Department of Art History

Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, an exhibition co-curated by Professor of Art History Chelsea Foxwell, has been featured in the September issue of the leading international art journal Artforum. This article provides a review of the exhibition currently on view (through September 15) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

"This exhibition is a revelation of juxtapositions that told a complex story about culture and commerce, nature and artifice, Eastern and Western, and tradition and innovation during an era of intense geopolitical, cultural, and technological transition."

See full article here by Robyn Schiff, head of The Creative Writing Program here at UChicago and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry set at the Metropolitan Museum, Information Desk.