The Chieftain & the Chair: Book Talk with Alumna Maggie Taft
Join us at Wright November 20th from 5 – 7 pm for a discussion of The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America with art historian and alumna Maggie Taft.
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.