, AB’20, sizzle reel played, sighs of recognition, claps and cheers rang out at each clip. Many of the filmmakers were in the audience. “I’m in tears because you’ve put all our films in conversation with each other,” said festival co-organizer and filmmaker Yvonne Welbon ..read more

at the University of Chicago began its stewardship of the Arts Block on Garfield Boulevard in Washington Park. Now, the launch of its Arts Lawn marks a new step in community-centered artistic space. Occupying a set of formerly undeveloped lots next to the Green Line Performing Arts Center, the Arts Lawn is an opportunity for the expansion of ambitious outdoor arts programming and community reclamation of public green space ..read more

“What brings a molecular engineering student to the theater?” We’re on a yellow school bus heading north from the Logan Center on the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus toward the sparkly downtown lights. It turns out that Livia, the first-year student who’s studying how molecules affect each other is interested in how humans do that, too ..read more

Professor Jacqueline Stewart interviews on UChicago’s Big Brains podcast ..read more

When we look at old photographs, we often feel a sense of distance from the people pictured in them. Not only are the images in black and white but the people in them often stand or sit stiffly staring grimly ahead, giving us no sense of what their actual lives must have been like. On the other hand, the work of Antoin Sevruguin shows us how photography can create photographs that still resonate with us today ..read more

This Valentine’s Day, we asked 2017 MFA Graduated and Interim Exhibitions Manager Jan Brugger to share works she felt embodied the different ways in which visual art represents love ..read more

Current PhD student Baldwin Giang has been nominated for the 2022 Gaudeamus Award for his piece ..read more

For a few weeks in late 2021 and early 2022, the fourth floor of Cobb Hall was transformed into an elemental space suffused with haze, purple light, and the amplified music of an audio jammer ..read more

The Smart Museum’s 2021 Artist in Residence Irene Hsiao’s latest project combines dance, sculpture, and a critical eye on the history of porcelain ..read more

New exhibition highlights the history of bookbinding through the University of Chicago Library’s Rare Book Collection ..read more