News

Art History research celebrates £100,000 funding boost
23rd February 2021
Art History celebrates a £100,000 grant from AHRC to partner with the University of Chester on a new year-long project that brings an innovative approach to exhibiting every day historic artefacts.
New book by Dr Kim Charnley Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism published by Bloomsbury
22nd February 2021
Congratulations to Staff Tutor in Art History, Dr Kim Charnley, whose new book Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism is now out.
Why study art history?
11th February 2021
Senior Lecturer in Art History Dr Leah Clark shares her blog, talking about Art History and Careers
Art in Theory: The West in the World
22nd January 2021
Art in Theory: The West in the World a ground-breaking anthology for the study of Art History edited by Paul Wood and Leon Wainwright of the Art History department.
OU/BBC series Secrets of the Museum returns for a second series to BBC Two this spring
22nd January 2021
From a delicate Michelangelo wax sculpture to Shirley Bassey's stage costumes, series two invites you to delve even further into the lives of our objects and dedicated staff who care for them.
The Place is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain
22nd January 2021
The Place is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain has won the Historians of British Art Book Award, Multi-Authored Book Prize for books published in 2019.
Professor Elizabeth McKellar to be first female President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
2nd November 2020
The department is delighted to announced that our colleague emerita, Professor Elizabeth McKellar, has been appointed President elect of the SAHGB. She will take up office next summer, as the first female President.
The Art of the Sacri Monti (Holy Mountains)
23rd October 2020
Dr Carla Benzan, Lecturer in Art History, will be speaking about her research on the Sacro Monte (Holy Mountain) at Varallo on Friday, 30 October 2020. She is presenting on an intriguing and little-known phenomenon in early modern visual culture: the construction of enormous sculptural mountains in sacred spaces.
Beyond the Now
15th October 2020
Beyond the Now is a new social art practice collaboration providing a platform for art that responds to the COVID-19 crisis. Led by Art Historian Dr Kim Charnley, the first season launches today.
Pevsner and Lockdown
9th September 2020
Dr Clare Taylor, a Senior Lecturer in Art History at The Open University, devised an innovative way to combine her passions during lockdown. Find out how a series of architectural guides known as ‘Pevsners’ inspired her to explore rural Oxfordshire