Department of Art History

Where nothing is selected, anticipation rules. The question is what will be chosen: what paragraphs will be highlighted blue in a document full of text, what files grouped together, what artworks hung on the walls of a show. What will make the cut? Where nothing is selected, press ‘command+A’ to select all, hold ‘shift’ to select multiple. Where nothing is selected, fate is at play. Things are somehow accumulating, one by one, by their own accord. They fly over or land or crash.

Chat About: Rebekka Federle-McCabe and Faye Liang is an exhibition in conjunction with the event Chat About: Rebekka Federle and Cecilie Larcher & Caroline Crutsinger-Perry and Faye Liang, February 28, 2025. This exhibition continues the themes of their discussions: Rebekka Faderle-McCabe’s work explores the dog as an armature for empathetic projection, questioning whether anthropomorphization is necessary for empathy.

Join us in the Visual Resources Center in CWAC 257 for “Open Box” on Wednesday

We are proud to announce that the department's former Student Assistant, and now Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, AE Stevenson, will be taking part in the Alien Embodiment series hosted by the Gray Center on February 6, 6pm.

Chat About: Susan Jablonski is an exhibition in conjunction with the event Chat About: Kay Kim and Susan Jablonski, January 31, 2025.

CWAC Exhibitions invites you to join the curators and artists of [Gesamt]kunstwerk

There is so much pressure for an artwork to be harmonious, unified, complete. And yet, there are many times when we only have a piece of an art object at our disposal—whether that be in the form of an actual extract, a replica, a photograph, or a description. In fact, art history itself often relies on fragments of works. Some works are simply not on view, damaged, or otherwise unavailable to art historians. Even still, accessible portions are compiled for study.

The Visual Resources Center (VRC) is pleased to invite you to Making and Managing Images, a workshop on creating a personal image archive to support your research, teaching, publishing, and scholarship.