Arts & Humanities

Sept–Oct/14

From balloon sculptures to an avant-garde video game, the art of Willy Chyr, AB’09, is all about the journey.

Sept–Oct/14

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.

Sept–Oct/14

A Divinity School historian’s study of medieval Europe becomes a wellspring of historical fiction.

Sept–Oct/14

A German student, a South Asian language, a UChicago career.

08.25.2014

Abbie Reese, MFA’13, completes the filming of her new documentary, Chosen: Custody of the Eyes.

08.18.2014

Leaders in disparate fields explain what unites them.

08.13.2014

A performance of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by the Neo-Futurists comes to Washington Park.
08.12.2014

Enter the world of comics—and win a book about how they’re made.

08.11.2014

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.

07.16.2014

Abbie Reese, MFA’13, talks about her time in the cloister.

07.11.2014

Elementary school children experience the history of language hands-on at the Oriental Institute.