Arts & Humanities

05.07.2025

Visual artists are under threat from generative AI. Computer scientist Ben Zhao explains how his tools Glaze and Nightshade protect them.

04.22.2025

In his ultrabrief “Laconics,” retired English professor David Shields, AM’75, PhD’82, cuts straight to the heart of things.

Spring/25

How literary scholar David Shields, AM’75, PhD’82, came to rediscover dozens of forgotten crops and preserve Southern culinary heritage.

Spring/25

The arts and humanities root us in the full complexity of human history, language, culture, and art—and are essential to confronting the challenges of the 21st century.

Winter/25

Highlights from the daylong celebration of arts and letters at UChicago.

Winter/25

A new minor bridges the growing gap between researchers and the public.

Winter/25

Melanie Deal’s (AM’78) mixed-media works blend humor and nostalgia.

11.20.2024

Samples from a Smart Salon conversation with artist Robert Earl Paige.

11.20.2024

Bay Area alumni take in a century of filmmaking in one morning.

10.21.2024

Poet and humanities lecturer Richie Hofmann explains why that’s the wrong question.

Fall/24

Jared Janas, AB’94, has become a celebrated hair, makeup, and wig designer on Broadway. His UChicago major? Math.