To See, to Keep, to Know: Photography and Intergenerational Knowledge Production Session will present: In-Person Deanna Ledezma, University of Illinois at Chicago and Alisa Swindell, University of Illinois at Chicago Email Address(s): deanna.ledezma@gmail.com…
Intern Convening: August 2 – 6, 2021 Join a dynamic group of emerging arts professionals and explore how the next generation of arts leaders can transform the future of cultural institutions. Organized and led…
The Terminal 5 Expansion public art project will include curatorial/design team Ionit Behar and Andrew Schachman (Behar X Schachman), and new large-scale commissions by artists Nelly Agassi, Jonathan Michael Castillo, Assaf Evron, Krista…
Associate Professor Elise Archias has published a book review of Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary by Carrie Noland in Art Journal. Her review is titled “Connection as a Structuring Principle” and can be…
For the past two years, MA student Emily Olek has been working on a show and catalog of Joseph E. Yoakum’s work for the Art Institute of Chihcago, MoMA, and the Menil Collection.…
Emmanuel Ortega, Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas, has published an article titled “The Mexican Picturesque and the Sentimental Nation: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Landscape” in the…
Assistant Professor Andrew Finegold’s book, Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture, has been published by the University of Texas Press. Vital Voids is an innovative study in which it is…
Emmanuel Ortega has become an Assistant Professor of Art History at UIC. He first joined the faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2018, and then, thanks to a generous gift from the…
Sponsored by The Working Group in Russian and East European Jewish Cultures, a joint enterprise between the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://sites.google.com/view/junior-scholar-workshop-in-rus/home
Rachel Elizabeth Cargle: For those who are new to your work, I’m interested to hear you talk about how you got into the art world and how you define yourself as a member…
Two Art History doctoral students have won awards from the Graduate College. Leslie Wooden won an Award for Graduate Research for her project “‘Africanization’: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Photography in…
Art History major Julie Herrmann‘s paper “Private Consumption and Public Conventions: Portrait of Ross in L.A.” written for Art History 301: Theories and Methods in Art History has been selected by the Art History faculty…
This juried show exhibits the practices of a group of emerging Iranian artists who, with the exception of the few, live across Iran. The selecting of the works by the jury members is…
Art History MA student Sarah Ahmed has won the very competitive ArtTable Fellowship for this summer to assist a very exciting curatorial project at LACMA, assisting Dr. Linda Komaroff, curator of Islamic Art…
Edward Krasiński: Studio as Site of the Universal by Nadia Gribkova In the 1970s, a thin line of blue Scotch tape began its horizontal motion across the interior of Edward Krasiński’s (1925–2004) studio…
Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present, by Pamela M. Lee, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020, 360 pp., 15 col. and 54 b. & w. illus., hardback,…
Michael Jachera (BA, 2019) has been accepted into the MA in Interior Design program at Savannah College of Art and Design beginning this spring. Congratulations, Michael!
The writing advice I typed out and stuck up on my wall while I wrote No Shortcuts. [From Carver and Orwell] pic.twitter.com/s2x0CztoYU — Jane McAlevey (@rsgexp) March 7, 2021
The Problem With the Postcolonial Syllabus Against a peculiarly Western allergy to the pleasure of the text. THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION By Sumana Roy FEBRUARY 10, 2021
PhD Candidate Deanna Ledezma has had a photo essay published in “The Archive” section of the journal Photography & Culture (Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 2–13). Titled “Selecting Views of Las Trampas: Contact…
The Colors of Photography aims to provide a deeper understanding of what color is in the field of photography. Until today, color photography has marked the “here and now,” while black and white…
Capitalism and the Camera Essays on Photography and Extraction Edited by Kevin Coleman and Daniel James — A provocative exploration of photography’s relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture Photography was…
Associate Professor Ömür Harmanşah has published the chapter “Deep Time and Landscape History in the Anthropocene: How Can Historical Particularity Be Translated?” in the volume Timescales: Thinking across Ecological Temporalities, edited by Bethany…
Associate Professor Nina Dubin has published Meltdown! Picturing the World’s First Bubble Economy, a co-authored book related to a forthcoming exhibition she is co-curating at The New York Public Library. Watch the book…
Adjunct Assistant Professor Raphael Nash co-produced the film Saint Frances (written by Kelly O’Sullivan and directed by Alex Thompson), which has been nominated for the John Cassavetes Award for the best feature made…
A graph showing author’s confidence in a paper over the course of its journey through publication. Misses out rejections and 95 other rounds of revision… https://twitter.com/alabalawhiskey/status/1350080165414645761
PhD Student Leslie Wooden has had her article “Alvin Baltrop: Queer Photography as a ‘Counter Practice’ in the Archive” published in the latest issue of the Finnish journal SQS: Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran lehti.…
Associate Professor Ömür Harmanşah is part of a research team that was awarded a Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant to further develop their project proposal “Chicago River Campus.” More information about this award…
Associate Professor Ömür Harmanşah has been elected to a three-year term as an Academic Trustee of the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Congratulations Ömür!
PhD Candidate Ionit Behar, in her capacity as Assistant Curator at the DePaul Art Museum, has participated in curating the exhibition LatinXAmerican, which includes a number of online public programs. From the museum…
Donna West Brett and Natalya Lusty, eds., ‘Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images’, (New York: Routledge, 2019) As the entries for this year’s prize attest, several high-quality anthologies were published in our region during…
Art history majors Rebecca Arroyo, Caelan Dean, Serena Luciano, Landon Menze, Monica Ramos, and Nelly Santacruz have officially completed their BA Degrees. Congratulations, graduates!!!!!!
Elise Archias, associate professor of art history and chair of the Fine Arts Review Committee, publishes “All Are Related” in UIC Today on the occasion of the installation of Tussle, a sculpture by…
Liz Fahey has completed her MA degree. Her thesis, “The Disjointed Self: Interrogating Interiority in the Collage Works of Romare Bearden and Wangechi Mutu” examines the changing relationship between universality and critique in…
Art History PhD Student Julian Adoff has reviewed the volume Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism, edited by Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kircher, for the…
Associate Professor of Art History Elise Archias has published the special issue “Dance and Abstraction” in ARTS with Juliet Bellow (American University). Contributors include Mariola V. Alvarez, Flora Brandl, Joanna Dee Das, Lou Forster,…
UIC Art History alumna Kayleigh Doyen (BA, 2020) and Clinical Assistant Professor Emmanuel Ortega organized the asynchronous online program “Reflections on Race and Contemporary Landscapes” at LATITUDE, featuring recorded interviews with four artists:…
Associate Professor of Art History Nina Dubin has co-edited a special issue of Journal18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture, titled 1720. The full issues can be found online here.
