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Events

Upcoming

Photos of the horizon have been ripped out of magazines and collaged onto a folded piece of paper with brown, tan, and red background.

Other

Opening Celebrating for ‘Horizon Lines’

23 January 2026 5.00pm

Cochrane-Woods Art Center

Image: Glass lantern slides depicting villas in Tivoli and Bagnaia, Joel Snyder Materials Collection, ex. col. Department of Art History Slide Library.

Other

Smart Museum of Art and the Visual Resource Center

Image Archives: Glass Lantern Slides

30 January 2026 12.00pm - 30 January 2026 1.00pm

Smart Museum of Art - Education Study Room

Chehel Sotoon Palace (17t. century) / Mirror works / Esfahan / Iran

Lecture

Smart Lecture

Farshid Emami: "The Aesthetics and Semiotics of Mirror-clad Palaces in Early Modern Iran"

5 February 2026 5.00pm

CWAC 157

Past Events

Exhibition

Ephemeral Architectures Exhibition: early time-based media from China

Lecture

The Chieftain & the Chair: Book Talk with Alumna Maggie Taft

Panel

Land Outside Capital

Exhibition

Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Art: Video and the City

Exhibition

Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Art: Video and Performance in the 1990s

Other

Cartographic Cinema: Following a Straight Line

Workshop

Intro to Airtable and Database Thinking for Art Historians

Lecture

A Conversation with Helen Molesworth

Other

Chicago International Film Festival

Anselm Screening with Discussion led by Christine Mehring

Other

Beginning of the Year Celebration