Department of Art History

This conversation will consider the intersection of art and politics, creativity and activism, in Jenny Holzer’s YOU BE MY ALLY and other artworks created in the context of the November 2020 and past elections as well as similar moments in history. David Joselit is a leading scholar of 20th-century modern art and postwar American art. He is a Professor of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University, editor of October, and author of numerous books, including Feedback: Television Against Democracy (2007) and Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (2020).

“A Material Metaphor: Reading Crackle-Glazed Porcelain in Chen Hongshou’s Paintings”

Sizhao Yi, PhD Student, Art History

Respondent: Meng Zhao, PhD Candidate, Art History

“‘That he may behold’: Constructing Presence through Sight in Ancient Egyptian Art”

Luiza Osorio G. da Silva, PhD Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Respondent: Roko Rumora, PhD Student, Art History

"Japan's Forgotten God: Jūzenji in Literature and the Visual Arts"

Speaker: Or Porath (Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations)

Discussant: Ian Cipperly (PhD student, Department of History)

“Yutaka Matsuzawa and Looking Around Quantum Art”

Alan Longino (PhD student, Department of Art History)

Discussant: Orianna Cacchione (Curator of Global Contemporary Art, Smart Museum)

Nostalgia for Inner Asia: Form and Idea in the Portrait of the Filial Grandson Yuan Gu on Stone Funerary Couch from the Eastern Wei Dynasty (548 CE)

内亚的留恋：安阳东魏围屏石棺床孝孙原榖画像的形式与理念

Dong Rui. PhD., Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History, University of Chicago; Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts, Henan University

Discussant: Lin Wei-Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Chicago

Please join us for the next virtual installment of Local Produce, presented by the Hack Arts Lab at the University of Chicago. This talk will feature Olivia Sturman (AB ’20), in a conversation with HAL staff member Sophia Van Iderstine. Olivia will be discussing her role on the Jenny Holzer public art project You Be My Ally, currently installed and on view at various sites throughout the UChicago Hyde Park campus and on roving LED trucks.

“Repetition: Practice and Perception as Late Medieval Approaches to Health”

The focus of this discussion will be UChicago’s Core Curriculum: it’s current state, its relevance in higher education and at UChicago today. It will also address different Core sequences, what it means to teach a canon and rethink it, how the Core has evolved, and how in the choices related to the Core come about. Finally, what does YOU BE MY ALLY say and ask of the Core?