Please join for the opening of the Heaven Gallery exhibition Stable curated by art history MAPH alumnus Christian Bumala, now a doctoral student at Harvard University. Stable considers the work behind all that has already been, taking into question the labor underpinning our conception of the often taken for granted.
The Regenstein Library Special Exhibition Gallery presents the exhibition "Media Revolutions Then & Now: Martin Luther and the Making of Modern Communication” from January 5 - April 10, 2026.
This exhibit is co-curated by Art History Professor Tamara Golan and Christopher Wild (Germanic Studies), and generously supported by the Wilhelm von Humboldt Performance Fund, the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, the Kim Park Program for the Study of the Book, and the Departments of Germanic Studies and Art History.
Department chair Andrei Pop will discuss his new book Fregean Realism: Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions. He will be joined in conversation by Florian Klinger. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion.
Henie Zhang, an art history MAPH TLO student enrolled in Prof. Mehring’s “Writing Art Criticism” class last fall, has published two exhibition reviews, one on Magalie Guérin at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Whitehot Magazine, and the other on the Smart Museum’s ongoing Theaster Gates show in the Hyde Park Herald.
CWAC Exhibitions invites you to join artist and curator Anju Lukose-Scott to celebrate the opening of Horizon Lines: Reimagining Potentiality with a curator-led walkthrough, jubilation, and a light reception!
In Horizon Lines: Reimagining Potentiality, artist and curator Anju Lukose-Scott explores the horizon line as not only a vanishing point but also as a marker of potential: a boundary between what is and what could be.
A full-page review of Eduardo Chillida: Convergence, an exhibition at The San Diego Museum of Art curated by Art History doctoral alumna Rachel Jans, has been published in the Wall Street Journal.
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.
Art History doctoral alumna Maggie Borowitz' book An Unofficial History of Mexican Pink has been awarded The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers 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.