The department of Art History would like to congratulate Senior Lecturer, Dr Clare Taylor for her recent election as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
We are delighted to announce that the Art History department will hold an Associate Lecturer Staff Development event in spring 2020: 'Revisiting Art History Teaching at the OU: Retention, Progression and Future Plans'.
Art History Open Arts Objects (OAO) has been shortlisted for the prestigious Times Higher Education Awards 2019, winners to be announced in November.
Two issues of the Open Arts Journal have been published, and available for downloading from the Open Arts Journal website.
As part of the major summer exhibition at Tate Britain focusing on the painter Frank Bowling, Leon Wainwright was invited in June 2019 to speak on ‘The Transnational and the Provincial: Frank Bowing and the Atlantic Divide’, at My Guyana to Great Thames: Frank Bowling in Context.
Dr Leah Clark's Renaissance Art project is chosen to feature in British Academy Summer Showcase 2019, which will take place on 21-22 June in the Academy’s central London home.
Kathleen Christian is pleased to announce the publication this week of a new volume Local antiquities, local identities: Art, literature and antiquarianism in Europe, c. 1400–1700, which she co-edited with Bianca de Divitiis (University of Naples).
Leah Clark is to give lunchtime talk at the National Gallery, London on 31 October 2018 to uncover the mysteries of Cosimo Tura's painting.
Come & discover a range of films, from open arts objects to why art history matters at Open Arts Archive Youtube channel.
The Art History department has been showcasing the stories of our students and alumni and how Art History has changed their lives on our blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/openartsextra/.
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