art history

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…

Case Western Reserve University scientists, artists collaborate to develop art algorithm that can distinguish different painters’ brush strokes “at the bristle level” A team of scientists and art historians at Case Western Reserve University say they have used tools of artificial intelligence (AI)…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to the Cleveland Arts Prize’s “A Celebration of Music and Art” Saturday, Dec. 4, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Cleveland History Center. The event will be held in honor of the opening of the “Honoring Our Past Masters: The Golden Age…

The Keithley Symposium is a biannual event co-hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and Case Western Reserve University joint program in art history that brings together artists, scholars, thought leaders and community members to explore the role of visual arts in contemporary society. For…

The Department of Art History and Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art will present the 47th Annual Cleveland Symposium, on the topic “Aura: Authenticity, Experience, and Art” at the Cleveland Museum of Art.  Art and art history student speakers will be joined by keynote speaker, Adam Lowe,…

Major: Art historyMinors: Materials science and engineering, Italian, pre-architectureClass: Fourth-year When Winston Kam was in second grade, his art teacher showed his class one of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s red, blue and yellow composition paintings and asked them what stood out. Kam vividly…