Logan Center Exhibitions presents “Makes Me Wanna Holla: Art, Death & Imprisonment,” open through Sept. 10 at the Logan Center for the Arts. The exhibition explores the injustices of the carceral system through the voices and art of those who have experienced them firsthand.
Read MoreThen the resulting work, Clouds Over Lake Michigan, is installed in its new home in the first-floor reading room of the Joseph Regenstein Library on the University of Chicago’s campus in 2023, the acquisition will be a homecoming of sorts: while the piece hasn’t been seen at UChicago before, its creator spent many years on campus, making important contributions to her field and the University. The mural comes to UChicago thanks to a generous gift from Cboe Global Markets.
Read MoreA group of students sit in a white room filled with white art. The class clusters around a piece by Robert Ryman, who painted almost exclusively white paintings. Seated beneath the painting, co-teachers, Prof. Christine Mehring and Orianna Cacchione, gesture upward, prompting students to look closely. Look at the brush strokes. Is this really all white? What does the white allow you to see more of?
Read MoreAll That Light celebrates the AIRs program. Originally conceived by Prof. Theaster Gates—himself an acclaimed artist—the Artists-in-Residence program is a joint effort between UChicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and Arts + Public Life (APL), a community-centered arts organization based in Washington Park.
Read MoreSun. Rain. Wind. Clouds. Dawn. Dusk. Night. Late Night. Helicopters. Cars. Diesel engines. Children’s parties. The calm that has its own sound.
Attunement.
Read MoreThe first show at the Smart Museum dedicated to the art of the early modern period in over a decade, Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe examines the role and implications of domestic art created between 1400 and 1700.
Read MoreAs museums across the world transfer their programming efforts onto virtual platforms, museum “goers” are finding themselves in online viewing rooms, watching video tours, and downloading coloring book pages. Some conceptual art forms do not need to undergo this transformation and are more presciently suited to this moment.
Read MoreFeatured in the Gray Center’s online conceptual art exhibition, Another Idea, Chelsea A. Flowers’ work offers avenues for dialogue about race, abuse, power, and identity. With a practice encompassing installation, video, and participatory performance, Flowers presents a karaoke video and hosts a trivia night via Zoom as part of Another Idea, using comedy and gameplay to mediate empathy, cultural understanding, and critical conversations about race.
Read MoreSusan Hiller’s Dream Screens is among several works featured in the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry’s Another Idea, an actual conceptual art exhibition. Jad Dahshan reflects on the pioneering artist’s virtual exhibition and the visions it creates.
Read MoreFrom soaring orchestra compositions to intimate home movie livestreams, University of Chicago scholars and artists are already exploring the arts in new ways and connecting to the public at a time when many are feeling increasingly isolated.
Read MoreThese PPE supplies would normally be used to clean mold spores from medieval manuscripts, protect researchers from particles of preserved skeletons, and reshape galleries to fit new exhibitions of modern art. Today, they’re helping to save lives.
Read MoreTo celebrate the OI’s 100-year anniversary, we sit down with OI staff to learn about their favorite objects.
Read MoreIn ‘The Allure of Matter,’ Professor Wu Hung traces the concept of “material art," or caizhi yishu, through four decades of artistic development in China.
Read MoreA new exhibition of artist Martha Rosler’s work at the Neubauer Collegium reveals pretty pictures of flowers are anything but innocent.
Read MoreThroughout the run of the exhibition at the Logan Center Gallery, “Builders” activated the show every Thursday through a hybrid of personal testimony and fiction.
Read MoreThe school’s now 13-year-old collection includes more than 500 artworks by 150 emerging and established contemporary artists.
Read MoreAn introduction to the first in a series of exhibitions designed by the Feitler Center at the Smart Museum of Art.
Read MoreThe Neubauer Collegium curator on his current exhibition, Hutopia.
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