art history

The study of medieval art is flourishing at Case Western Reserve University. Among the latest developments: a Microsoft HoloLens Immersive Realms application that allows students to experience medieval treasures as their first owners might have done, and a new medieval student group that hopes to…

Erin Benay, associate professor of early modern art and director of undergraduate studies and Deepak Sarma, professor of religious studies and professor of bioethics have been named inaugural Distinguished Scholars in the Public Humanities. Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III made…

The 48th Cleveland Symposium will be held Friday, Sept. 16, in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium. This year’s theme is “Recentering the Periphery: An Inclusive Future of Art History.” The Cleveland Symposium is a free annual event organized by graduate students in the Department of…

Two video exhibits evoking a range of emotions and, in one case, calling on audience participation are on display at Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic as part of FRONT International, a citywide triennial…

In a recent article published in Gesta, Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II and professor of art history, explored zoocephalic protagonists in the Ambrosian Bible. TItled “Animal Affinities: Monsters and Marvels in the Ambrosian Tanakh,” Gertsman’s…

Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and associate professor of art history at the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote a piece titled “Our trip to Antioch,” published by Aeon. Popkin’s article describes how Ancient Romans bought mementos to commemorate their travels and what those early…

Major: Art History and Museum Studies Year: Fourth-year Sydney Slacas believes art is the most universal form of self-expression and communication that humans have, and, consequently, that the study and understanding of art are access points to humanity. This belief, combined with a passion for…

Case Western Reserve University's Art History Club, along with faculty sponsor Erin Benay, will hold a Pop-Up Museum in the Tinkham Veale University Center from Monday, April 11, to Wednesday, April 13. With the theme “Identity and Place," the centerpiece of the museum will be a large world map…

The College Art Association of America (CAA) recently named Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II, the winner of its Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for her book The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (Penn State University Press, 2021). The Charles…

Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II in the Department of Art History and Art, was recently elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, the highest honor that the MAA can bestow upon North American medievalists. Fellows are scholars who have…