Title:
In the image era, why is art history being squeezed?
Author:
Nathan M Greenfield
Published:
University World News, 17 December 2021
From the article:
According to the College Art Association of America, since 2018, four art history departments or programmes have been terminated.
While none of the schools – John Carroll University (JC) in Cleveland, Ohio; the College of St Rose in Albany, New York; Keene State College (KSC) in New Hampshire and William Paterson University (WPU) in New Jersey – has agreed to be interviewed, University World News has been able to piece together at least part of the story and how it fits into the more troubling pressure academic art historians feel and what faculty feel as an attack on the humanities that is partially mirrored in Britain but not in Germany.
In each university, the cuts to art history were part of wider cutbacks that hit the humanities especially hard.