VMPEA: Sylvia Wu
“Inventing Lingshan’s Ritual Environments: Muslim Devotional Practices in Little Ice Age Quanzhou”
Student Symposium: Monochrome Multitudes
This student-organized symposium responds to Monochrome Multitudes. University of Chicago students from a broad array of academic disciplines will present papers that demonstrate the many registers by which “the monochrome” is studied and interpreted.
Yves Klein Monotone Silence Symphony
Following the Monochrome Multitudes student symposium, a UChicago student-organized orchestra and choir will perform French artist Yves Klein’s Monotone Silence Symphony at the Logan Center for the Arts, which will be part of the culminating event for the Smart Museum's exhibition Monochrome Multitudes.
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.