We mourn the loss of Walter Cahn, a distinguished scholar of medieval art who served as teacher and mentor to generations of Yale students from1965 until his retirement in 2002.
For more than half a century, Yale’s History of Art Department has been dedicated to “the study of all forms of art, architecture, and visual culture in their social and historical contexts.”
Professor Pam Lee’s undergraduate seminar “The Long 1960s” traveled to Washington, D.C. for a three-day field trip in November. Class visits to museums, monuments, and art exhibitions encouraged energetic conversations on the visual and political concerns connecting art practices and major protest movements in that period.
Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin, on view at the Yale Center for British Art until December 8th, examines the Victorian art critic and social theorist John Ruskin as a proto-ecological thinker, social reformer, educato
