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ExhibitionOffice Hours: Pope.L: University of Chicago Department of Visual ArtsParents lack the time to teach their kids is a single work from a collective mediation on worldbuilding. Pope L.'s guidance through the course "Worldbuilding 2: Presentation, Exhibition, Context (Part 3) was an invention of sorts in which students processed the idea of home through the materiality of a birdhouse. Read more.
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NewsTwo Avant-Garde Women Who Took Big Risks in Chicago’s Art SceneFor dancer Katherine Dunham and curator Katharine Kuh, taking risks was part of their art. “They’re both total trailblazers and innovators and they both took really big risks in life, both personally and in their art and what they created,” says Liesl Olson, Director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry Library. Read more.
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Around ChicagoTheaster Gates’ Arts Incubator And Garden Will Prove ‘There Is Life’ In South Side’s Vacant PropertiesAs the Rebuild Foundation continues efforts to revive vacant South Side buildings and land, residents gathered Thursday to check out its latest projects. Read more.
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NewsMake film history more inclusive. That’s Jacqueline Stewart’s mandate at Academy MuseumJacqueline Stewart was already one of the nation’s leading film scholars before she took the job of chief artistic and programming director at the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Now she’s helming the presentation of perhaps the most significant museum dedicated to movies in the country. Read more.
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ExhibitionA ‘we’ project: In city-wide exhibition, MacArthur Fellows invoke art as a tool for changeWhen Abigail Winograd began planning the largest art exhibition of her career, she did not expect it to open in the middle of a pandemic. Three years ago, Winograd was selected to put together a show that would illuminate key social issues, including the links between public health and environmental crises and the tragic costs of racial and economic disparities. Read more.
Events
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Chiyuma Elliott and Michael Collier - "Blue in Green" and "The Missing Mountain"
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
4:00 PM
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Not A Nation of Immigrants
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
3:00 PM
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CANCELLED Liesl Shurtliff - Time Castaways 3: The Forbidden Lock - Franny Billingsley
Friday, September 17, 2021
4:00 PM
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Eduardo Berti - "An Ideal Presence" - Daniel Levin Becker & Casey Jarman Home
Monday, September 20, 2021
4:00 PM
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Christa Noel Robbins - "Artist as Author" - Kris Cohen
Monday, September 20, 2021
6:30 PM
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Lloyd Schwartz - "Who's on First?: New and Selected Poems" - Alan Shapiro
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
4:00 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
News
News
Achaemenid workers paid silver for wages, study on clay tablets finds
Tehran Times
Sept, 15, 2021
News
Theaster Gates has been awarded the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts
Archinect News
Sept, 14, 2021
News
Hyde Park Stars In Its Own Film Festival — And You Can Support Local News While You Watch
Block Club Chicago
Sept, 10, 2021
News
The Question of Audience: Myriam Ben Salah Brings Global Focus to the Renaissance Society (Fall Arts Preview 2021)
NewCityArt
Sept, 03, 2021
News
From California to Chicago, Tennessee to Maine, 15 of Summer’s Best Museum Exhibitions Remain on View This Fall
Culture Type
Sept, 06, 2021
News
Theaster Gates Partners with Prada Group to Launch Incubator for Emerging Designers of Color
ADPRO
Sept, 01, 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.”
News
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.