There is so much pressure for an artwork to be harmonious, unified, complete. And yet, there are many times when we only have a piece of an art object at our disposal—whether that be in the form of an actual extract, a replica, a photograph, or a description. In fact, art history itself often relies on fragments of works. Some works are simply not on view, damaged, or otherwise unavailable to art historians. Even still, accessible portions are compiled for study.
The Visual Resources Center (VRC) is pleased to invite you to Making and Managing Images, a workshop on creating a personal image archive to support your research, teaching, publishing, and scholarship.
On a sunny Saturday in November, nine students travelled to Greencastle, Indiana to see the exhibition Beyond: Tapestry Expanded at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University. The exhibition, curated by Erica Warren, featured works, by thirty-six contemporary artists, that examine and interrogate the denotative and connotative potential of "tapestry" as a well-used, and seemingly well-known, designation.
Roko Rumora, Ph.D. student in ancient art, has been appointed as assistant curator of ancient art at The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA). The Toledo Museum of Art was established in 1901 to share the transformative power of art with the community.
CWAC Exhibitions invites you to join the makers and curators of How We See to celebrate the opening of this exhibition with conversations, merriment, and a light reception!&
How We See is a course-based exhibition that encourages students to draw from their own lives, seeking out things that spark their interest, observing and reflecting on them, and completing a project through images and text.
Students travel to New York City as part of COSI Seminar, “Exhibition as Argument: Displaying Modern and Contemporary Art in Chicago and Beyond.”
Theorising the Artist Interview, fresh off the press from Routledge, features a chapter, as well as cover art created, by college and doctoral alumna Zsofi Valyi-Nagy. Edited by UK-based art historians Lucia Farinati and Jennifer Thatcher, the volume’s essays theorize the artist interview as a form of cultural production and embrace it as a critical practice co-constructed by interviewer and interviewee. Zsofi's chapter, "Herstory or mine?
We invite you to join the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago for this upcoming lecture as part of the 2024-25 Smart Lecture series. The lecture is Tuesday, May 20th in CWAC 157 at 5:00pm CT with a Q&A session and reception to follow.
We invite you to join the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago for this upcoming lecture as part of the 2024-25 Smart Lecture series. The lecture is Thursday, April 3 in CWAC 157 at 5:00pm CT with a Q&A session and reception to follow.