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Graduate seminar in the Yale Center for British Art
Kyoto Kano School, Japan, Scenes from the Tale of Genji, 1625-1650. Yale University Art Gallery
Undergraduate seminar in the Yale University Art Gallery
Haida, Northwest Coast, Canada. Basketry hat. Peabody Museum, Yale University
Frederic Edwin Church, Mt. Ktaadn, 1853. Yale University Art Gallery
Students at the Metropolitan Museum with Prof Robert Nelson’s course Art of Byzantium, 850-1200, Fall 2015
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Great Salt Lake, Utah
Undergraduate seminar with Prof. Nicola Suthor in the Prints and Drawings Study Room, Yale University Art Gallery
Tino di Camaino, Three Princesses, ca. 1325-35, Yale University Art Gallery
Museum and the Nation seminar taught by Prof Kishwar Rivzi at I.M.Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, Qatar

Welcome From The Chair

Thank you for your interest in the Department of the History of Art. Whether you are a professional colleague, current or prospective graduate student, Yale undergraduate, or just someone exploring different Yale or art history websites, we hope you find our website informative and useful. Explore this website to discover not only basic information about the department but, more importantly, the tradition and vibrancy of the History of Art at Yale as well.

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News

Repatriation of African Art

January 4, 2019

Yale Art Historian contributes to the on-going discussion about the repatriation of objects in NY Times article written by Yale History of Art Alumnus.

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Milette Gaifman announced as Coeditor of The Art Bulletin

December 10, 2018

We are thrilled to announce that Milette Gaifman, Associate Professor in the Departments of History of Art and Classics, has been named coeditor of The Art Bulletin, a position she will share with Lillian Lan-ying Tseng of New York University, who formerly taught Chinese art at Yale. This is a leadership position in the field: The Art Bulletin is the flagship journal of art history globally, covering prehistoric to 21st-century art. Previous editors of The Art Bulletin have included Yale professors such as George Kubler, Creighton Gilbert and Walter Cahn.

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Celebration of Mary Miller’s Yale Career

December 4, 2018

On November 28^th the Department of History of Art and Yale University Art Gallery held an event to pay tribute to Mary Miller, Sterling Professor of the History of Art, who is leaving Yale to become Director of the Getty Research Institute.