Jenny Harris (PhD candidate) discusses the discovery of a group of early collages that tells a new story about Johnson's ties to dance and the dance world. You can read the full article here.
Vanja V. Malloy, the Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago announced today the appointment of Meg Jackson Fox as Director of the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry and Head of Education.
Ephemeral Architectures: early performance and video art from China
Come celebrate the new school year with our students and faculty in the courtyard in front of Cochrane-Woods Art Center.
Chelsea Foxwell, Associate Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, has been appointed the Director of the Center of East Asian Studies.
Her work focuses on Japan’s artistic interactions with the rest of East Asia and beyond, nihonga and yōga (Japanese oil painting); “export art” and the world’s fairs; practices of image circulation, exhibition, and display; and the relationship between image-making and the kabuki theater.
We are delighted to congratulate Amanda Chacón, a third-year student majoring in Art History, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies for being named a 2023 Beinecke Scholar. Beinecke Scholars are selected for their academic excellence, their potential to succeed in graduate study and beyond, and most notably, their ability to formulate unique questions that contribute to their chosen field of study.
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy will be defending her dissertation, "Vera Molnar’s Programmed Abstraction: Computer Graphics and Geometric Abstract Art in Postwar Europe", on Wednesday, April 12 at 1pm in CWAC 157. Zsofi's defense is free and open to the public to attend in-person. If you are not able to attend in-person, please join with this zoom link. We would love to see you there and to support Zsofi on this achievement!
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: If you are interested in attending, please email arthistory@uchicago.edu as soon as possible.