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The University of Chicago’s
32nd Annual Humanities Day
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Join the Division of the Humanities for a day of intellectual inspiration
and artistic expression. Immerse yourself in lectures, exhibits,
performances, and tours on campus.
Admission is free. Registration is required. For a schedule of events, visit
http://humanitiesday.uchicago.edu.
The Smart
Museum’s Echoes
of the Past showcases
Buddhist
cave art. See
page 29.
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On the Cover Leigh-Ann Pahapill, MFA’07, Ablation, 2005–06. Installation view detail. Cement, plaster, earth, gold leaf. 50”h x 44”w x 48”d. Image courtesy of the artist.
artist’s statement “‘A hole is to look through…A hole is to sit in…A hole is when you step in it you go down…’— Ruth Krauss, A Hole is to Dig: A First Book of First
Definitions, 1952. Ablation is a cast of a hole that I dug in the courtyard at Midway Studios. Thanks to the cooperative efforts of Dean Martha T. Roth and Theaster Gates,
Coordinator of Arts Programming, this work has been installed on the University of Chicago campus, in the stairwell of Walker Museum.”
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