In an open letter to Microsoft and McCann, Ms. Martin and the other artists described the invitation as “both shocking and somehow predictable.” They also wrote that it “betrays a telling and dangerous opportunism.” “In…
The figure of Jen Reid, who was photographed standing on the plinth with her fist raised after the 17th-century merchant was toppled by Black Lives Matter demonstrators last month, was erected at dawn…
Cassy Smith has accepted the position of Archivist at the Pueblo of Isleta’s new cultural center, Yonan An. She will be moving to Albuquerque and beginning work mid-August. The first project that she…
Assistant Professor Andrew Finegold has received a grant from the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss Publication Fund in support of his book Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture, which will…
Faculty rebellions are simmering on campuses across the country, said Walter Benn Michaels, a member of the academic freedom committee at the American Association of University Professors and a professor at the University…
Festive congratulations to UIC Museum and Exhibition Studies Program alumna and UCLA Classics graduate student Mariam Usmani, who has won a UCLA Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship for 2020-2021 academic year. https://www.facebook.com/uclaclassics/photos/a.2013950362255108/2588152684834870/?type=3&theater
The Courtauld Institute of Art will be hosting an online conference on “Art History in Climate Change” on June 25–26, 2020. The event is free, but you must register: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/online-art-history-in-climate-change
The Chicago Resiliency Fund is a cash assistance program to support Chicago residents who were excluded from federal stimulus aid in response to COVID-19. The City of Chicago in collaboration with Open Society…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday to remove one of the country’s most iconic monuments to the Confederacy, a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee…
As the ongoing protests over George Floyd’s death, police brutality, and racism roil the United States, museums across the country are being called out for not doing more to condemn racist policing and…
Art History PhD candidate, Cassy Smith, has been selected receive a $1000 honorarium from SmartHistory and the Samuel Kress foundation in exchange for a Native American art history essay of her choice. This…
The United States has seen escalating protests over the past week, following the death of George Floyd while in custody of the Minneapolis police. Educators everywhere are asking how can we help students…
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Ms. Peterson sent out almost 80 query letters and applications, offering employers specific ways that she could help them. Within two weeks, she had heard back from 15 and now has patched together…
These last two months I’ve grown obsessed with one American painting: a bloody masterpiece of pain and healing, made in Philadelphia nearly a century and a half ago. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was still…
The universities were ranked according to their research performance and career outcomes as well as a range of indicators assessing each institution’s social impact and attempts to foster equitability, according to QS CEO…
The Chronicle of Higher Education |Posted on May 25, 2020
A good proposal has eight basic elements. After you’ve determined that the press publishes in your area, your book proposal is pretty straightforward. Naomi Schneider, executive editor of the University of California Press, described…
One of the ways that humanities scholars can contribute to the current pandemic: by engaging in long-term, big-picture research that brings humanities questions to bear on public health. This kind of work provides…
SooJin Lee (Ph.D., 2014) publishes translation in Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation and Interaction (2020), published by Phaidon Press. https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Art-1953-Innovation-Interaction/dp/0714878332/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10222636099791898&set=p.10222636099791898&type=3&theater
The cover of the May 2020 issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal stokes xenophobia against Asian-Americans by identifying COVID-19 as a Chinese disease. https://hyperallergic.com/562771/emerging-infectious-diseases/?fbclid=IwAR3kc_vc6R31DBmI87JGkHE6khbzQlE9WUqWSz0rkGcHJtINUMeLFvhreS8
We need a national, federally funded program that will enable any adult without a degree to return to college or earn a comparable credential without paying tuition. Much as the G.I. Bill served…
Yale Representation selects Chris Reeves’ The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia as Book of the Month. The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia by Christopher M. Reeves…
As we live through what could be the first big cataclysm of the third millennium, the people of the late Bronze Age have something to teach us. “Invest in the local community, because…
For decades, a handful of boutique colleges and powerhouse universities have served as emblems of our system of higher education. If they are not the focus of discussion, they are the subtext, shaping…
Katja Rivera (PhD candidate) has been hired to be an Associate Curator at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College beginning in the fall.
One possible solution would be for Congress to give states immediate financial relief in exchange for strengthening their long-term financial commitment to public higher education. James Kvaal, president of the nonprofit Institute for…
Because of Covid-19, this year’s BA/MA Symposium was held over Zoom. This allowed us to record the talks, which are now posted to the website: http://arthistory.uic.edu/news-2/podcasts-and-videocasts/ Thank you to our speakers, and congratulations…
Providing graduate students with a public service opportunity during a period of crisis. Overview The Graduate College at the University of Illinois has created a new award in order to fund graduate students…
Art History major Shana Blinick is the recipient of the 2019-20 David Sokol Fund Best Art History Paper Award for “Migration, Discrimination, and the Black Chicago Renaissance: Methodological Analysis of The Room No. VI,”…
Graduating Art History major Jacqueline Valdez is this year’s recipient of the John D. McNee Art History Scholarship for academic excellence. The honor comes with a $1000 award. Jacqueline has taken thirteen art…
Former Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Esra Akcan, currently a 2019–2020 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University,…
PhD candidate Cassy Smith has been selected as a 2020-2021 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellow at the American Philosophical Society. Administered by the American Philosophical Society Library and Museum Center…
The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia by Christopher M. Reeves (Author, Editor), Aaron Walker (Editor) In 1970, galvanized in part by the musical experiments of avant-garde composers Gavin Bryars, John…
An artist himself, Professor Driskell recognized the role of black artists in the broader story of American art. He died of the coronavirus. EXPLORE ARTICLES FROM ART JOURNAL AND THE ART BULLETIN IN…
The nude human form as a subject of art dates back tens of thousands of years to explicit cave carvings and a woolly mammoth tusk-ivory sculpture: Though headless and small enough to wear…
Courtesy of our UIC affiliates in the V21 Collective. courbet, l'origine du mondeh/t N. Beckton/ L. McCarthy pic.twitter.com/lYBKgPytcc — V21 Collective (@V21collective) April 23, 2020
The Dean’s Scholar Fellowship is a one-year, non-renewable award presented by the Dean of the Graduate College in recognition of a student’s scholarly achievement. The award is intended to provide the most distinguished,…
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The U and I Care Emergency Fund is made possible through the partnership between the Office of the Dean of Students & Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships. The U and I…
