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Three generations of the Schwartz family loans artworks for the Arthur Ross Gallery’s exhibition Collecting the New Irascibles: Art from the 1980s | Arthur Ross Gallery

Alisa Chiles Appointed Decorative Arts Curator at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Bringing Particular Expertise in the Areas of Art Nouveau and Art Deco - Culture Type

Opening Reception for Collecting the New Irascibles: Art in the 1980s is a ‘tremendous success’ | Arthur Ross Gallery

2026 Graduate Student Symposium at the Barnes

A study of the ancient built environment | Penn Today

PAFA Appoints Michelle Donnelly, PhD, as the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Cultural Curation | Omnia

Ancient Inspiration | Omnia

History of Art Dept. Thune Lecture: C.C. McKee Tickets, Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite

National Museum of Asian Art names Naoko Adachi the Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art

Weeknights at the Wagner—A Flood of Pictures—Photography Deepens the Waters Registration, Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite

Ivan Drpić Named Cecil L. Striker Associate Professor of History of Art | School of Arts and Sciences - University of Pennsylvania

Michael Leja's A Flood of Pictures – Penn Press

David Brownlee Wins James Biddle Award for Lifetime Achievement in Historic Preservation | Penn History of Art

How “The First Homosexuals” Shaped an Identity _ The New Yorker.pdf

ARTH undergrad alum Delaney Keenan (BA’20), curates “From the Vault: Collecting Tapestries at the Worcester Art Museum” | Penn History of Art

Julie Nelson Davis Named Paul F. Miller, Jr. and E. Warren Shafer Miller Professor of History of Art | School of Arts and Sciences - University of Pennsylvania

Rejected by Museums Around the World, This New Art Exhibition Explores the Historical Roots of the Term 'Homosexual'

After Modernism Is a Lesson in Curating | Hyperallergic

Contemporary African Art in a Global Context

Mantha Zarmakoupi in Smithsonian Magazine

Ideas in Motion, Words in Flux

Kylie Grimm presenting at 2025 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium

Prof. Mantha Zarmakoupi featured in OMNIA

Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art—Keynote Lecture

Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art

Alisa Chiles Appointed Decorative Arts Curator at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The practice of art collection as a collaboration | Penn Today

Professor Erin Schoneveld Named Division III FARA Newcomer of the Year

Sunday at The Met—Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350

Prof. Shira Brisman publishes her volume, "Political Ecologies of Paper in Early Modern Art"

324: Constantine's Choice and the Origins of New Rome

Mantha Zarmakoupi on PBS

Lecture: André Dombrowski on Monet Painting on Water

PBS News Story on Ramey Mize's (PhD'23) Exhibition of Artist Jeremy Frey

ARTH Major, Irma Flóra Kiss (BA’25), published in WSJ

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw in Penn Today

Stonewall, revolt, and new queer art | Penn Today

ARTH Major Qi Liu in Penn Today

14 Art Books to Read This Summer

Eduardo Carrera receives 2024 Curatorial Research Fellowship from Independent Curators International

André Dombrowski in OMNIA

Pavel Golubev, Visiting Research Scholar, in Philadelphia Inquirer

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Black Girl’s Window: Re-Framing Contemporary Reparative Artistic Practices

Eduardo Carrera featured in Visual AIDS Journal

Prof. Shira Brisman on "In the Foreground" podcast

Huey Copeland Quoted in Washington Post

Register for Jeff Koons and Hubert Neumann, in conversation with Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Huey Copeland in Pen Today

ARTH Major Aili Waller (BA'24) featured in Omnia

Elisa Galardi in the Journal of Art Historiography

UAB Event Featured in Penn Today

ARTH Major Irma Flóra Kiss in Ocula Magazine

Art of Japan: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Huey Copeland in Artforum (October 2023)

Prof. Shaw in DCist

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw Honored at American Folk Art Museum Gala

Pioneering Support | Inspiring Impact Magazine Spring/Summer 2023

Erin Schoneveld (MA'08, PhD'12) in The Japan Times

PhD Student Eduardo Carrera receives Visual AIDS Research Fellowship

PhD Candidate Tamir Williams featured in Penn Today

Jonathan Katz in OMNIA

An Archaeologist Walks into a Bar …

Sonal Khullar on books, art, and ‘love in the stacks’ | Penn Today

Reverb Exhibition — Past Present Projects

The Paris-to-Philadelphia story of a rebel artist, a visionary dentist, and a treasure lost and found

RSVP - The Last 300 Copies of the Book on the Way to Being Pulped

DO NOT DRAW ME: MAKING ART IN INDIA’S NORTHEAST: Parismita Singh in conversation with Karen Redrobe

Mid-Century to Manga: The Modern Japanese Print in America – James A. Michener Art Museum

A rare rediscovery revealed | Penn Today

Aili Waller in Penn Today

Professor André Dombrowski on WHYY

OMNIA Q&A: Beyond the Bodies

Newsletter 2023

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw brings art history to ‘Kids Corner’ on WXPN | Penn Today

Holly Pittman featured in Penn Today

David Young Kim's Groundwork named one of the best books of 2022 by Artforum International

ARTH Major Aili Waller publishes article in Vistas

Tress Exhibition in 34th Street

Prof. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Visiting Scholar Pavel Golubev in Penn Today

Public television spot with Jonathan Katz discussing "The First Homosexuals"

At Penn, the world’s first graduate queer art history fellowship | Penn Today

Adjunct Associate Professor Sheila Barker interviewed in New York Times

Prof. Sarah Guérin releases French Gothic Ivories: Material Theologies and the Sculptor’s Craft

Jonathan D. Katz curates "The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869-1930"

Huey Copeland in ARTFORUM

Abigail Rapoport selected as one of the New York Jewish Week’s 36 to Watch

Hilary Whitham Sánchez (PhD'21) is Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College SUNY

Sheila Barker's Artemisia Gentileschi makes Burlington list

Summer Spaces of Penn Arts & Sciences

Uchenna Itam Receives Tenure Track Position at Hunter College

Karen Redrobe and Chenshu Zhou Receive 2022 Book Awards from SCMS

Adjunct Associate Professor Sheila Barker’s monograph featured in the WSJ

Gwendolyn Shaw in Penn Today: The changing face of portraiture at Penn

ARTH Major Annie Ma in Penn Today

Ivan Drpić and Sophomore Logan Cho Featured in Penn Today

Portland Museum of Art announces the hire of Ramey Mize as Assistant Curator of American Art.

ARTH Major Siyuan (Alice) Zhao featured in Penn Today

"How Artemisia Gentileschi Broke the ‘Dark Ceiling’ for Women Artists" with Sheila Barker

"The Extraordinary Career of Artemisia Gentileschi" Podcast Episode with Sheila Barker

Karen Redrobe Featured on New Books Network Podcast

New Life for the Wyeth Legacy Five Miles Out to Sea

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw's "No Man Is An Island," in Art In America.