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“Everyone is welcome”: Booth School’s world-famous art collection

“I’m going to show you a whole sequence of things that people now think of as art,” Canice Prendergast says to a group of staff, students, faculty, and arts appreciators in the lobby of the Harper Center. The regular tour led by the W. Allen Wallis Distinguished Service Professor of Economics is so well-attended that spots are raffled off, and with good reason—it’s a rare opportunity to explore the world-renowned art on display at the Booth School with the person perhaps most responsible for its presence in the building.

Faculty, Visual ArtsEllen WieseJanuary 17, 2023Visual Arts, Booth School of Business, Faculty

Class immerses students in monochromatic art exhibition

A group of students sit in a white room filled with white art. The class clusters around a piece by Robert Ryman, who painted almost exclusively white paintings. Seated beneath the painting, co-teachers, Prof. Christine Mehring and Orianna Cacchione, gesture upward, prompting students to look closely. Look at the brush strokes. Is this really all white? What does the white allow you to see more of?

Exhibitions, Faculty, Visual ArtsGuest UserDecember 1, 2022Smart Museum of ArtArts, Visual Arts, Smart Museum

Ruth Duckworth, Reexamined

The legacy of artist Ruth Duckworth receives a well deserved revision, thanks to work by UChicago students.

Events, Visual ArtsLogan CenterMay 27, 2022Visual Arts

A World Indoors: Lust, Love, and Loss at the Smart Museum

The first show at the Smart Museum dedicated to the art of the early modern period in over a decade, Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe examines the role and implications of domestic art created between 1400 and 1700.

ExhibitionsLogan CenterJune 1, 2021Smart Museum, Visual Arts, Exhibitions

Art in Quarantine: “youre muted,” the 2021 BA Thesis Show

Extended, postponed, reopened—three words commonly heard by any artist who attempted to exhibit work during the COVID-19 pandemic. As safety protocols and gallery policies fluctuated over the last year, the Department of Visual Arts (DoVA)’s 2021 BA class persevered with their thesis exhibition, mounting a stunning group show amidst the challenges of creating art in relative isolation. UChicago Arts sat down with a handful of the 2021 BA exhibitors for a brief chat on how the pandemic impacted them and their practice, and where they think they’ll be in five years.

Logan CenterMay 10, 2021Student Work, Student Arts, Visual Arts, Logan Center Exhibitions, Made At Logan

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