Interim Director of the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for the 2024-25 academic year announced.
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A UChicago researcher and conservator illuminate the perception and role of pigment thousands of years ago
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For ‘Bach at Bond’ concert series,’ music scholar Jacob Reed performed 30 recitals in eight months
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WTTW’s new television special Chicago Mysteries aims to solve the burning questions surrounding Chicago’s most intriguing landmarks, including public artworks on the University of Chicago’s campus: The Dialogo Sculpture, Nuclear Energy, and Concrete Traffic.
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From Renaissance lutes to Latin jazz—concert series brings intimate performances to University community
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Professor remembered for creating ‘humane, generous, combative’ art that is ‘among the most important bodies of work in the 21st century’
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As Elizabeth Myles’s, AB’20, sizzle reel played, sighs of recognition, claps and cheers rang out at each clip. Many of the filmmakers were in the audience. “I’m in tears because you’ve put all our films in conversation with each other,” said festival co-organizer and filmmaker Yvonne Welbon.
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During an Oct. 12 conversation with WBEZ’s Sasha-Ann Simons at UChicago’s Logan Center for the Arts, Ewing emphasized that learning about an important historical event for the first time isn’t a cause for shame. “It is a moment to ask yourself: ‘Who is invested in your not knowing? What systems are perpetuated by your not knowing?’”
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All That Light celebrates the AIRs program. Originally conceived by Prof. Theaster Gates—himself an acclaimed artist—the Artists-in-Residence program is a joint effort between UChicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and Arts + Public Life (APL), a community-centered arts organization based in Washington Park.
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The legacy of artist Ruth Duckworth receives a well deserved revision, thanks to work by UChicago students.
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New exhibition highlights the history of bookbinding through the University of Chicago Library’s Rare Book Collection.
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The Smart Museum’s 2021 Artist in Residence Irene Hsiao’s latest project combines dance, sculpture, and a critical eye on the history of porcelain.
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This Valentine’s Day, we asked 2017 MFA Graduated and Interim Exhibitions Manager Jan Brugger to share works she felt embodied the different ways in which visual art represents love.
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Current PhD student Baldwin Giang has been nominated for the 2022 Gaudeamus Award for his piece songs after sufjan.
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Professor Jacqueline Stewart interviews on UChicago’s Big Brains podcast.
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When we look at old photographs, we often feel a sense of distance from the people pictured in them. Not only are the images in black and white but the people in them often stand or sit stiffly staring grimly ahead, giving us no sense of what their actual lives must have been like. On the other hand, the work of Antoin Sevruguin shows us how photography can create photographs that still resonate with us today.
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Mike Schuh, Assistant Director, Fellowships and Operations at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, is quick to inform you that he is not a skateboarder—as you’ll read below.
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What makes Candyman one of the greats of the genre has as much to do with the stories surrounding the films as with the psychological terror and blood-and-guts within them…As you settle in this Halloween weekend to marathon your favorite horror films, put Candyman (both of them) on the list, and read our short list of facts and production stories that we find interesting or illuminating. We hope your thrills and chills are enhanced a little by this information.
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