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NewsUniversity of Chicago'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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NewsIt’s Alive! Well, the Puppeteers AreIt’s Alive! Well, the Puppeteers Are. Manual Cinema’s “Frankenstein” at the Court Theatre is a film-theater hybrid that fuses Mary Shelley’s novel with her biography, emphasizing themes of desire, birth and loss. Read more.
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ALUMNISerial host Sarah Koenig inspires students during return to UChicagoLong before she revolutionized podcasts, Sarah Koenig, 'AB90, arrived at the University of Chicago looking for a place that required “grit.” 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
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Mysteries with a Mission: Michael Nava talks about his Henry Rios mystery novels
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
4:30 PM
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Mary Jane Jacob - "Dewey for Artists" - Dan Peterman, Bill Ayers
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
6:00 PM
Exhibitions
EXHIBITION
Mariana Castillo Deball: Petlacoatl
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 6:00 PM to Sunday, January 13, 2019 - 9:00 PM
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
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Tech-heavy ‘Frankenstein’ yet another stage marvel from Manual Cinema
Chicago Sun Times
November 12, 2018
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‘ICONIC: Black Panther’ Exhibit Honors Panthers’ Legacy In Illinois And Beyond
Block Club Chicago
November 2, 2018
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Bono, David Adjaye and Theaster Gates discuss their Red auction
Financial Times,
November 2, 2018
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Habib Allah’s two US exhibitions examine ‘communities affected by poverty and the mechanisms they use to cope with it’
The National
November 1, 2018
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Puppets and projectors give new life to Frankenstein at Court Theatre
UChicago News
October 31, 2018
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Serial host Sarah Koenig inspires students during return to UChicago
UChicago News
October 29, 2018
Around Chicago
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
AROUND CHICAGO
The Chicago Architecture Foundation has a new name and a new home.
The oversized skyscraper models in the window, one of them 38 feet tall, are the undisputed stars of the show, but they’re not the only reason to visit the Chicago Architecture Center, the engaging new home of the organization previously known as the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
AROUND CHICAGO
Culture Lab Detroit announces 2018 line-up, featuring Peter Weller
Yesomi Umolu, artistic director of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial and exhibitions curator at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, is a moderator for Culture Lab Detroit this year.