Thursday 18 December 2014
The results of the research excellence framework (REF), an exercise that assesses the quality of academic research, have just been released.
Wednesday 17 December 2014
The new edition of the Sculpture Journal is a Displaying Victorian Sculpture special issue, co-edited by Jason Edwards and Michael Hatt.
Friday 5 December 2014
Earlier this year Sarah Brown was elected to the International Board of the International Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Stained Glass, and on 28 November she was elected General Secretary.
Wednesday 26 November 2014
The Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for best architectural history book has been awarded to Anthony Geraghty by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB).
Monday 24 November 2014
The catalogue for Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting has been nominated in the Apollo Awards 2014
Monday 24 November 2014
'Light in the North: Modern Glass-Painters of York' is a new exhibition curated and mounted by History of Art MA students, led by PhD Candidate Katie Harrison.
Wednesday 19 November 2014
Head of Department Liz Prettejohn took part in a discussion on the Philosophy of Good Taste on BBC Radio 4 this week.
Thursday 6 November 2014
Michael White will present a seminar at the Centre for Dutch Studies at the University of Sheffield next month.
Friday 31 October 2014
On 17 October several members of the Stained Glass Research School contributed to an exciting seminar, The Historical Value of Stained Glass and its Conservation Problems, based at La Mercè Cultural Centre, Girona (Catalonia), organised by recent MA graduate Anna Santoloria Tura.
Tuesday 28 October 2014
Join us as we celebrate a wonderfully successful year, and learn more about our degree programmes!
Friday 24 October 2014
Turner Prize nominated artist and film-maker Isaac Julien will be in conversation with James Boaden as part of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Michele's Research Seminar is on 'Medieval Work in Progress'.
Saturday 11 October 2014
The History of Art Department is celebrating league table and NSS success.
Friday 10 October 2014
Helen Hills presented a paper at Queen's University at Kingston in Ontario, Canada this month.
Friday 10 October 2014
Emanuele Lugli will give a paper entitled 'The Metric Aesthetic Size and Perceptual Revolution in 19th-century Italy' for the School of Art History at St Andrews.
Monday 15 September 2014
James Boaden will be presenting a lecture at the Courtauld Institute to coincide with the current 'Jasper Johns: Regrets' exhibition.
Monday 8 September 2014
This week sees the opening of a major exhibition of Victorian sculpture at The Yale Centre for British Art, moving on to Tate Britain in the New Year.
Thursday 28 August 2014
Emanuele Lugli's first book, 'Unità di Misura: Breve storia del metro in Italia' - (Unit of Measure: A Short History of the Meter in Italy) - is officially published this week.
Thursday 21 August 2014
Emanuele has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to fund the first part of his project 'The Intellectual History of Connoisseurship'.
Tuesday 19 August 2014
Michael White shows us round his co-curated exhibition 'Mondrian and His Studios' in a new film by Tate Shots.
Monday 18 August 2014
Claire Jones, a former PhD student and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the department, has just published a new book on sculpture.
Wednesday 13 August 2014
The MA dissertation of Anna Santoloria Tura, a recent graduate in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management, has just been published by the Institut Català de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural.
Thursday 31 July 2014
We were delighted to take part in a packed cultural programme for this year's Peking University Summer School.
Thursday 31 July 2014
'Apocalpyse: The Great East Window of York Minster' is a new book written by Sarah Brown as she oversees the restoration of the 'Sistine Chapel of stained glass' at York Minster.
Wednesday 30 July 2014
Nele Luttman presented a paper on The Leake Panels at an event held by Friends of York Art Gallery last week.
Friday 25 July 2014
Amanda Lillie's co-curated exhibition at the National Gallery has received widespread praise from the critics.
Thursday 24 July 2014
Lyndsey was awarded the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS) Graduate Student Essay Award at the recent joint EABS/Society for Biblical Literature (SBL) International Meeting in Vienna, Austria
Tuesday 22 July 2014
Many congratulations to Fiona Anderson who has been appointed Senior Teaching Fellow in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Congratulations to Bogdan Cornea who has been awarded an HRC Doctoral Fellowship
Wednesday 9 July 2014
Kostas Stasinopoulos has curated an exhibition as part of the Syros International Film Festival
Wednesday 9 July 2014
Last week Helen Hills attended an important conference on monasteries and convents in Piedmont where she was a formal respondent.
Tuesday 1 July 2014
Helen is to be the Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor for Renaissance Studies in the History of Art Department, Smith College, USA in the autumn term.
Monday 23 June 2014
Emanuele has published an article in a new book by Ashgate, as well as translating another in the same volume.
Wednesday 18 June 2014
The Palazzo Grifoni in Florence was the location of 'Drawing In/Screening Off: Metaphors of the Veil' a collaboration between the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max-Planck-Institut and the History of Art Department, York.
Tuesday 17 June 2014
Charlotte Hancock and Tessa Kilgarriff both presented papers at the York Evening Decorative and Fine Art Society (YEDFAS), a subset of NADFAS, the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies this month, while Simon Spier gave a lunchtime talk to the Friends of York Art Gallery
Monday 9 June 2014
Seven new MA studentships announced for 2014-15.
Friday 6 June 2014
This major exhibition exploring Mondrian's later works opens at Tate Liverpool today and runs until October 5th
Wednesday 4 June 2014
This conference complements The National Gallery’s exhibition Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting, and will look afresh at architecture’s place within European painting, reassessing established interpretations.
Wednesday 28 May 2014
Last week Professor Helen Hills presented a Departmental Research Seminar at the University of Warwick.
Friday 23 May 2014
At a very successful event this week we were delighted to welcome back former members of staff, including 2 former Heads of Department.
Thursday 15 May 2014
A new curatorial display, 'Bodies of Nature' curated by Cora Gilroy-Ware has recently opened at Tate Britain.
Wednesday 14 May 2014
The cover story of this week's Times 'Saturday Review' was on Michael White's co-curated exhibition at Tate Liverpool 'Mondrian and His Studios', and the companion exhibition at Turner Contemporary.
Monday 12 May 2014
Congratulations to Fiona Anderson and PhD candidate Amy Tobin who are both in receipt of Terra Foundation awards!
Tuesday 6 May 2014
Rachel Smith is co-curating the International Exchanges, Modern Art and St Ives 1915-65 exhibition at Tate St Ives this summer.
Wednesday 30 April 2014
The exhibition focusses on the importance of the architectural setting in Renaissance paintings, demonstrating that the buildings often have a crucial role to play themselves and are not merely a backdrop.
Monday 28 April 2014
Dr Michael White recently gave lectures and seminars at Peking University and the University of Henan, where he was appointed an Honorary Visiting Professor.
Monday 28 April 2014
Professor Liz Prettejohn is to give the final keynote lecture at the conference 'The Educated Eye? Connoisseurship Now' at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on Friday 2 May.
Friday 25 April 2014
The History of Art department is pleased to offer four scholarships to full-time Home / EU applicants for the PhD in History of Art programme, commencing October 2014.
Wednesday 16 April 2014
The History of Art department is delighted to invite applications for the following AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentship, offered in conjunction with Glasgow Life, commencing October 2014:
Tuesday 8 April 2014
The department held its first annual Graduate Research Student conference last month. PhD student Beki Senior reviews the event.
Monday 31 March 2014
Sarah Brown has been invited to speak at the 2014 Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, joining a programme which features Toni Morrison, Stephen Fry, Joan Bakewell and Arianna Huffington.
Tuesday 25 March 2014
Helen will be spending a week in April at the University of Colorado Boulder where she will work closely with graduate students, presenting a public lecture and a graduate seminar.
Thursday 20 March 2014
Emanuele Lugli has been invited to be Gastwissenschaftler (visiting professor) at Florence's Kunsthistorisches Institut for Summer 2014 and beyond.
Wednesday 5 March 2014
Registration is now open for the Cathedral Libraries and Archives in the British Isles conference on 2-4 July 2014 at York Minster Library and the King's Manor.
Wednesday 5 March 2014
This month at an international conference hosted by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies, La Sapienza University, and the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, Helen will present her keynote paper 'L'invenzione e la rivelazione del monastero femminile nella Roma del Seicento'.
Friday 28 February 2014
Tate's innovative online research series this month features a publication by Chad Elias exploring 'On Three Posters' 2004 by Rabih Mroué
Friday 28 February 2014
The Three Graces: Victorian women, visual art and exchange online exhibition and catalogue of works is live to view on the Department of History of Art's Research Portal
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Royal Museums Greenwich is hosting the 'Maritime Culture and Britain in the Age of J. M. W. Turner' conference on 21st and 22nd March, to coincide with the 'Turner and the Sea' exhibition which has been co-curated by Richard Johns and Christine Riding.
Thursday 20 February 2014
The latest edition of the ICOM Committee for Conservation newsletter highlights the contribution of York students to an important conference in Amsterdam
Wednesday 19 February 2014
Jo Applin and PhD Candidate Amy Tobin will both be speaking at the 'Writing/Curating/Making Feminist Art Histories' conference in March hosted by the University of Edinburgh
Wednesday 19 February 2014
Listen to Helen Hills as she discusses themes related to her keynote lecture at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) on Radio Adelaide. A film of her lecture is also available to view.
Monday 10 February 2014
The February edition of Burlington Magazine features an article by Jeanne Nuechterlein which complements her new exhibition at the National Gallery.
Monday 3 February 2014
On 11th February, Dr Janina Ramirez will be presenting a lecture hosted by the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past
Monday 3 February 2014
Pioneering Spirit: Maud MacCarthy - Mysticism, Music and Modernity, a free exhibition opens Friday 7th February at the Borthwick Institute for Archives
Tuesday 28 January 2014
Professor Hills will present her paper Miraculous Affects: Inventing Corpses in Baroque Italy, at a conference hosted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) next month.
Friday 24 January 2014
PhD candidate Charlotte Drew has curated the fourth in a series of Library Displays which have emerged from the Displaying Victorian Sculpture project, an AHRC funded collaboration between the Departments of History of Art at the Universities of York and Warwick
Friday 10 January 2014
On February 25th Nottingham Contemporary presents a moving image programme curated by James Boaden entitled Homonculus, Playing the Masculine Pathetic
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