The Winter 2022 version of Contemporary Art has concluded! We all have a lot of fun. See you next time!
Author: dnrodowick
D. N. Rodowick is Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and the College; he is also an associate in the Department of Visual Arts. Rodowick is the author of numerous essays as well as eight books, including most recently, What Philosophy Wants from Images (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, 2017). After studying cinema and comparative literature at the University of Texas, Austin and Université de Paris III, he obtained a PhD. at the University of Iowa in 1983. Rodowick subsequently taught at Yale University, the University of Rochester, and at King's College, University of London. Before coming to the University of Chicago, he was William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University. Rodowick is also a curator, and an award-winning experimental filmmaker and video artist.
Contemporary Art in Paris is on the move again!
The 2022 edition of Contemporary Art in Paris is on the move again! Our first site visit was to Bétonsalon to view Anne Le Troter’s extraordinary installation, Les Voluntaires, pigments-médicaments.
D. N. Rodowick on Stan Douglas’s “Luanda-Kinshasa
Luanda-Kinshasa (2013) by Stan Douglas Single-channel video projection, 6 hours 1 min (loop), color, sound. Overall dimensions vary with installation Showing at the Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection until May 30, 2022 With a running timeContinue reading
Contemporary Art in Paris is returning in February 2022!
Watch this space for new reviews and art criticism from University of Chicago students at the Center in Paris.
Late Breaking News! Poincheval Hatches His Eggs at the Palais de Tokyo
One of the most discussed artists in our class was Abraham Poincheval, whose work is currently on view at the Palais de Tokyo. And one of the most written about works in the class wasContinue reading
Student Art Criticism Now Available for Viewing!
We’re not done yet! Please take some time to read the excellent critical analyses of of work recently on view in Paris by the students in Contemporary Art in Paris. See the “Art Criticism page,” orContinue reading
Goodbye! (For now . . .)
The last class meeting for Contemporary Art in Paris took place on Thursday, April 13. I think everyone was exhausted, yet also elated by all the exciting work we viewed and discussed over the last threeContinue reading
Field Trip 5: Jeu de Paume
I can’t believe that we are at the end of the third and last week! Our last field trip was a visit yesterday to the Jeu de Paume to see the exhibitions on Eli LotarContinue reading
Belleville Galleries
Spent part of Friday afternoon with beautiful weather exploring Belleville galleries with Ann-Chandler and Emma. Notable shows in these wonderful spaces included Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (Elodie Sequin), Marcelle Alix (Ian Kiaer),Mémoire de l’Avenir (Anat Propper Goldenberg),Continue reading