Boston College Art, Art History, and Film Department

3rd Annual Pride Night with the Pops Invite your friends today

Congratulations to Professor Wunsch who won the ASECS James Clifford Prize for his article, “The Aesthetic Redemption of the Black Body in Eighteenth-Century France,” which was published in the journal Art History in February 2025.

The ASECS citation said Wunsch “adeptly demonstrates ‘how the differing goals of artists and philosophers yielded divergent forms of engagement with Blackness,’” arguing that “the aesthetic aims of painters, focused on producing ‘visual pleasure,’ introduce a disjuncture between a social discourse that would at times marginalize or demean Black subjects and the formal qualities involved in capturing Blackness,” a phenomenon Wunsch calls “the ‘aesthetic redemption’ of the Black body.”

ASECS called Wunsch’s article “valuable (essential?) reading for anyone interested in visual art, aesthetic theory, natural philosophy, historiography, and exhibition curation.”
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/bc-news/articles/2026/spring/dual-honors-for-wunsch.html?q

Wolfgang Tillmans wins 2026 Roswitha Haftmann Prize. German artist Wolfgang Tillmans wins the Roswitha Haftmann Prize, Europe’s most financially significant arts prize.

Hope to see you all at the reception celebrating our 2026 Senior Exhibition

The Senior Exhibition is hung and things look amazing. Be sure to stop by Devlin 4th floor too look at the work.
The Reception will be Sunday 3:30-6pm on the 4th floor
The Awards & Honors ceremony is 4:30-5:30 in Higgins 300

We would like to thank the students, parents, faculty, staff, ATIG, TIG and Capital Grants teams for everything!!!

After Years of Figurative Painting, Abstraction Roars Back in New York’s Galleries Better Than Ever Read more in the comments.

Very excited to share the news on the New Design Minor

Boston College will launch a minor in Design Studies this fall as part of an initiative to expand offerings and increase collaborations focused on the “design thinking” approach to finding human-centered solutions to complex problems. https://on.bc.edu/DesignMinor

Nearing the end of installation day 2!!!
Looking forward to seeing all at the Exhibition party this Sunday!

Take a break at the ICA before the finals kick in!