PhD Candidate Zack Martin won a Fulbright Fellowship to Belgium! Congratulations Zack! Zack Martin will spend 9 months in Belgium this coming academic year with the prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, doing…
Landscapes hold traces of human histories—political, colonial, social, and economic. If they serve as records of histories and narratives—sometimes violent ones—how do photographers, acting as archaeologists of contemporary landscapes, translate these memories into…
Dr. Caroline Fernald (BA 2011), the Executive Director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (HMSC), has received an Inspire Award for outstanding leaders in the Cambridge, MA community. She and the other…
Assistant Professor Emmanuel Ortega and MA Student Ashley Dequilla will be presenting papers at the “Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture Interdisciplinary Symposium” on May 9, 2025 at the Franke Institute for the…
MA Student Ashley Dequilla received a grant in 2024 from the National Film Preservation Foundation for the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago. Five home movie titles by Nicholas Viernes (1902-1991) won full…
Here are a couple of loving remembrances with short excerpts of Joshua’s uncompromising thought from each: The Truth is the Whole: Remembering Joshua Clover “If we are reaching into history, I am still…
PhD Students, Anneliese Hardman and Humaira Hossain, have published catalogue essays in the South Asia Institute’s most recent exhibition, The Written Image: A Confluence of Music and Calligraphy. Anneliese’s essay is titled: “Calligraphy…
The Department of Art History is delighted to announce the 2025 recipients of the John D. McNee Award: Benson and Sara Moore. This award, which was created in honor of John D. McNee,…
PhD student, Anneliese Hardman, has published an exhibition review about “What do I call you?” on the Bridge Magazine’s website. The show at Material Exhibitions (April 14-May 5th) is a solo exhibition featuring…
1.1 million international students at U.S. colleges and universities contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023-2024 academic year and supported more than 378,000 jobs. The economic activity total is the…
Ömür Harmanşah will deliver University of California Irvine’s Critical Theory Mini Seminar on May 5-7, 2025. The title of his seminar is “Landscapes of the Anthropocene: The Environmental Politics of Fieldwork and Heritage.”…
Drita Kabashi (MA in Art History) recently gave a lecture on the History of Feminist Art, organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kosova and the Indefinite Institute. The talk, titled “Feminist Activism and Feminist Art”,…
Professor Emeritus Bob Bruegmann’s 2025 book, Sprawl: A Compact History, has been cited in an April 10, 2025 article in the New York Times Magazine. Congratulations, Bob!
The Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism is proud to announce the 2025 Intercollegiate Art History Symposium (IAHS), which will take place at the University of Chicago on Saturday, April 12 from 1:00…
On the Near West Side, Chicago’s National Museum of Public Housing is bracing for the impact. Like most major cultural institutions, the museum — which is located in the last remaining building of…
Art Scholars Pledge to Boycott Columbia University Art historians and professors are among the hundreds who signed an open letter denouncing the school’s capitulation to Trump’s demands. https://hyperallergic.com/1001373/art-scholars-pledge-to-boycott-columbia-university/
Opening Reception Saturday, April 5, 2025 5:00–9:00 PM Povos (Downtown) 600 W Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607 The exhibition is on view through April 27, 2025.
PhD Candidate Julian Adoff contributed the chapter “Ugly and Out of Sight: Reconsidering the Irrational in Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Allegory” to The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History, edited by Tijen Tunalı and…
“The National Public Housing Museum is dedicated to the belief that housing is a human right and our new home is designed in every way to further our commitment to preserve, promote and…
The Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) held its annual Marco Symposium last weekend, titled “Local and Global Perspectives on Materiality in the Premodern World.“ Professor Harmanşah was…
Unbounded Territories Co-curated by: Kaveh Rafie and Azadeh Hussaini March 1 — April 13, 2025, Evanston Art Center, IL Opening: March 2nd, 1:00–4:00 pm Where to Imagine an Alternative? Unbound Territories invites you…
School of Art & Art History recently participated in the Art Institute of Chicago’s University Partner Fest on Saturday February 15th, 11 am-5 pm, through the work of our students who generously offered Gallery Spotlight Talks…
Check out Nadia’s website: https://www.nadezhdagribkova.com/about Check out her multi-platform, public humanities project, Museum Fatigue: https://www.nadezhdagribkova.com/museum-fatigue
The first recipients of the Ellen T. Baird Art History Paper Prize have been announced! This prize recognizes the best papers written in 100-level Art History classes each semester. This award–$100 to each…
PhD student Anneliese Hardman has published an exhibition “‘Worlding’ Rethought: A Review of Worldly Dis-position” on the Art and Market website. The show at Heaven Gallery (December 13-January 26) featured work by artists…
Sarah Rogers Morris successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Art History “Photographic Infrastructures: The Modern School and the Framing of American Architectural Photography, 1890-1950” with a memorable and most remarkable dissertation defense on…
Alumna Miao Wang (Art History ’16) opens solo exhibition at Patron Gallery: the other. Miao Wang is Visual Arts Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. “PATRON is proud to announce the other,…
PhD Candidate Julian Adoff published a review of Irena Shevelenko’s Russian Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic (Cornell University Press, 2024) in the Journal Art East Central, published by the Department of Art…
Associate Professor Nina Dubin’s new article, “Eros, Inc.: Cupid, Capital, and the Crash of 1720,” has just been published in the September 2024 issue of the journal Art History. The article can be found…
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL, April 6–September 22, 2024 As it happens, cats are the most consistent leitmotif in Nicole Eisenman’s work. They…
VLADAN RADOVANOVIĆ: AHEAD OF HIS TIME AND BEYOND / VLADAN RADOVANOVIĆ: ISPRED VREMENA I IZVAN, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, BELGRADE, MARCH 28 – SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 Ours is an age of inclusive, pluralistic categories. For the discipline…
Professor Emeritus Robert Bruegmann has published his first novel, Roman Ivory: In Victorian England, Joseph Stapleton, 1st Viscount Barringon, has died unexpectedly, leaving his nineteen-year-old son, Robert, to inherit his title, estate, family business,…
Andrew Finegold (Associate Professor of Art History) has reviewed Julia Guernsey’s book Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica: From Figurines to Sculpture (Cambridge University Press, 2020) for the journal Norwegian Archaeological Review.…
Rutgers Art Review (The Graduate Journal of Research in Art History) publishes “Bridging Art History and Critical Heritage Studies: A Conversation with Ömür Harmanşah” by Trinidad Rico (Associate Professor and Director of Cultural…
