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  1. Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art, spoke to BBC News about the 19th century painting, "The Meeting on the Turret Stairs."

    The Meeting on the Turret Stairs, by Irish watercolorist Frederic William Burton. Photo credit: National Gallery of Ireland
  2. In a Q&A, Assistant Professor of History of Art Justin Willson describes the power of iconic imagery, the richness of Yale’s collections, and his favorite place for a bike ride.

    Justin Willson  (Photo credit: Allie Barton)
  3. Morgan Ng, Assistant Professor of History of Art, makes the case in a new book that breakthroughs in many fields of design yielded cutting-edge defensive technologies during the Italian Renaissance.

    Morgan Ng
  4. For centuries people have turned to feathers as the stuff of — and the subject of — various art forms. In a Q&A, two FAS scholars discuss the cultural value of feathers and why it transcends time and space.

    Feather Cape ('ahu 'ula), Hawaiian, before 1821  Photo courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery
  5. 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.

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

    Marisa Bass
  7. 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.

    “Relics of Andersonville Prison” (left) is an 1866 photograph of objects left behind by prisoners held at the notorious Andersonville Prison (bottom right) during the Civil War. The objects were collected and arranged for the photo by Clara Barton (top right), shown here as photographed by the studio of Mathew Brady. (“Relics of Andersonville Prison” courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Barton portrait: U.S. National Archives; Andersonville Prison: Library of Congress)
  8. Seven Yale faculty members have received 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

     Ned Blackhawk, Marta Figlerowicz, Ben Hagari, Elizabeth Hinton; Bottom row: Tavia Nyong’o, Doug Rogers, Travis Zadeh
  9. Artist and scholar Royce K. Young Wolf joins the Yale community as the second Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation.

  10. 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.