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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Hosseini Publishes on Platform
Infrastructure is usually invisible, until it is gone or stops working.
Eppihimer Interviews UK Poet Laureate About Translating Gilgamesh
Before Simon Armitage's visit to the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Melissa Eppihimer interviewed him for the Pittsburgh Review of Books.
Beranek Publishes First Monograph on Amalia von Solms and Early Modern Dutch Potraiture
Saskia Beranek (PhD, 2013) has published her first monograph, The Cultural Work of the Early Modern Dutch Portrait: Amalia van Solms and the Shape of the Self in European Art (Routledge).