Niall Atkinson to co-curate U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

Niall Atkinson will co-curate the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The US Department of State has chosen The University of Chicago and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago to serve as co-commissioners for the Pavilion. Entitled Dimensions of Citizenship, the exhibition will present a view of contemporary architectural practices through the lens of legal, political, economic and societal affiliations in the practice of citizenship today.

Persis Berlekamp discusses the upcoming eclipse

Persis Berlekamp discusses with UChicago News the motif of the eclipse dragon in the 12th and 13th centuries and what it can tell us about what scientists at the time knew about the lunar eclipse. 

 

Cécile Fromont awarded Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award

It was announced this week, at the ACASA Triennial conference in Ghana that Professor Fromont's The Art of Conversion won "The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award” that “honors publications for excellence in scholarship on the arts of Africa and the African Diaspora.” 

Wu Hung 2018 CAA Distinguished Scholar

Congratulations to Prof. Wu Hung for being named the College Art Association's 2018 Distinguished Scholar at next year's CAA Annual Conference being held at the LA Convention Center in February. To register for the conference or for more information, visit the CAA website.

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Career Exploration Discussion on Urban Planning

A discussion on Urban planning with Will Cohen an Urban Planner with UTile architecture in Boston and Eric Hanss the Pedestrian Program Project Manager.

Fluxus | Film

As a Fluxus artist, Vostell worked with a range of media, fitting performance installations with a combination of sculptural, painterly, photographic, and print-based processes, and common, everyday objects. Prior to his turn to creating “event-sculptures” in 1969, the materials Vostell used were often exhausted during the duration of the performance, discarded or else left in fragments called “happening fallouts” and accompanied by photographic documentation, including 16mm film and video.

Conserving Industrial Materials and Processes in Art

Experimentation with industrial materials and technology distinguishes many 20th and 21st century avant-garde practices. Concrete Traffic’s combination of industrial materials and technical components reinforces the need for further scientific analysis and information exchange between the fine and applied arts, industry and science, as well as between the professionals who conserve industrial materials and consumer technologies in diverse contexts.

Exhibiting Architecture in the Present Tense

Irene Sunwoo, Associate Curator of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, will be giving her Smart Lecture entitled, Exhibiting Architecture in the Present Tense, followed by a reception in the Smart Museum. 

Ancient Art Against Modern Culture: Sculptural Presence in Scythian Burial Ritual and Russian Formalism

Caspar Meyer is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. His field is in Greek art and its cross-cultural persistence and resurgence from antiquity to the present. His recent monograph, Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia (Oxford, 2013), explores the receptions of classical metalwork in ancient Scythia and Romanov Russia and their afterlife in modern theories of syncretism, hybridity and cultural identity.

Transatlantic Forum 2016: Culture-Art-Design-Society

October 24-25 is a forum where policymakers and knowledge producers meet to forge and develop long-term partnerships, and to discover cross-disciplinary and groundbreaking new ideas. The forum was established in 2002, by Norway’s embassies in Washington and Ottawa to promote ST&I cooperation. It has since then developed into an important annual transatlantic arena.

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