News

‘Art and Ecology’ connects people and climate
17th March 2025
OU art historians work with local people in Perthshire to reflect on climate change in new ways.
Art History secures PhD partnership with Transport for London
21st January 2025
Art History have secured a funded PhD studentship, ‘Art on the Underground’ with the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership.
FASS academics advise OU series exploring the India’s Treasures on Channel Four
25th July 2023
OU production Exploring India's Treasures with Bettany Hughes, supported by academic consultants Dr Renate Dohmen and Dr Suzanne Newcombe, takes a cultural journey across India.
Art Historians go Wild
13th April 2023
Sam Shaw and Carla Benzan, lecturers in Art History, have been contributing to the buzz around the highly popular BBC/OU co-production Wild Isles.
Associate Lecturer Dr Joel Robinson publishes The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons
20th January 2023
This book reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of ‘planetary urbanisation’. Joel Robinson examines the development of these large-scale, international, and perennial exhibitions as they address such challenges as urban regeneration, heritage preservation, climate change, and the migration crisis.
FASS Art History series about climate change to debut at Glasgow Science Festival
9th June 2022
A new FASS series using art history to examine climate change is set to launch at the Glasgow Science Festival.
A. G. Leventis Funding for ‘Hell’ Database
30th March 2022
Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Senior Lecturer in Art History, has been awarded £4,000 by the A. G. Leventis Foundation to continue maintaining the ‘Hell’ wall-painting database.
Celebrating Dr Atta Kwami
15th October 2021
It is with great sadness that we have received and now share the news of our former doctoral student, Atta Kwami, who passed away earlier this month. Dr Kwami received his doctorate in Art History at the Open University in 2007 for a thesis entitled Kumasi Painting, 1951-2007, which was subsequently published as a book.
Art and Politics for Cov19: Chronicles from the Margins
20th September 2021
Dr Amy Charlesworth contributes to a participatory project co-created by a group of researchers at the OU along with those who have direct experience of forced migration and/or have worked and lived with refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented people.
IF: MK International Festival 2021 with Dr Carla Benzan
16th July 2021
Facilitated by Dr Benzan, an interdisciplinary panel discussion focuses on our relationships with animals in urban spaces, specifically interactions between birds and humans in city centres with specific reference to Marco Berotti's artwork The Woodpeckers.