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Around ChicagoEve Ewing’s children’s book ‘Maya and the Robot’ takes a young girl’s STEM dreams seriouslyMulti-hyphenate Eve Ewing — author, sociologist, poet, playwright, former middle school CPS science teacher, and current assistant professor at the Crown Family School of Social Work at the University of Chicago — poses that scenario in her latest literary endeavor, “Maya and the Robot." Read more.
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News‘Titanic’ at Court Theatre review: ‘Nightmarish recollections’ speak volumesCourt Theatre’s pre-filmed, streamed staging of Owen McCafferty’s “Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912)” shows the human tragedies of the Titanic. Read more.
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NewsToward Common Cause: Genius at Work29 MacArthur Fellows Show Their Art in Chicago A mega-show of MacArthur fellow artists — Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, David Hammons, and Nicole Eisenman among them — has community on its mind.
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News‘I’m going to create my own doors’: In Chicago, Asian women arts heads lead by exampleLast year, University of Chicago Presents executive director Amy Iwano made an all-too-familiar phone call: hashing out the COVID-instigated cancellation of yet another live concert. Read more.
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NewsPSF Appoints Amy Iwano as New Executive + Artistic Director
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.
Exhibitions
Event
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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Summer Teacher Institute: Toward Common Cause
Monday, August 16, 2021 to Friday, August 20, 2021
EXHIBITION
Dawoud Bey: Portraits from Chicago (1993-2001)
Friday, May 21, 2021 to Saturday, August 28, 2021
News
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In the Kitchen: Artist Delano Dunn Dishes Out His Family’s Secret Gumbo Recipe, Which Inspired His Latest Work
Artnet News
Jul, 15, 2021
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‘Toward Common Cause' Shines as Visual Arts Celebration of MacArthur Fellows' 40th Anniversary
NBC Chicago
Jul, 15, 2021
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Chicago-area museums welcoming back patrons with an array of exhibits
Chicago Sun Times
Jul, 09, 2021
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Today in the Culture, July 7, 2021: Theaster Gates Goes Retail | Pop-up BBQ & Buenos Aires | Hulu x KTQ II
NewCity
Jul, 07, 2012
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Deeply Rooted Dance Theater Summer Dance Intensive Performances Return In Person
Broadway World Chicago
Jul, 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.”
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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.