Arts Research

Two peach colored halves of a bivalve shell (clamshell) are connected by a woven, dark brown fiber into a necklace.
Telling Stories with Seashells: Krannert Art Museum's Malacological Collections
Image of a woman with dark, curly hair and dark eyes, smiling. She wears strings of bright orange beads around her neck and a dark sweater. She is playwright Ezzat Goushegir, author of "My Name is Inanna".
Research Conversation | Nasrin Navab and Ezzat Goushegir on "My Name is Inanna"
Color photograph of the view looking upward between buildings in New York City around dusk or dawn, when the buildings are silhouettes and the sky is a medium blue. The square buildings divide the image in fourths, with lights visible in just one window.
New in the Galleries: Art Since 1948
Image of a gallery with home furnishings, colored lights, and a painted "Art Studio" sign. Two Black women sit a table beneath the sign to welcome young people to the gallery for studio art days.
Research Conversations: Rikki Byrd with Blair Ebony Smith
Television with a black and white image of a Black mother smiling. Her baby is seated on her hip, looking up at her. In the background is patterned cloth and a vintage stereo speaker. The snapshot appears to be from the mid to late 20th c. US.
Research Conversations: Blair Ebony Smith and Jen Everett
Abstract artist Louise Fishman examines her 1976 oil and wax work on paper, My Pigeon (a geometric drawing in white and grey wax on paper), with her spouse Ingrid Nyeboe
Research Conversation with Amy L. Powell
A black and white print that depicts a surrealist image of a headless walking figure in an industrial environment made of cartoonish shapes.
Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in the 1930s United States
Image of Bolivian skyline with new skyscraper that contains Native imagery in its architecture. The view is looking up from the courtyard of a much more traditional building.
Lives in Fragments: Reassessing the KAM Andean Collection
Image of a dark-haired woman leaning close to examine a textile that lays flat on a table. The woman is Andean researcher Rosa Varillas Palacios
Weaving Object Histories: Andean Textile Research at KAM
In this painting, the ground is snow covered and the trees are bare, except for a few dry leaves fluttering in the wind. The stream looks icy, and the distant landscape cold. There are only mild shadows because of the dimmer sun of a winter day.
Lost in the Landscape: Curatorial Research and Emily Groom’s Winter Stream
Image of a man and a woman, mid 20s, wearing VR headsets in an art gallery.There is a bright green wall in the background.
'Real World Harm' and Kennedy Browne’s Artefacts of the Present
Semcircular brown leather garment with strings of white beads hanging down and ties that would fasten the garment to the body.
Beads that Speak: Women and the Language of Ndebele Beadwork from the Krannert Art Museum collection
Image of a young black woman with a t-shirt, shorts, and beanie hat standing in the African Gallery at Krannert Art Museum. Behind her are script-based paintings by Yelimane Fall and Wosene Worke Kosroff.
Celebrating Black Girlhood: DRIVE Postdoctoral Fellow Blair Smith Focuses on Community Engagement
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Curatorial Intern Jamillah Gabriel works with Maureen Warren, curator of European and American Art, to research prints from the 1970 School of the Art Institute portfolio for display in the Moore Galler
Call for 2020 Curatorial Interns
Moretto da Brescia (b. Alessandro Bonvicino Moretto Italy, 1498–1554) Portrait of an Unidentified Man ca. 1525-1550 Oil on canvas Gift of Merle J. and Emily Trees 1945-1-2
Provenance: A Forensic History of Art
Installation view, On the Brink: New Work by Nnenna Okore at Elmhurst Art Museum, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Elmhurst Art Museum. Photo by Allyson Purpura
Nkata: Nnenna Okore
Ordo ad consecrandum et coronandum regem et reginam Franciae (detail), France, 14th century. Paint and ink on parchment. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Pre-1650 MS124
Making and Breaking Medieval Manuscripts: Unfinished Work
Hore in laudē gloriosissime virginis marie: secundum vsum Romanum…(detail), Paris: Germain Hardouyn, 1532. Paint and ink on parchment. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IUA02536
The Mass-Produced Original: Printed Books of Hours
Cover Art for Lorado Taft: The Chicago Years (2014)
Companion Materials for Allen Weller's Lorado Taft: The Chicago Years
Ray Johnson, Untitled (Cupid with Ad Reinhardt), 1974. Collage on illustration board. Courtesy Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York © Ray Johnson Estate
Return to Sender: Ray Johnson, Robert Warner and the New York Correspondence School