Niall Atkinson: "Listening to the City"
Listening to the City
Talk by Niall Atkinson
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Art History students working with business school art collection
The Booth School of Business has a 13-year-old art collection that includes more than 500 artworks by 150 emerging and established contemporary artists such as Paul Chan, Tacita Dean, Cao Fei, Raymond Pettibon, and Wolfgang Tillmans. UChicago Arts recently posted a story about how Art History students have been engaging with the collection and using it as a resource for curatorial practice. Click he
Daguerre’s Legacy: Bonne chance ou bon génie
Contemporary Daguerreotype Artist and Historian Mike Robinson, Ph.D. will present a talk that retraces Daguerre’s pathway of discovery and innovation described in historical accounts, and combines this historical research with artisanal, tacit, and causal knowledge gained through replicative practice to shed new light on the history of the Daguerre’s photographic research. The daguerreotype process has a unique material story about its creation.
PhD candidate Savannah Esquivel wins Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence
Art History PhD candidate Savannah Esquivel was selected as one of two recipients for the 2019 Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence. This award acknowledges Esquivel’s truly outstanding performance as a graduate student teacher and the impact she has made on undergraduate and masters students she has taught.
Documenting the Archive: Department of Cinema & Media Studies Graduate Student Conference
Documentary film practice inflects and is in turn also inflected by the theories and practices around the study of the archive. Documenting the Archive will be a forum for theoretical and methodological interventions in cinema and media studies by invoking the archive’s historical and theoretical relationship with cinema, especially documentary film practice.
"The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy"
Join us for a symposium discussion of the recent book by Robin Jensen, The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Intercollegiate Undergraduate Art History Symposium
2019 Intercollegiate Undergraduate Art History Symposium
Sunday, April 28th from 10am - 3pm
Maya Hieroglyph Workshop (Part 2 of 2)
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.
Maya Hieroglyph Workshop (Part 1 of 2)
Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphics Workshop
Led by Franco Rossi, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago
Exhibition Preview, Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well
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.