Culture, Arts and Entertainment Calendar for Hyde Park and Kenwood area Chicago

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About the annual 57th Street Art Fair, Community Art Fair, and Arts Festival.
Others neighborhood "big events" to seek here or in the Community Events page are:

Look for the Hyde Park Herald month Arts and Culture Guide--usually first Wednesdays.

Special classes for arts organizations: contact Southside Arts and Humanities Network- http://southside.uchicago.edu or http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu. joaniefriedman@uchicago.edu, rschultz@uchicago.edu.

Civic Knowledge and its Southside Arts and Humanities Network, and what they are doing. See at http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070315/civicknowledge.shtml. Also, get on their internal and community events and classes listserve via http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu/index.shtml. Write up's in our Arts and Culture News page.

Did you now that Hyde Park Art Center has regular classes for kids 6-7:30 pm and weekdays every school day off.

This week (and coming): details in the "By Date" calendar

Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in summer 10:30 am Coca Cola penny cinema at DuSable Museum

Aug. 18 Jazz and at Hidden Pearl, Checkerboard
Aug. 19 History and architecture along 63rd St.
Aug. 20 Golden Compass on the Midway
Aug. 22 Jazz in HP Shopping Center; artist talk AfriCOBRA of 1960s 5228 Harper; Willie Wonka in Nichol Park; Jazz at Mellow Yellow and Chant
Aug. 23 Listening Round Table on art and community; Jazz or at Chant
Aug. 24 Special tour of U505 at MSI; Raiders of the Lost Ark at Oriental Inst.; Carillonathon at Rock; Charlie Henth drums at Checkerboard
Aug. 25 Jazz, R&B at Hidden Pearl, Checkerboard
Aug. 26 Series A readings at HP Art Center

'Best bets' circle:

For more visit http://arts.uchicago.edu for a calendar and link to more calendars centered around UC. For more, visit our Culture and Arts Resources page-- scroll in table to calendars and directories and in main alpha run below to links under University of Chicago and visit Neighborhood Links- University of Chicago section.

****2nd Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival 9/27.
September 27, Saturday, Noon-2 am. Hyde Park Jazz Festival (2nd Annual). Features Chicago Jazz Orchestra, saxist Fred Anderson, flutists Nichole Mitchell, ragtime pianist Reginald R. Robinson, trumpeter Orbert Davis and MUCH MORE- Dee Alexander, Grayzna Auguscik, Zack Brock, Ari Brown, Maggie Brown, Ann Burroughs, Chicago Sax in the City, Joan Collaso and Larry Hanks, Great Chicago guitarists Curtis Robinson, Buddy Famabo and Henry Johnson, Ron Haynes, Robert Irving III, Jazz Institute of Chicago Jazz Links, Charlie Johnson and the Organ Express, Peter Lerner, M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Bethany and Willie Pickens, Edwin Sanchez Project, Greg Spero, Two for Brazil, UC Lab School Band, Corey Wilkes and Kahil El'Zabar, John Wright.... 11 am-2 am, various locations inside and out. 773 834-4122, http://www.hydedparkjazzfestival.org. Lead organizers Hyde Park Jazz Society, Hyde Park Cultural Alliance, Producer Carolyn Albriton.
Venues: Midway Plaisance, Checkerboard Lounge, DuSable Museum, Experimental Station, Hyde Park Art Center, International House, Little Black Pearl, Oriental Institute, Quadrangle Club, Robie House, Rockefeller Chapel, Smart Museum of Art.
Produced by Hyde Park Cultural Alliance, The University of Chicago, and the Hyde Park Jazz Society.

Just opened Back Story Cafe- see also Experimental Station. Sarah Black and Saadia Shah. Aims to be a moderately priced coffee shop, info handout, entertainment venue (music, interview series, free WiFi, film screenings, maybe art, and ties to important active movements) , book signings, Powell's Books used books including free in-house loans. Fair trade slow-filtered coffee and organic food.6100 S. Blackstone Ave. www.backstorycafe.com or www.backstory.com.

New UC Department of Visual Arts Gallery in 5200 block of Harper Avenue.

A citywide set of opportunities mixing art and environmental consciousness

Making Connections: Arts and Environment
September 4, 2008, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

At The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum 2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60614

Please join us at a gathering to build connections between artists and environmental and conservation organizations in the Chicago region. Together we will…

· Tour an exhibition of art installations that address lawn and lawn care that explores how we got to have so much grass in America, what the environmental consequences and the cultural ramifications are: Lawn Nation: Art and Science of the American Lawn

· Hear about successful past collaborations of artists and environmentalists and future opportunities

· Learn about research recently conducted by the New Allies for Nature and Culture program at The Field Museum that shows how organizations across the region are engaging arts and creative practices to help people make connections to nature and the environment

· Network with artists and Chicago Wilderness partner organizations

Space is limited. Reservations Required!! A citywide set of opportunities mixing art and environmental consciousness

Making Connections: Arts and Environment
September 4, 2008, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

At The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum 2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60614

Please join us at a gathering to build connections between artists and environmental and conservation organizations in the Chicago region. Together we will…

· Tour an exhibition of art installations that address lawn and lawn care that explores how we got to have so much grass in America, what the environmental consequences and the cultural ramifications are: Lawn Nation: Art and Science of the American Lawn

· Hear about successful past collaborations of artists and environmentalists and future opportunities

· Learn about research recently conducted by the New Allies for Nature and Culture program at The Field Museum that shows how organizations across the region are engaging arts and creative practices to help people make connections to nature and the environment

· Network with artists and Chicago Wilderness partner organizations

Space is limited. Reservations Required!!

RSVP by August 25, 2008 to:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=eVBo3ALBJtG_2fNm7k4WDlNg_3d_3d

Questions? Contact Michelle Uting, muting@chicagowilderness.org, or Christine Dunford, cdunford@fieldmuseum.org

An added attraction…Following this afternoon's program, we invite you to visit Columbia College's Art Walk and experience two art shows and receptions that explore issues of environmentalism and sustainability including A + D Faculty Exhibition: Human|Nature (Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Ave) and Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures (Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash Ave). Both galleries and receptions remain open until 8 pm this evening.

This gathering is co-sponsored by The Field Museum, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Wilderness, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Friends of Ryerson Woods, and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

 

RSVP by August 25, 2008 to:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=eVBo3ALBJtG_2fNm7k4WDlNg_3d_3d

Questions? Contact Michelle Uting, muting@chicagowilderness.org, or Christine Dunford, cdunford@fieldmuseum.org

An added attraction…Following this afternoon's program, we invite you to visit Columbia College's Art Walk and experience two art shows and receptions that explore issues of environmentalism and sustainability including A + D Faculty Exhibition: Human|Nature (Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Ave) and Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures (Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash Ave). Both galleries and receptions remain open until 8 pm this evening.

This gathering is co-sponsored by The Field Museum, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Wilderness, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Friends of Ryerson Woods, and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

 


Park Movies and Concerts Summer 2008 dusk

Wednesdays Midway Plaisance west of Woodlawn: June 25, July 2, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 30, August 6, 13, 20. Details in Midway page.

Friday, August 22. Willie Wonka at Nichols Park south hill, 5400 block between Kenwood and Kimbark.

Carillonathon at Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn. Summer Sundays at 6 (tours from August 3 in 2008)


8/10 Tiffany Ng, Rochester, Ny
8/17 David Johnson, St. Paul MN
8/24 Wylie Crawford, UC

Zygon Center at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago is holding a series of Tuesday evening lecture discussions on the creation, theology, nature, and ecology/environmental responsibility. 2-3 series a year. http://www.zygoncenter.org/future_creation.html.

One Book One Chicago. Spring 2008 Raymond Chandler's classic detective novel, "The Long Goodbye." Check chicagopubliclibrary.org or call Blackstone Library 312 747-0511 for programs. Note that Doc Films is showing the classic movie as part of a director retrospective.

 

Hyde Park Art Center open with a bevy of ongoing exhibits, classes and specials. 5020 S. Cornell. Always free (almost) .

2007 exhibit and event schedule

At Hyde Park Art Center. 773 324-5520.

Kelly Kaczynski: "Olympus Manger, Scene II" A new large-scale installation involving the juncture between art, architecture, theatre and landscape. It is the second installation in a continuing series of a singular artwork. Reception Sat., April 26, 6-8 pm. Talks at Art Thing May 6.
July 1, Who's Afraid of Vladimir Tatlin? A Responsive Situation.

Jesse Seay, "Mechanical Tide." Through July 6.

Rebecca Keller: Victory Garden for the New Millennia. On the plaza April 26-September 1. Plants that can be used for alternative fuels to remove contaminants.

Selected Shots by Young Artists through July 20. From several schools in the area and Lane Tech. Notable will be art of Kenwood Academy medal winners from citywide competition and whose art was shown this year at MCA and MSI. Support art in our schools- it does make a difference!

David Lozano "Queer Interiors and Phthalo Blue" Through Nov. 16. The color blue will never be experience in the same way after entering this installation. Phthalocyanine blue has a brilliant, intense quality. Lozano seeks a euphoric environment that wrestles with the complexities of carnal desire.

David Gista: Flamenco and Flames. Through July 20.

Kiss on the Cheek: Portraits by Dale Washington. July 6-September 28. A selection of nearly 50 new portraits of Chicago's creative community by this HPAC faculty member utilized a variety of different styles, traditional and untraditional media, and color palettes to match the character of the subject. For the past year he has been photographic area artists, especially south side, focusing on cross relationships between genre.

Are We There Yet? July 20-September 28. Where is "There" and how is it recognized as different form "here" in a physical, geographical, or psychic landscape? Curated by Dawoud Bey, the exhibit examines through a range of lens-based work the ways in which a shifting sense of place is visualized through various conceptual states. Artists include Howard Henry Chen, Alan Cohen, Christine DiThomas, Aron Gent, Rula Halawani, Surendra Lawoti, Curtis Mann, Oscar Palacio, and Adriana Rios.

Monica Herrera , Strings. August 3-October 12. Herrera creates an interactive sound installation constructed from recycled instrument strings, tuning pegs and wood, turning the space into a temporary walk-in sound chamber. Using the walls or ceiling of the room as the staff of the instrument and the floor as the bass. The public plucks or plays the more than 200 chords and see how architecture can produce sound.

GLOW: Work by photographers on faculty. August 3- October 19. Curated by Karen Irvine, JCP, the exhibition features the work of the Art Center's instructors in digital and black and white photography, including artists Katharine LIon, Adam Edberg, Ollie Dantzler, Kystal Meisel, and Anna Ressman.

Catherine Forster: The Call Me Theirs. August 3- October 5. Outside and inside collide in this sculpture, sound and video installation. The artwork raises questions about the distinctions between the natural and digital environment and how our experience of th worlds is fabricated, mediated and privatized through technology.

Open mic freeform Thursdays .
Teacher Institute 7/29-7/30

Hyde Park Art Center
Clay and Cocktails on Friday evenings.
Second Sundays Family Days

Mondays Talking Points-

A Series Readings or else Art Thing (1st Tuesdasy) - selected or periodic Tuesday nights

Cocktails and Clay first Fridays 8-midnight.

A:List (hydeparkart.org/alist)- online curated database as part of 4833 rph.

Creativity programs for days-off-school, ages 6-12-

Hyde Park Art Center quarterly classes. Times range from start 10 am through close at 9:30 pm and run every day of the week except holidays. Sample includes painting, figuration, art exploration, ceramics, stenciling, abstraction, puppetry, knitting, acrylic, digital and other photography, asian another ink painting, sculpture, weaving, printmaking, wire wrapped jewelry, experimental digital, watercolor, oil approaches, media, origami, crochet, creative process, stained glass, printmaking, quilting, graphite pencil, metalsmithing, animation, writing for artists, multicultural. For various levels and ages.

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Open at Museum of Science and Industry. "The Glass Experience."

Omnimax includes Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric adventure; Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs
A New 3D High Definition theater- scroll down through alphas to Museum of Science and Industry.
March 6, Sunday. Closing at Museum of Science and Industry. "The Magic and Science of Cinema and Television."Take a trip behind the scenes of Hollywood as part of "Black Creativity." Interactive. 57th at Lake Shore Drive. 773 684-1414.

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Checkerboard Lounge Blues 'n' Jazz Open! Jazz Suns, blues all other days. Call the club daily after 5:00 p.m. at: (773) 684-1472. Now the Jazz and Blues Checkerboard Lounge.

Famous for presentation of blues for over two decades, the Checkerboard Lounge re-opened, in its new location in Harper Court at 5201 S. Harper. The Checkerboard is now hosting jazz every Sunday night--with possibly a second night of jazz to be added to the programming. See by date.

Sunday is CheckerJAZZ, 7:30-11 pm. $10, $5 university students. 5201 S. Harper. http://www.checkerjazz.org, http://checkerjazz.org/calendar/checkerjazz.org.
Sunday, 7:30-11 pm. 5201 S. Harper. $10, $5 students. 773 684-1472. Checkerjazz at the Checkerboard Lounge, 5201 S. Harper, 773 684-1472. $10, $5.

Mondays Jazz or blues.

2nd and 4th Wednesdays Speakeasy Inc. presents a concert for 5 to 8 singers and singing ensembles with live band. Mainly Blues and R&B. Not Karaoke or open mic. Checkerboard Lounge, 5201 S. Harper. 773 684-1472. Now Poetry Mondays (non alcohol, 18+)

There is a nominal cover charge, and drinks are reasonably priced. There is ample parking on the site.

Saturdays Vance Kelly, Sundays Jazz stars 7:30-11.

And many venues now offer jazz and blues various evenings-- Hidden Pearl at Little Black (Mons.), Chant (Fri., Sat. Sun 11-4)...

Civic Knowledge Project classes in conj. with Graham School

Fall 2008: Foodways Chicago Southside (Ericka Dudley). Building Green Villages (Blacks in Green's Naomi Davis). Melvin Tolson Poet and Activist (Kim Ransom). Barack Obama, Chicago and African-American Politics (Charles Branham of DuSable. Bronzeville bus tour with Timuel Black Sept. 27. http://grahamschool.uchicago.edu/php/ckp or 773 834-3929 x1.

Dear Friends of the Civic Knowledge Project--I am very pleased to announce that the final cut of "The Civic Knowledge Project Remembers 1942-43"--the first documentary in our series "The Civic Knowledge Project Remembers"--is now up on our website's Media Page at http://mahimahi.uchicago.edu/media/ckp/1942-3_768k.mov.qt Please do check it out! Note that it may take about thirty seconds or more to download, so please be patient. Best, Bart

Court Theatre 2006-2007 5535 S. Ellis. 773 753-4472. http://www. courttheatre.org. 773 753-4472.

2008-2009 series.

Sept. 11- Oct 19. Caroline, or Change. Book and lyrics by Tony Kushner, Music byJenine Tesori, Dir. Charles Newll. Chicago Premiere. Starring Faye E. Butler. Set in 1963 Louisiana.

Nov. 6-Dec. 8. Radio Macbeth. Adapted from Shakespeare. Dir Anne Bogart and Daron L. West. Created and perfomed by SITI Company

Jan. 15-Feb. 15. The Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen. Premiere transl. by Richard Nelson. Dir. Charles Newell. At Mus of Cont. Art.

Mar. 5-Apr. 5. Wait Until Dark. By Frederick Knott. Dire Ron OJ Parson. Which will frighten more- the evil you see or the one you can't?

May 7-June 7. The Piano Lesson. By August Wilson, Dir. Ron OJ Parson. A 1930s legacy and sibling rivalry....

Department of Visual Arts, UC.

August 15, 5-7pm. Opening reception for "Looks Like Freedom: art, politics, urban space / around 1968 / Chicago," an exhibition of art and documents from the late 1960s in Chicago at DOVA Temporary Gallery, 5228 S. Harper Ave. Artworks by Barbara Jones-Hogu, Bob Crawford, The Hairy Who, the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective, and more. Stressed are the Black Liberation and Women's Liberation movements and conflicts between them, Harper Court and Renewal, Hairy Who and the Wall of Respect. Runs Aug. 15- Oct. 5. Schedule of events at www.looks-like-freedom.com. For more information, contact Maggie Taft (mtaft@uchicago.edu) or Rebecca Zorach (312) 259 4393.

Doc Films. To section and run, below


DuSable Museum, 740 E. 56th Pl. 773 947-0600.
At Dusable Museum:
"Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era"
"A Slow Walk to Greatness: The Harold Washington Story"
"Red, White, Blue & Black: A History of African Americans in the Armed Forces."
Continuing "And Freedom For All: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement"
"Wisdom of Words: Lerone Bennett, The People's Historian." 740 E. 56th Pl. 773 947-0600. From the Kinsey Collection
"Forgotten Roots: Muslims in Early America through the 20th Century."
"Africa Speaks"
"Harold Washington in Office"
"Masterpieces From the DuSable Museum Collection"
Sunday film series, Wed & Thurs Penny Cinema for kids

Open at DuSable Museum of African American History. "Separate Cinema: Chicago's Black Film History." 740 E. 56th Pl. 773 947-0600.
"In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey."
Blacks in the Vietnam War.

Experimental Station with Backstory Cafe and more. Ongoing art, music, lectures-symposia-workshops, cafe with books from Powell's, farmers market. Seeks to combine service to and input from-connections between diverse neighborhoods, arts, sustainable-living green communities and lives, activist politics and lots more.

Franke Institute for the Humanities at University of Chicago

Graham School of General Studies at the University of Chicago

Summer Programs for Teachers and Educators. Kari Stachura at 773 702-4950 or kstachura@uchicago.edu.
Basic Program.
UChicago Summer Session for Visiting College Students and UChicago Summer Session for High School Students. Apply at https://summer.uchicago.edu/register-today.cfm and https://summer.uchicago.edu/apply-today.cfm.

Kalapriya Dance, 1438 E. 57th St. 773 363-9303
I would like to introduce the Kalapriya Foundation, Center for Indian Performing Arts (a 501 3 c organization) to you. Kalapriya has recently taken office space at 1438 E. 57th St. in Joan's Studio. The company has had a presence in Hyde Park for a few years now, starting with the company's annual cross cultural dance festival presented at The International House of the University of Chicago and with Bharata Natyam training classes being given at Joan's Studio. You can get move information about the organization at www.kalapriya.org. info@kalapriya.org.

Little Black Pearl.
Little Black Pearl is a special and growing place.

Museum of Science and Industry, lots of temporary as well as permanent exhibits, New temporary exhibit on Glass. And week of June 16 75th Anniversary gala.

Through July 6 . "The Glass Experience." There is more to glass than you know! Glass, a material crucial for progress throughout the globe, is used in industries varying form construction to telecommunications. It also adds beauty, color and art to our lives. In the exhibition, guests will learn how the art, science and technology of glass influences our culture, lifestyle and economy while they see, first-hand, some of the amazing art that glass helps to create.

Guests can watch as one of the nation's finest glass artists form the Corning Museum of Glass blow 2,300 degree molten glass in the Museum's own hot glass studio- and they will even take the audience's design requests.

Then the guests may take a walk through a dazzling "Macchia" forest, designed by master glass artist Dale Chihuly. Chihuly will fill the 7,000-square-foot space with more than 20 brilliantly colored glass baskets at varying heights, giving the illusion of a forest of glass.

Additionally, the Botti Studio of Architectural Arts in Evanston, which has been in the stained glass business for six generations, will be on site daily to demonstrate the design, patterning and assembly of stained glass windows, lamps and mosaics. They will be working on the restoration of the Chicago Cultural Center Tiffany Dome, offering a unique opportunity to watch and talk with these artisans as they delicately rebuild a masterpiece.

Museum of Science and Industry started celebration of its 75h year by receiving a Paul Cornell award from the Hyde Park Historical Society and with exhibits on black creativity and the science and art of cinema and video, and especially with its new exhibit, THE GLASS EXPERIENCE. From the entry with 22 large lead crystal chandeliers, it's a stunner. Geoffrey Curly is the curator. The exhibit explores the science and process of glass, starting 4000 years ago, its use as a practical necessity, ingenuity an invention, and wonderful art by the likes of Louis Comfort Tiffany, the Corning Museum of Glass, and Dale Chihuly. The latter's "Macchia Forest" may well be the show-stopper. The work of Wright and Tiffany follow, culminating in the window "Landscape with Classical Bust" (1905). Artisans form the Botti Studio in Evanston will demonstrate restoration work while New York's Corning Museum of Glass artisans shape molten glass. The show ends with modern art glass and the Grand Canyon Skywalk. Through September.

The exhibition requires an additional ticket with a specified entry time. Incl. general admission these are $23, $22, $14 child. Discounts for Chicago residents. Advanced sales www.msichicago.org.

Open May 8-Jan. 4 2009- Smart Home: Green + Wired. Powered by ComEd, warmed by Peoples Gas. Tour a functioning and sustainable"green" home in the Museum's backyard. The thee-story house has been outfitted with technologies for the 21st century and a variety of environmentally friendly materials. Within the home, view th latest innovations in reusable resources, smart-energy consumption and clean, healthy living environments, all in a contemporary and elegant setting.

Now at Omnimax-
At Omnimax: Dinosaurs Alive! (tracking evidence from dinos to birds)
Grand Canyon Adventure
Sub U505 massive exhibit open. "Capture the Experience, Experience the Capture"
New: a 3-D High definition theater. Shorts include Mars 3-D and Misadventures.
The Museum of Science and Industry 57th at Lake Shore Drive. 773 684-1414. Has a garage at 57th/Cornell Drive ($8)

 

Oriental Institute Museum.

Lectures, family features et al. Films on Sunday at 2: March 2008 movies about Cleopatra.

Special exhibit: "Catastrophe! Looting of History in Iraq."

OI is looking for docent volunteers. Lots of perks. contact the Volunteer Office at 773 702-9507, oi-education@uchicago.edu.


Through July 6: "Images of Politics, Prayer and Everyday Life from the Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection." Another just opened.

Renaissance Society.
Cobb 418, 5811 S. Ellis. 773 702-8670. Watch for autumn exhibits.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, run by Wright Plus, the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, gives tours, has a bookstore et al, special events, is restoring the "most important historic residential property in America" at multimillion dollar cost in conjunction with the National Trust. Extended Thursday hours in summer, May 31-August 30- includes tours to 7 on Thursdays. Watch for recurring Architrek. Saturdays at 1:30: The Wright 3 Tour based on Blue Balliett's mystery-$5 to $12. Watch for Walk and Wine. Also Secrets and Shadows Oct. 19 and 20. http//gowright.org. 708 848-1976. 5757 S. Woodlawn.

Rockefeller Chapel exhibits. 5850 S. Woodlawn. New: Center for Interfaith Worship and Fellowship, in the undercroft. Do not miss the carillon--programs every Sunday at 6 pm through July, after which the bells go out for renovation. There is an exhibit on plaster casts for the statuary.
Also first Sundays 5 pm Oct-May Choral Evensong and Vespers-the Chapel Choir and guests in Anglican candlelit prayer.

Summer Carillonathon June 29-August Sundays 6 pm (tours at 5:30 start in August).

Plaster casts and models of the Chapel's statuary. Through Sept. 15, 2007.

Smart Museum: 5550 S. Greenwood. Main number 773 702-0700.
See below in next few weeks- Art.

Idol Anxiety- April 8-November 2

From ancient times to the present day, theological traditions have reflected on idolatry and questioned the transcendence, significance, and power of object. Different anxieties have produced different artistic practices. The exhibition navigates a variety of theological and secular perspectives--juxtaposing Mesopotamian cult figures with Classical antiquities and Renaissance paintings--in order to explore the complex relationships between objects of worship, their makers, and their audiences. For example, in ancient Mesopotamia, a cult statue was installed in the temple only after an elaborate ritual in which artisans proclaimed not to have made the idol while presenting their hands to be symbolically chopped off. Finding such ritual denials ineffective, the Bible's second commandment no graven images--deemed all object worship idolatrous. How do objects become idols. and what is this uneasy relationship between people and things made? Edward A. Maser Gallery for Art Before 1900.

Programs April 10 tour, April 27 Idol Anxiety Cross Campus Tour including Oriental Institute

From Weekly News April 10

Idol Speculation peek inside the Smart Museum’s new exhibit. By Michel Joyce

Idols, as described by curator Aaron Tugendhaft’s introduction to the Smart Museum’s new special exhibit “Idol Anxiety,” are worrisome objects. A physical intersection between humanity and the divine, idols have been he subject of devotion and the inspiration of anxiety for millennia, from the still-mysterious Venus figurines of he Paleolithic to more recent sculptural depictions of the body of Christ, so central in Gothic art that in some European cities guilds held a monopoly on their manufacture. The nature of idols made as objects, however, has stimulated anxieties of its own. Created by human hands, but claiming a relationship with the supernatural, idols tread an uncertain ground between veneration as a symbol of divinity and worship as a divinely-imbued object. Using a variety of religious and secular perspectives, “Idol Anxiety” explores the necessarily complex relationship between idols, their makers, and their audiences.
One familiar aspect of that relationship is the flexibility is interpreting the prohibition on graven images shared by Abrahamic religions. Though many Christian sects have encouraged and even required physical representations of divinity, movements against them have exerted a profound effect. The Byzantine emperor Leo III’s eighth-century purge of traditional depictions of Christ and the saints birthed the term “iconoclasm,” and for a time radically altered the practice of the empire’s state religion. Its theological basis combined a fear of paganism, the impossibility of fully depicting holy beings, and by some accounts, Islamic and Jewish influences with the pragmatic benefit of confiscating precious metals form the churches. Eight centuries later, similar conflicts would be associated with the Protestant reformation, and anxieties over the potentially misplaced veneration offered to idols continue to this day.

Of course, the making of idols and their role in religion, politics, and the meaning of daily life hardly began with Christianity or classical polytheism, though examples of idols in these contexts are lushly represented in “Idol Anxiety.” Mesopotamian cult figures from the tiny to the awe-inspiring get their due, and a free guided our in conjunction with the Oriental Institute (whose vast collection deserves a visit of its own) is scheduled for April 27. …a fascinating examination of a conflict as ancient as it is compelling.

Exhibit puts the “art” back in artifacts. Maroon, April 11, by Italia Patti

The most exciting thing about Idol Anxiety at Smart Museum is that it is at the Smart Museum. The show borrows many of its objects on display form museums like the Oriental Institute where they are displayed more as artifacts than art objects. This show asks viewers to ponder them in this instance as pieces of art.
Of course, the show does not ignore the context and history of the pieces—in the same way that institutions like the Oriental Institute do not ignore their artistic significance. Still, simply presenting the works in an art museum forces the viewer to take the works’ artistic merit into account. This angle was refreshing because most of the show’s viewers will likely be much less well versed in the cultural contexts of these pieces than in art appreciation.

Hailing from Mesopotamia in the mid to late third millennium B.C.E., or the Early Dynastic Period, are five stone sculptures of worshipers. The fist “Male Worshiper Fragment” is a man with crossed arms. His body below the arms is cut off, but detailed marks in his locks of long hair and hanging beard remain. His eyes are proportionally huge and suggest concentration. He and his counterpart, the bust of another bearded, concentrating male, are both carved in limestone. Although their many millennia of existence have separated these busts from their bodies and worn the stone a bit rough, viewers can pick up on something of the emotion of prayer when staring back at these faces.
One of he “Female Worshipper Fragment” pieces is impressive for the intricate pattern of its dress, which is rendered in limestone. Her hands re folded in the same position as the other statues in the case. Most of her body is intact, but she is headless. Another “Male Worshipper Fragment” also has a detailed costume. A pattern circles the bottom hem, and what looks like text creeps up the right side. The smallest piece in the case….has less intricate carving but is made of travertine rather than limestone. The creamy white stone is luminous, and light brown veins running though it.
What makes these statues remarkable is their differences. The different materials appear to affect the artistic process. No carved pattern supplements the pattern of the travertine, but there are details carved into the clothes of the limestone pieces. The positions are similar, but each has distinguishing marks and evidence of an artist’s hand.
How significant or intentional this is I confess I am not sure, but it jumps out to a contemporary viewer accustomed to artists’ striving for a unique style and making pieces both distinctive, to separate themselves as artists, and distinct, to imbue pieces with singular identities.

The show represents a huge diversity of historical periods. Beside pieces from Ancient Mesopotamia stands a print by Albrecht Durer, “Sudarium.” In the image, Christ’s image stares out, captured on the cloth on which he wiped his face. Two angels hold the cloth, somber and depicted in dark and sketchy black lines. Durer is exploring ideas of image-making in the piece.
Perhaps the most striking piece in the show is Johann Benedict Witz’s 1750 Rococo “The Crucifixion.” A lavishly decorated wooden sculpture, “The Crucifixion” depicts Jesus on a cross with three figures below The cross is black, plain, and stark. The figure of Jesus is very detailed, with visible ribs, muscles, and folds in the loincloth, but is also relatively free from decoration. The base of the sculpture, however, is covered in looping, curvy details. There is also a nook cut into the base in which another figure lies—presumably Jesus in his tomb. This piece is not necessarily the most beautiful piece in the show, but its size and intricacy make it the most attention-grabbing.

Another attention-grabbing piece is the 19th century “Holy Tree.” This piece is a long strip of parchment with Hebrew text inked onto it. The piece is a sefirot, or a graphic representation of God’s attributes. This piece, like the works from Ancient Mesopotamia, may generally be thought significant more for its religious or historical significance than as a piece of art. But approaching the piece from an aesthetic perspective brings out the fluidity of ink marking and the way the shape of the text guides the viewer’s eyes through the piece without a dizzying effect.

Idol Anxiety is successful in bringing together works of so any different periods and traditions, having a unifying theme, and in asking viewers to look at these work as unique pieces of art without ignoring what the works could tell us about the times and places from which they originate.

Seeing the City: Sloan's new York- May 22-September 14

John Sloan's images of New Your helped define the city in the popular imagination. In gritty depictions of urban life, Sloan celebrated the metropolis by focusing on street scenes, elevated trains, public spaces, and the lives of ordinary Americans. Yet Sloan's vision was a subjective one, tied to his particular observations of the neighborhoods in which he lived and the individuals he encountered. More than a series of distinct locations, Sloan's images of New York reflect the artist's own movement through and experience of the city. Organized by the Delaware Art Museum, this exhibition gathers together a wealth of material in all media from 1900 to the 1930s, on loan from various public and private collections in order to demonstrate the correlation between where Sloan created his art and what he depicted. This exhibition maps Sloan's New York and examines the personal meaning tied to the places he chose to depict again and again. Richard and Mary L Gray Gallery for Special Exhibitions. Curators Joyce K. Schiller and Heather campbell Coyle, Smart: Anne Leonard.

Programs. May 21 Members Preview Tour. May 22 Opening Reception and lecture. June 15 Seeing the /city Smart Readings: Chicago Books and Sloan's New York: The Jungle: Labor and Leisure in the Modern American city- opening of a series in conjunction with 57th St. Books, readings and discussions in the galleries:
June 15, Sunday, 2 pm Labor and Leisure in the Modern American City--Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906).
July 13, Sunday 2 pm. Women in the Modern City--Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900)
August 10, Sunday, 2pm. The Individual and the Mass in the Modern American City--Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems (1906)
Chicago Architecture Foundation buy a tour and get another free. Get at Smart, redeem at Archicenter, 224 S. Michigan.

Related exhibit at smart: See next.

Street Level: Modern Photography from the Smart Museum Collection- July 1-September 28

In the early twentieth century, a number of photographers turned their cameras to their immediate environment, finding subjects in the everyday imagery and visual clamor of the streets of modern cities like Chicago, Moscow, New Your, and Paris. Presented as objective and mechanical representations of ordinary urban life, these "straight" or "pure" photographs were in fact often infected with other aesthetic and social concerns. In capturing daily city life, some photographers produced abstract and dislocating views of vast urban architecture, while others depicted much more intimate, narrative scenes of abject poverty. The photographers are Walker Evans, Georgy Zelma, Nathan Lerner, Paul Strand...and others.

With photographs drawn from the Smart Museum's collection, this exhibition looks at the modern city as seen from the street. Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery for Works on Paper.

New Landscaping- A.D. Elden Sculpture Garden

Work began in May with the installationof round river stones beneath the hackberry trees. The changes wil continue through the summer with a temporary planting planned by students in Assistant Professor Justin Borevitz's University of Chicago ecology class. As a class project, the students have researched native plants and developed a single-season planting of quick-growing indigenous grasses and flowers.

The final phases of the renovations will follow in late summer. Landscape architect Chandra Goldsmith has partnered with the architectural firm UrbanLab to design new plantings and furniture that will thoughtfully enhance our modernist architecture and create an inviting atmosphere to view the Smart's outdoor sculptures or socialize over coffee.

Through all the changes, the sculpture garden will remain a hub of art and activities: our popular Art Afternoon series returns in July with four Wednesdays of indoor and outdoor family fun: the Seeing the City Family Day in August takes the art outside with drawing en plein air and a special family photography bus tour led by the Chicago Architecture Foundation; and the second annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival brings music to the courtyard and neighborhood at the end of September.

Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art- October 2- January 25 2009

This exhibition presents the work that four leading contemporary Chinese artists--Liu Xiaodong, Yun-Fei Ji, Zhuang Hui, and Chen Ouilin-- have created in response to the massive Three Gorges Dam. Despite differences in backgrounds and artistic practices, these artists have engaged with the theme of displacement, responding to the movement of people, the demolition of old towns and construction of new cities, and the astonishing changes the Dam is bringing to the local landscape.

The "Writing" of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940. November 19- April 19, 2009

This exhibition examines the intertwined arts of etching and writing, from the polemical beginnings of the Etching Revival in the 1850s to its twentieth-century afterlife. During this extensive period, etching was reinvented as an original art form that--like writing--was uniquely fitted to expressions of an artist's individual personality and the experience of modernity. Edward A. Maser Gallery for Art Before 1900.

SmartFamilies@Coleman Library
o- Moves to Bessie Coleman Library, 731 E. 63rd St. February-May 2008.
Second Saturdays: 2-4 pm.
The Smart Museum of Art and the Blackstone Branch of the Chicago Public Library are teaming up for an exciting new series of FREE drop-in family workshops. Visit the children's reading room in the library and join Smart Museum staff for exciting art and reading-related activities. Parents, caregivers and children can make art projects together, read related stories, and explore artworks on the Smart's children's website, smARTkids. Best for children ages 3 and up. All children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information, call 773-702-4540.


Jacqueline Terrassa
Deputy Director of Collections,
Programs and Interpretation
Smart Museum of Art
University of Chicago
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Chicago IL 60637
ph. 773.702.2351
fax 773.702.3121

Dina Weinstein
Friends of the Blackstone Branch Library
[Brenda Sawyer has assumed leadership of FOBL]

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Nichole Gallery 2 4653 S. King Dr. 773 373-4700
See also Steele Life, Gallery Guichard in 'South Side Art Outside the Hyde Park Box' section below and Cultural Resources page-Galleries.

South Shore Cultural Center Gallery, 7059 South Shore Drive. 773 256-0149.
Through February 29, "What Shall I Tell My Children Who are Black?" Featuring the work of Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs. Features artwork inspired by the 1968 poetry anthology of the same name. The works, like the poems, focus on family, African American culture and life, and the effects of racism on one's mental and emotional well being.

UC Special Collections Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th St. Through July 6, "Images of Prayer, Politics and Everyday Life from the Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection." Organized around both the life cycle and the Jewish calendar.
Through August 2008. Masaryk and Chicago. In conjunction with Masaryk Lecture on democracy featuring Madeleine Albright.

University Theater - visit http://ut.uchicago.edu for schedule.

The Chicago Ensemble, Mostly Music, University of Chicago Presents, and The Chicago Chorale events at Rockefeller Chapel. Jazz and Gamelan events at Hyde Park Union Church. Series section.

Astronomical viewing with Ryerson Astronomical Society Thursdays 7-9 weather permitting. Ponder the heavens through the vintage 6-inch telescope. Ryerson is at the northeast corner of the campus circle drive.

Jazz (and other music) on Tap (or coffee houses/restaurants)

Hyde Park Jazz Society, http://www.hydeparkjazzsociety.org. Formed to do what its former name says, Committee to Restore Jazz in Hyde Park, including bringing the Checkerboard to Hyde Park. Now organizes the large, annual jazz festival in Hyde Park, supports jazz Sunday night at the Checkerboard, and other programs. Jim Wagner, Judith Stein, others.

****2nd Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival 9/27.
September 27, Saturday, Noon-2 am. Hyde Park Jazz Festival (2nd Annual). Features Chicago Jazz Orchestra, saxist Fred Anderson, flutists Nichole Mitchell, ragtime pianist Reginald R. Robinson, trumpeter Orbert Davis and MUCH MORE- Dee Alexander, Grayzna Auguscik, Zack Brock, Ari Brown, Maggie Brown, Ann Burroughs, Chicago Sax in the City, Joan Collaso and Larry Hanks, Great Chicago guitaristss Curtis Robinson, Buddy Famabo and Henry Johnson, Ron Haynes, Robert Irving III, Jazz Institute of Chicago Jazz Links, Charlie Johnson and the Organ Express, Peter Lerner, M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Bethany and Willie Pickens, Edwin Sanchez Project, Greg Spero, Two for Brazil, UC Lab School Band, Corey Wilkes and Kahil El'Zabar, John Wright.... 11 am-2 am, various locations inside and out. 773 834-4122, http://www.hydedparkjazzfestival.org. Lead organizers Hyde Park Jazz Society, Hyde Park Cultural Alliance, Producer Carolyn Albriton.
Venues: Midway Plaisance, Checkerboard Lounge, DuSable Museum, Experimental Station, Hyde Park Art Center, International House, Little Black Pearl, Oriental Institute, Quadrangle Club, Robie House, Rockefeller Chapel, Smart Museum of Art.
Produced by Hyde Park Cultural Alliance, The University of Chicago, and the Hyde Park Jazz Society.

Check the Checkerboard page for CheckerJazz's Sunday night lineup of jazz, 7:30-11 pm at Checkerboard Lounge, 5201 S. Harper 773 684-1472. CheckerJazz is part of the Hyde Park Jazz Society. http://hydeparkjazzsociety.org/. See our Checkerboard page. CheckerJAZZ. Presents Sunday night and special programs at Checkerboard Lounge. Calendar: http://www.checkerjazz.org/calendar.checkerjazz.org.
Blues programs as well including Saturday night. Cover generally $10.
New series of jazz and R & B Monday nights at 8.

Hyde Park Shopping Center courtyard has a noontime jazz series last 3 Fridays in August- 15th Ray Silkman (sax), 22nd Alan Burroungs (guitar), Skinny Williams (sax).55th Lake Park.

Hyde Park Art Center

Little Black Pearl Art and Design Center- Hidden Pearl Art Cafe. Jazz offerings Mondays 7-11 pm. 1060 E. 47th St. 773 285-1211.

Friday and Saturday evenings starting at 9:30 pm And Sundays 11 am- 4 pm at C.H.A.N.T Chinese and Asian American tapas restaurant, 1509 E. 53rd St. , has jazz and blues soloists, several of them stars such as Ray Silkman, and sometimes DJs. 773 324-1999, http://www.chantchicago.com.

Mellow Yellow, Friday night Jazz 8-midnight. 1508 E. 53rd St. 773 667-2000. No cover, 2 dr. min. http://www.mellowyellowrestaurant.com.

Piccolo Mondo. Italian fine restaurant has a Spanish Guitarist Wednesday evenings. 1642 E. 56th St. 773 643-1106. Norberto Zas, mzas@sbcglobal.net.

Potbelly Sandwich Works in Hyde Park Shopping Center has "Sam" playing Tuesday and Thursday evenings 6-9 pm.

Quadrangle Club, 1st Fridays Jazz, 6 pm-?. 1155 E. 57th St.

 

Curtis Black Trio, other groups Sundays at 9 pm, Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap, 11-- E. 55th St.

Hyde Park Art Center, Renaissance Society, and Hyde Park Shopping Center and Harper Court are places for occasional jazz concerts. Occasionally also there are large concerts at Mandel Hall and even on the quads.

At least once a quarter the Jazz XTet under Mtawa Bowden perform at the University of Chicago's Fulton Hall. music.uchicago.edu. Nov. 29, March 13, June 5.

First Unitarian, 5650 S. Woodlawn, and Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn often have jazz events, including by Willie Pickens and Jimmy Ellis. Don't miss the Christmas concert. Also Sunday afternoon monthly series various quarters.

First Fridays Jazz at Quadrangle Club, 1155 E. 57th St. 6-9 pm.


Rock Scene

Hyde Park has a U of C scene, centered performances in Bartlett and Hutchinson and Main Quads, Uncommon Grounds (2nd fl. Reynolds), Hutchinson Commons, or the several coffee shops-- and thought by some to be rather subdued and fusion. It also has a cutting edge underground scene-- literally more often than not in a basement, often in west Hyde Park. For the latter especially, you have to get into the scene or on various email or pass-the-flyer groups to find them.

To start with the South Side rock and cutting edge scene, frequent such spots as Reggies Rock Club, 2109 S. State and South Union Arts, 1352 S. Union.

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Series

Persons needing assistance at U of C programs should call 773 702-8484.

Series Chicago Chorale
Series Chicago Ensemble
Series Music UC
Noontime Music Series at UC
Chicago Presents 2008-2009 announced
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Chicago Presents Classic
Chicago Presents Early
Pacifica Quartet
Newberry Consort
Court Theatre
Mostly Music
Music Teachers of Hyde Park
Sundays at First Unitarian

Chicago Chorale. Bruce Tammen, Director. Hyde Park-based and largely HP artists. 1100 E. 55th St. (Lutheran School). No phone given.

May 17, Saturday, 8 pm. Schoenberg's Vigil for Peace. $. Monastery of the Holy Cross, 3111 S. Aberdeen.


Chicago Ensemble at I-House Sundays, 3 pm. (also Tuesdays- succeeding-- at Sherwood Academy 7 pm). All works have a personal introduction by Founder and Artistic Director /pianist Gerald Rizzer and refreshments. $25, student $10. Subscription $10o for 5 programs, plus intro complementary tickets to distribute. International House, 1414 E. 59th St. theceweb@thechicagoensemble.org 773 889-4206. (Dates given are at International House). http://www.thechicagoensemble.org. Mail contacts P.O. Box 409048, Chicago, IL 60640. 773 889-4206.

Watch for 2008-2009 Program

University of Chicago Music Series-Chicago Presents and other series:

Besides the series below, Chicago Presents has combination mini-series such as (2007-08 examples) Quartet (Oct 5 Academy of St. Martin, October 19 Brentano, February 29 Alban Berg, April 11 Belcea),
Vocal (Oct. 19 Brentano with Susan Naruchki soprano, Nov. 2 Les Violins du Roy with Karina Gauvin soprano, Feb. 25 Alice Coote, March 7 Tallis Scholars), and the Debut Series (Jan 18 Ensemble Caprice, Feb. 15 Alice Coote, April 11 Becea Quartet).

Noontime Concert Series Thursdays except as noted, 12:15 pm. at Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed 4th, 1010 E. 59th St.

Chicago Presents 2008-2009 season announced.

Gold Season Pass- 17 concerts and two bonuses
Silver Season Pass- 13 concerts and two bonuses

10-day Olivier Messiaen festival in October, featuring (Oct. 3) pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra plus, at Rockefeller, organist Dame Gillian Weir.

October 31 Guarneri Quartet (farewell tour)-Mozart, Dvorak, Kodalty

November 7 Early Music: Fully staged "Judith" at Hyde Park Union Church by Diagolos vocal ensemble.

November 21 German cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Paul Ravinius

January 23 pianist Vladimir Feltsman

February 6 Early Music: Pomerium- sacred vocal works from age of Michelangelo

February 20 Takacs Quartet and pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin -Schumann Piano Quintet

April 17 Early Music: period instrument ensemble Quatuor Mosaiques

Pacifica Quartet- April 19.

Visiting artist double bassist Edgar Meyer (classical, bluegrass, jazz) Oct. 24, April 24, April 25 (colab with Nickel Creek guitarist Chris Thile.)

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Oct. 3 with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard- Beethoven and Messiaen (part of 10-concert Messiaen series). Also March 6, May 1. Note, now moved to Friday nights.

Contempo: November 13 Zukovsky Quartet- string quartets by Babbitt at Chicago Cultural Center. October 4, April 4, May 15, M ay 28- eighth blackbird and Pacifica Quartet

Regents Park Discovery artist: January 17 tenor Nicholas Phan



Chicago Presents St. Paul Chamber Orchestra series. Rave reviews for its debut at U of C. $75 reg., $30 UC students. Single tickets go on sale Sept. , $35. Phone 773 702-8068, mail U C Presents, Office of Prof. Concerts, 5720 S. Woodlawn rm. 102 60637 or there in person, fax w. credit card 773 834-5888. The brochure now available for 2007-2008 apparently has performances all in Mandel Hall unless specified otherwise.

2008-2009 initial announcement-- performances move to Friday evenings in October, March, and May.

October 3, Friday, 730 pm. St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pierre-Laurent Aimard conductor and piano. Rockefeller?

March 6, Friday, 7:30 pm. St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Cliff Colnot conductor, Ruggero Allifranchini and Dale Barltrop violins

 

Chicago Presents Classic Concert Series.

Subscriptions 6 concert: $130 general, $24 student, faculty and staff $127. Add 50 for Classic Plus series, student is $36-- this is for 9 concerts Classic plus 3 St. Paul. All student single tickets are now $5. 5720 S. Woodlawn, 773 702-8068. Single tickets are generally $32, some $20.

2008-09 Classic Concert Series (7 or 9 incl. St. Paul Chamber) )

2008-2009 initial announcement

October 3, Friday, 7:30 pm. St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Pierre-Laurent Aimard conductor and piano. Beethoven and Messiaen (details there)

October 5, Sunday, 3 pm. John Bruce Yeh, clarinet; Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Gary Hoffman, cello; Christopher Taylor, piano

October 31, Friday, 7:30 pm. Guarneri String Quartet. (farewell tour)-Mozart, Dvorak, Kodalty

November 21, Friday, 7:30 pm. Johannes Moser, cello; Paul Ravinius, piano

January 23, Friday, 7P:30 pm. Vladimir Feltsman, piano

February 20, Friday, 7:30 pm. Takacs Quartet with Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano. Schumann Piano Quintet

April 24, Friday, 7:30 pm. Edgar Meyer, bass, Amy Dorfman, piano

 

Chicago Presents Howard Mayer Brown International Early Music Series- 2007-2008 season. Subscr. $85 general, $40 student reduced. Single $35 and student less. All at Mandel hall this year.

2008-2009 initial announcement

November 7, Friday, 7:30 pm. Judith (fully staged). Diagolos Vocal Ensemble. Katarina Livljanic, voice/direction/text adaptation/musical reconstruction. $?. Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn.

February 6, Friday, 7:30 pm. Pomerium w. Alexander Blachy director. Music from the age of Michelangelo.

April 17, Friday, 7:30 pm. Quatuor Mosaiques

 

New: Chicago Presents Quartet Series (4 concerts)

October 5, Sunday, 3 pm. John Bruce Yeh, clarinet; Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Gary Hoffman, cello, Christopher Taylor, piano

October 31, Friday, 7:30 pm. Guarneri String Quartet.

February 20, Friday, 7:30 pm. Takacs Quartet with Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

April 17, Friday, 7:30. Quatuor Mosaiques

 

New: Chicago Presents Visiting Artist: Edgar Meyer double basist (classical, bluegrass, jazz) performs in October and Twice in April

October 24, Friday, 7:30 pm. Edgar Meyer, bass and Chris Thile, mandolin

April 24, Friday, 7:30 m. Edgar Meyer, bass; Amy Dorfman, piano

April 25, Saturday, 8 pm. University Symphony Orchestra with Edgar Meyer, bass. Mandel. (colab with Nickel Creek guitarist Chris Thile.)

 

Chicago Presents Regents Park Discovery Concert. Contempo University of Chicago contemporary music group.

Next year's in 2008-2009 announced- now on Fridays. Tenor Nicholas Phan January 17.

Contempo.

November 13. Zukovsky Quartet- string quartets by Babbitt at Chicago Cultural Center

Others: October 4, April 4, May 15, M ay 28- eighth blackbird and Pacifica Quartet

 

U of C Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, New Music Ensemble, Wind Ensemble

Chicago Presents Artist-in-Residence: Pacifica Quartet. 3 concerts at $15/5. All on Sundays at 3 pm. Look for 2008-09 series:

October 11, Saturday, 7:30 pm. Pacifica Quartet

January 11, Saturday, 7:30 pm. Pacifica Quartet

April 19, Sunday, 3 pm. Pacifica Quartet with Erik Ronmark, saxophone

 

Regents Park Discovery Concerts and Discovery Encores

Newberry Consort, Ars Schola, eighth blackbird Artist in Residence groups

The Newberry Consort. $38, $28. Performs at the Newberry, U of C, and Northwestern. The Consort is Artist-in-Residence at all three. Performances are Friday evening at the Newberry's Ruggles Hall, Saturday 7:30 at the U of C, and Sunday, 3 pm at Lutkin Hall at Northwestern in Evanston. Visit the website for information on subscription, advance ticket sales, and exchanges. Address is The Newberry Consort, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, Il 60610. Center for Public Programs, 312 255-3700.

Also for 2008-2009 series, now announced. Moved for 2008-2009 to the Khorsabad Gallery of University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th St, except Feb. 21 at Rockefeller Chapel.

October 18, Saturday, 8 pm (c 7:15 lecture). Newberry Consort presents Handel in Miniature. Dutch recorder virtuosa Marion Verbuggen, Baroque Diva Ellen Hargis, Handel specialist Drew Minter, harpsichordist David Schrader, and director-gambist David Douglass. Khorsabad Gallery, Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th St.

January 18 2009, Sunday, 3 pm Newberry Consort benefit concert, Fair Oriana, a party for Queen Elizabeth I upon the 450th anniversary of her coronation. Ruggles Hall, Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton.

February 21, Saturday, 8 pm (7:15 pm lecture?) Newberry Consort, Howard Mayer Brown Concert. What a Difference a Day Makes: Venetian Music for Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. With wind band Piffarro and Newberry Singers. Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn.

March 21, Saturday, 8 pm (7:15 lecture). Newberry Consort presents Ecco La Primavera, The Music of Francesco Landini. Blind 14th century Florentine true Renaissance man. Includes Rachel Barton Pine debuting on the vielle and rebec. Oriental Institute Khorsabad Gallery, 1155 E. 58th St.

May 2, Saturday, 8 pm (7:15 lecture). Newberry Consort presents Arcadia Revisited: A Garden of Earthly Delights. Late 17th century London: music of Henry and William Lawes, Nicholas Lanier, John Wilson, and Henry Purcell. Stories of mythological drama and frolicking comedy for noble and commoner. Khorsabad Gallery, Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th St.

 

There are too many other groups to list here, including Jazz X-Tet, Middle Eastern Ensemble, Rockefeller Chapel ensembles, Computer Music Studio, University Wind Ensemble, Motet Choir, University Chamber Orchestra, University Symphony Orchestra, New Music Ensemble. 12 groups are underwritten in part by the Gilbert and Sullivan production (this year Pinafore, March 9-11). music.uchicago.edu.

Noontime Concert Series Thursdays at 12:15 pm. Above

University Symphony see Mar. 8, Apr. 26, May 31-June 1.

University Wind Ensemble see Feb. 17, May 18.

University Chamber Orchestra see Feb. 9, May 17.

University Chorus see Mar. 8, May 31-June 1.

Motet Choir see Mar. 8, Apr. 27, May 16-17, May 31-June 1.

Rockefeller Chapel Choir see Feb. 10, Mar. 9, Apr. 13, May 11, May 16-17, June 7.

New Music Ensemble see Mar. 1, May 4.

Jazz X-tet see Mar. 13, June 5.

Middle East Music Ensemble see Feb. 17, Apr. 13.

Central Javanese Gamelan see May 11.

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co.

End of season concerts/Alumni weekend see May 31-June 1.

Noontime Concert Series, Thursdays at 12:15

Chicago Men's A Cappella, Unaccompanied Women, Umoja Gospel Choir, Midway Brass (See May 3), Fire Wire Ensemble....

Monthly organ concerts on the Ganz Organ at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1100 E. 55tth St. First Tuesdays in academic year.

Court Theatre Titus Andronicus; next Carousel.

Mostly Music at North Eastern Illinois University - Hyde Park Series- Sundays at 4 pm. Master (7 at different venues) $175, flex 5 $100, flex 4 $75, flex 3 $65, individual $25, $15 stud. The Hyde Park subscription series of 4 is $150. 773 442-4978 or http://www.neiu.edu/~chamberm/home.html, can also subscribe at mostly-music@neiu.edu. Mostly Music at NEIU, 5500 N. St, Louis, Rm C627, Chicago, Il 60625. Jennifer Reiff, 773 442-4212, j-reiff@neiu.edu.

2007-2008 Hyde Park series (Sundays at 4) is now up on their website. See website for north side and north shore series and details. Announcement contained no details. Residence locations are always announced after ticket orders are received. Contact them to be on the mailing list for 2007-2008.

Hyde Park Series Sundays at 4 pm: 2008-2009 as announced.

Music Teachers of Hyde Park 4th Monday Series 7:30 pm- Fall-Spring - at Blackstone Library, 4904 S. Lake Park. 312 747-0511 or 773 643-9251.

 

Sunday Afternoon Concerts at First Unitarian Church. Various sets during the year.

 

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Continuing, next few weeks and by running date--mostly places

(For most religious venues, links can be found in the Religious Directory.
A more extensive listing of the incredible array of cultural programming providers is in the
Cultural Directory, especially the alpha listings. See also After School.)

Continuing or set-period run

Every Saturday? Robie House offers a vicinity walking tour featuring notable architecture. otherwise self-guided. Interior tours available also. Robie House. 5757 S. Woodlawn Ave. 708 848-1976.

Court Theatre. 5535 S. Ellis Ave. 773 753-4472.
Special deals such as preview week, student rush available. Occasional staged readings also. 773 753-4472. See above for 2007-08 run.

Continuing at DuSable Museum:
The DuSable Museum of African American History is located in Washington Park near the corner of 56th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue at 740 E. 56th Pl.

For information call 773/947-0600 or visit the website at http://www.dusablemuseum.org/exhibit1.asp
"In the Hands of African American Collectors: the Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey."
January 10, Thursday, 9 am-8 pm, through June 1. Opening at Dusable Museum of African American History: "And Freedom for All: Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Civil Rights Movement"- photography exhibit. Through June. Previously unpublished images from the archives of LOOK Magazine taken by Stanley Tretick. 740 E. 56th Pl. 773 947-0600.
January 30, Wednesday-February 29. Open at DuSable Museum of African American Art. "Goya Lopez: the African Diaspora in Brazil." Uses textiles and fabric to create a story of the various African cultures and experiences transported to Brazil during the period of the slave trade. Sponsored by Columbia College Chicago- ?Dept. of Liberal Education, the Black World Studies Program and the critical Encounters Initiative, with the Glass Curtain Gallery. Several teacher workshops. 940 E. 56th Pl. 773 947-0600.

Short runs. University Theater Reynolds 1st fl. th. or 3rd floor, us. Wed.-Sat. 7506 S. University. http://ut.uchicago.edu.
Continuing or short run: the Big ones

Continuing at Hyde Park Art Center:
See in types-art exhibits below and in "Best Bets" above.
Hyde Park Art Center classes, exhibits, events. 773 324-5520.
Park Art Center.
Now at 5020 S. Cornell

Continuing. Museum of Science and Industry: More see in alpha listing. 773- 955-9503.
Submarine U 505 new underground exhibit opens June 4. Watch for special events.
57th at Lake Shore Drive , 773 684-1414.
Omnimax: Dinosaurs; Grand Canyon Adventure
The Glass Experience
Smart Home: Green and Wired

Oriental Institute 1155 E. 58th St. 773 702-9507.
Films on Sunday at 2, other specials, periodic lectures and classes. New permanent exhibits. " special exhibits and interactive programs, lectures, Sunday films a t 2 pm.
Open at Oriental Institute: "Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past." Through December. Lecture by McGuire Gibson, followed by candlelight vigil. 1155 E. 58th St. 773 702-9514. See symposium April 12.


Renaissance Society Bergman Gallery. 4th (418) floor Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave. 773 702-8670.10-5 Tu-F, 12-5 Sat.-Sun, Exhibits and openings with lectures, concerts and more.
info@renaissancesociety.org.
Through June 8. "Black Is, Black Ain't." The formal invention of race remains one of modernity's most astounding feats. The distillation of humanity into three fictional archetypes (MOngoloid, Negroid and Ca8ucassoid) has taken on a life of its own as explanations of difference serve to create and maintain a dubious social order, one whose hierarchy can be critiques in terms of skin color. A biological fiction turned social fact, race is produced and reproduced to the extent that questions of what humanity would be without it come as a threat. Race is not merely social, it is psycho-social, having become and inextricable part of the collective and individual imagination.

In the case of African-Americans, what was once deemed "cultural self-determination" has been reduced to the term "blackness." Culture is a precipitate of race, and consequently, race is reified and discernable in what is confidently referred to as "black culture." Calling attention to race as the means to address inequality, however, stands at odds with the formal equality underpining liberalism. This is the paradox of affirmative action where race, in order to be transcended, first must be acknowledged. In short, the cultural production of so-called "blackness" is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically irrelevant. To quote Ralph Ellison: "Black Is, Black Ain't." Using that as its title, this exhibition will survey a moment in which race is produced and retained, yet is simultaneously rejected.