The Art Institute’s modern collection comes home.

A Chicago string quartet is ready to rock your smartphone.

The Hack Arts Lab, celebrating a year on campus, offers tools for the digitally creative.

Broke, hungry, tired of your dissertation? Crock-Pots to the rescue!

The Neubauer Collegium sets sail with two talks and a visit by artist William Kentridge.

Visual arts professors—all working artists—offer glimpses of work in progress.

The University celebrates ties to India, old and new.

A young curator embraces the strange and quirky in Renaissance art.

A fourth-year in the College moonlights as Chicago’s busiest young actor.

Call it nuts—but UChicago’s first family of football had an unusual pet.

Curator Bonnie Lilienfeld, AB’84, shares more stories behind the stuff in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Spring quarter, like any other, offered an encyclopedia of public talks on campus, illuminating topics art historical, zoological, and most everything in between. At 11 of those talks, the Magazine staff were there. Here’s what we learned.