VMPEA: Dorothy C. Wong
“Colossal Buddha Statues in China, Past and Present”
Dorothy C. Wong (Professor, Mcintire Department of Art, University of Virginia)
Discussant: Jiayi Zhu (PhD student, EALC, University of Chicago)
Catriona MacLeod wins Women in German Best Article Prize
Congratulations to Catriona MacLeod, the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the College and the Department of Germanic Studies, for winning the Women in German Best Article Prize for her article, “Invisible Sculpture, Latent Violence, and Monumental Parody in Mädchen in Uniform,” which was published in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55, no.
Darby English awarded ASAP 2020 Book Prize
Congratulations to Darby English, the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History, for being awarded the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) 2020 Book Prize for his book, To Describe a L
RAVE: Jessica Stockholder
“Cut a rug a round square.”
Professor Jessica Stockholder will host a discussion about her upcoming exhibition in a talk entitled “Cut a rug a round square.” Professor Stockholder’s respondent will be Christine Mehring, the Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College.
Newly Unearthed Tang Tomb Murals of Simulated Shanshui Paintings -- What Do They Tell Us?
You are invited to attend a two-part online workshop series "Newly Unearthed Tang Tomb Murals of Simulated Shanshui Paintings -- What Do They Tell Us?" (新出土的“拟山水画”唐墓壁画——它们告诉我们什么?) presented by Professor Wu Hung.
The first workshop will take place on Friday, Oct 30 from 5 pm to 7 pm (CDT), the second one will be on Thursday, Nov 5 from 5 pm to 7 pm (CST).* Registration link for Part 2 is here.
*please note CDT to CST transition
Newly Unearthed Tang Tomb Murals of Simulated Shanshui Paintings -- What Do They Tell Us?
You are invited to attend a two-part online workshop series "Newly Unearthed Tang Tomb Murals of Simulated Shanshui Paintings -- What Do They Tell Us?" (新出土的“拟山水画”唐墓壁画——它们告诉我们什么?) presented by Professor Wu Hung.
The first workshop will take place on Friday, Oct 30 from 5 pm to 7 pm (CDT), the second one will be on Thursday, Nov 5 from 5 pm to 7 pm (CST).* Registration for part one of the workshop here.
*please note CDT to CST transition
Who I am is Where I am: Plotting Spatial Demographics in Renaissance Florence
Who I am is Where I am: Plotting Spatial Demographics in Renaissance Florence
Built Environments, Text Sources, and Media Technologies, from the Truisms to YOU BE MY ALLY
This panel addresses the central components of Jenny Holzer’s new work, YOU BE MY ALLY - including the built environment, text sources, as well as so-called “new media" and mass media—to consider the University’s commission in relationship to Holzer’s past work, to our present context, and to practices in architecture, liberal arts education, and new media art and archaeology. Panelists include award-winning architect Billie Tsien (Founding Partner, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners); media archaeology scholar Ina Blom (Professor, University of Oslo and Wigeland Vi