Arts & Humanities
From balloon sculptures to an avant-garde video game, the art of Willy Chyr, AB’09, is all about the journey.
Sung from street corners a century ago, Mexican folk ballads offered “a valuable index to popular thought,” wrote UChicago anthropologist Robert Redfield, whose work is part of a Special Collections exhibit on Mexico.
A Divinity School historian’s study of medieval Europe becomes a wellspring of historical fiction.
A German student, a South Asian language, a UChicago career.
Abbie Reese, MFA’13, completes the filming of her new documentary, Chosen: Custody of the Eyes.
08.18.2014
08.13.2014
Enter the world of comics—and win a book about how they’re made.
Anna Fishbeyn, AB’93, AM’95, documents her family’s transition from Soviet Russia to America in a one-woman show at the New Ohio Theatre in New York.
07.28.2014
Associate professor Hillary Chute talks about the her new book, scholarly work on on contemporary comics, and going all “fangirl” over Daniel Clowes, LAB’79.
Elementary school children experience the history of language hands-on at the Oriental Institute.