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

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

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.

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

A scholar reflects and confesses.

Memories of professor Richard Stern from a student and friend.

Some books should never end.

Hard to find zines tell Chicago stories, writ small.

Does the popularity of Cards Against Humanity mean everyone’s horrible?

Manual Cinema turns shadow puppetry into a cinematic experience.

Spectrograms help explain the complex color of the singer’s ever-changing sound.

David Blum shapes the digital publishing strategy at Amazon.