Arts and Public Life

What makes a pop song popular? In their collaborative course at the University of Chicago, Wilco's Glenn Kotche and University of Chicago Associate Professor of Music Steven Rings attempt to answer the question with students by exploring popular song structures in contemporary classical composition. (Recorded during Winter Quarter at UChicago's Gray Center Lab) ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email digicomm@uchicago.edu.

A months-long ARG called "Terrarium" was an ambitious #UChicago faculty-led project meant to encourage incoming students to work collaboratively, develop a sense of community and learn the kind of rigorous inquiry at the heart of UChicago’s core values. Developed by Patrick Jagoda, the ARG is set in a post-apocalyptic world in the year 2049, Terrarium provided clues and puzzles via online videos and group chats over the summer to help students develop innovative proposals about climate change. Full Story: ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would l

The University of Chicago Library has received more than 2,700 vintage prints by celebrated photographer Vivian Maier, few of which have ever been published or displayed. Collector John Maloof made the donation to the UChicago Library, where they will be preserved and made accessible to researchers in the Special Collections Research Center. The gift includes more than 1,200 black-and-white and 1,400 color prints that Maier made, ranging from her travels around the world to her street photography in Chicago that has received widespread critical acclaim. Because Maier chose to make the prints herself, the collection provides a rare glimpse into her creative process and the photos to which she was drawn. Full story: Unpublished work © 2017 The Estate of Vivian Maier. All rights reserved. About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students an

The University of Chicago celebrates "Chicago: By the Book" — a Caxton Club compilation of 101 books that shaped the city and its image. The numerous UChicago connections in this collection include a memoir by Laura Fermi and her life with UChicago physicist Enrico Fermi, a football history by UChicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, and UChicago author Saul Bellow's novel The Adventures of Augie March. Read the whole story: Buy the book: ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email digicomm@uchicag

Composer and UChicago alumnus Philip Glass discusses his music career, his time at the University of Chicago, and artistic collaboration. The February 18, 2016, public conversation with Augusta Read Thomas, University Professor of Composition, Department of Music and the College, at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts was part of Glass’s three-day residency at the University as a Presidential Arts Fellow. ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email digicomm@uchicago.edu.

University of Chicago alumnus Philip Glass discusses how an early interest in music and his University education helped spark his illustrious career as a composer. A 1956 graduate of the College, Glass returned to UChicago in February 2016 for a three-day residency as a Presidential Arts Fellow, which included a master class with UChicago composition students, a public conversation with Professor Augusta Read Thomas at the Logan Center for the Arts, and a University of Chicago Presents concert at Mandel Hall of his piano etudes. ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties wi

Arts + Public Life: 2011-12 Artist-in-residence Cathy Alva Mooses Arts + Public Life & Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture: 2012 Artists-in-residence ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicagoArts: Where scholars, students, artists and audiences converge, explore, and create at @UChicago. The arts are central to the mission of the University of Chicago. With a strong tradition of cross-disciplinary practices, intricately mixed with intellectual curiosity and creative energy, UChicago Arts fosters a bustling arts community on Chicago’s South Side. #UChicagoArts on the Web: Home: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicagoarts *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email arts@uchicago.edu.

Arts + Public Life: 2011-12 Artist-in-residence Faheem Majeed Arts + Public Life & Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture: 2012 Artists-in-residence ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicagoArts: Where scholars, students, artists and audiences converge, explore, and create at @UChicago. The arts are central to the mission of the University of Chicago. With a strong tradition of cross-disciplinary practices, intricately mixed with intellectual curiosity and creative energy, UChicago Arts fosters a bustling arts community on Chicago’s South Side. #UChicagoArts on the Web: Home: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicagoarts *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email arts@uchicago.edu.

Arts + Public Life: 2011-12 Artist-in-residence Eliza Myrie Arts + Public Life & Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture: 2012 Artists-in-residence ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicagoArts: Where scholars, students, artists and audiences converge, explore, and create at @UChicago. The arts are central to the mission of the University of Chicago. With a strong tradition of cross-disciplinary practices, intricately mixed with intellectual curiosity and creative energy, UChicago Arts fosters a bustling arts community on Chicago’s South Side. #UChicagoArts on the Web: Home: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicagoarts *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email arts@uchicago.edu.

➡ Subscribe: About #UChicagoArts: Where scholars, students, artists and audiences converge, explore, and create at @UChicago. The arts are central to the mission of the University of Chicago. With a strong tradition of cross-disciplinary practices, intricately mixed with intellectual curiosity and creative energy, UChicago Arts fosters a bustling arts community on Chicago’s South Side. #UChicagoArts on the Web: Home: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicagoarts *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email arts@uchicago.edu.