Arts & Humanities

07.03.2012

The third annual Celebrate Hyde Park festival draws thousands of visitors despite threatening thunderstorms.
06.29.2012

One of the city of Chicago's top modern art collections is hanging right in our own backyard.

July–Aug/12

A UChicago artist brightens a Loop intersection for the summer.

06.27.2012

Jian Ping weaves past and present with a documentary based on her memoir about growing up during China’s Cultural Revolution.

06.26.2012

Matchbooks and Menus at the Hyde Park Historical Society offers a glimpse of a Hyde Park that once was.

06.18.12

As Poetry turns 100, a look back at the back-and-forth between Harriet Monroe and her readers.

06.12.2012

Architects of new campus additions share the theories underlying their practice.

06.07.2012

DOVA chair Jessica Stockholder created Chicago’s newest public-art installation.

05.31.2012

A scholar uncovers the social history of chai, and develops a taste for it along the way.
05.30.2012

In a new lunch series, faculty and students consider the draws of good TV.

05.24.12

Combining musical and spiritual traditions, Theaster Gates gives new meaning to the phrase “moving songs.”

05.22.2012

An interview with UChicago’s Hillary Chute, who convened an all-star lineup for a conference on comics.