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…
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…
They used to outfit performers on Chicago’s theater stages, but today costume fabricators from across the city are making patient masks for health care settings in the fight against COVID-19 as part of…
AH alumna and current graduate student at the University of Washington, Lillian Xie (BA 2019), will demonstrate how to cook tea eggs this Wednesday, April 16 from 4:00-5:00 as part of the Global…
In the activity, students are asked to read a short passage on Matthias Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-1516), and then choose another piece on a disease or pandemic to analyze. Then, they are asked…
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To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing)…
Join LAS GANAS to discuss fellowship opportunities and career possibilities for after graduation. Join them this Thursday, April 2nd at 12pm by using the following link: https://bit.ly/2JrnY4s
As a postdoctoral research fellow at George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the Department of History and Art History, Deepthi Murali will be working on multiple collaborative digital history…
Michael Sorkin, the noted architectural critic and intellectual powerhouse behind Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform, has passed away due to complications resulting from COVID-19. https://archinect.com/news/article/150191096/michael-sorkin-visionary-and-incisive-architect-educator-critic-has-passed-away-from-covid-19
See “The omnivore paradox,” Josephine Livingstone’s TLS review of Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts by Jennifer C. Lena. Also reviewed: Nathalie Olah, Steal as Much as You Can: How to…
This fall Karen Greenwalt (PhD candidate) will join the Department of Art, Graphic Design, and Art History at Oklahoma State University as Assistant Professor of Art History and Criticism. Karen will teach classes…
Mirela Tanta is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Millikin University. In 2014, she earned her doctorate degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago for her dissertation titled: Propaganda or Resistance: Socialist Realism in Romania 1972-1989. Mirela…
During the unprecedented crisis we want everyone to know that the UIC pantry will open every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4 PM for the remainder of the semester. Don’t forget bring your I-Card!…
KEY POINTS Democrats on Monday unveiled legislation that would forgive at least $30,000 in student debt for borrowers amid the coronavirus pandemic. Proposals to help people with student debt during the crisis are…
R.I.P Maurice Berger, 63; Historian, Writer. Of Coronavirus. We have been told that we may not die but we will all know someone who has. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/maurice-berger-dead-1202682023/
Governor JB Pritzker is looking for people under 30 to be election judges on Tuesday to allow some elder election judges to stay home. 5am-7pm – $200. Share this. https://cookcountyclerk.com/agency/election-judges
Art History Major Kaelyn Andrade has received the first Art History Undergraduate Research and Travel Award for her research trip to San Luis Potosi, Soledad de Graciano Sanchez, Mexico to visit the churches…
An interview Ionit Behar did with DIGNICRAFT, an art collective from Tijuana, was just published in the journal FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism.
Art History PhD candidate Katja Rivera has curated the exhibition, “Harold Mendez: The Years Now,” at the Logan Center Art Gallery, where Katja is assistant curator. Los Angeles–based artist Harold Mendez brings together…
Dr. Virginia Miller, professor emerita of art history, will give the keynote address at the 43rd Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory at Northeastern Illinois University. Her talk, “Bones, Heads, and Eyes:…
Associate Professor Elise Archias has joined the editorial board of *nonsite.org,* an online, open access, peer-reviewed quarterly journal of scholarship in the humanities, plus poetry, editorials, reviews, visual art and more.
Alkebuluan Merriweather, Art History BA (2019), will be featured in “Juice: A Black Artist Showcase” by Fulton Street Collective (1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 307, Chicago, IL 60612). Fri, March 13, 2020, 6:00 PM…
