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Emy Kim new Assistant Professor at Art Conservation

Jul 25, 2019

The Art Conservation Program at Queen's University is very pleased to announce the appointment of Emy Kim in the position of Assistant Professor (Artifacts) in the Art Conservation program as of 1 July 2019.

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Art History Faculty and Graduate Students Scan Cathedral Interior

Jul 17, 2019

Last month, Art History faculty and graduate students accompanied Steph Roy of Northern Survey Supply to St. Mary's Cathedral here in Kingston.

Margaret A. Light Visiting Scholar, Chris Stavroudis

Jul 17, 2019

Last week, the Art Conservation program hosted Chris Stavroudis as the 2019 Margaret A. Light Visiting Scholar in Art Conservation. Mr. Stavroudis demonstrated a variety of techniques using his Modular Cleaning Program.

An artistic poster that says "Once in a Lifetime"

Professor Spronk wins Exhibition of the Year

Jul 17, 2019

On April 11, the international art magazine, Art awarded its illustrious Curator Prize for the Exhibition of the Year (2018) to the world’s first major monographic show on Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569), held at the Kusthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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Works of Art in Real Life

Jul 17, 2019

Students observe the first work by a Baroque woman artist to enter the Agnes collection

Art History Ph.D. author of Humanities Outstanding Thesis

Jul 04, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Alford, whose thesis, "Art Botany in Nineteenth-Century Design Reform, 1830–1865" (supervised by Professor Emerita Dr. Janice Helland) has been named Humanities Outstanding Thesis.

Professor Anne Dunlop visits Art History

Apr 10, 2019

This term, Professor Anne Dunlop, Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melborne, visited Professor Una D'Elia's graduate seminar ARTH 842, Studies in Italian Renaissance Art.

Queen's in the Media: Fire at Notre Dame

Apr 08, 2019

With this week's fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, the media has reached out to architecture historians for their insight.

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A field trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario

Apr 01, 2019

On Friday March 29th, students in Dr. Allison Morehead's class, ARTH 324: French Art and Its Reception, 1855–1912, had a special tour of the current exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, with Dr. Caroline Shields, curator of Impressionism in the Age of Industry.