Last year, Jee-Young Park, Korean Studies Librarian at the University of Chicago, acquired 2,000 North Korean postage stamps spanning 1962–2018. The stamps—many of which arrived in thematic stamp albums—depict a surprising variety of topics and images, including political propaganda and North Korean architecture as well as animals, art and culture, and more.
Darby English, the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History, has received the 2020 Frank Jewett Mather Award for his book, To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror
Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor of Art History and the College, has been awarded the 2020 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College Art Association for her article, “Architecture, Vision, and Ritual: Seeing Maya Lintels at Yaxchilan Structure 23,” which was featured in the September 2019 issue of
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announced a $500,000 gift to the University of Chicago’s Department of Art History, one of five new institutional partners for the Frankenthaler Scholarships, a multi-year initiative that has dedicated more than $4 million to art and art history graduate programs nationwide.
From City to Text to Image: Pieter van den Broecke and Safi ibn Vali in Seventeenth-Century Mocha
On January 15, Martha Rosler will be in conversation with Neubauer Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete to discuss the current gallery exhibition, Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals – the first exhibition by the acclaimed New York–based photo and video artist to center primarily on her interest in flowers, gardens, and associated “green” motifs.
"What I've Learned from Talking to Artists"
Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor of Art History, Visual Arts, and the College; Chair, Department of Visual Arts
Register in advance for this Zoom meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All are welcome to join. Please let Sophie and me know if you have any questions.
"The edges of the interview: informal relationships and the challenges of translation"
Maggie Borowitz, PhD Candidate, Art History
Special Event
Lori Waxman, critic for the Chicago Tribune and Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
in conversation with: Rachel Cohen, Professor of Practice in the Arts, Department of English and Program in Creative Writing
This event is organized by the Smart Museum of Art and co-sponsored by the RAVE and Speaking of Art workshops.