Department of Art History

Join us for a symposium discussion of the recent book by Robin Jensen, The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy (Harvard University Press, 2018).

2019 Intercollegiate Undergraduate Art History Symposium

Sunday, April 28th from 10am - 3pm

Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphics Workshop

Led by Franco Rossi, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago

Session 1: Friday April 26, 10:00 am to 4:30 pm

Session 2: Friday May 3, 10:00 am to 4:30 pm

Please email brittenham@uchicago.edu to preregister. Lunch will be provided for those who preregister.

Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphics Workshop

Led by Franco Rossi, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago

Exhibition Preview, Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well

Abbott Galleries 182–184 and the Donna and Howard Stone Gallery 186, Modern Wing

Art Institute of Chicago

Co-curated by Solveig Nelson (PhD '18)

This exhibition is the first monographic survey of the videos, drawings, sculpture, performance, and poetry that comprise Gregg Bordowitz’s decades-long interdisciplinary practice.

Guest: Stanley Abe, Associate Professor of Art and Art History

Department of Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University

"Imagining Sculpture" 

Guest: Pan Li, Professor

Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History, University of Chicago

"Tsuguharu Fujita's 'Marvelous creamy white'" 

Guest: Zhiyan Yang, PhD candidate

Department of Art History, University of Chicago

"'The Work Didn't Exist Before Its Publication' - Architectural Journals During the Transitional Period (1979-200x)"

Guest: Yan Jin, MAPH Student

Humanities Division, University of Chicago. 

Jas’ Elsner, “Looking East: Early Christian Art Beyond Christian Hegemony”