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NewsTeen Arts Council | A Curatorial Journey“Please pardon our dust. We make things in here.” So reads a sign taped to a basement door at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park, a mixed-use space operated by Arts + Public Life (APL) at the University of Chicago. It’s early March, and the Teen Arts Council (TAC) has gathered to meet with Gabriel Moreno, a preparator at APL who will help the high school students decide how to display the artwork in Correct Opinions. Read more.
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NewsMusician and educator Steve Coleman to receive Jesse L. Rosenberger MedalThe University of Chicago will award the 2017 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal to Steve Coleman, a composer, saxophonist, educator and native of the city’s South Side. Read more.
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NewsEfroymson Family Fund awards the University of Chicago $2 million challenge grantThe University of Chicago has been awarded a $2 million challenge grant from the Efroymson Family Fund for the future Green Line Arts Center on the Arts Block in Chicago’s Washington Park neighborhood. Read more.
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NewsWolf VostellTo understand the accomplishments of Fluxus and video art pioneer Wolf Vostell (1932-1998), a good place to start is with Concrete Traffic, a 1970 piece in which a 1957 Cadillac is encased in concrete. The artwork, after five years of conservation, has been returned to the University of Chicago. Read more.
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ExhibitionArtist, designer, and Pussyhat Project co-founder Jayna Zweiman’s work explores how political activism can be “positive, creative, and collective.” Her new participatory project Welcome Blanket confronts the issues of immigration and President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall through a tapestry of handmade blankets. Learn more
Events
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FAMILY PROGRAM: One. Big. Egyptian. Mural. | AGES 5–ADULT
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
10:00 AM
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Chamber Music Intensive 2017 - The Romantics: Special Guest Speaker Gerard McBurney
Thursday, July 13, 2017
7:00 PM
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Chamber Music Intensive 2017 - The Romantics: Master Class with Arnold Steinhardt
Saturday, July 15, 2017
3:00 PM
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Chamber Music Intensive - The Romantics: Final Concert
Sunday, July 16, 2017
2:00 PM
Exhibitions
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Department of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition | PART III
Thursday, May 25, 2017 - 5:00 PM to Sunday, June 18, 2017 - 9:00 PM
EXHIBITION
Classicisms
Thursday, February 16, 2017 to Sunday, June 11, 2017
Smart Museum of Art
Free admission
EXHIBITION
Vostell Concrete, 1969–1973
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 to Sunday, June 11, 2017
Smart Museum of Art
Free admission
EXHIBITION
Conversations with the Collection: Belonging
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 to Sunday, July 2, 2017
Smart Museum of Art
Free admission
EXHIBITION
Persepolis: Images of an Empire
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 8:00 AM to Sunday, September 3, 2017 - 10:00 PM
Oriental Institute
Free, with suggested donation
EXHIBITION
Jessica Stockholder: Rose's Inclination
Saturday, September 12, 2015 to Sunday, July 2, 2017
Smart Museum of Art
Free admission
News
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Orianna Cacchione Named First Curator of Global Contemporary Art
The Smart Museum
June 26, 2017
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University of Chicago to renovate, reopen historic CTA Green Line station
UChicago News
June 14, 2017
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Philip Gossett, scholar of 19th-century Italian opera, is dead at 75
Chicago Tribune
June 14, 2017
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Prof. Anne Pippin Burnett, renowned scholar of Greek poetry, 1925–2017
UChicago News
June 12, 2017
Around Chicago
AROUND CHICAGO
2017 Humanities Summit: Speech and Privilege
Speakers include two-time Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha Trethewey, ACLU National Legal Director David Cole, and UChicago President Robert Zimmer.
AROUND CHICAGO
For Derrick Adams, black imagination is the future
New York-based polymath artist uses installation, video, music, and collage to remix the archival holdings of the Stony Island Arts Bank.
News
Hyde Park Jazz Festival to feature world premieres and 'Thelonious Monk at 100' tributes
Chicago Tribune
June 20, 2017
AROUND CHICAGO
Breakout Artists 2017
Carris Adams, 2015 graduate of UChicago's MFA program, named a Breakout Artist of 2017 by NewCity.
AROUND CHICAGO
CTA expands its public art program
Elizabeth Kelley, AM '91, public art consultant to Chicago Transit Authority, announces a call for artists to create works of art for 11 CTA stations.
Theater
Lookingglass Theatre Company
Lookingglass presents new works that are physical, aurally rich, and visually metaphoric. Discounts for UChicago students are available through the Arts Pass program.
Music
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago, founded in 1954, is renowned internationally for its artistic excellence. Students may use their Arts Pass to obtain discounted tickets by registering with Lyric Opera's free NExT program.
DANCE
Joel Hall Dance Center
Joel Hall Dance Center offers classes for Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Modern Dance, and Tap for all ages taught by professional and passionate dance teachers. Through Arts Pass, students with a UChicago ID can take classes for $10.
DANCE
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre
Cequera Rivera Dance Theatre (CRDT) uniquely fuses contemporary dance, live music and visual art with programs that express the stories of American diversity. Arts Pass allows students with ID purchase tickets for $20, rather than the regular $37.