“'That artwork doesn't exist': Productive misreadings of performance documentation and what happens when you find out the truth.”
Nancy Lin, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
Co-sponsored with Speaking of Art: Artist Interviews in Scholarship and Practice.
“A Preliminary Research on Images of Thousand Buddhas in Tibet: Taking the Murals of Pegdongpo Cave in Zanda County in Ngari Prefecture of Western Tibet as an Example” 西藏千佛图像初探——以西藏西部阿里地区札达县白东波石窟壁画为例
Luo Rufei, PhD candidate, Zhejiang University; exchange student, University of Chicago
Respondent: Dongshan Zhang, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
Last year, Jee-Young Park, Korean Studies Librarian at the University of Chicago, acquired 2,000 North Korean postage stamps spanning 1962–2018. The stamps—many of which arrived in thematic stamp albums—depict a surprising variety of topics and images, including political propaganda and North Korean architecture as well as animals, art and culture, and more.
Darby English, the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History, has received the 2020 Frank Jewett Mather Award for his book, To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror
Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor of Art History and the College, has been awarded the 2020 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College Art Association for her article, “Architecture, Vision, and Ritual: Seeing Maya Lintels at Yaxchilan Structure 23,” which was featured in the September 2019 issue of
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announced a $500,000 gift to the University of Chicago’s Department of Art History, one of five new institutional partners for the Frankenthaler Scholarships, a multi-year initiative that has dedicated more than $4 million to art and art history graduate programs nationwide.
From City to Text to Image: Pieter van den Broecke and Safi ibn Vali in Seventeenth-Century Mocha
On January 15, Martha Rosler will be in conversation with Neubauer Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete to discuss the current gallery exhibition, Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals – the first exhibition by the acclaimed New York–based photo and video artist to center primarily on her interest in flowers, gardens, and associated “green” motifs.
"What I've Learned from Talking to Artists"
Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor of Art History, Visual Arts, and the College; Chair, Department of Visual Arts
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