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News

  • Jonathan D. Katz receives the Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award for The First Homosexuals

    January 29, 2026

  • Mantha Zarmakoupi's edited collection “The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis” in Penn Today

    January 20, 2026

  • Michelle Donnelly (MA’14) appointed as the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

    December 16, 2025

  • Lee Ann Custer (PhD ’21) selected as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

    December 9, 2025

  • National Museum of Asian Art names Naoko Adachi the Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art

    October 2, 2025

  • Ivan Drpić Named Cecil L. Striker Associate Professor of History of Art

    September 8, 2025

  • David Brownlee Wins James Biddle Award for Lifetime Achievement in Historic Preservation

    July 24, 2025

  • Prof. Jonathan Katz featured in the New Yorker

    July 16, 2025

  • ARTH undergrad alum Delaney Keenan (BA’20), curates “From the Vault: Collecting Tapestries at the Worcester Art Museum”

    July 9, 2025

  • Julie Nelson Davis Named Paul F. Miller, Jr. and E. Warren Shafer Miller Professor of History of Art

    July 2, 2025

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Upcoming Events

  • COLLOQUIUM - Brian Rose, "Configuring the Image of the East in Roman Triumphal Monuments""

    Wednesday, February 4, 2026 - 3:00pm

  • VLST Lecture | Kaira M. Cabañas, "Catalyzing Affect and the Art of Psychiatric Reform in Brazil"

    Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

  • Thune Lecture - Lisa Saltzman, Bryn Mawr College, "To Make Whole What Has Been Smashed"

    Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm

  • Christopher Wood, NYU "A New Approach to the European Local Legends"

    Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm

  • CAA 114th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2026

    Wednesday, February 18, 2026 (All day) to Saturday, February 21, 2026 (All day)

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Interim Department Chair: André Dombrowski
Graduate Chair: Sarah Guérin
Undergraduate Chair: Ivan Drpic

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19104-6208   215.898.8327

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