Historian Alexander Ekserdjian discusses how his fascination with the classics started when he was a child and why he’s particularly drawn to sacred objects.

Marisa Bass, Professor of History of Art, discusses her new book, The Monument's End: Public Art and the Modern Republic.

An 1866 photograph of objects kept by soldiers at an infamous prison offered a glimpse of wartime horrors. Jennifer Raab's new book reexamines the haunting relics.

Artist and scholar Royce K. Young Wolf joins the Yale community as the second Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation.

This spring, the Graduate School Alumni Association sponsored the first of the new Alumni Conversations program, with the inaugural talk featuring the History of Art Department. The Zoom session was hosted by GSAA board members and department alumni Carmen Bambach ’81, ’88 PhD, and Stephanie Grilli ’80 PhD, and was spearheaded by department chair Tim Barringer. It introduced alumni to current students, new faculty members, ongoing curricular initiatives, and to the recently opened facilities for object study and laboratory of conservation at West Campus.

Historian David Blight, art historian Mary Miller, and Yale Board of Trustees and former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi were elected in April.