Category: News
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Call for Applications – Graham Foundation Grants to Individuals
Those of you who have spent some time exploring Chicago may have come across the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts. Based in the beautiful Madlener House in Gold Coast, the Foundation puts on exhibitions, screenings, and other public events that promote discussion about architecture and its role in the arts, culture and society.…
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MAPHers featured in latest issue of Tableau—twice!
The people and projects of MAPH are profiled in two articles in the latest issue of Tableau, the Humanities Division of UChicago’s biyearly magazine. “Come Together” profiles Colloquium, MAPH’s new online journal that features exemplary, wide-ranging work by MAPH students, alumni and staff. This is not the first mention of Colloquium in other publications—if you’re itching for more…
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Teaching the Body – Naomi Slipp (MAPH ’09) on her upcoming exhibit
Naomi Slipp (MAPH ’09) is a current PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University. As a facet of her studies, she has been planning an exhibition on American art and artistic anatomy, the topic of her dissertation research, since the spring of 2010. Directly inspired by her MAPH thesis…
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Revival, Nostalgia, and Angels in America
Reposted from the Court Theatre Blog. The first part of Angels in America opens March 30, 2012 “The World Only Spins Forward” by Deborah Blumenthal MAPH ’11 I was seventeen when I first saw Angels in America, and it did, as it does, change how I saw the world. It was the magnificent HBO…
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Alumna Sarah Best Reflects on Art, MAPH and Invites Everyone to Dance Films Kino
Dance Films Kino is a three-week project that I am presenting as an artist in residence at Hyde Park Art Center, March 4-25, 2012. Over three weeks, I will present 30 works of dance on film, as well as over a dozen live music, dance, and literary readings. All of the programs will be free…
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The Path from MAPH to Running an Online Art Gallery
Drew Messinger-Michaels (MAPH ’10) Some Gallery Somewhere It’s 2010, and the week before graduating from MAPH, I walk into an art gallery with my best friend. We’re intellectual equals, this friend and I, but I’ve studied art history formally and he hasn’t, and he is painfully aware of this fact. He doesn’t form an…
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MAPH Featured in the New Issue of Tableau
Most of you will be getting Tableau (the Humanities Division Magazine) in the mail in the near future. However, it is worth noting now the thoughtful article on the history of MAPH and the first 15 years of the program, by A-J Aronstein (MAPH ’10) featured prominently in this issue. If you don’t want to…
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“A Career Shaped by 9/11”
Mike Wilson (MAPH ’11) was this year’s MAPH intern at WBEZ’s show 848. Last week, he traveled up to Minnesota, where fellow MAPH ’11 grad and former Army Ranger Nick Fox reflected on a military career shaped by the events of September 11, 2001. Nick’s words speak for themselves. Hope you check it out. Nick…
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Impressions from South Africa, Curated by Judy Hecker (MAPH 97)
Check out this video featuring Judy Hecker (MAPH 97), Associate Curator in the Prints and Illustrated Books Department at MoMA in New York. She gives an introduction to her most recent curatorial effort, Impressions from South Africa, which runs through August 29. Judy studied art history at the University of Chicago as a MAPHer in the program’s…
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WBEZ’s Resident Brit (what a ham) Mike Wilson
Check out Mike Wilson, this summer’s MAPH intern at WBEZ’s Chicago News Magazine 848. He complains about [slash] lovingly describes watching “football” in America….as a foreigner. Listen to Mike’s soothing accent, which fits in perfectly with the NPR set. There are other silly accents in his piece too. And, when you’re done, imagine yourself working…