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NewsPlena Libre Appointed Ensemble-In-Residence at the University of Chicago for 2019-20 SeasonChicago (Hyde Park) – Contemporary masters Plena Libre have been appointed the Don Michael Randel Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Chicago for the 2019-20 season. Read more.
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Around ChicagoMeet Nikko Washington, the painter and ace bowler in the Save Money collective.Nikko Washington looks like any other student coming in to Café Logan on the University of Chicago campus to grab a bite between classes. But the 25-year-old finished his studies at the School of the Art Institute three years ago. And there's another difference: the oil paintings on the wall are all by Washington, together comprising an exhibit called 53 'til Infinity, on display through March 31.Read more.
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NewsUChicago Launches Lab Focused on Game Design and ResearchWeston Game Lab provides large-scale collaborative space in new Media Arts, Data, and Design Center. Read more.
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NewsNew center fuses media arts, data and designAt the University of Chicago, the disciplines come together at the Media Arts, Data and Design Center, creating a new collaborative space for experimentation, discovery and impact. The MADD Center will support work by faculty, other academic appointees, students, staff and community partners through cutting-edge technologies. The 20,000-square-foot center in the John Crerar Library opened Feb. 25. Read more.
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News'The Fetus in Utero' at U. of C. Reveals Mysteries of the WombA new exhibit at the Regenstein Library explores the history of visual imagery of wombs carrying fetuses, addressing "medical voyeurism, the history of patient consent, the evolution of the birthing process, and even our...prurient interest in medical imagery." Read more.
Events
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A Staged Reading of Oscar Brown, Jr.'s Kicks & Co (Play Symposium)
Monday, March 18, 2019
7:00 PM
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“ʽAncient Salt’: The Preservation of W.B. Yeats” - Lecture by Peter McDonald
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
5:00 PM
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Tina Owen-Moore "The Alliance Way - Elizabeth Kirby
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
6:00 PM
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Third Tuesday Jazz: Eric Schneider, Sax & Clarinet & Jeremy Kahn, Piano
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
7:30 PM
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Roy Christopher - Dead Precedents - Ytasha L. Womack
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
6:00 PM
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Katy Loutzenhiser - "If You're Out There" - Gloria Chao
Thursday, March 21, 2019
6:00 PM
Exhibitions
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION | Karthik Pandian & Andros Zins-Browne: Atlas Unlimited (Acts V-VI)
Friday, February 1, 2019 - 9:00 AM to Sunday, March 17, 2019 - 9:00 PM
Event
The Fetus in Utero: From Mystery to Social Media
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 - 9:00 AM to Friday, April 12, 2019 - 4:45 PM
EXHIBITION
Nikko Washington: 53 'til Infinity
Friday, January 11, 2019 to Sunday, March 31, 2019
News
News
One Collector’s Effort to Reframe Art History, A Review of “Solidary and Solitary” at the Smart Museum of Art
NewCity Art
March 7, 2019
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf at Court Theater
Windy City Times
March 1, 2019
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David Maljković’s hints of design, production and color at Renaissance Society show
Hyde Park Herald
February 28, 2019
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At the Smart, ‘Solidary & Solitary’ shows individuals progressing Black art
Hyde Park Herald
February 25, 2019
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Ling Ma’s “Severance” Captures the Bleak, Fatalistic Mood of 2018
The New Yorker
December 10, 2018
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Nikko Washington: His art and design work, “53 ’til infinity”, and more
WGN Radio
February 19, 2019
Around Chicago
AROUND CHICAGO
From Housing to Activism, the Next Chicago Architecture Biennial Will Bring Global Issues to Chicago
Yesomi Umolu, the artistic director of the upcoming Chicago Architecture Biennial, discusses the themes and narratives to be explored at this year’s event.
AROUND CHICAGO
‘Coffee With Langston’ Series At Kusyana Cafe Brings People Together For Part Conversation, Part Therapy
The cultural coffee klatch is the creation of Erika Dudley, Senior Program Manager with the University of Chicago’s Office of Civic Engagement.
AROUND CHICAGO
Hyde Park Art Center’s "Health Club" Exhibition Is Not Just for Pre-Meds
In "Health Club", the relationship between space and the human condition is far from unidirectional: space shapes humans as much as humans carve out space.
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.