Nicole L. Woods will be in conversation about her book Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus (University of Chicago Press) with Christine Mehring. The Q&A will be followed by a performance of one of Alison Knowles’ works. Woods is a Los Angeles-based art historian and critics and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
Art History PhD alumni Jennifer Sichel & Caroline Lillian Schopp will discuss their new books, Criticism Without Authority and In-action, respectively. They will be joined in conversation by Art History faculty Matthew Jesse Jackson. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. RSVP HERE
About the Books:
Join Carl Fuldner and Rebecca Zorach for a program exploring glass lantern slides and the materiality of image archives.
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.