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Art history

Leslie King Hammond
Alumni profile
The way maker
Published Summer 2024
Art historian Leslie King Hammond, A&S '73 (MA), '75 (PhD), reflects on her life spent championing Black and women artists—and a 1988 exhibit that jolted the art world / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Faculty news
Art historian Daniel Weiss returns
Published June 23, 2023
Weiss, Krieger School dean from 2002 until 2005, most recently served as president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Archaeology of Disability exhibition includes carved stone stools and a television screen
Art History
An archeology of disability
Published Aug 10, 2021
An installation at the Venice Biennale reimagines elements of the Acropolis through the lens of disability
Kathleen Oktavec Krepley
An artful eye
Published Spring 2021
An appreciation for art and a passion for medicine are second nature to ophthalmologist Kathleen Oktavec Krepley, A&S '06, SPH '10 (MHS). / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Asma Naeem
Ways of seeing
Published Spring 2019
As chief curator of the Baltimore Museum of Art, alum Asma Naeem thinks art can—and should—be used to tell a broader, more inclusive narrative of our shared history / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Excerpt of black and white Jorn photo shows a woman holding a rock and sticking out her tongue; her tongue is painted neon pink
History of Art
Student curators explore works of 1960s Danish artist
Published April 20, 2017
'Asger Jorn and CoBrA' exhibit opens April 26 on M Level of JHU's Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Mitchell Merback
Guggenheim Fellows
JHU art historian honored
Published April 7, 2016
Mitchell Merback among 178 scholars selected as Guggenheim Fellows from 3,000 applicants
Dean of fine arts
Published Fall 2015
Former Krieger School Dean Daniel Weiss is the new president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Johns Hopkins Magazine
The Met's main man
Published March 17, 2015
Former JHU student, faculty member Dan Weiss named president of Metropolitan Museum of Art / The New York Times
Grand exception
Published Spring 2015
Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi was a rarity: a 17th-century successful woman / Johns Hopkins Magazine