"Calligraphy and Haptic Poetics in the Art of Ōtagaki Rengetsu"
Speaker: Professor Melissa McCormick (Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University)
Discussant: Professor Chelsea Foxwell (Associate Professor of Art History and the College, The University of Chicago)
Hunnu Rock: Mongolian Metal and a Global Folk Metal Subculture
Speaker: Sophie Walker (PhD student, Joint program: Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of Cinema and Media Studies)
Discussant: Ethan Waddell (PhD student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Seeking Balance: Material and Meaning in a Polychrome Guanyin
Speaker: Cybele Tom (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Discussant: Alice Casalini (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Elite Graffiti, Kinship, and Social Capital: Pilgrimages to Kŭmgangsan in Pre-1900 Korea
This is a special RAVE session for graduate students presenting at CAA. Nancy Lin, Maggie Borowitz, and possibly Hanne Graversen and Max Koss will be soliciting presentation feedback before they submit their pre-recorded talks to CAA in early January.
Nancy Lin, "Between Performance and Documentation: Song Dong's 'Performative Futility’"
In a survey of ground-breaking shows that have led the way to the present, Art in America recognized “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China” as one of the exhibitions that defined the discussions of contemporary art in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Congratulations to Christine Zappella Papanastassiou (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) for being awarded the Carl S. Meyer Prize for her paper, “The Meta/Physics of Light, Confraternal Worship, and Andrea del Sarto’s Monochrome Life of St.
Dr. Yen is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and curator of the exhibition "Everlasting Bloom: Rediscovering Taiwanese Modern Art," which runs at the Museum of the National Taipei University of Education (MONTUE) this fall. She received her Ph.D. in History of Art from Harvard University and previously served as the Director of the Graduate Institute of Art Studies, National Central University.
As the university transitions to remote learning for the remainder of the autumn quarter, Claudia Brittenham (Associate Professor, Art History and the College) discusses strategies with asynchronous teaching in a recent interview with Online Pedagogy Assistant Katie Bevil of Remote Humanities.
Join the Smart Museum of Art and EXPO CHICAGO for a live-streamed discussion with Claudia Wieser.
During the event, Wieser reflects on the myriad of influences that inform her work - from the democratic stage of ancient Roman forums to the esoteric principles of Bauhaus craftsmanship - to produce immersive spatial installations.
In conversation with artist Claudia Wieser are Jennifer Carty, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Smart Museum, and Rachel Adams, Chief Curator and Director of Programs at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.