In a prestigious U.K. lecture, art historian Jenni Sorkin explores deeper themes of the decorative arts
History of Art and Architecture
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Ph.D. candidate Holly Gore named 2018-19 Luce Fellow of American Council of Learned Societies; only UC student recognized -
UCSB class to analyze museum objects to create new display labels with updated information -
Female ceramists of the postwar era laid the groundwork for today’s avant-garde artists, according to UCSB art historian -
The new undergraduate program in museum studies at UCSB is the only one of its kind in California -
Ceramics, one of the earliest forms of human artistic production, is getting its due -
The Museo Capitolino served as the model for such institutions as we know them today -
The award honors scholars, writers and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields -
When the British East India Company began its explorations in India, the subcontinent captured the attention and the imagination of the people back home.
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A unique friendship between two artists — Channing Peake and Pablo Picasso — highlights one of three exhibition opening July 13 at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara.
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For her dissertation project, Sophia Rochmes, a doctoral student in the history of art and architecture at UC Santa Barbara, is researching 15th-century manuscripts in ducal and noble libraries of present-day France and Belgium.
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Peter Meller, professor emeritus of art history at UC Santa Barbara, was a well-known and well-respected Italian Renaissance scholar, but few of his colleagues –– or even his friends –– were familiar with his work as a graphic artist.
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With a new book that formalizes and interprets a collection of indigenous African art owned by an African collector, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, a professor of history of art and architecture at UC Santa Barbara, is changing the way African art...
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During the period from 1950 to 1965, Ben Enwonwu was the most famous artist of African ancestry anywhere in the world.
