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.
Anselm Screening with Discussion led by Christine Mehring
Germany • Director: Wim Wender • 93m
A majestic follow up to his 2011 tour-de-force Pina, Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary is another luminous portrait of an iconoclastic artist, Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative painters and sculptors of our time. Wenders traces Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his current home in France, connecting his life and controversial work over five decades in a mesmerizing visual experience.