Smart Lecture Series: "Woven Histories: A Curatorial Optics"

"Woven Histories: A curatorial optics"

Smart Lecture Series: “Reassembling The Social Organization: Franz Boas, Indigenous Ontologies, and the Anthropology of Art."

“Reassembling The Social Organization: Franz Boas, Indigenous Ontologies, and the Anthropology of Art."

Smart Lecture Series: "Inheriting an Invented Tradition: Islamic Art in the Arabian Peninsula."

"Inheriting an Invented Tradition: Islamic Art in the Arabian Peninsula."

Ephemeral Architectures Exhibition: early time-based media from China

November 9, 2023–December 8, 2023 

 

Ephemeral Architectures: Early Video and Performance Art from China is a pop-up exhibition featuring early video and time-based media art from China. Artists included in the exhibition employ video and sound as means to remember spaces, movements, and moments amidst a time of profound socio-economic transformation within China around the turn of the new millennium.  

Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Art: Video and the City

November 12, 2023, Logan Center for the Arts, Room 201, 5-7pm

This screening series will take place over the course of two days at the Logan Center for the Arts. This series will feature videos from University of Chicago’s Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor Wu Hung’s newly digitized archive of video and performance art from China. Both screenings will be followed by a roundtable discussion and audience Q&A.

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

November 11, 2023, Logan Center for the Arts, Room 201, 5-7pm

This screening series will take place over the course of two days at the Logan Center for the Arts. This series will feature videos from University of Chicago’s Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor Wu Hung’s newly digitized archive of video and performance art from China. Screenings will be followed by a roundtable discussion and audience Q&A.

Invited roundtable discussants: Song Dong and Nancy P. Lin, PhD (Cornell University)

Cartographic Cinema: Following a Straight Line

The screening will be followed by a conversation between Oleg Tcherny, Marc Downie and Ina Blom

Professorship in Ancient Near Eastern Art Opening

The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago invite applications for a Professorship in Ancient Near Eastern Art, with appointment beginning July 1, 2024, or July 1, 2025.  

Land Outside Capital

This event will be held in person and on Zoom. Please email buellcenter@columbia.edu to RSVP or register for the Zoom link.

A Conversation with Helen Molesworth

Christine Merhing will moderate a conversation with Los Angeles based writer, podcaster, and curator Helen Molesworth.

In 2023 Phaidon published Open Questions, Thirty Years of Writing About Art, an anthology of her essays. Her podcasts include: Death of an Artist, a 6-part podcast about the intertwined fates of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, and “Recording Artists” with The Getty. She is also the host of DIALOGUES, a podcast that features interviews with artists, writers, fashion designers, and filmmakers hosted by the David Zwirner Gallery.