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.
USC Dornsife and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art spotlight collections of the USC Pacific Asia Museum.
That familiar quote comes to mind as alumna and Mark Twain scholar Laura Skandera Trombley is named incoming president of The Huntington Library.
Visions and Voices event attracts experts who trace monsters past and present.
Christina Yu Yu garners praise for her experience in researching and curating Asian art and her ambitious vision.