If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Artists and scholars from diverse fields at the University of Chicago talk about the nature and importance of art in public spaces, and their own experiences with touching, embracing, and continuously rediscovering the unique and arresting works on UChicago's campus.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. View the public presentation of the University of Chicago’s Garfield Boulevard planning concepts as presented on July 26, 2014, at the Block Party: A Celebration of Arts and Culture on Garfield Boulevard at the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator. View comments from University of Chicago representatives Theaster Gates,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. “The Distance Between” showcased the work of the five artists selected as the Arts + Public Life/Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture 2012/2013 artists-in-residence at the University of Chicago. This two-venue exhibition marked the culmination of the artists’ efforts, highlighting works that invited visitors to...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Visit http://www.arts.uchicago.edu/apl for more information on Arts and Public Life. Learn about the University of Chicago's Arts and Public Life initiative and its new Arts Incubator in Washington Park on Chicago's South Side. Envisioned by artist Theaster Gates, the new Arts Incubator, along with the Logan Center for the Arts...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Los Angeles-based writer Joshuah Bearman gave a reading at Midway Studios on November 8, 2012. Bearman has written for LA Weekly, Rolling Stone, Wired, Harper's, and McSweeneys, and he is a contributor to the radio program This American Life. An article he wrote for Wired in 2007 became the basis for the screenplay to the film Argo.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Portions of contemporary artist Danh Vo's "We the People" are scattered across the world, including on the University of Chicago campus. Segments of "We the People"—a dismantled, full-scale replica of the Statue of Liberty—are on display through December 16, 2012, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Law School,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Portions of contemporary artist Danh Vo's "We the People" are scattered across the world, including on the University of Chicago campus. Segments of "We the People"—a dismantled, full-scale replica of the Statue of Liberty—are on display through December 16, 2012, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Law School,...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Michael Ondaatje, Kestnbaum Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago, discusses his writing in poetry, fiction, memoir, and film among a large group of students. Ondaatje is known for his novel "The English Patient," which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. Ondaatje also read from his poetry collection and answered...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Michael Ondaatje, Kestnbaum Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago, discusses his writing in poetry, fiction, memoir, and film among a large group of students. Ondaatje is known for his novel "The English Patient," which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. Ondaatje also read from his poetry collection and answered...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Naseem Jamnia, Michael Lipkowitz, and Caroline O'Donovan, winners of the University of Chicago's second undergraduate "Writing About Chicago" contest, read from their winning works in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Join us in welcoming Jessica Stockholder, as she assumes her new role as Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts (DOVA) at the University of Chicago. The artist, whose work has brought a shared understanding of what sculpture could be, will share insights into her art, reflecting on how her work has evolved and what...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Join us in welcoming Jessica Stockholder, as she assumes her new role as Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts (DOVA) at the University of Chicago. The artist, whose work has brought a shared understanding of what sculpture could be, will share insights into her art, reflecting on how her work has evolved and what...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Tilo Schulz, artist and curator, discusses his work and research on art and exhibition. His work shifts between the modalities of art, craft, design, and architecture as it comments on the status of art in the representation of the social and the political.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Tilo Schulz, artist and curator, discusses his work and research on art and exhibition. His work shifts between the modalities of art, craft, design, and architecture as it comments on the status of art in the representation of the social and the political.