Emerita Dianne Macleod wins (for the second time!) the Jacques Barzun Award in Cultural History from the American Philosophical Society for Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940 (UC Press, 2008).

Tuesday, 5 January, 2010: Melanie Ross (2nd-year MA candidate). "Exploring American Women Through the Eyes of Painter, Alice Neel. Art 210d, 4-6 pm

Wednesday, 18 November, 2009: Professor Katharine Burnett presents “Speculations on Why Originality Can't Be a 'Traditional Chinese Value' (When It Is)” at Harvard University

Monday, 16 November, 2009: Professor Katharine Burnett presents “Lee Mingwei's Album:  Copying and Originality in Contemporary Chinese and American Landscape Painting” at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

Tuesday, 10 November, 2009: Kristina Schlosser (2nd-year MA candidate) presents "Regarded/Disregarded: The Reception of Body/Culture: Chicano Figuration, from 1990-1992". Art 210d, 4-6 pm

Tuesday, 3 November, 2009: Laura Hutchison (2nd-year MA candidate) presents "Temporality in Form: Elements of Michelangelo's Theory on Human Proportion in Three of His Early Sculptures". Art 210d, 4-6 pm

Tuesday, 27 October, 2009: Blake Stimson, "Photography and Ontology ". Art 210d, 4-6 pm

Laura Hutchison (2nd-year MA candidate) publishes "From Cult Image to Object of Desire: Hellenistic Modes of Viewing the Aphrodite of Knidos" in the Oregon Art Review

Tuesday, 20 October, 2009: Diana Strazdes on "Some New American Donatello: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the Farragut Monument". Art 210d, 4-6 pm

Tuesday, 13 October, 2009: Lynn Roller (Undergraduate Advisor): Undergraduate Majors Reception and Orientation. Art 210d, 4-6 pm

Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh publishes “Art et architecture islamiques: des categories fluctuantes,” [Islamic Art and Architecture: Fluctuating Categories] in Perspective: La revue de l’institut national d’histoire de l’art (2009-1, pp. 91-98)

Professor Diana Strazdes publishes "Catharine Beecher and the American Woman's Puritan Home," in the September issue of The New England Quarterly

Professor Blake Stimson publishes two books: El eje del mundol Fotografia y nacion (The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation re-published in Spanish) and Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings (co-edited with Alexander Alberro)

Monday, 21 September 2009: Graduate Student Orientation. Facilitated by Diana Strazdes. 4pm. Location: TBA

Friday, 29 May, 2009: M.A. Oral Presentations will take place from 2-4:30 pm in Art 217

Wednesday, 20 May, 2009: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club: Film: "Lust / Caution". Art 217, 7 pm

Wednesday, 13 May, 2009: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club. Film: short films -- bring your favorites. Art 217, 7 pm

Tuesday, 12 May, 2009: ARTstor Demonstration with Dan Goldstein (Shields Library). Art 210D, 4:10 pm

Saturday, 9 May, 2009: Join the Art & Art History Club at the De Young Museum for the Warhol Live show. RSVP to carpool: we_heart_art@hotmail.com

Wednesday, 6 May, 2009: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club. Film: "La Jetee ". Art 217, 7 pm

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009: Victoria Sheridan, "Men of Virtue, Men of Vanity: the Self as Ornament to the City of Early Modern Venice". Art 210D, 4:10 pm

Wednesday, 29 April, 2009: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club. Film: "Blue". Art 217, 7 pm

Tuesday, 28 April, 2009: Diana Strazdes on "Applying to Graduate School & How to Obtain a Useful Letter of Reference". Art 210D, 4:10 pm

Thursday, 23 April, 2009: John Yau reads "Lunch Poem". Voorhees 126, 12 pm

Wednesday, 22 April, 2009: John Yau on "A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jsaper Johns". TCS Main Room, 7 pm

Wednesday, 15 April, 2009: Join the Art & Art History Club for their first meeting of the Spring Quarter. They will be making postcards so bring artsy materials. Some supplies will be provided. Art 217, 7 pm

Thursday, 9 April, 2009: Catherine Anderson, "Embodiments of Empire:
Imperial Bodies in Victorian Painting". 210D, 3:10 pm

Tuesday, 7 April, 2009: Ting Chang, "The Lost Labor of Travel:  Emile Guimet’s Museum of Asian Art in Paris". 210D, 3:10 pm

Wednesday, 1 April, 2009: Sonal Khullar, "The New Primitives". Art 203, 4:10 pm

Monday, 30 March, 2009: Ellen McBreen, "Matisse's Sculpture 1907-1908: L'Humanité féminine and the Origins of Difference". Art 210D, 4 pm

Monday, 23 March, 2009: Joyce Cheng, "Dolls, Puppets, Gods: Mediation and Metamorphosis of Playthings According to Walter Benjamin". Art 210D, 4 pm

Professor Emerita Dianne Macleod is a finalist for the Association of American Publishers 2008 PROSE Award and receives an Honorable Mention

Monday, 20 April, 2009: Dario Robleto, "Some Longings Survive Death". University Club Lounge, 12:10-1:15 pm. Co-sponsored by Art History

Dianne Macleod, Professor Emerita, teaching "Modernism in France, 1880-1940" on the French Riviera June 25-July 20

Visit the Art History Program's new Facebook page

Tuesday, 10 March, 2009: EndNote Workshop for Art History Graduate Students and Faculty. Shields Library, Lab 165, 4-6 pm

Friday, 6 March, 2009: Join the Art & Art History Club at the Robot Media event. Come and watch student films or submit one of your own. Chem 194, 8 pm

Wednesday, 4 March, 2009: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club.
Movie: "The Fall". Art 217, 7 pm

Tuesday, 3 March, 2009: Jonathan Katz, "Art, Eros and the Sixties" . 4:10 pm in Art 210D

Wednesday, 18 February, 2009: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club.
Movie: Andy Goldsworthy's "Rivers and Tides". Art 217, 7 pm

Tuesday, 17 February, 2009: Professor Katharine Burnett, "Sitting at the Grown-ups Table: Understanding the Whats and Whys of the Chinese Art Exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition". 4:10 pm in Art 210D

Professor Blake Stimson publishes two essays: "The Beauty of Documentary" and "For the Love of Abstraction"

Position Announcement: Assistant Professor of Modern Europe and Its Colonies, Program in Art History

Wednesday, 11 February, 2009: Card Making event with the Art & Art History Club. Art 217, 7 pm

Tuesday, 10 February, 2009: Professor Emeritus Dianne Macleod, "How Art Collecting Empowered American Women". 4:10 pm in Art 210D

Tuesday, 3 February, 2009: Ludovico Geymonat on "Planning the Apocalypse: Evidence from a Medieval Drawing". 4:10 pm in Art 210D

Wednesday, 2 February, 2009: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club.
Movie: "Millennium Actress". Art 217, 7 pm

Winter Quarter Lecture Series Flyer

Wednesday, 28 January, 2009: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club.
Movie: Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound". Art 217, 7 pm

Tuesday, 27 January, 2009: Lynn Roller, "Shades of Greekness: Continuity and Change in Roman Asia Minor". Art 210D in 4:10 pm

Second year graduate student Micki McCoy publishes "Red, Smooth, and Ethnically Unified: Ethnic Minorities in Propaganda Posters of the People's Republic of China" in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

Sunday, 25 January, 2009: Art & Art History Club visits the Legion of Honor and the De Young Museum in San Francisco. To RSVP, contact we_heart_art@hotmail.com

Friday, 16 January, 2009: Professor Katharine Burnett presents "Empowering Learning Through Online Teaching" at the Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program. 250 Olsen, 12 pm

Wednesday, 13 January, 2009: Movie Night with the Art & Art History Club. Movie: "Son of Rambow". Art 217, 7 pm (watch the trailer)

Saturday, 10 January, 2009: Join the Art & Art History Club at Second Saturdays. RSVP to we_heart_art@hotmail.com

Art History undergraduate student Anna Corbett awarded a 2009 President's Undergraduate Fellowship for her project "The Grosvenor
Gallery: A Marriage Between Art and Business" under supervisor Professor Catherine Anderson

Monday, 20 November, 2008: Jennifer Marshal, "The Art of Parts: Machines and Beauty in the Great Depression, MOMA, 1934". 12:10 pm in Young 198. Co-sponsored by the Design Department, Art, Art History & TCS Department, and History Department

Kristen Koch, graduating senior honors major in Art History, is named a winner of UC Davis's Prized Writing competition for her essay on John Singer Sargent's Venice views

Wednesday, 22 October, 2008: Art & Art History Club Movie Night. Movie: Persepolis. 5pm in Art 217

Wednesdays, Fall Quarter: Art & Art History Club Meetings. Come and join us every 5pm in Art 217

Lecturer Catherine Anderson publishes "A Zulu King in Victorian London: Race, Royalty and Imperialist Aesthetics in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain"

Tuesday, 7 November, 2008: Michael Corris, "The Dialogical Imagination: Art after the Beholder's Share from Abstract Expressionism to the Conversational Aesthetic of Conceptual Art". 4-6 pm in Art 210D

Tuesday, 21 October, 2008: Blake Stimson, "For the Love of Abstraction".
4-6 pm in Art 210D

Thursday, 16 October, 2008: Annual Outreach Reception. Faculty panel discussion, "What We Do and Why We Do It," followed by reception, 7-9 pm in Art 203

Tuesday, 14 October, 2008: Professor Lynn Roller will conduct an Advising Meeting with Undergraduate Majors. 4-6 pm in Art 210D

Tuesday, 7 October, 2008: Hannah Sigur will talk about her new book, The Influence of Japanese Art on Design. 4-6 pm in Art 210D

Tuesday, 30 September, 2008: Graduate Program Welcome (Back) Reception. 4-6 pm in Art 210D

Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh named Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, to research The City and Its Reverse: Performing Space and Gender in Islamic Urbanism

Professor Emerita Dianne Macleod publishes Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture

Professor Blake Stimson publishes The Meaning of Photography

5/30 MA Oral Presentations!

Art History and Medieval & Early Modern Studies Programs invite applications for a visiting lecturer position for academic year 2008-2009

Faculty Roundtable: What we do and why (oh why? do) we do it. Jeff Ruda, Heghnar Watenpaugh, Diana Strazdes and Katharine Burnett. POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING QUARTER. Please watch for new date and time!

Art History and Medieval & Early Modern Studies Programs invite applications for a visiting lecturer position for academic year 2008-2009

MA candidates Anna Glaze and Micki McCoy publish review of "Visualizing Revolution: PRC Propaganda Posters" (Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UCD) in Yishi: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

Friday, 30 May, 2008: MA Orals. 10:00 am to 3:00 pm in Art Annex, TCS Main Room

Friday, 30 May-31 May, 2008: Art & Art History Club Dance Marathan. Details to follow

Thursday, 29 May, 2008: Undergraduate Majors Reception, 3:00 pm at the Art Building Courtyard or Lobby

Wednesday, 21 May, 2008: Movie night. Movie TBA. 5pm in Art 217

Friday, 16 May, 2008: Miki McCoy presents "Spontaneous Resistance and the Performance of Memory: He Chengyoa's Live Art" at the Graduate Research Symposium. She will contribute to Panel 3 (Unbinding the Body: Sites & States of Alternative Embodiment), moderated by Professor Blake Stimson

Tuesday, 13 May, 2008: Jeff Ruda on "Masaccio and the Orator: Landino's Ornato in Theory and Practice." 4:10 pm in Art 210D

Saturday, 10 May, 2008: Second Saturdays. RSVP to we_heart_art@hotmail.com. Meet at True Love Coffeehouse, 6pm or carpool

Wednesday, 7 May, 2008: Art & Art History Club meeting. 5pm in Art 217

Tuesday, 6 May, 2008: "By Land or By Sea: Job Opportunities for the Art History Major at Park West Gallery." Speaker: Shari Hunter, Recruitment Manager, Fine Art Management, Park West Gallery. 4:10 in Art 210D

Saturday, 3 May, 2008: Khen Rinpoche, "Compassion in Tibetan Buddhist Art and Culture. 2 pm in Art 217 (location subject to change). (co-sponsored with the Crocker Art Museum)

Tuesday, 29 April, 2008: Katharine Burnett on "The End of Originality (as the Seventeenth Century Knew It)" 4:10 pm in Art 210D (co-sponsored by the 18th Century Research Cluster)

MA Art History alumnus Colin Dusek named an Intern at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Thursday, 17 April, 2008: Picnic Day. Art & Art History Club looking for volunteers. Please contact we_heart_art@hotmail.com. Sell your art at Picnic Day!

Wednesday, 16 April, 2008: Movie night. Movie TBA. 5pm in Art 217

Tuesday, 15 April, 2008: Saleema Waraich, Curator, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco: "Mughals and Markets in the Early Twentieth Century: The Art of M.A.R. Chughtai". 4:10 pm in Art 210D

14 April-25 April, 2008: Art & Art History Club Art Contest exhibition. Winning piece will be placed in the MU

Study "Modernism in France" on the Riviera with Emerita Professor Dianne Macleod

Saturday, 12 April, 2008: Second Saturday. RSVP to we_heart_art@hotmail.com. Meet at True Love Coffeehouse, 6pm or carpool

Saturday, 12 April, 2008: Symposium: Visualizing Revolution: Propaganda Posters from the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989 . Full symposium program

Thursday, 10 April, 2008: Opening Reception, Visualizing Revolution: Propaganda Posters from the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989

3 April-14 May, 2008: Nelson Gallery Exhibition: Visualizing Revolution: Propaganda Posters from the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989

Wednesday, 2 April, 2008: Art & Art History Club Meeting: first general meeting of the quarter. 5pm in Art 217

Monday, 31 March - Monday, 7 April, 2008: Accepting submissions for student art search contest

Wednesday, 5 March, 2008: Movie night with the Art & Art History Club
'Persepolis' at the Varsity. Time: TBA

Tuesday, 4 March, 2008: Catherine Anderson on "Imperial Faces: Britannia's 'Daughters' in Victorian Visual Culture"

Monday, 3 March, 2008: Frederic Jameson, Globalization and Totality

Sunday, 24 February, 2008: Field trip with the Art & Art History Club
Bodies Revealed exhibition in Sacramento

Wednesday, 20 February, 2008: Dessert Night and Meeting for the Art & Art History Club

Thursday, 14 February, 2008: Alexander Garcia Duettman (Professor, Goldsmith College, University of London), Come and Go: On the Very Concept of Late Style (Art History co-sponsored event)

Wednesday - Friday, 13-15 February, 2008: Alexander Garcia Duettmann", open seminar: Four Readings of Kant's Critique of Judgement: Heidegger, Adorno, Derida, Cavell

Sunday, 10 February, 2008: Field trip to the Legion of Honor with the Art & Art History Club. Leave Davis at 10 am, leave SF around 5 pm
(we_heart_art@hotmail.com to carpool)

Saturday, 9 February, 2008: Second Saturday with the Art & Art History Club

Thursday, 7 February, 2008: Annual Art History Reception & Lecture

Wednesday, 6 February, 2008: Art & Art History Club Movie Night: Art School Confidential Celebrate Brianna's birthday with cake and a movie!
6:30pm in Art 204

Wednesday, 30 January, 2008: Art and Art History Club in the California Aggie

Tuesday, 29 January, 2008: Professor Diana Strazdes, Recasting History: Word and Image in Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Standing Lincoln

Saturday, 26 January, 2008: Gallery hopping on Geary in SF with the Art & Art History Club. Meet at 9am on campus. We will take BART into the city

Tuesday, 15 January, 2008: 2nd Annual Art and Art History MA/MFA Winter Reception. 3-5 pm, Art 203. (Art History and Art Studio co-sponsored event)

Monday, 14 January, 2007: Artist Walid Raad, The Loudest Muttering is Over: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive.

Saturday, 12 January, 2007: Second Saturday Art Walk with the Art & Art History Club. Meet at 6pm on campus. We will carpool to Second Saturdays in Sacramento

Professor Blake Stimson publishes "A Modern Man" in Artforum

Tuesday, 27 November, 2007: Art & Art History Club Movie Night: Salvador Dali and Surrealism Showing a documentary and excerpts from Dali's movies
6:30pm in Art 217

Friday, 9 November, 2007: Collectibles and Collectors: a Symposium in Honor of Dianne Sachko Macleod

Design Program at UC Davis announces new faculty position in Design Theory, Methodology and History

Friday, 12 October, 2007: Empty Graves: The Tomb Towers of Northern Iran
Melanie Michalidis. 4 pm, Art 210D

Tuesday, 9 October, 2007: ARTstor demonstration
Dan Goldstein, Art & Art History Subject Librarian, Shields Library &
Leah Theis, Visual Resources Facility. 4 pm, Art 203