The Poet and the Poem
2024-25 Series

Featured Robert Haywood

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Robert Haywood is an art historian and publisher. He has a Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has taught art and architecture history at Hunter College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Notre Dame, University of Michigan, and John's Hopkins University. He has received or held numerous scholarly residencies and fellowships, including the Wyeth Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; a Smithsonian Fellowship, Hirshhorn Museum of Art; two Getty Fellowships in Los Angeles, and a Clark Fellowship, Clark Art Institute.

His research focuses on modern and contemporary art and he has published essays in Smithsonian Studies in American Art (essay on George Bellows) Art in America, Art History, Notre Dame Review, Threshold (essay on Robert Gober), and in the exhibition catalogues Pop Art and Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts at Columbia University. His book Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg: Art, Happenings and Cultural Politics is published by Yale University, 2017. His book research is drawn from the personal archives of both Kaprow and Oldenburg.

In addition to his research and teaching appointments, he has work in museums, including as Deputy Director of the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. Currently, he is the co-publisher and writes architectural, travel and art essays for Annapolis Home Magazine.

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