Congratulations to Persis Berlekamp (Associate Professor of Art History and the College and Affiliated Faculty in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) for receiving the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring! The award recognizes regular, full-time faculty members in the four divisions and the Divinity School for exemplary graduate teaching.
Exhibitions of East Asian art have been a major aspect of the creation and dissemination of historical knowledge of East Asia in the West since the early twentieth century. Exhibitions offer the first-hand and authentic experience of East Asian art and have made important contributions to scholarship and the understanding artistic traditions and the formation of the field of study of East Asian art history as an academic discipline.
Presented by Bridget Madden and Allie Scholten (Visual Resource Center) and Claudia Brittenham (Art History). This workshop is for students in any field who are collecting images as part of their research.
This workshop will introduce (1) methods for taking better pictures of sites, architecture, or objects in an archive and in the field; (2) how to catalog images; and (3) image permissions in the US and Latin America. We will briefly address the ethics of using photographs of people, as well as issues related to national patrimony in the region.
The Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art is currently exhibiting Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe
Join us for an evening conversation about the place of artworks in the personal lives of their beholders, both past and present.
Please join us for the fourth session of Chat About, which will be held in person at Promontory Point next Saturday, May 1st from 7-8:30 pm! You are welcome to bring your own drinks and food. Please note the unusual date and location. There will be extra precautions to keep things safe.
Topics may include: Taste, Self, Dupe, Drag, Alice, Mother, Milieu, Trust, Thresholds, and Returns.
In collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Sichel, the Visual Resources Center is excited to host a panel discussion on critical cataloging, queer archives, and queer archival labor, featuring the following speakers presenting their work on research, publication, and practice: Marika Cifor, Assistant Professor in the Information School and an adjunct faculty member in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.
Renaissance historian Ada Palmer explores the relationship between war, strife, and artistic production reflecting on objects in Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe as well as other examples of art, music, and literature. Palmer examines how the artistic splendor of the Renaissance—and the willingness of patrons to invest their fortunes in it—was a reaction to crisis and violence, rather than a sign of peace.
Join Patricia Simons and Jill Burke for a nuanced investigation into the construction of gender-based narratives and power dynamics in early modern European art. Many of the works in Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe feature dramatic stories of feminine exemplars drawn from biblical texts, mythology, and ancient history.
This lunchtime series with the Poetry Foundation and Smart Museum of Art takes us into the wild world of human relationships in ancient Rome and Renaissance Europe that is both strange and oddly familiar. Together, we’ll investigate themes of trauma, transformation, and love during our current Pandemic epoch through the lens of Ovid’s poetry.
In Part 2 on April 29th at high noon, Erik Peterson will lead a session that includes live readings from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a drawing workshop, and a hands-on art project that celebrates the transformations of Spring.