Department of Art History

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.

"Woven Histories: A curatorial optics"

“Reassembling The Social Organization: Franz Boas, Indigenous Ontologies, and the Anthropology of Art."

"Inheriting an Invented Tradition: Islamic Art in the Arabian Peninsula."

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.  

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.

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)

The screening will be followed by a conversation between Oleg Tcherny, Marc Downie and Ina Blom

This event will be held in person and on Zoom. Please email buellcenter@columbia.edu to RSVP or register for the Zoom link.