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July 7, 2024
Pollitt, a distinguished historian of Greek art and archaeology, died on April 24 after a long illness. He was 89. Please find article here.
May 29, 2024
Yale University has appointed Maurie McInnis ’96 Ph.D. to serve as its 24th president. McInnis, now president of Stony Brook University, was the unanimous choice of the Yale...
May 21, 2024
Yale History of Art would like to congratulate our thirteen newest graduates who accepted the PhD degree on May 20, 2024. From left to right, front row: Victoria Hepburn,...
May 7, 2024
What is the relation between silver as a metal and as a quality of luminosity? What makes the metal silver white? Is light an essential ingredient of what silver is, or...
April 2, 2024
Western scholars looking through their particular art lens are missing the ontological and spiritual meanings and significance in the works of South Asian Muslim art, says...
January 17, 2024
Portia Malatjie, curator and senior lecturer in art history and discourse at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art, presented the imagery of birds as an...