Arts & Humanities

Ancient Persian artifact nearly 2,500 years old returns to Oriental Institute Cleaning the Persepolis relief

Ancient Persian artifact nearly 2,500 years old returns to Oriental Institute

Why we’re so emotionally invested in the semicolon Semicolon on a typewriter

Why we’re so emotionally invested in the semicolon

Burned buildings reveal sacking of ancient Turkish city 3,500 years ago Scholars excavate Sam’al

Burned buildings reveal sacking of ancient Turkish city 3,500 years ago

How the OI’s work has evolved since its 1919 founding electronic stylus and a digital tablet

How the OI’s work has evolved since its 1919 founding

UChicago Library becomes home to 2,700 vintage photographs by Vivian Maier Workers

UChicago Library becomes home to 2,700 vintage photographs by Vivian Maier

New book explores ‘concept of the ordinary’—100 words at a time Lauren Berlant

New book explores ‘concept of the ordinary’—100 words at a time

Student creates surrealist self-portraits that reflect her Chinese heritage Patron Saint of the Precession of Poetry (2019)

Student creates surrealist self-portraits that reflect her Chinese heritage

Newest public art on campus is ‘meant to get in your way’ Seattle Right Angles Propped

Newest public art on campus is ‘meant to get in your way’

Mapping Chicago’s 1919 race riots Face-off between militia and veteran

Mapping Chicago’s 1919 race riots

Exploring the human side of medicine with comics Graphic Inoperable

Exploring the human side of medicine with comics