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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News
Roberts and Trakumas Win Inaugural Terry Smith Prize
The Department of History of Art & Architecture is pleased to announce graduate student Emma Roberts and undergraduate student Tadas Trakumas as the inaugural winners of the Terry Smith Prize for Research on Modern and/or Contemporar
Nakhaei Joins Shangri La Museum as Fall 2025 Scholar-in-Residence
Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, a center of the Doris Duke Foundation, welcomes architectural historian and PhD candidate Hossein Nakhaei as its Fall 2025 Scholar-in-Residence.
