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Art history internship program is painting a bright future for students

March 16, 2026

Students in the humanities often hear the same false narrative — there are no jobs in the arts. Jessica Mace is challenging that idea by overseeing a booming Art History internship program that’s helping students see for themselves that there are, in fact, many opportunities.

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Call for Papers - How Art History Teaches: Images, Infrastructure, Cognition

March 11, 2026

How Art History Teaches: Images, Infrastructure, Cognition
University of Toronto Department of Art History Symposium
October 16, 2026

Convenor: Joseph L. Clarke
Symposium coordinator: Heath Valentine

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Chair's Letter

March 11, 2026

Dear Art History community,

What happens when you ask twelve hundred students to look carefully at a single work of art?

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The Wunderkammer on the Sixth Floor

March 10, 2026

What do a signed book by Marcel Duchamp, a set of Soviet bootleg records pressed onto X-ray film, and box of dried beans have in common? They are all found in the University of Toronto Art History Library, and none of them would have an obvious home anywhere else.

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“A Good Hang” with Jennifer Sliwka ’01, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

March 10, 2026

Jennifer Sliwka did not plan to study art history. Growing up, she often accompanied her father, a professor of architecture at the University of Waterloo, to Rome. She arrived at the University of Toronto expecting to become a classicist.

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Laying the Groundwork: Remembering Maria Shaw

March 10, 2026

The University of Toronto’s reputation as a global centre for the study of Aegean prehistory is due in no small part to the work of Dr. Maria Coutroubaki Shaw (1935–2025), a scholar, teacher, and mentor who died last year.

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From PhD to Public Good: Sara Angel '17 and the Art Canada Institute

March 10, 2026

Sara Angel pursued her PhD in the Department of Art History from 2012 until 2017, when she successfully defended her thesis, “A Moral Persuasion: The Nazi-Looted Art Recoveries of the Max Stern Art Restitution Project, 2002–2013.” During that time, Angel taught a course on modern art from 1900 to 1950.

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Monumental Foundations: Inside Art History’s Flagship Course

March 09, 2026

When the Department of Art History overhauled its introductory course in 2024, the goal was ambitious: give over a thousand students each year a rigorous grounding in art from across time, and do it without sacrificing the intimacy of a small classroom.

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Black Art in North America: A&S students explore resistance, identity and justice

January 22, 2026

Can art offer a way of understanding slavery, oppression and racial injustice?

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In Memoriam: Maria Coutroubaki Shaw

December 22, 2025

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Maria Coutroubaki Shaw, on December 7th 2025. Maria taught for more than three decades at UofT, starting in Classics at what was then Scarborough College in 1971, before becoming Professor in the Department of Fine Art.

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