Please join The 5th Floor Gallery on Friday, September 6th, 2019, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm to celebrate the opening of CASA. Light refreshments will be served. The 5th Floor Gallery is located at 400 S. Peoria…
Aug. 30—Notes from the Field, Members of the department share insights and observations from their travels Sept. 6—Daniel Bataller (Doctoral Candidate, UIC Dept. of Art History), “Art and the Specter of Fascism in…
University of Illinois at Chicago’s Department of Art History seeks to hire an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Art History beginning in January 2020. The successful applicant will complement the existing strengths of the…
“Melvin Edwards Between Culture and Art” Sunday June 23, 5 p.m. UIC (room TBD) Here is a link to the full schedule <http://www.marxistliterary.org/schedule>. And, link to conference registration <http://www.marxistliterary.org/membershipregistration>.
Isabelle Martin has been awarded the 2019 Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Conference Presentation from the Graduate Student Caucus of the Comics Studies Society for her paper “‘The Weight of Their…
The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, MG+MSUM, 23 to 30 August 2019 This year’s Summer School, organized by…
ANNOUNCEMENT May 7, 2019 The UIC Fine Arts Review Committee is pleased to announce that Chicago artist Christine Tarkowski has been awarded the Engineering Innovation Building public art commission based on her proposal…
Cassy Smith organized “Belongings: A Critical Forum on Museum Practices,” held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on April 26th, with panelists Jenny Davis, Andrea Carlson, Nina Sanders, and Woody…
The Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Summer Academy and Curatorial Fellowship Program is an initiative that aims to make a critical impact on arts leadership across the nation. The Summer Academy is a one-week…
The Society of Architectural Historians has hired Dr. Sarah M. Dreller as its Humanities Research Analyst, a newly created position supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr. Dreller will be charged with collecting data…
Professor Martha Pollak, Chair of the Department of Art History, has been named inaugural Circle Professor of Art History. Created in February 2019 for the Department of Art History, in the College of…
Finegold, Andrew. “Objects without Texts: Mimbres Painted Bowls and the Problematics of Interpretation.” Art History 42.2 (2019): 216–241. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8365.12438. [publisher’s website]
Elise Archias in her role as chair of the campus Fine Arts Review committee in collaboration with the College of Engineering has organized the “Exhibition of Finalists for the Engineering Innovation Building Sculpture…
Pamela Granda (Art History BA, 2018) has been accepted into the VoluntarItaly Internship program run by the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan (https://www.dantemichigan.org/voluntaritaly/) for Summer 2019. She has also been offered a position…
AAS Annual Conference, March 21–24, 2019, Denver, CO, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel Panel: AIIS Showcase on New Research: Coastal South Asia and its Cultural Connections, 9:00–10:15 AM, March 23rd, Vail, Tower Bldg. https://goo.gl/NtWNK9
Fictions and Frictions: The Power and Politics of Narrative Graduate Art History Student Symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign March 1-2, 2019
Bataller, Daniel. “Brazilian Landscape in the Misplaced Modernism of Glauber Rocha’s Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1963).” Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas 11, 1 (2018): 6.
Deepthi Murali, PhD candidate in the Department of Art History, has been selected as one the Fellows for the 2019 Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Workshop.
The Iranian Revolution as a World Event Marking the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79, which is considered as one of the most significant events of the 20th century, this workshop…
The Department of Art History has received a bequest of nearly $1 million from the Estate of Ross Edman and Jon Waltz to establish merit-based awards to students in Art History. This gift…
Congratulations to Associate Professor Ömür Harmanşah whose archaeological survey project, Yalburt Yaylasi Archaeological Landscape Research Project, has won a prestigious grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation Post-PhD Research Grants.
The School of Art & Art History is proud to announce that Art History Assistant professor Andrew Finegold has been named the Autumn visiting fellow at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the arts of Africa,…
