Roko Rumora (PhD candidate) discusses the exhibition "Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color" at the Met and how he finds this evocation of polychromy in the exhibition "jarring." Roko is about to start his Graduate Curatorial Internship in the Antiquities Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa. You can read the full article here.
In conjunction with the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The Department of Art History is proud to celebrate its graduating doctoral students for the 2021-22 academic year. We wish them the best as they embark on the next phase of their careers.
Nancy Lin
"Making Spaces: Site-Based Practice in Contemporary Chinese Art in the Long 1990s"
Advisor: Wu Hung and Katherine Taylor
Nancy Lin will be starting as a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University.
Chloé Pelletier
"From Gold to Green: Visualizing the Environment in the Italian Renaissance"
Neil Harris has been awarded the Harvard GSAS Centennial Medal for founding the academic discipline of cultural history and shedding light on those who launched many important visual and historical developments in American society. Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus in the department of art history at the University of Chicago.