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26 November 2024

We are now inviting applications for History of Art Graduate Teaching Positions for the 2025/6 academic year.

20 November 2024

How can attention to artistic practices and visual interventions from across the global mosaic of local contexts contribute meaningfully to the decentring of hegemonic narratives and research on art and HIV/AIDS? What new configurations of work from across both global south and north are necessary to re-assess the histories of this epidemic, and intervene in its ongoing present? This conference invites papers that examine the state of the field in the study of art, visual culture and HIV/AIDS, presenting recent or ongoing research projects that seek to complicate understandings of this vast area of contemporary life.

13 November 2024

The publication of 'St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster', edited by Tim Ayers, J P D Cooper, Elizabeth Hallam Smith and Caroline Shenton, marks the culmination of a major AHRC-funded research project (2013-17), led by scholars in the History and History of Art Departments at the University of York.

11 October 2024

Issue 11 covers the theme Dwelling on the everyday: houses, ghosts, ellipses and was co-edited by Open University Professor Alice E Sanger.

30 September 2024

The Department of History of Art has placed 8th in the Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2025 for the subjects of history of art, architecture and design. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.

8 July 2024

After ten years, Richard McClary’s new monograph has just been published by Edinburgh University Press.

8 July 2024

Dr Erhan Tamur's PhD thesis (Columbia University, 2022) won The Donny George Youkhana Dissertation Prize of the The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII).

10 June 2024

This podcast examines materials used in art and what they can reveal about history, humanity, and the world at large

6 June 2024

We are delighted to announce an MA bursary and internship for 2024/25, generously supported by the Friends of York Art Gallery.

6 June 2024

This new article, by Jessica N. Richardson, explores the performativity of images and script in late medieval Florence.

21 May 2024

History of Art at York is ranked 6th in the UK according to the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2025).

11 April 2024

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Adam Sammut appeared on the Arts & Ideas podcast on Radio 3 last month.

7 March 2024

Applications are invited from MA students to engage in one of several possible exciting digital research projects involving the collections and furnishings of three prestigious historic British houses: Castle Howard, Raby Castle and Holkham Hall.

27 February 2024

We are pleased to announce that Monuments in Conversation: Westminster Abbey in the Eighteenth Century will be the first event held in the newly renovated conference facilities at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. 

17 January 2024

We are delighted to share that Prof Kate Giles has been awarded a Historians of British Art Book Prize!