News

Art History MA Student Shortlisted as a Runner Up for the Art History Dissertation Prize
19th March 2018
MA students, Katie Ault, was shortlisted as a runner up for the Art History dissertation prize for her MA dissertation ‘How did Ugolino di Nerio’s Santa Croce Polyptych challenge and change the art historical canon between 1780 and 1887?
Art History Academics as Consultants on the BBC Series 'Civilisations'
13th March 2018
Art History acadmices Prof. Gill Perry and Dr. Kathleen Christian have been working as academic consultants for the BBC series Civilisations.
Registration now open for Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places
25th January 2018
The Medieval and Early Modern Research Group at the OU is pleased to announce that registration for the spaces and places conference on 23-24 February is now open. The registration fee includes lunch and refreshments.
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar Series by Angeliki Lymberopoulou at KCL
4th December 2017
Angeliki Lymberopoulou gives talk at KCL, Associative Iconography in Byzantine Art: two for the space of one? as part of Antique and Byzantine Seminar Series
Open Arts Objects teams up with the Association for Art History and the Being Human Festival, 20 November 2017
16th November 2017
Open Arts Objects is partaking in a special edition of Art History in the Pub (AHITP) as part of the Being Human festival. Our films will be aired and discussed with a local curator in London, Leeds, and Bristol on the evening of 20 November 2017.
CCA/Canadian Centre for Architecture will be hosting exhibition on OU course A305
13th November 2017
CCA/Canadian Centre for Architecture hosts from 15 November 2017 to 1 April 2018 the exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture about the pioneering OU course, A305, History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939
New module 'A344 Art and its global histories' launched for 2017J
8th November 2017
This module presents a new history of art, starting with the Renaissance, when Europeans encountered a new range of desirable objects from across the globe. It then explores the role of art and architecture in colonial expansion up to 1800, before looking in depth at art and culture in British India. It concludes by analysing the globalisation of artistic practice from the twentieth century to the present day. The module highlights the vital role that art has played in the stories that Europeans have told about the wider world, and suggests ways in which these stories might be challenged or revised.
Leon Wainwright at MoMA
23rd October 2017
In December, Leon Wainwright (Reader in Art History, OU) will be an invited visiting scholar at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, serving on the Latin American internal research program that forms part of the Museum-wide initiative Contemporary and Modern Perspectives (C-MAP) in a Global Age.
Upcoming talk: Leon Wainwright will speak at University of Oxford
13th October 2017
On November 3rd, Leon Wainwright (OU Art History) will speak on the topic ‘Materiality and Mobility: Political Geographies of Caribbean Art’ at the research seminar of the Department of History of Art, University of Oxford.
Upcoming talk: Leon Wainwright will speak at the University of St. Andrews
13th October 2017
On October 28th, Leon Wainwright (OU Art History) will speak on the topic ‘Between the United States, Britain and the Caribbean: Pop as a register of provincialism and belatedness’ at the international conference, In and Out of American Art: Between Provincialism and Transnationalism, 1940–80.