For the first time in its more than 80-year history, the USC Fisher Museum of Art has closed its doors. Yet the museums and galleries of USC remain conduits to the arts for many.
USC Dornsife’s Kate Flint explores the felines that have pawed, posed and preened their way through art around the world.
Portraits of Holocaust survivors appear alongside interactive testimonies in Facing Survival, a USC Fisher Museum of Art and USC Shoah Foundation collaboration open through Dec. 7.
A USC Dornsife professor describes how exploring the work of artists and poets can spur us to embrace and protect the environment.
USC Dornsife senior JaBrea Patterson-West changed her major — and her life’s trajectory — to support underrepresented artists, earning a prestigious fellowship in the process.
The modern Valentine card was born in Victorian England in a time when weight put on marriages based on love and companionship as opposed to convenience, strategic alliances or money.
Max Novak’s fascination with Greek and Roman history could lead to a career as a museum curator.
Elizabeth Holmes Fisher started from humble beginnings to become a renowned collector of the great masters.
USC Dornsife course teaches Trojans how to hone their observational skills and tell a story about eye-catching paintings.
USC Dornsife faculty members collaborate on a new translation of poems by enfant terrible Arthur Rimbaud.
Vittoria Di Palma and Amy Ogata write award-winning books on desolate regions and the history of architecture.
USC Dornsife historian co-edits a special issue of the academic journal Art History exploring ‘Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World.’
USC Dornsife scholar studies tiny wooden replicas of buildings that adorn Buddhist temples and monasteries.
Doctoral dissertation chronicles the innovations in visual culture that followed World War II.
In a new research project, USC professor Kate Flint illuminates the history of technological change and imaginative expression.
A new book from Suzanne Hudson rallies to the defense of a much contested, ever-evolving medium.
Art history professor Megan Luke’s book on Kurt Schwitters, a key figure in Dadaism, receives the Robert Motherwell Book Prize.
Percival Everett, Vanessa Schwartz and David Ulin will pursue research and literary projects.
Lyssa Aruda’s childhood passion leads to active engagement at USC Viterbi.
An intriguing exhibit features hands-on installations in libraries across the University Park Campus.
Workshop organized by the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture offers insights to scholars, curators and collectors.
Steven Ross, John Pollini and Jacques Hymans receive highly competitive grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support their research.
Historian Amelia Jones will receive the Distinguished Feminist Award in New York.