We study the art, architecture, and visual culture of the global past and present to understand our world today and create better futures. We adopt a capacious definition of art that explores all human creativity, regardless of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, or ability. Our mission is to expand our field which has entrenched an elitist and exclusionary worldview.
The Frick Fine Arts Library has an outstanding research collection containing over 90,000 volumes.
The University Art Gallery (UAG) is an open, flexible, and immersive laboratory for studying and displaying how art and visual objects generate knowledge and understanding of the world.
The Constellations at the University of Pittsburgh are hubs of innovative practice that unite faculty and students across subfields in the Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh fosters opportunities for collaboration between Pitt faculty, students, and the local cultural sector.
The Visual Media Workshop is a humanities lab focused on the investigation of material and visual culture.
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Bertagnolli Guest Lectures at Schweikher House
Isaiah Bertagnolli (Ph.D.
Tao and Colleagues Publish on a 400-year-old Chinese Chicken Coop
Tao and his colleagues published an article on a very rare 17th-century late Ming Dynasty chicken coop discovered during an archaeological excavation in Zhengzhou, China.
Nygren publishes co-authored piece on AI in Higher Ed
AI has upended Higher Ed in the last two years. Often lost in the hype around AI are the fundamental questions: what does learning look like and how does it happen.