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EventA JPEG’s worth a thousand EtherOn March 11 a piece of non-fungible token (NFT) artwork by the digital artist Beeple sold at auction for 42,329.453 in the cryptocurrency Ether—at the time, around $69 million. Read more.
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Around ChicagoChicago's Public Art Scene Is Like No Other — Here's What to SeeIn Chicago, art is always close at hand—in train stations and pedestrian underpasses, community museums and public parks. Read more.
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NewsSarah Curran appointed as Senior Consultant to UChicago PresentsThis appointment is made upon the departure of Executive Director Amy Iwano, who took a new post in August as executive and artistic director of Performance Santa Fe in New Mexico. Curran most recently served as the Consulting Curator for the Experimental Performance Initiative (eXp) at the University of Chicago.
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NewsPhotographer Paul Natkin shares about how he was able to make a love of music and photography into a careerWGN Radio’s Rick Kogan was joined in studio by photographer Paul Natkin to share about how he got started in photography and got to this point in his career. Phil shares about his “Wall of Blues” photo exhibition going on at the Logan Center through December 10. Read more.
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NewsUChicago film scholar Jacqueline Stewart awarded MacArthur Fellowship$625,000 grant recognizes work that illuminates contributions of Black filmmakers. Read more.
Events
EVENTS
Virtual Visits to the Arts at UChicago
Visit the arts at UChicago virtually. Explore live and archived events, talks, performances and more at our Virtual Visits page.
Event
University Symphony Orchestra: Annual Halloween Concert
Saturday, October 30, 2021
7:00 PM
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AACM at 55: The Great Black Music Ensemble in Concert
Saturday, October 30, 2021
7:00 PM
Exhibitions
EXHIBITION
Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams
Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 12:00 PM to Sunday, December 12, 2021 - 9:00 PM
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OI Museum Special Exhibition: "Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present"
Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 10:00 AM to Friday, December 31, 2021 - 4:00 PM
News
News
Review: ‘Othello’ at Court Theatre has all the chill of the last year, packed into a Shakespeare tragedy
Chicago Tribune
Oct, 19, 2021
News
Column: Fear is fun (for some of us): Why we’re drawn to horror and scary movies
Chicago Tribune
Oct, 21, 2021
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‘Wall of Blues' Retrospective Pays Homage to Paul Natkin Music Photography
NBC Chicago
Oct, 06, 2021
Around Chicago
Around Chicago
Artist Brandon Breaux’s ‘Everyday Black Heroes’ Honors A Modern Hero Each Day
Black artists, activists and educators are recognized this month in the South Side artist's nod to living history at the Stony Island Arts Bank and on Instagram.
Around Chicago
12 immersive art spaces that champion Black creativity
Theaster Gates’s Rebuild Foundation transformed the Stony Island Arts Bank – a defunct 1923 neoclassical bank in Chicago’s South Side – into a hybrid gallery, library and community space for neighbourhood residents to share their heritage.
Around Chicago
How Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation Is Reaching Locals During Covid-19
UChicago Professor Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation has set up a food repository intended to meet the needs of its surrounding community.
News
Designer Duro Olowu Sees Chicago Through Art
“[Featured in the exhibition] are artists who made things in isolation, with love and integrity and passion, under so many circumstances. Even if the work is political, dealing with AIDS or oppression or subjugation, you feel the need and the passion of all these artists, the idea of leaving something behind, something meaningful and yet very familiar.”
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Fifth Third to invest $20 million in South and West side opportunity zones
Such private investments are “critical to our mission of transforming our communities,” the mayor said at an event today to announce the Fifth Third funding.
Around Chicago
Where to Find Free Art in Chicago Every Day of the Week
The Smart Museum of Art is free and open to the public every day of the week, writes Urban Matter.
AROUND CHICAGO
The 5 Best Design Destinations for September 2019
September is a big month for Chicago as well. On September 19, the Chicago Architecture Biennial will return for its third edition, with free public exhibitions, full-scale installations, and other programming. Expo Chicago—the city’s most important art fair—will take place concurrently at Navy Pier. Architecture fans should plan to visit the Chicago Architecture Center at its new home in a Mies van der Rohe building overlooking the Chicago River. The CAC is offering discounted joint passes to the Architecture Biennial and Expo Chicago with the option to add one of its acclaimed walking tours. If you go, make time to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House and Unity Temple, which were just designated UNESCO World Heritage sites.
AROUND CHICAGO
Facing Mass Incarceration One Stitch at a Time
"Life Without the Possibility of Parole" depicts Alice Kim, the director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago, protesting the life-without-parole sentence of Renaldo Hudson, by Bronzeville artist Dorothy Burge, 64.