Art History Content

Don Roth on the ‘Recovered Voices’ Project

Soterios J Johnson — May 16, 2023 - 12:31am

Mondavi Center Executive Director Don Roth discusses the “Recovered Voices” project highlighting composers and works derailed by the Nazi regime.

‘The Backdrop’ Podcast Features the Mondavi Center for the Arts’ Executive Director on Program Highlighting Composers and Works Derailed by the Nazi Regime

Soterios J Johnson — May 17, 2023 - 10:00am

In the 1930s and ’40s, the Nazi regime in Germany and elsewhere in Europe banned and destroyed what it deemed “degenerate art” — modern styles of lit

Art Historian Wins Fellowship to Complete Mexico City Research

Karen Michele Nikos — April 30, 2021 - 11:35am

John Lopez has received an award from the American Council of Learned Societies.

John Lopez, assistant professor of art history, has received an award from

Art History Grad Takes Art Curious Podcast to Book Form

Karen Michele Nikos — November 24, 2020 - 11:25am

Written by Jeffrey Day, College of Letters and Science. To see the full story, go here.

What Happens to Cultural Rights With Hagia Sophia Transformation?

Karen Michele Nikos — August 04, 2020 - 3:54pm

Two University of California Davis faculty gave commentaries on the conversion of the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque last month, both finding that the change represents the loss of an important cultural icon. One researcher is a law professor specializing in human rights. The other, an art and architecture historian.

Both voiced concerns regarding:

�ٺ��Ƶ Wins $250,000 in History Grants

Karen Michele Nikos — August 03, 2020 - 12:56pm

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded two grants to the University of California, Davis — one to advance kindergarten-through-12th-grade instruction on the Chinese experience in California history and the other to support an art history professor in her study of a medieval Armenian city.

Heghnar Watenpaugh Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

Karen Michele Nikos — April 13, 2020 - 10:36am

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, �ٺ��Ƶ art history professor, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, among 175 given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to mid-career scholars, artists and scientists who have demonstrated a previous capacity for outstanding work and continue to show exceptional promise.

Historical Highlights of the �ٺ��Ƶ Department of Art and TB 9, 1958-76

Karen Michele Nikos — June 10, 2019 - 2:51pm

Temporary Building 9, or TB 9, on the �ٺ��Ƶ campus, was nationally recognized for its importance in art history with its inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Here is a chronology of its history.

Art Historian Finds Missing Pages of Armenian History

Karen Michele Nikos — April 12, 2019 - 1:19pm

The Missing Pages, recently published by Stanford University Press, took art historian Heghnar Watenpaugh to the places the pages had traveled, from their creation in 1256 in present-day Turkey, to Armenia, Syria, Ellis Island, Massachusetts and Los Angeles.

International Colloquium Launches Global Tea Initiative

Lindsey Alexandra OTousa — May 02, 2016 - 1:12pm

�ٺ��Ƶ will launch its Global Tea Initiative with a symposium bringing together the cultural and scientific aspects of the world’s most popular prepared beverage. The colloquium, “The Basics of Tea: Tea and People,” is a first step in creating a center for the study of tea culture and science on campus.