Book Launch: Ina Blom's 'Houses to Die In'
You are warmly invited to attend the launch of Ina Blom's new book, Houses to Die In and Other Essays on Art, on Friday 20th January at 5pm, hosted by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore via Zoom.
Jill Shaw curates 'Van Gogh in America' at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Congratulation to Jill Shaw, doctoral alumna of the University of Chicago, on her curation of the latest exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Van Gogh in America.
Film Screening: Color Corrections
This is a public event by the Film Studies Center presented in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art’s exhibition Monochrome Multitudes (September 22 through January 8).
Art and Science join in examining Wolf Vostell's 'Concrete Book'
Wolf Vostell's Betonbuch, or Concrete Book, is the artistic expression of his pioneering belief in the use of concrete as a material for art, not just construction. Vostell was part of Fluxus, an international community of experimental creators that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, and in 1971, Vostell wrote a short book called Betonierungen, or Concretifications, and as evidence of his commitment to the material, he purportedly encased 100 copies of that book in numbered slabs of concrete.
Stephanie Strother co-curates 'Paul B. Moses: Trailblazing Art Historian'
Congratulations to Stephanie Strother, PhD student in the Department of Art History, on co-curating an exhibition on Paul B. Moses, lecturer in Art History at the University of Chicago from 1962 until his death in 1966.
Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces Artistic Team for Fifth Edition, Opening September 2023
Congratulations to Andrew Schachman, Lecturer in Urban Design in the Department of Art History, whose Chicago-based collective Floating Museum has been announced as the artistic team for the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB)'s CAB 5. CAB 5, the fifth edition of North America’s leading architecture and design exhibition, will open in September 2023.
Smart Museum's Monochrome Multitudes featured in WTTW
Congratulations to Orianna Caccione and Christine Mehring, whose exhibition Monochrome Multitudes at the Smart Museum of Art has been featured on Chicago's WTTW Network.
Making Experience: Discourse, Materiality and the Senses in the later Middle Ages
This talk will reflect on the central theme of the 'Urban Sensorium' collaboration between the universities of Vienna and Chicago. Beginning with a historiographical survey, it will trace the evolution of the histories of the senses, the body, the emotions and material culture through the aftermath of the cultural turn, noting a shared belief in the unsymbolisable and a new interest in embodied forms of cognition.
Kabuki in Print: Actor, Fans, Image, and Medium in Early Modern Japan and Beyond
From the 17th through 20th centuries, the woodblock print medium played a pivotal role in connecting kabuki actors and fans and engendering play between actor and role, vision and voice, and between the stage and the imagination. This intimate symposium seeks to bring together experts from theater, literature, and art history in order to study the collection and contribute their own insights on the relation between page and stage in the case of kabuki.