Arts & Humanities
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Sept–Oct/12
The winners of the Magazine’s joke contest.
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Sept–Oct/12
Violinist and teacher Joel Smirnoff searches for culture in music.
Sept–Oct/12
The pitfalls of writing, from a junior thesis to a Star Trek history.
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Sept–Oct/12
Onward and upward with the arts: a glimpse into the inner workings of the towering new facility south of the Midway.
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Sept–Oct/12
A Smart Museum talk explores the deft precision and symbolic significance of Korean art.
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Sept–Oct/12
A sprawling, self-published debut novel has a happy ending for the author and the press.
Sept–Oct/12
In the summer of 1912 Poetry magazine, then a newborn upstart, asked writers to send their “best verse.”
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08.27.2012
Second Fridays provide a fading oasis for UChicago arts seekers.
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08.17.2012
The seventh annual Chicago Sister Cities Festival brings international sights, sounds, and tastes to Daley Plaza.
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08.13.2012
The UC Press Distribution Center guides its books from printing to pulping.
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08.09.2012
Notes on a UChicago film class, Curiosity’s landing, and George Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon.