Arts & Humanities

Love scene

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Film scholar Tom Gunning explains how editing conventions create the splice of life.

Victorian values

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Social critic and Victorian historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, looks back on her Chicago education.

The astronomical sublime

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Part of a visual tradition that reaches back to Romanticism, images from the Hubble Space Telescope awe as they inform.

Raised voices

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The Sahmat collective galvanizes artists across India to create work that resists divisive politics. For 24 years, famous and fledgling artists alike have painted portraits, designed posters, performed on city streets, and more. A retrospective exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art tells their story.

Adrift in the City

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On walks across Mexico City, a historian finds a path to the past.

Words to remember him by

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Memories of professor Richard Stern from a student and friend.

Limited editions

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Hard to find zines tell Chicago stories, writ small.

Sharp cards

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Does the popularity of Cards Against Humanity mean everyone’s horrible?

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