Oriental Institute exhibit shows seeing isn’t always believing | UChicago News

The way people think about life in the ancient Middle East is largely based on the pictures, paintings and images they see in books and museums. But in many cases, the preconceptions or limited knowledge of the people creating the images may result in representations that may be more illusionary than real, shows a new [...]

Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes

An ancient volume of Archimedes, at one point used as a prayer book, is restored and on view at the Walters Art Museum. BALTIMORE — “The Archimedes Palimpsest” could well be the title of a Robert Ludlum thriller, though its plot’s esoteric arcana might also be useful for Dan Brown in his next variation on [...]

The Met’s New Islamic Galleries

After eight years of renovations, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has 15 new galleries for more than 1,200 works of Islamic culture going back more than a millennium. In 2003 the Islamic galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed for renovation, and one of the world’s premier collections of Islamic art more or less [...]

And a Frog Shall Lead Them: Henson’s Legacy

For those of you who missed this Henson exhibit in Chicago last fall, it is now on display at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. COOKIE MONSTER has an important lesson for Don Draper. If you’re wondering what a fuzzy blue Muppet, adored by millions of children, could possibly have to do [...]

Fame, Fortune & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio

A show at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington traces the veneration of First Folios as much as objects as literature. Underground, not far from the handsome Great Hall at the Folger Shakespeare Library where a fascinating exhibition is on display, just beyond the institution’s reading rooms, down its back stairs and through a vault [...]

Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: Life into Art

June 1 – September 30, 2011 Regenstein Library – 2nd Floor Reading Room Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: Life into Art “Dostoevsky’s genius raised the problems he was dramatizing to moral-philosophical heights, involving the most crucial quest of Judeo-Christian thought and experience… The unprecedented stature he attained astonished his friends and transcended all personal and political boundaries… [...]

Graham Foundation Exhibitions Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry

Whether you’re in the midst of the third-year tutorial grappling with Euclid’s Elements or not, you may occasionally wonder what the laws of geometry have to do with the laws of the universe or the laws of logic, and all the rest of it. If so, a visit to this exhibit might be in order. [...]

When Picasso Changed His Tune

A new exhibition at MoMA, Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914, looks at his brief but revolutionary foray into Cubism. It’s 1912, and Pablo Picasso is in Paris, thinking: All right, what’s next? A few years earlier he painted a killer picture, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.” People had thrown up their hands in alarm; his friends hardly knew what [...]

Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam at NYPL

Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, The New York Public Library’s leading fall 2010 exhibition, explores these three religions through the texts they have produced. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam live side by side around the world and in New York City and continue to be part of the local dialogue, fueling discourse and debate. Three Faiths [...]

Columbia University Professor Hamid Dabashi Speaks at Block

Iranian-born Shirin Neshat has played a pivotal role in discourse about identity and gender in her native country and the Islamic faith. Saturday, October 16, 2 pm matinee FREE Shirin Neshat: Films and Discussion Special event at Block Cinema: an afternoon of screenings of artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat’s best video work, including Turbulent and [...]

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