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NewsSociologist Eve Ewing authors Marvel comic IronheartEve L. Ewing, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration, brings to life a superhero from Chicago’s South Side in the new Marvel comic Ironheart, which debuts Nov 28. Read more.
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NewsUChicago's Gray Center Announces New Biannual Journal Portable GrayThis fall, the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago will launch a biannual journal that will showcase the work of the Gray Center, a research center for experimental collaborations between artists and scholars. Read more.
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News2018 Power 100UChicago 2016 Rosenberger Medalist Kerry James Marshall has been named #2 on Art Review's annual Power 100. Read more.
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NewsDimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the CosmosDimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos, the official U.S. entry at the recently-concluded 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, will be on view for the first time in the United States at Wrightwood 659, a new art space located at 659 W. Wrightwood Avenue in Chicago, from February 15 through April 27, 2019. Read more.
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NewsUChicago Arts Magazine Fall 2018The Arts Guide is now the UChicago Arts Magazine. You'll find all the listings for exciting (and usually free) Arts events on campus, now with articles, interviews, and more. Read the UChicago Arts Magazine Fall 2018 here.
Events
Event
LUNCHTIME GALLERY TALK: Ancient Egyptian Clothing from a Visual and Archaeological Perspective
Thursday, December 13, 2018
12:15 PM
Event
Angela Brintlinger & Thomas Feerick - "Russian Cuisine in Exile" - William Nickell
Thursday, December 13, 2018
6:00 PM
Event
South Side Stories: Carolyn Lawrence and Robert Paige
Saturday, December 15, 2018
2:00 PM
Exhibitions
EXHIBITION
Mariana Castillo Deball: Petlacoatl
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 6:00 PM to Sunday, January 13, 2019 - 9:00 PM
EXHIBITION
Let me consider it from here
Saturday, November 17, 2018 to Sunday, January 27, 2019
EXHIBITION
Jason Dodge with Ishion Hutchinson: The Broad Church of Night
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 to Friday, December 21, 2018
EXHIBITION
The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960–1980
Thursday, September 13, 2018 to Sunday, December 30, 2018
EXHIBITION
Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 to Sunday, December 16, 2018
News
News
Grossman Ensemble makes impressive debut in a new era for new music at UC
Chicago Classical Review
December 8, 2018
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Theaster Gates and His Band, The Black Monks of Mississippi, Play Miami
Vulture
December 8, 2018
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Theaster Gates, the Chicago-based Cross-Disciplinary Artist and Urban Visionary, Has Joined Gagosian Gallery
Culture Type
December 4, 2018
News
When Museums Fit in Boxes: Mariana Castillo Deball and “This Is Not a Bomb”
The Chicago Maroon
December 3, 2018
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'Pope.L: The Escape' reworks a slavery play as performance art and dares you to wonder what to think about it
Chicago Tribune
November 16, 2018
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Alley cats: exhibit highlights history of Bronzeville's weekly jazz party
Chicago Reader
November 12, 2018
Around Chicago
AROUND CHICAGO
The Wild World of the Hairy Who
The Chicago version of Pop Art, embodied in the work of the Hairy Who, is sweaty, nervous, sometimes giggly or goofy.
AROUND CHICAGO
The Top Creative Cities and Countries of 2018 According to Airbnb
"The home of the skyscraper, Chicago tops Airbnb’s list as the city for creative experiences. Playing host to the works of famous architects past and present"
AROUND CHICAGO
Nick Cave Uses His Capital to Help Aspiring Creators
Based for more than 20 years on Chicago’s South Loop, this 59-year-old artist has recently consolidated his studio, the couple’s home and his partner’s design studio in this 20,000-square-foot former mason’s workshop in South Old Irving Park, a largely working-class neighborhood across town.
AROUND CHICAGO
Chicago Architecture Biennial team inspired by city’s geography, history, and civic role
Artistic director Yesomi Umolu and her curatorial team are still in the research phase for the 2019 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, but the ideas and themes taking shape for next year’s program are refreshing and use architecture as a way to examine issues beyond the built world.
AROUND CHICAGO
Kerry James Marshall Paints for Chicago. His Mural Should Stay There.
The painting is “Knowledge and Wonder,” a dreamlike frieze that the artist completed in 1995 for the Legler branch of the Chicago Public Library — on the city’s poorer West Side, where African-Americans make up about 44 percent of the population.
AROUND CHICAGO
THEASTER GATES’S REBUILD FOUNDATION RECEIVES $300,000 FROM JPMORGAN CHASE
JPMorgan Chase has awarded $300,000 to artist Theaster Gates’s nonprofit the Rebuild Foundation—an arts, education, and cultural development initiative that aims to transform urban communities—in support of the final phase of its renovation of St. Laurence Catholic elementary school on Chicago’s South Side. Gates bought the school, which shuttered sixteen years ago, for $451,500 in 2014. It will serve as the new home for his foundation’s Arts and Innovation Incubator, which is currently housed at the Stony Island Arts Bank.
Around Chicago
It’s Expo Chicago Week. Here Are Three Must-See Attractions
Grab an espresso and gear up for a full day of local creative giants — including Jeanne Gang, Theaster Gates, and Cauleen Smith — chatting in an intimate setting.
AROUND CHICAGO
75 exciting openings in Chicago in September
Learn about the Wall of Respect, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AfriCOBRA and the various artists that made an impact on Chicago's art scene during the ‘60s and ‘70s at the Smart Museum.
