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NewsWhen art imitates lifeDuring a quarter when everything was different, a professor known for installation art took her painting class outside. Read more.
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NewsAt Court’s ‘Theatre for One: Here We Are,’ audiences are all alone with an actorCourt Theatre’s rich new “Theatre for One: Here We Are” project contains many such moments when the usual anonymity afforded to an audience member is intentionally undermined. Read more.
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NewsAmid pandemic, UChicago scholar launches program for international artistsInterim director Ghenwa Hayek expands Gray Center’s global reach with FarBar program. Read more.
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News'Black Art' Chronicles A Pivotal Exhibition And Its Lasting Impact On Black ArtistsThe new documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light includes interview with UChicago faculty and artist Theaster Gates. Read more.
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NewsNew concert series weaves together music, architecture for online audiencesUChicago Presents’ SOUND/SITES concerts make use of iconic campus spaces. 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.
Exhibitions
Event
K. Kofi Moyo and FESTAC ’77: The Activation of a Black Archive
Friday, February 12, 2021 to Sunday, March 21, 2021
EXHIBITION
Apsáalooke Women and Warriors
Thursday, March 12, 2020 to Friday, August 21, 2020
News
News
HBO Doc “Black Art: In the Absence of Light” Connects Black Art’s Rich History and Vibrant Present
Artsy
February 5, 2021
News
On the Rise: 54 Curators and Arts Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in 2020
Culture Type
Jan 4, 2021
News
How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing The Real World: Big Brains podcast
UChicago News
Dec 11, 2020
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.