Objectified: Methods in Environmental Humanities
February 5, 2024–February 23, 2024
Farshid Emami: "The Aesthetics and Semiotics of Mirror-clad Palaces in Early Modern Iran"
We invite you to join the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago for this upcoming lecture as part of the 2025-26 Smart Lecture series. The lecture is Thursday, February 5th in CWAC 157 at 5:00pm CT with a Q&A session and reception to follow.
Alumna Receives Warhol Grant
Art History doctoral alumna Maggie Borowitz' book An Unofficial History of Mexican Pink has been awarded The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
PhD Student Curated Exhibition Receives Kress Grant
Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe, a traveling exhibition curated by Art History PhD student Nora Lambert, has received a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
MAPH Student Esme Graham Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art
Art History MAPH student Esme Graham's review of "Iñigo Manglano Ovalle: A Want for Nothing” has been published in the Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, December 2025 issue:
Opening Celebration for ‘the LAND as they left it
CWAC Exhibitions invites you to join artist curator Taylor Pate to celebrate the opening of the LAND as they left it with conversations and a light reception.
The LAND as they left it
In the LAND as they left it, Taylor Pate's photographs document the land of Chicago’s Washington Park and Lakefront Trail through a sympathetic yet critical lens. Chicago is rooted on the ancestral lands of numerous Indigenous tribes, including the Neshnabé, Myaamia, Wea, and Kickapoo. But the Lakefront, once home to much hope, was soon filled with terror as Indigenous people were pushed away from the water and their spiritual ties to it were severed for the sake of the colonizer’s capitalistic greed.
From Objects to Landscape, and Other Stories: An Artist Talk and Conversation with Magali Lara
Join us at the Logan Center for the Arts for an artist talk with internationally renowned Mexican artist Magali Lara followed by a conversation with Art History PhD alumna and postdoctoral fellow Maggie Borowitz, hosted by the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. See original posting here.
Liam Gillick: The Knot of Which I Speak Cannot be Knotted
We invite you to join the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago for this upcoming lecture on Tuesday, December 2nd in CWAC 157 at 5:00pm CT with a Q&A session and reception to follow.