Arts & Humanities

04.22.2013

Surviving a Hyde Park screening of 42.
04.17.2013

Chicago style rules the runway.

04.09.2013

Freelance writer Anne Ford, AM’99, creator of Chicagoans, explains why people are fascinating—until they start telling you what they think.
04.09.2013

Showcasing India’s cultural diversity, Sahmat stops in Chicago.

04.01.2013

Shut down the blog? Not necessarily.
03.26.2013

When shopping for food was like visiting a natural history museum.

Mar–Apr/13

Film scholar Tom Gunning explains how editing conventions create the splice of life.

Mar–Apr/12

Social critic and Victorian historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, looks back on her Chicago education.

Mar–Apr/13

Part of a visual tradition that reaches back to Romanticism, images from the Hubble Space Telescope awe as they inform.
Mar–Apr/13

The 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.

Mar–Apr/13

On walks across Mexico City, a historian finds a path to the past.

Mar–Apr/13

A scholar reflects and confesses.