12 Dec 2022
Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL, FSA (27 June 1943 - 2 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 Assistant Keeper in the Depa…
15 Nov 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.
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 Cambridge as Head of Collections, P…
21 Sep 2022
We are thrilled to announce the 22/23 Fellows of the inaugural Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowship programme
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 lustrewareDr Anna Reid (Princeton University) - Britis…
13 Sep 2022
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 conference took place at Downing College, Cambridge on September 8th 2022. For more information visit: https://csca.aha.cam.ac.uk/conference-diverse-modernities/
18 May 2022
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
For more information, see: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/fellowships-and-grants/awarded/spring-2022/page/1
16 May 2022
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
For more information visit: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/fellowships-and-grants/awarded/spring-2022/page/1
4 May 2022
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
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 research and teaching will…
4 Apr 2022
Professor Deborah Howard has published a new book: 'Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto in the Age of Palladio'
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 November 2022.
28 Mar 2022
The Department would like to congratulate Dr Krisztina Ilko on her new role as a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College
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
16 Mar 2022
5 star reviews for 'Hockney's Eye' the new David Hockney exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum
★★★★★ "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 TimesOne of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fi…
2 Mar 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art condemns the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, affirms democratic Ukraine's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, and joins with the Vice Chancellor in encouraging our community to assist through donations to support Ukrainians at this time of crisis and to support Ukrainian and…
22 Feb 2022
The next History of Art Masterclass is on Wednesday 13 April 2022
The next History of Art Masterclass is on Wednesday 13 April 2022, 16:15 – 18:45 (UK time).Open to both UK & International students in Year 12 (S5 for Scotland, Year 13 for NI, or equivalent, including mature students).This Masterclass will be delivered virtually by academic staff and current students from the Faculty of History of Art. Attending t…
7 Feb 2022
Cambridge Visual Culture Roundtable: Cambridge collections: new global perspectives
Monday 21 February, 1-3pmGallery 3, Fitzwilliam MuseumThe University of Cambridge houses globally significant collections of art and material culture, yet the display and research of these collections has largely taken place within Western disciplinary and institutional frameworks. As the University’s museums seek to embrace new global perspectives…
31 Jan 2022
Cambridge Visual Culture: Call for Visiting Research Fellowships in Visual Culture 2022
Cambridge Visual Culture (CVC) invites applications for a new programme of residential Visiting Research Fellowships in Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. The programme aims to renew and catalyse the study of ‘the visual’ at Cambridge by bringing fresh voices and approaches to the University, and to extend visual culture studies into sp…
12 Jan 2022
The Slade Lectures in Fine Art Lent Term 2022: The Department is delighted to welcome Maria Balshaw CBE as our new Slade Professor
The Future of Museums:A series of lectures by Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate and Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of Cambridge, Spring 2022.As the world continues to endure the multiple economic and cultural consequences of living through and with a global pandemic that has disrupted social life as we have known it, museums in the UK an…
