Arts & Humanities
Love scene
CommentsFilm scholar Tom Gunning explains how editing conventions create the splice of life.
Victorian values
CommentsSocial critic and Victorian historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, looks back on her Chicago education.
The astronomical sublime
CommentsPart of a visual tradition that reaches back to Romanticism, images from the Hubble Space Telescope awe as they inform.
Raised voices
CommentsThe 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.


