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Welcome back to school, SAIC students! Please come visit the reading room today (until 8:00) and tomorrow (10:30-5:00) to see the exhibition Forever “Egypt!”: Works from the Collection of Harold Allen.  

The exhibition was curated by SAIC students Margarita LizcanoHernandez and Alejandra Vargas as the culminating exercise in their two-year Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship. Here you can see some installation images of the show and the curators, Alejandra and Margarita, introducing the exhibition to a class. Don’t miss your chance to see this thoughtful introduction to Harold Allen, Egyptomania, and the nature of collecting, which closes this Friday, August 31.

The Ryerson & Burnham Libraries will be closed on Monday, September 3, but the reading room will be open for research at 1:00 on Tuesday, September 4, when you can come in to view I’ll Show You: Posters and Promos from Chicago’s Famous Artists, and whet your appetite for Hairy Who? 1966-1969, opening in the museum galleries later next month.