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Timothy Morton: Things Just Got Weird
Timothy Morton. Photo: Emilija Škarnulytė Timothy Morton. Photo: Emilija Škarnulytė Kent Hall, Room 107 1020 E 58th St [view map] In Urth, Ben Rivers draws on…
Sendai Transmissions
Sendai Transmissions is Coleman’s recent foray into music compositions in which live performances are set to video projection, the visuals for this score being…
L'art pour L'art
L’art pour L’art (Matthias Kaul, percussion; Astrid Schmeling, flutes; and Michael Schroeder, guitar)
The Ploughman's Party and Other Treats
Dorothy Walker is a well-known curator and critic from Dublin, Ireland. She is a a contributing editor of Studio International since 1982, and has written…
Kapwani Kiwanga, Bronwyn Katz, Romi Crawford
Kapwani Kiwanga, Repository (detail), 2020. Kapwani Kiwanga, Repository (detail), 2020. Nine Lives participating artist Kapwani Kiwanga is joined by South…
The Golden Quartet
Wadada Leo Smith, Sarhanna, 2011 Wadada Leo Smith, Sarhanna, 2011 Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse, 9th floor 915 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637…
Ankhrasmation and Improvisation
Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse, 9th floor 915 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637 With Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Davis, John Corbett, and Hamza…
Fashion Show
Spec’s 70 foot bench became the perfect raised runway for the models dressed in University of Chicago student Maggie Hanson’s innovative, sometimes whimsical,…
Issues in Contemporary Art: The Persistence of Painting
The persistence of painting in contemporary art makes it increasingly difficult to think of the medium as an artistically obsolete or socially irrelevant act.…
Print Making Demonstration
Midway Studios, University of Chicago Volkerding is Instructor of Print Making at the University of Chicago. Print Making Techniques: Past and Present
Christina Sharpe and Cauleen Smith
Cauleen Smith, We Were Never Meant To Survive, 2017. Courtesy of the artist; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; and Kate Werble Gallery, New York. Cauleen Smith, We…
Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith. Photo: Žiga Koritnik. Wadada Leo Smith. Photo: Žiga Koritnik. Free, no booking required Smith offers a solo performance amongst his scores in…
Ankhrasmation: The Language Scores, 1967–2015
Hamza Walker and John Corbett, co-curators of the exhibition, offer an introduction to Smith’s scores and their role in his wider practice. Ankhrasmation: The…
Faten Kanaan
Faten Kanaan, photo by Olena Shkoda. Faten Kanaan, photo by Olena Shkoda. IDA NOYES, 3RD FLOOR THEATRE FREE, RSVP REQUIRED–TICKETS AVAILABLE Composer,…
Solveig Øvstebø in conversation with Hamza Walker
The Renaissance Society is a contemporary art museum free and open to the public.
YAGO, by Gene Coleman
XASAX saxophone quartet from France will perform YAGO by Gene Coleman, with Toshimaru Nakamura and Kazuhisha Uchihashi and a Gagaku ensemble October 26th, 8pm,…
Niele Toroni
In conjunction with the University of Chicago Humanities Open House
Art and the Bankruptcy of Contemporary Civilization
From the event announcement: The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago and International House announce a lecture by Alexander Archipenko in the…
Caryl Churchill's Far Away
Shadi Habib Allah, Put to Rights, installation view, 2018. Photo: Useful Art Services Shadi Habib Allah, Put to Rights, installation view, 2018. Photo: Useful…
Put to Rights
Shadi Habib Allah, Put to Rights, installation view, 2018. Photo: Useful Art Services Shadi Habib Allah, Put to Rights, installation view, 2018. Photo: Useful…
Farouk Beloufa: Nahla
Film still from Farouk Beloufa’s Nahla (1979). Film still from Farouk Beloufa’s Nahla (1979). LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS SCREENING ROOM 201 915 E 60TH ST Nahla…
Lea Bertucci and Norbert Rodenkirchen: The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity
Lea Bertucci and Norbert Rodenkirchen. Photo: Brad Sanders. Lea Bertucci and Norbert Rodenkirchen. Photo: Brad Sanders. Experimental composer Lea Bertucci…
The Happy End of Kafka's Amerika
The Smart Museum and The Renaissance Society Join Stephanie Smith, Associate Curator of the Smart Museum, and Hamza Walker, Education Director at the…
Mosaic: A History of the Medium
Mosaic: A Preview of “The Law” by Harold Haydon and a Review of Historic Masterpieces