fine Arts on 9 January 2023 and we wish her well in her new role. Jennifer began her curatorial career at the V&A before becoming Assistant Curator of Modern British Art at Tate Britain in 2010. She moved the University of...

We are thrilled to announce the 22/23 Fellows of the inaugural Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowship programme

21 September 2022

The programme aims to renew and catalyse the study of ‘the visual’ by bringing fresh voices and approaches to the University and to extend visual culture studies into specialisms and fields which are under-represented in our research communities. Dr Abbas Akbari (University of Kashan) - Islamic lustreware Dr Anna Reid (...

Lord Parkinson, UK Government Minister for Arts, was among the speakers at the conference 'Diverse Modernities: British Architecture beyond Modernism, 1918-present' hosted by the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture

13 September 2022

The conference took place at Downing College, Cambridge on September 8th 2022. For more information visit: https://csca.aha.cam.ac.uk/conference-diverse-modernities/

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Laura Slater on being awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Studies in British Art

18 May 2022

For more information, see: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/fellowships-and-grants/awarded/spring-2022/page/1

The Department would like to congratulate Professor Alexander Marr on being awarded a Senior Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

16 May 2022

For more information visit: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/fellowships-and-grants/awarded/spring-2022/page/1

The Department of History of Art and the Centre for Film and Screen are delighted to announce that we have recently appointed Xin Peng and Kareem Estefan as Assistant Professors with the view to expand the study of moving image

4 May 2022

Kareem Estefan and Xin Peng will be joining the Centre for Film and Screen in September 2022 and will also both make History of Art their departmental home. These appointments result from and respond to the growth of postgraduate study in Film and Screen Studies at Cambridge over the past several years. Kareem’s and Xin’s...

Professor Deborah Howard has published a new book: 'Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto in the Age of Palladio'

4 April 2022

The book, published in Rome by Officina Editore (for the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura [CISA], Vicenza), 2021), was the outcome of Professor Howard's Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship (2017-19). An exhibition called Acqua, terra, fuoco, based on the research, will open at the Palladio Museum in Vicenza in...

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Krisztina Ilko on her new role as a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College

28 March 2022

Krisztina's JRF project ‘The Pawns of History: A New Approach towards the Global Middle Ages’ will use chess to find a tangible approach to the global medieval past. For more information visit: https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/dr-krisztina-ilko

5 star reviews for 'Hockney's Eye' the new David Hockney exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum

16 March 2022

★★★★★ "This exhibition leaves you in awe of Hockney" — The Guardian ★★★★ "A blooming good show" — The Telegraph ★★★★ "Art history and scientific discovery encounter one another on equal terms" — The Times One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer...

Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 December 2022)

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Jennifer Powell on her appointment as the new Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and Barber Professor of Fine Arts.

We are thrilled to announce the 22/23 Fellows of the inaugural Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowship programme

Lord Parkinson, UK Government Minister for Arts, was among the speakers at the conference 'Diverse Modernities: British Architecture beyond Modernism, 1918-present' hosted by the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Laura Slater on being awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Studies in British Art

The Department would like to congratulate Professor Alexander Marr on being awarded a Senior Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

The Department of History of Art and the Centre for Film and Screen are delighted to announce that we have recently appointed Xin Peng and Kareem Estefan as Assistant Professors with the view to expand the study of moving image

Professor Deborah Howard has published a new book: 'Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto in the Age of Palladio'

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Krisztina Ilko on her new role as a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College

5 star reviews for 'Hockney's Eye' the new David Hockney exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum

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