Fall 2015 - UChicago Arts

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UCHICAGO ARTS
FA L L 2 0 1 5 E V E N T & E X H I B I T I O N H I G H L I G H T S
IN THIS ISSUE
The Renaissance Society Centennial
UChicago in the Chicago Architecture Biennial
CinéVardaExpo.Agnès Varda in Chicago
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2015 Randy L. and Melvin R.
BERLIN FAMILY LECTURES
CONTENTS
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AMITAV GHOSH
Fiction I
September 29
5:30PM
Fiction II
September 30
5:30PM
History
October 6
5:30PM
Politics
October 7
5:30PM
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Youth & Family
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Five Things You (Probably) Didn’t
Know About the Renaissance Society
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Arts Map
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Info
Film
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CinéVardaExpo.Agnès Varda in Chicago
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Design & Architecture
Icon Key
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Literature
Chicago Architecture Biennial event
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Multidisciplinary
CinéVardaExpo event
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Music
UChicago 125th Anniversary event
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Theater, Dance & Performance
UChicago student event
The University of Chicago is a destination where
artists, scholars, students, and audiences converge
and create. Explore our theaters, performance
spaces, museums and galleries, academic
programs, cultural initiatives, and more.
ON THE COVER
Daniel Buren, Intersecting Axes: A Work In Situ, installation view,
The Renaissance Society, Apr 10–May 4, 1983
Photo credits: (page 5) Attributed to Wassily Kandinsky, Composition, 1914, oil on canvas, Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Gift of Dolores and Donn Shapiro
in honor of Jory Shapiro, 2012.51.; Jessica Stockholder, detail of Rose’s Inclination, 2015, site-specific installation commissioned by the Smart Museum of Art; (page 6) William
Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Poems, London: published by T. Fisher Unwin; Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895, promised Gift of Deborah Wachs Barnes, Sharon Wachs Hirsch,
Judith Pieprz, and Joel Wachs, AB’92; Justin Kern, Harper Memorial Reading Room, 2015, photo courtesy the artist; (page 7) Gate of Xerxes, Guardian Man-Bulls of the eastern
doorway, from Erich F. Schmidt, Persepolis I: Structures, reliefs, inscriptions, pl.11 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1953–1970]); Anna Elise Johnson, Good Governance,
2015, courtesy of the artist; (page 8) Salvage 3.0, image courtesy Taylor McKinley / Stony Island Arts Bank; (page 10) Matthew Metzger, photo courtesy the artist; (page 12–13)
Renaissance Society feature: [1] The New Curiosity Shop, installation view, 1971; [2] Heimo Zobernig, installation view, 1996; [3] 1915 invitation to the Renaissance Society’s first
public meeting, University of Chicago, Office of the President, Harper, Judson and Burton Administrations 1869–1925, Records Box 70, folder 16, Special Collections Research
Center, University of Chicago Library; [4] Solveig Øvstebø, left, and Nora Schultz, right, 2014, photo by Yuri Stone; [5] 1982 film series poster, co-presented with Doc Films
at the University of Chicago; (page 13) Lothar of Segni (Pope Innocent III), De missarum mysteriis (On the Mysteries of the Mass), Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt-Gotha,
Cod. Memb. I–123, Paris, ca. 1200; (page 14) Gramsci Monument, 2013, photo by Ángel Franco; Antony Gormley, after an idea by Gabriel Mitchell, Infinite Cube, 2014, mirrored
glass with internal copper wire matrix of 1,000 hand-soldered omnidirectional LED lights, Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Gift of Antony Gormley and W.J.T.
Mitchell, 2014.63; (page 16) Hito Steyerl, 2012, photo by Tobias Zielony; (page 17) Vanessa Renwick, still from layover, 2014; Gordon Park, still from Shaft, 1971; (page 18) Still
from Boo Moon, 1953; (page 19) Jacqueline Stewart, 2014, photo courtesy Jacqueline Stewart; (pages 20–21) CinéVardaExpo feature, images, left to right, top to bottom: [1]
Agnès Varda, In Venice in front of a Bellini Painting, 1962, © Agnès Varda; [2] Agnès Varda, still from Cléo de 5 à 7 / Cleo From Five To Seven, 1961, © ciné-tamaris; [3] Agnès
Varda, still from Du côté de la côte / The Riviera—Today’s Eden, 1958, © ciné-tamaris; [4] Agnès Varda, still from Le Bonheur / Happiness, 1965, © ciné-tamaris; [5] Autoportrait
morcelé / Fractured Self-Portrait, 2009, part of the Portraits brisés / Shattered Portraits series, © Agnès Varda; (page 21) F.W. Murnau, photo of Nosferatu, 1922; (page 22)
Still from A Trip Through China, 1916; (page 23) Chicago skyline, 2010, photo by Tom Rossiter; Nova Strana, Kunstverein Langenhagen, installation view, 2014; (page 25) Henri
Cole, cover artwork for Nothing to Declare: Poems, 2015; John Corbett and Steve Lacy, 1997, photo by Fred Burkhardt; (page 26) Vu Tran, 2014, photo by Joel Wintermantle;
Henri Cole, photo courtesy the artist; (page 27) Garth Risk Hallberg, photo by Mark Vessey; (page 28) Gregory Sholette image courtesy the artist; Amitav Ghosh, © Emilio
Madrid-Kuser; (page 31) Lenka Lichtenberg & Fray, photo courtesy the artists; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti conducts the CSO at Orchestra Hall
in Chicago, photo by Todd Rosenberg; (page 32) Regina Carter, photo by David Katzenstein; (page 33) Música Temprana, photo courtesy the artists; Academy of St Martin in the
Fields, photo by Chris Watling; (page 34) University Chorus, Motet Choir, and Rockefeller Chapel Choir, 2013, photo by Robert Kozloff; 2014 USO Halloween concert, photo by
Shaun Sartin; (page 35) Bach Collegium Japan, photo by Marco Borggreve; (page 38) Voices in Your Head, 2015, photo courtesy Voices in Your Head; Anonymous 4, photo by
Christian Steiner; (page 39) Gem of the Ocean, Felicia P. Fields as Aunt Ester and Jerod Haynes as Citizen Barlow, 2015, photo by Michael Brosilow; Suburbia artwork courtesy
Theater & Performance Studies; (page 40) Agamemnon, Sandra Marquez as Clytemnestra, 2015, photo by Michael Brosilow; (page 41) One Tree, Many Branches, photo courtesy Muntu Dance Theatre; (page 42) Mummies Night, photo courtesy the Oriental Institute; Family Saturday Arts and Crafts workshop participants, photo by Jean Lachat.
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The Great Derangement
Fiction, History, and Politics in the Age of
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Exhibitions & Visual Arts
Expressionist Impulses, Oct 1, 2015–Jan 10, 2016
“IT’S SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL!”
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EXHIBITIONS
& VISUAL ARTS
EXHIBITIONS
DECEMBER 2, 2015 — JANUARY 17, 2016
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INSPIRED BY THE LIFE
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RICHARD PRYOR
Given the strong language and adult situations inherent in this story, this production is recommended for
audiences 16 years of age and older. This play is in no way supported, endorsed or created by, nor does it
in any manner emanate from, Richard Pryor, his estate or other successor(s).
BEGINS OCTOBER 6, 2015
NOVEMBER 10 — 15, 2015
THEATRE FOR FAMILY AUDIENCES
Your Peanuts
Pals Live!
NOVEMBER 24 — 29, 2015
NOVEMBER 14, 2015 — JANUARY 3, 2016
Lauren Deutsch: A Musical Metamorphosis
– Photographs from 1979–2015
Through Oct 18, 2015
Logan Center Level 2
A self-described “artist disguised as
an arts administrator,” Jazz Institute
of Chicago Executive Director Lauren
Deutsch has spent 35 years transforming
improvised music into a visual art form.
Deutsch creates photographs of sound,
capturing the shapes and colors of music
in an improvisatory and collaborative
response to live performance.
Photographs in this exhibition imagine
what sound looks like from the inside,
serving as a reflection of the process of
creating improvised music. Co-curated
by Lauren Deutsch and Zoe E. Netter.
Dedicated to Wojciech Juszczak.
Free. Presented by the Logan Center and
Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Photographs Get Moving (potatoes
and shells, too)
Through Nov 8, 2015
Logan Center Gallery
Katarina Burin: Petra AndrejovaMolnár – Contribution and Collaboration
Through Nov 13, 2015
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and
Society Gallery
An exhibition of works attributed to
the Czechoslovakian architect PetraAndrejova Molnár, an overlooked figure
active in the first half of the 20th century,
as realized by the American artist Katarina
Burin. In generating Andrejova-Molnár’s
work and the scholarly apparatus around
it, Burin simultaneously inserts her into
and subtly destabilizes the established
canon of architectural history. The project
highlights the ways in which historical
movements and utopian ideologies are
complicated and contradictory formations
in a constant state of flux, while also
creating a space of play around the
mythos of “the architect.”
Free. Presented by the Neubauer
Collegium Exhibitions
Jessica Stockholder: Rose’s
Inclination
Through Jul 2, 2017
Smart Museum of Art
In a site-specific installation,
UChicago professor and artist
Jessica Stockholder intersects
the Smart’s threshold with
a wave of color and texture
that climbs to the clerestory,
cuts across the lobby floor,
and travels outwards into the
Museum’s sculpture garden.
Free. Presented by the Smart
Museum of Art in partnership
with the Chicago Architecture
Biennial.
Afterword Via Fantasia
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
(220 E Chicago Ave)
Part of the exhibition The Freedom
Principle: Experiments in Art and Music,
1965 to Now, Catherine Sullivan’s film
Afterword Via Fantasia is conceived within
the framework of an opera written by
composer George Lewis and co-directed
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BEGINS DECEMBER 1, 2015
Irena Haiduk: Seductive Exacting Realism
Through Oct 8, 2015
The Renaissance Society
This new work—one part of a two-part
project, presented as parallel exhibitions
at the Renaissance Society and the 14th
Istanbul Biennial—sees Haiduk transform
the gallery into a temple, where sirens
lounge in the eaves overhead. A discursive
data stream fills the room, carrying a song
in the form of a debate between two
melodic voices.
Free. Presented by the Renaissance Society.
Agnès Varda puts films in her photos, and
photos, potatoes, and shells in her films
and video-installations. The exhibition
proposes a dialogue between still
photography and moving pictures. Four
recent video installations will be presented
alongside a selection of her photographic
work exploring or questioning the polarity
between still and moving, broken and
continuous, fleeting and fixed or captured.
Curated by Dominique Bluher, Lecturer
and Director of MA Studies, Department
of Cinema and Media Studies. Part of
CinéVardaExpo, a weeklong program of
events, workshops and screenings.
Free. Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions,
the Logan Center, Department of Cinema
and Media Studies, and Film Studies Center.
Conversations with the Collection:
Memory
Through Jan 10, 2016
Smart Museum of Art
As the University of Chicago reflects upon
its 125-year history, the Smart Museum of
Art presents an experimental installation
that explores art’s relationship to the
recollection of personal and cultural
histories, nostalgia, and other facets of
memory. The collection-based project
mixes works from across cultures and
eras, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to
Antony Gormley’s Infinite Cube (2014).
Free.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
UCHQ 3.0
Sep 17–20, 2015
Navy Pier (600 E Grand Ave)
As part of EXPO CHICAGO/2015, this
exhibition features work by Department of
Visual Art alumni (MFA’14): dado, Tucker
Rae Grant, Jinn Bronwen Lee, Nick Raffel,
Sophia Rhee, Ramyar Vala, and Danny
Volk. Curated by William Pope.L and
Zachary Cahill.
EXPO CHICAGO admission $15–30
(expochicago.com). Vernissage opening
night preview $100–300 (mcachicago.
org/vernissage).
Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions
and the Department of Visual Arts.
Forms of Imagination
Sep 18, 2015–Jan 8, 2016
Arts Incubator Gallery
An exhibition of the 2015 Chicago
Architecture Biennial, Forms of
Imagination demystifies the process
of creating ambitious, collaborative
public projects that incite creative
action, empowerment, and ownership
among individuals within South Side
communities. Featuring documents not
traditionally shared in galleries, projects
by Mikel Patrick Avery, PORT Urbanism,
Carlos Rolón/Dzine, and international
participants in a design competition
for the potential Green Line Art Center
expose the activities and methodologies
out of which buildings and objects
emerge, revealing how ideas come to life.
Free. Presented by Arts + Public Life with
additional support from Theaster Gates,
Eric McKissack, Amy and John Phelan, and
Arts + Public Life’s Place Lab.
Poetic Associations: The
Nineteenth-Century English
Poetry Collection of Dr. Gerald
N. Wachs
Sep 21–Dec 31, 2015
Regenstein Library, Special
Collections Exhibition Gallery
Romantic and Victorian poets
were often celebrities and
close friends, part of a literary
community that influenced their
professional and personal lives.
Dr. Gerald N. Wachs (1937–2013),
working closely with bookseller
Stephen Weissman, collected
their works, seeking copies that
were presented by the author to
other writers, friends, or family
members. The items on display
from Wachs’ collection illuminate
the lives and works of these
enduring poets.
Free.
Presented by the University of
Chicago Library.
Chicago Jazz: A Photographer’s View
Sep 23–Oct 25, 2015
Café Logan
In conjunction with the annual Hyde Park
Jazz Festival, the Logan Center stages
a juried exhibition celebrating Chicago’s
vibrant jazz scene and showcasing the
talents of 20 Chicago area photographers
whose work includes original images of
some of Chicago’s most talented jazz
musicians.
Justin Kern: Ultra High
Resolution, A Photographic
Installation
Sep 28–Nov 20, 2015
Rockefeller Chapel
The première of a new collection
by Justin Kern, AB’04, PhD’10,
that uses modern cameras and
computers to simultaneously
explore the large and the small
on campus through ultrahigh-resolution imaging. The
exhibit encourages audiences
to contemplate the relationship
between detail and scale by
presenting vast, sweeping images
that are instantly recognizable
at a distance, but also elicit the
delight of discovery upon close
inspection.
Artist’s Reception
Tue, Sep 29, 5:30pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Free. Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.
Expressionist Impulses: German and
Central European Art, 1890–1990
Oct 1, 2015–Jan 10, 2016
Smart Museum of Art
Spanning a century of momentous and
rapid political, social, and economic
change, this exhibition charts the ebb
and flow of Expressionist tendencies
in German and Central European art.
The incisive, often emotionally charged
paintings, drawings, and sculptures on
view bear powerful witness to periods
of war, utopian dreams, economic
depression, political division, and personal
and political exile.
Free. Presented by the Smart Museum of
Art.
Wadada Leo Smith: Ankhrasmation: The
Language Scores, 1967–2015
Oct 11–29, 2015
Trumpeter, composer, educator, and visual
artist Wadada Leo Smith is a pioneer
in the fields of contemporary jazz and
creative music. During the 1960s and early
70s, Smith was based in Chicago, where
he was a key member of the Association
for the Advancement of Creative Music.
The Renaissance Society presents
the first comprehensive exhibition of
Smith’s Ankhrasmation scores, including
more than 45 works on paper.
Persepolis: Images of an Empire
Oct 13–ongoing
Oriental Institute Museum
Taken during the Oriental
Institute’s Persepolis Expedition
(1931–1939), large-format
photographs document the ruins
of one of the greatest dynastic
centers of antiquity built at the
height of the Achaemenid Persian
Empire (550–330 BC), including
forests of columns, monumental
audience halls, and stone relief
carvings depicting people who
came from all corners of the
empire to honor the Persian king.
Quotations from travelers to the
site and a multimedia display
featuring the architecture, terrace,
and surrounding topography
help capture the magnitude and
grandeur of Persepolis, now
one of modern-day Iran’s most
important historical sites.
Free. Presented by the Oriental
Institute Museum.
Looking Askance
Oct 16–Nov 10, 2015
Gallery SKE and UChicago
Center in Delhi (DLF Capitol
Point, Baba Kharak Singh Marg,
New Delhi)
Drawing on India’s long tradition
of documentary photography,
Looking Askance considers
contemporary photographic
works that respond to media
imagery surrounding current
events. These works complicate
what it means to “bear witness”
by proposing a problematic
relationship to the utopic
premise that photographs can
shift the social and political
conditions they picture. Curated
by Laura Letinsky, Professor in
the Department of Visual Arts
for the Delhi Photo Festival.
Artists include Matthew
Connors, Valerie Snobeck, Daniel
Traub, Anna Elise Johnson,
Marco Ferrari, Danielle Rosen,
and Jayson Kellogg.
Free. Presented by The
University of Chicago Center
in Delhi and Logan Center
Exhibitions.
A Backward Glance: 125 Years of
Student Arts at the University of Chicago
Oct 19, 2015–January 2016
Café Logan
The Logan Center hosts an exhibition
that tells the story of student-driven arts
at the University of Chicago, displaying
photographs and memorabilia from
defining arts events and organizations
throughout the University’s history.
University of Chicago: 125 Years of Inquiry
and Impact.
Greetings from the Midway:
A Postcard History of the University
of Chicago
Nov 3, 2015–Jan 3, 2016
Logan Center Level 2
Featuring over two hundred postcards in a
variety of formats from the 1890s to now,
Greetings from the Midway: A Postcard
History of the University of Chicago traces
the past 125 years of campus architecture,
programming, and culture.
and Impact.
Paul McCarthy: Drawings
Nov 8, 2015–Jan 24, 2016
Known widely for his prolific output
of video, sculpture, performance, and
installation, Paul McCarthy also works
extensively in two dimensions. The
ongoing series White Snow reveals the
artist’s deft draftsmanship and layered,
gestural approach to drawing. This
presentation features rarely seen works
from the series. Co-curated by Solveig
Øvstebø and Susanne Ghez, the current
and former Executive Directors of the
Renaissance Society, respectively, this
presentation offers an opportunity to
consider a significant area of this major
artist’s practice. Free. Presented by the Renaissance Society.
Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers
and Ideas Flow: Archives 1915–2015
Nov 14–Dec 20, 2015
Gray Center Lab
History is both distributed and without title,
unresolved yet endlessly organized. For the
Renaissance Society, that history comprises
a century of artists, artworks, audiences,
exhibitions, lectures, performances,
publications, correspondence, posters,
sketches, notes, and conversations. Named
for a work by artist Ree Morton that was
presented at the Renaissance Society in
1981, the exhibition presents primary source
materials and original works presented
simultaneously across various off-site
locations.
Free. Presented by the Renaissance Society
in partnership with the Gray Center for Arts
and Inquiry.
So-called Utopias
Nov 20, 2015–Jan 10, 2016
So-called Utopias is an international group
exhibition that examines the intersection
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by Sullivan and long time collaborator
Sean Griffin. The opera and film are based
on Lewis’ widely acclaimed book about
the Association for the Advancement of
Creative Musicians, A Power Stronger
Than Itself: The AACM and American
Experimental Music.
$7–12, free for Illinois residents on
Tuesdays (mcachicago.org).
Supported by a Mellon Fellowship for
Arts Practice and Scholarship at the Gray
Center for Arts and Inquiry.
of utopian visions with postcolonial
and postindustrial sites. Presenting
contemporary artworks across video,
photography, drawing, and sculpture,
this exhibition features works by Melanie
Smith, Jonathas de Andrade, Sreshta
Rit Premnath, and others. Traversing the
dense forests of Amazonia to the urban
sprawl of Bangalore, So-Called Utopias
casts the built environment as an act of
failure in the pursuit of expansionist and
nationalist ideals. Curated by Yesomi
Umolu, Logan Center Exhibitions Curator.
Free. Presented by Logan Center
Exhibitions.
Victor Burgin: Prairie
Nov 20, 2015–Jan 15, 2016
Society Gallery
A new digital projection work by Victor
Burgin created as part of Overlay, a Gray
Center Mellon Collaborative Fellowship
project by Burgin and D. N. Rodowick.
Overlay focused on the history of The
Mecca, an apartment building built in
1892 and demolished sixty years later as
part of Mies van der Rohe’s plan for the
expansion of the Illinois Institute of Design.
Prairie responds to specific architectural
sites (The Mecca and Crown Hall, which
stands on its former site) and explores
erased cultural histories, real or imagined,
inscribed in the built environment.
Collegium Exhibitions.
VISUAL ARTS
Opening Reception for Chicago Jazz:
A Photographer’s View
Fri, Sep 25, 6–9pm
Café Logan
Opening reception for Chicago Jazz: A
Photographer’s View, on view through
Oct 25, 2015.
Opening Reception: Expressionist Impulses
Wed, Sep 30, 7:30–9pm
Smart Museum of Art
Public opening reception for Expressionist
Impulses.
Free. Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
Exhibition Walk-Through: Seductive
Exacting Realism
Wed, Sep 30, 6:30pm
Salvage 3.0 Built Space
Fri, Sep 25, 1–6pm
Experimental Station (6100 S
Blackstone Ave)
The Object Cultures Project
explores the act and art of
salvaging. This conversation
addresses the dynamics of
material deterioration and
restoration, and the rhythms of
destruction and construction,
that transform the urban fabric.
How can social, material, and
aesthetic questions converge
within buildings, blocks, and
neighborhoods? How are the
values informing preservation or
reanimation shared, contested,
and reconciled? As the city of
Chicago continues to shape
architectural imagination,
what role should salvage play?
Participants include Bill Brown,
Hannah Higgins, Katherine
Fischer Taylor, Connie Spreen,
Frances Whitehead, Adrienne
Brown, John Vinci, Sean Keller;
Revival Arts Collective (Anton
Seals, William Hill, and Andres L.
Hernandez).
Free. Presented by the Chicago
Center for Contemporary Theory.
Jordan Stein leads an informal
introduction to Irena Haiduk’s new work.
Opening Reception: Expressionist Impulses
Wed, Sep 30, 7:30–9pm
Smart Museum of Art
Public opening reception for Expressionist
Impulses.
Free.
Smart Lecture Fall Series
Oct 1, Oct 20, Nov 12, and Nov 19, 4:30pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 157
The Department of Art History’s 2015–16
Smart Lecture Series presents speakers on
a range of art historical subjects. Speakers
include Andrei Pop, UChicago Committee
on Social Thought (Oct 1); Irene Sunwoo,
Chicago Architecture Biennial Associate
Curator (Oct 20); Caspar Meyer, University
of London (Nov 12); Martin Powers,
University of Michigan (Nov 19); and
Ina Blom, University of Oslo; currently
UChicago Wigeland Visiting Professor
(date TBA).
Free. Presented by the Department of Art
History.
Artist Reception and Performance
for Lauren Deutsch: A Musical
Metamorphosis – Photographs from
1979–2015
Fri, Oct 2, 6–9pm
Logan Center Level 2 and Café Logan
6pm reception, 7:30pm artist remarks
and performance by Robert Irving III.
Celebrate the exhibition Lauren Deutsch:
A Musical Metamorphosis – Photographs
from 1979–2015, on view through Oct
18, 2015. Free. Presented by the Logan
Center and Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Forms of Imagination Opening
Reception: Intentions and Provocations
in Design
Sat, Oct 3, 11am–4pm
(12–2pm Panel Discussion)
Arts Incubator
For Chicago Architecture Biennial’s
opening day, Mikel Patrick Avery, PORT
Urbanism, Carlos Rolón/Dzine, and
architect Dave Walker engage in a
dialogue moderated by architect Karla
Sierralta. Attendees can join the artists
and designers in a conversation about the
challenges of the planning process, as the
intentions and expectations of the artist or
designer inevitably confront the viewer’s
interaction with the work in the public
sphere.
Biting Satire
Thu, Oct 8, 5:30–7:30pm
Smart Museum of Art
A satirical BBQ in the Smart’s sculpture
garden. Create “biting” food collages and
enjoy free frankfurters, KippenBurgers,
Minds opened.
Creativity sparked.
So Smart.
Sep 12, 2015–Jan 10, 2016
Oct 1, 2015–Jan 10, 2016
MEMORY
EXPRESSIONIST IMPULSES
Conversations with
the Collection
German and Central European Art,
1890–1990
Sep 12, 2015–Jul 2, 2017
ROSE’S INCLINATION
New site-specific work by Jessica Stockholder
ABOVE: Jason Salavon, The Class of 1988 (detail), 1998, Digital C-print, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Gary and Susan Garrett, 2013.17. Art © Jason Salavon. • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
Dodo in the Studio (detail), 1910, Pastel on paper, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Paul and Susan Freehling in memory of Mrs. Edna Freehling, 2002.70. • Jessica Stockholder, Rose’s
Inclination (installation view, including remnant of painting by Judy Ledgerwood), 2015. Courtesy of the artist, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, and Kavi Gupta Gallery.
Admission is always free. All are welcome.
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and Spam-based delicacies inspired by art
on view in Expressionist Impulses.
Art.
CinéVardaExpo: Opening Reception
and Artist Talk
Fri, Oct 9, 6–9pm
Logan Center Gallery and Performance
Hall
Opening reception for Photographs
Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too).
My Three Lives: An Artist Talk by Agnès
Varda will take place in the Logan
Center Performance Hall at 7pm. Part of
CinéVardaExpo, a weeklong program of
events, workshops and screenings.
Exhibitions, the Logan Center, Department
of Cinema and Media Studies, and Film
Studies Center.
Diasporal Rhythms 2015 Home Tour
Sat, Oct 10, 9am and 1pm
Buses depart from the Logan Center
For the past ten years, Diasporal
Rhythms has offered the public an annual
opportunity to visit the homes of member
collectors. Tour A: 9am–1pm, Tour B:
1–5pm.
General $40, students with ID $15
(tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS).
Presented by Diasporal Rhythms and the
Logan Center.
Artist Talk: Jessica Stockholder in
Conversation with Sean Keller
Sat, Oct 10, 2pm
Smart Museum of Art
Artist Jessica Stockholder and
architectural theorist Sean Keller discuss
the relationship between Stockholder’s
work and architecture, and more
generally the relationship between art
and architecture. Stockholder’s new sitespecific installation Rose’s Inclination is on
view at the Smart Museum.
Free. Presented by the Smart Museum
of Art in partnership with the Chicago
Architecture Biennial.
Opening Reception: Ankhrasmation:
The Language Scores, 1967–2015
Sun, Oct 11, 4–7pm
Join us to celebrate the opening of
this exhibition of scores by trumpeter,
composer, educator, and visual artist
Wadada Leo Smith.
Free. Presented by the Renaissance
Society.
Open Fields Inaugural Event:
Exploring Boundaries and Contexts
in Contemporary American Indian Art
and Law
Tue, Oct 13, all day
Society
Artists will give presentations on their
work to ground the preliminary gathering
of Open Fields, an ongoing Neubauer
Collegium project organized by Justin
Richland, Jessica Stockholder, and
Alaka Wali. This first event will examine
relationships among formal artistic
principles, symbolic meanings, social
norms, and law as they relate to First
Nations artwork in a contemporary
context. Participants include Daron
Carrerio, Ben Davidson, Robert Davidson,
Louise Mandell, Justin Richland, Stuart
Rush, Jessica Stockholder, Anna
Tsouhlarakis, Alaka Wali, and Terri-Lynn
Williams-Davidson. Information at
neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events.
Collegium for Culture and Society.
Forms of Imagination: Reveal and
Activation
Wed, Oct 14, 6–8pm
Arts Incubator
Carlos Rolón/Dzine’s redesigned Arts +
Public Life Rickshaw and the collaborative
percussion installation by Mikel Patrick
Avery and PORT Urbanism will be
revealed and activated by a group of local
artists and musicians.
At the Threshold
Thu, Oct 15, 5:30–7:30pm
Smart Museum of Art
A creative, community-building social
hour hosted by Erika Dudley, the Smart’s
Interpreter in Residence.
Free.
Opening Reception: Looking Askance
Fri, Oct 16, 6–8pm
Gallery SKE and UChicago Center in
Delhi (DLF Capitol Point, Baba Kharak
Singh Marg, New Delhi)
Opening reception for Looking Askance,
on view through Nov 10, 2015.
Free. Presented by The University of
Chicago Center in Delhi and Logan Center
Exhibitions.
TH E RENAISSANCE SOCI ET Y
Matthew Metzger, 2015–16 DoVA
Alumni Lecture
Mon, Oct 19, 6pm
Logan Center Performance
Penthouse
Matthew Metzger, MFA’09
and the Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture Residency
Program, 2009, is the co-editor
of the topical publication Shifter
and Assistant Professor of Studio
Art at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. His most recent
exhibitions include Regards,
Chicago; Arratia Beer, Berlin; The
Freedom Principle at the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago;
and The Works at the CAB Art
Center, Brussels.
Free.
Presented by the Department of
Visual Arts.
CENTENNIAL
SEPTEM BER 2015–JANUARY 2016
FIND OUT MORE AT
RENAISSANCESOCIETY.ORG
THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY
at the University of Chicago
5811 South Ellis Avenue
Cobb Hall, 4th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60637
CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITIONS,
EVENTS, AND PUBLISHING
Free and open to the public
AFTERWORD:
The AACM (as) Opera
GEORGE LEWIS, CATHERINE SULLIVAN, SEAN GRIFFIN
Epic Wednesday
Break your mid-week routine with an
evening social event at the Museum.
Come in costume and take over the
Oriental Institute Museum at this
Halloween Afterlife Afterparty. Drop
in for haunted tours and stories about
archaeological mysteries. Prizes for the
most creatively dressed. There will be craft
beer, artisan food, and music for all.
General $15, students/faculty/
staff/members $12. Free for Young
Professional Leader Members.
Registration required (oi.uchicago.
edu/register). Presented by the Oriental
Institute Museum. Sponsored by the
Oriental Institute’s Young Professional
Leaders, Great Lakes Brewing Co., and
Chicago Reader.
Not a history of the Association for the Advancement of Creative
Musicians (AACM), but rather a coming-of age opera of ideas,
positionality, and testament.
Afterword, the opera
With the International Contemporary
Ensemble (ICE)
Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum
of Contemporary Art Chicago
Afterword Via Fantasia,
the film
Afterword, the conversation
Humanities Day at the
University of Chicago
through Nov 22
Oct 17, 2–3p
Oct 16–17, 7:30p
graycenter.uchicago.edu & mcachicago.org
Supported by a Mellon Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship
at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry & MCA Stage New Works Initiative.
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5 Things You (Probably)
Didn’t Know about the
Renaissance Society at the
University of Chicago
Celebrating 100 Years of
Groundbreaking Contemporary Art
By Anna Searle Jones
This year, the Renaissance Society
celebrates its 100th anniversary. Begun in
1915 by a group of UChicago academics,
the Renaissance Society has grown into
an important voice in the international
contemporary art world. This Centennial
anniversary presents a critical opportunity
to imagine the Ren’s possible futures, but it
is also a time for a fond look back at some
key contributions, notable achievements, and
remarkable facts from its past 100 years.
2. The Ren hasn’t always been located in Cobb Hall. Other
UChicago sites have served as home to the Renaissance
Society, including Wieboldt Hall (1930–1938) and
Goodspeed Hall (1938–1978).
The Ren also collaborates with institutions nationally and
internationally to co-commission and tour exhibitions (for
instance, Pierre Huyghe’s 2000 film The Third Memory was
produced in partnership with Centre Pompidou, Paris).
Jordan Stein, Curator of Special Projects at the Renaissance
Society and curator of Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers
and Ideas Flow: Archives 1915–2015, noted that “in our
former Goodspeed Hall gallery, for example, hundreds of
incredible artworks were shown in what is currently a series
of piano practice rooms. Although the physical layout of
the space has changed, just being there holds a significant
charge. Let Us Celebrate embodies the Ren’s past not just
by displaying neat, old stuff, but by encouraging visitors to
walk through the different buildings that have housed the
institution over the years.”
3. While maintaining close ties to the University of Chicago, the Ren is formally independent of the University.
Though founded by UChicago faculty members in 1915 to
“stimulate love of the beautiful, and to enrich the life of the
community through the cultivation of the arts” (according
4. The Ren has only had women
directors.
Female figures in the arts and the
academy have been central to the
Renaissance Society’s success since
its founding. Eva Watson Schütze,
artist and director from 1929 until her
death in 1935, was responsible for
establishing the Renaissance Society’s
mission as a “laboratory” for art and
ideas. Susanne Ghez (1974–2013)
expanded the institution’s scope with
landmark Conceptual Art exhibitions.
Director Øvstebø, who took over
in 2013, is focused on developing
the museum’s commissioning and
publishing activity.
5. The Renaissance Society helped
establish Doc Films, a staple of
UChicago campus culture.
The Ren presented a series of films in
partnership with International House
throughout the early 1930s, which, as
stated on an invitation to a film series
that took place over the summer of
1934, included “foreign talking films,
travel pictures, and science motion
demonstrations.” The student film
society formalized in 1940 as the
International House Documentary
Film Group, later shortened to Doc
Films, and continued to collaborate
with the Ren into the 1980s.
In celebration of its Centennial,
the Renaissance Society presents
a special program of exhibitions,
events, and collaborations across
campus and beyond this fall. Find
details on Centennial happenings here
in the 2015 Fall UChicago Arts Guide
or online at renaissancesociety.org.
of Nuremberg’s Supplement
to Hrabanus Maurus
Tue, Oct 27, 4:30pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center,
Room 157
Free. Presented by the
Department of Art History.
Visible Theology: Diagrams and
Dynamics of Medieval Thought
Fri, Oct 23 6pm; Mon, Oct 26
and Tue, Oct 27, 4:30pm
Endowed in memory of Louise
Smith Bross, PhD’94, every
three years the lectures bring a
distinguished scholar of pre-1800
European art and architecture
to campus. The lectures are
subsequently published by
the UChicago Press. Jeffrey F.
Hamburger, Harvard University
Kuno Francke Professor of
German Art and Culture, will
deliver the Department of Art
History’s Louise Smith Bross
Lectures. In these lectures,
Hamburger considers the uses of
diagrams as instruments of the
divine in theology and biblical
exegesis before focusing on one of
the most elaborate and extensive
examples to have survived from
the medieval period.
Diagram as Paradigm: The
Diagrammatic Mode in
Medieval Art
Fri, Oct 23, 6pm
Art Institute of Chicago,
Fullerton Hall
(111 S Michigan Ave)
From Cross to Crucifix:
Rereading Hrabanus Maurus’s
In Honor of the Holy Cross in
the Late Thirteenth Century
Mon, Oct 26, 4:30pm
Room 157
Marian Diagrams and
Dominican Devotion: Berthold
Painting and Its Humors: Infrastructures
for the Comedic Symposium
Fri, Oct 30, 9:30am–6pm
Midway Studios, Logan Center Room
203, and Logan Center Performance
Penthouse
This day-long fling will let fresh air back
into art after the much ballyhooed
“Death of Painting.” The symposium
examines painting as a site of theoretical
improvisation and artistic slapstick in
an effort to create alternate itineraries
for thinking about aesthetic experience.
Participants include Lauren Berlant,
Zachary Cahill, Jessica Campbell, Vitaly
Komar, David Leggett, William Pope.L,
Michael Portnoy, Jacob Proctor, David
Robbins, Suellen Rocca, Jan Verwoert,
Scott Wolniak, and Molly ZuckermanHartung. Complete schedule at
Oriental Institute Lecture Series
Wednesdays, Nov 4 and Dec 2, 7–9 pm
Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall
The Oriental Institute Lecture Series is a
unique opportunity to learn about the
ancient Middle East from world-renowned
scholars. Lectures are open to the public
thanks to the generous support of
Oriental Institute Members.
Nov 4
Taking Care of Color in Persepolis:
New Research on Painters, Palaces and
Polychromies in Achaemenid Persia, c.
520–330 BCE
Speaker: Alexander Nagel, Research
Associate, Smithsonian Institution,
Museum of Natural History.
Dec 2
Unlocking Stories from Objects: Some
Ancient Near Eastern Case-Studies
Based on New Research at the British
Museum
Speaker: St. John Simpson, Senior
Curator, British Museum.
Free. Registration required
(oimembersevents.eventbrite.com).
Presented by the Oriental Institute
Museum.
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1. In its 100-year history, the
Renaissance Society has
presented 511 exhibitions and
hundreds of lectures, discussions,
and presentations from renowned
artists and scholars.
In its early years the Ren hosted
such important figures as Laredo
Taft, Oriental Institute founder
James Henry Breasted, Gertrude
Stein, and Zora Neale Hurston,
while more recent program
contributors have included poet
and performer LaTasha N. Nevada
Diggs and musician C. Spencer Yeh. Exhibitions presented
over the years have ranged from exhibits of avant garde
works in the 1930s to student and member shows during the
1950s to internationally-significant shows since the 1980s,
though there has always been a focus on art as a crucial way
to understand and interpret the present.
to the invitation to the society’s first
meeting in 1915), the Ren became
financially and legally independent
in the 1970s. According to Solveig
Øvstebø, Executive Director and Chief
Curator, “being at the University is
absolutely at the core of who we are
and what we do. We frequently draw
on the amazing people and resources
here, and we in turn aim to contribute
to the academic and creative community around us. At the same time, our
independence gives us the freedom
to be bold and uncompromising in the
way we can support artists.”
Opening Reception:
Paul McCarthy: Drawings
Sun, Nov 8, 4–7pm
Join us to celebrate the opening of this
exhibition of works on paper by Paul
McCarthy.
Lecture, Opening Reception, and
Tour for Greetings from the Midway:
A Postcard History of the University
of Chicago
Tue, Nov 10, 6pm
Logan Center Performance Penthouse
Neil Harris, Preston and Sterling Morton
Professor Emeritus in History and Art
History at the University of Chicago,
will deliver a lecture entitled Visualizing,
Recalling, and Marketing the University of
Chicago: The Early Years at the Greetings
from the Midway exhibition opening,
followed by an exhibition tour and
reception.
and Impact.
Excerpts from TRIPTYCH: CYCLE
Thu, Nov 12, 6–7:30pm
Arts Incubator, Second Floor Flex Space
Performance artist Barak adé Soleil
presents selections from TRIPTYCH:
CYCLE, a performance engaging
ephemeral, social and political legacies
within disability culture and “African-
Americana.” Included is #IAMCHAIR,
a performance intervention created in
Montréal in response to a cultural venue’s
inaccessibility. Presented as part of
Forms of Imagination during the Chicago
Architecture Biennial, this performance
draws attention to the need for cultural
spaces’ architects, designers, and
organizers to always consider how design
includes and excludes the audiences they
seek to reach.
Free. Presented by Arts + Public Life.
Opening Reception and Performance
for A Backward Glance: 125 Years
of Student Arts at the University of
Chicago
Thu, Nov 12, 7pm
Café Logan and Logan Center
Performance Hall
Celebrate the opening of A Backward
Glance: 125 Years of Student Arts at the
University of Chicago with the exhibition’s
stars: the students. Past and the present
come together through performances
from current student groups. Light
refreshments will be served.
and Impact.
Jacob Proctor and architectural historian Sean Keller. Additional
details at neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/exhibitions.
Free. Presented by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.
Cauleen Smith
Mon, Nov 16, 6pm
Cauleen Smith produces multi-channel film, video installations,
and live events that incorporate sculptural objects, music, and
text. Smith was named Outstanding Artist by the National
Alliance for Media Arts and Culture in 2012 and has received
grants from the Film Arts Foundation American Film Institute,
Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. Her films
and installations have shown at The Kitchen; Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago; Threewalls; Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and others. Smith
was an Arts + Public Life/Center for the Study of Race Politics &
Culture artists-in-residence in 2012/2013.
Free. Presented by the Department of Visual Arts.
Opening Reception: So-called Utopias
Fri, Nov 20, 6–9pm
Opening reception for So-called Utopias, an international group
exhibition that examines the intersection of utopian visions with
postcolonial and postindustrial sites, presenting contemporary
artworks across video, photography, drawing and sculpture. On
view through Jan 10, 2016.
Free. Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions.
Thomas Hirschhorn & Yasmil
Raymond: A Conversation about
the Gramsci Monument—A
Living Sculpture
Tue, Oct 27, 7pm
Penthouse
Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn
and MoMA curator Yasmil
Raymond discuss their work
together on the acclaimed
Gramsci Monument, a tribute to
philosopher Antonio Gramsci.
Commissioned in 2013, this
summer-long installation—a
sprawling outdoor structure
collaged out of everyday
materials—was built in the
courtyard of the South Bronx
Forest Houses projects by
housing residents. It offered
a daily program of lectures,
children’s workshops, poetry
performances, and an onsite
radio station. Post-conversation
Q&A moderated by Bill Brown,
UChicago Distinguished Service
Professor in American Culture
and Deputy Provost for the Arts.
Free, seating limited (doors
open 6:45pm).
Presented by the Arts, Science
& Culture Initiative and the
Department of Visual Arts.
R.H. Quaytman
Mon, Nov 9, 6pm
R.H. Quaytman’s paintings are structured
as an ongoing book, each exhibition
another chapter, each painting part of
a larger context. This ongoing method
deploys optical abstraction, silkscreened
photographs, occasionally diamond
dust, and hand-painted trompe l’oeil
elements. Quaytman was included in the
2010 Whitney Biennial and has exhibited
extensively throughout the world,
including the Guggenheim, the Centre
Pompidou, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art,
a 2013 solo exhibition at the Renaissance
Society, and many others.
Free. Presented by the Department of
Visual Arts.
Talk: W.J.T. Mitchell on Infinite
Cube
Thu, Nov 12, 6pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center
Professor W.J.T. Mitchell will
reflect on Infinite Cube (2014), a
captivating sculpture comprised
of a seemingly endless grid of
light in the Smart Museum’s
collection. Mitchell will discuss
the sculpture’s origin, which was
inspired by a concept developed
by his late son Gabriel and
realized by artist Antony Gormley.
Free. Presented by the Smart
Museum of Art.
Book Launch and Panel Discussion for
Katarina Burin: Petra Andrejova-Molnár—
Contribution and Collaboration
Society
This panel discussion exploring the
exhibition Petra Andrejova-Molnár–
Contribution and Collaboration will be
followed by a reception celebrating the
launch of the accompanying catalogue,
published by Walther König, that includes
texts by Neubauer Collegium Curator
SO-CALLED UTOPIAS
November 20, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Featuring: Melanie Smith, Jonathas de Andrade, and Sreshta Rit Premnath,
among others.
Reception: Friday, November 20, 2015, 6–9 pm
Free and opening to the public
915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637
arts.uchicago.edu/logan-center/exhibitions
Melanie Smith, Fordlandia, 2014 (video still). Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Nara Roesler.
Discover the Archaeology and
History of the Ancient Middle East
oi.uchicago.edu
1155 east 58th street
An Evening with Vanessa Renwick, Fri, Oct 30, 7pm
Opening Reception: Let Us Celebrate
While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow
Gray Center Lab
Join us to celebrate the opening of this
exhibition of archival materials from the first
hundred years of the Renaissance Society.
Free. Presented by the Renaissance Society
in partnership with the Gray Center for Arts
and Inquiry.
Book Launch – Centennial: A
History of the Renaissance Society
Sat, Nov 21, 8pm
An event marking the launch of a major
Renaissance Society publication, featuring
contributions from Davarian L. Baldwin,
Nina Möntmann, Anne Rorimer, Bruce
Jenkins, R.H. Quaytman, and others.
Society and Logan Center Exhibitions.
Symposium: In. Practice
Nov 20–22, 2015
Locations announced in late
September 2015
In. Practice offers a series of inquiries
anchored in concerns relevant
to contemporary art institutions
internationally. The event approaches
practice in both senses of the word:
both as a way of working developed
over a long period, and as a perpetual
experiment into the boundaries of
exhibition-making and identity-building.
Speakers include Karen Archey, Ranjit
Hoskote, Anthony Huberman, Nina
Möntmann, William Pope.L, Sarah Rifky,
and Blake Stimson.
Free, registration required
(renaissancesociety.org).
Presented by the Renaissance Society.
Hito Steyerl
Tue, Dec 1, 6pm
Logan Center Screening Room
Hito Steyerl’s prolific filmmaking
and writing occupies a highly
discursive position between the
fields of art, philosophy, and
politics, constituting a deep
exploration of late capitalism’s
social, cultural, and financial
imaginaries. Steyerl has exhibited
at major venues around the
world including Documenta 12;
the German Pavillion; Venice
Biennale; and solo exhibitions at
the Art Institute of Chicago and
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago.
Free. Sponsored by the
Department of Visual Arts, The
Center for the Study of Gender
and Sexuality’s Counter Cinema/
Counter Media Project, and
Goethe-Instut Chicago.
Gallery Talk: To See in Black and White
Sat, Nov 21, 2pm
Smart Museum of Art
Independent curator Kimberly Mims
discusses the modern photography from
Germany and Central Europe on view in
To See in Black and White.
Cary Levine, The (De)Civilizing Process:
Paul McCarthy’s Regressive Routines
Tue, Dec 8, 7pm
Film Studies Center
Presented in conjunction with the
Renaissance Society’s exhibition of
drawings by Paul McCarthy, Art historian
Cary Levine, author of Pay for Your
Pleasures: Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy,
Raymond Pettibon (UChicago Press,
2013), discusses McCarthy’s work with
reference to Kelley and Pettibon, all of
whom have previously exhibited at the
Renaissance Society.
Gallery Talk: Expressionist Impulses
Sat, Dec 12, 2pm
Smart Museum of Art
Curator Richard A. Born and Professor
Reinhold Heller discuss the art on view
in Expressionist Impulses. Born is Smart
Museum Senior Curator and Interim Chief
Curator. Heller is Professor Emeritus in Art
History, Germanic Studies, the Committee
on the Visual Arts, and the College.
Free.
South Side Connections
Sun, Dec 13, 1pm
Arts Incubator
This public event, the first of its kind,
marks a collaboration between four
long-standing South Side visual arts
organizations, all of which celebrate
significant anniversaries this year or
last: the Renaissance Society (1915),
the Hyde Park Art Center (1939),
the South Side Community Art Center
(1940), and the Smart Museum (1974).
The afternoon program explores various
points of connection between our
histories, considering what defines the
development and presentation of visual
culture on this side of Chicago.
Society, Hyde Park Art Center, South Side
Community Art Center, Smart Museum,
and Arts and Public Life.
FILM
Eric Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs
Mondays, Sep 28–Nov 30, 7pm
Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall
More lighthearted than his Moral Tales,
director Eric Rohmer riffs on a series of
witty aphorisms on “the spirit of social
games” in this cycle. The retrospective
concludes with four late comedies,
including Four Adventures of Reinette and
Mirabelle (Nov 9), Rendezvous in Paris
(Nov 23), and Autumn Tale (Nov 30).
$5/film, $30 quarterly pass (tickets.
uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS).
Presented by Doc Films, France Chicago
Center, Cultural Service at the Consulate
General of France in Chicago, and the
Institut Français in Paris.
Singapore Dreaming: Contemporary
Singaporean Cinema
Tuesdays, Sep 29–Dec 1, 7pm
In the 50 years since Singapore’s
independence, cinema has worked to
challenge oversimplified representations
of the island city-state. In this series
of ten films that run the gamut from
acerbic satire to sympathetic reflection,
Singaporean filmmakers shed a light on
their nation’s best and worst. Highlights
include Money No Enough (Oct 6),
Singapore Dreaming (Oct 20), and Be
With Me (Dec 1).
Presented by Doc Films, SAMSU,
International Student Advisory Board,
Student Government, and the Committee
on Southern Asian Studies.
The Films of Gordon Parks
Thursdays, Oct 1–Nov 19, 7pm
Max Palevsky Cinema,
Ida Noyes Hall
This retrospective honors
photographer and director
Gordon Parks, the first African
American to write and direct a
Hollywood feature film. The series
begins with a free screening
of Parks’ early documentaries
Diary of a Harlem Family, Flavio,
and The World of Piri Thomas—
three films that highlight
his humanitarian focus and
commitment to social justice.
Highlights include The Learning
Tree (Oct 8), Shaft (Oct 15), and
Leadbelly (Nov 5).
$5/film, $30 quarterly pass
(tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.
ARTS). Presented by Doc Films.
Hackers, Geeks, and Cyberpunks
Thursdays, Oct 1–Dec 3, various times
This series examines the “hacker” ethos’
origins and development in late 20thcentury films with plots driven by digital
technology and the burgeoning Internet.
Get ready for Terminal Green Screen, IRC,
and phone jamming as Doc Films presents
a delightfully dated look at modern life,
created when mnemonic couriers and
death rays seemed more plausible than
Facebook and smartphones. Highlights
include Blade Runner (Oct 1), Sneakers
(Nov 5), and The Matrix (Dec 3).
Presented by Doc Films.
New Hollywood Revisited: Pictures
that Defined a Generation
Fridays, Oct 2–Dec 4, various times
As old studio bosses retired in the 1960s,
fresh execs gave unprecedented creative
control to a generation of filmmakers
who broke with tradition, making movies
that were more loosely structured, less
formalistic, and unafraid of depicting
drug use, violence, and sex. The nine
films in the series offer a glimpse of the
New Hollywood, reflecting new ways
of understanding American life and the
aesthetic changes that framed them.
Highlights include American Graffiti (Oct
2), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(Oct 9), and The Exorcist (Oct 30).
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Opening Reception for Victor Burgin:
Prairie
Society
Celebrate the exhibition opening of Victor
Burgin’s Prairie, a new digital projection
work created as part of Overlay, a Gray
Center Mellon Collaborative Fellowship
project by Burgin and D. N. Rodowick.
Overlay focused on the history of The
Mecca, an apartment building built in 1892
and demolished sixty years later as part
of Mies van der Rohe’s expansion of the
Illinois Institute of Design. Prairie responds
to specific architectural sites and explores
erased cultural histories, real or imagined,
inscribed in the built environment.
3D Rarities: Midwest Premiere
with Robert Furmanek and
Greg Kintz
Fri, Oct 2, 7pm
A collection of stereoscopic
treasures from the dawn of
3D cinematography, including
demonstration film Thru the
Trees, Washington DC (1922),
featuring incredible footage of
the capital and New York City;
Casper the Friendly Ghost in
Boo Moon (1953); burlesque
comedy I’ll Sell My Shirt (1953);
and Doom Town (1953), a
controversial anti-atomic-testing
film mysteriously pulled from
theatrical release after just a few
play-dates. Meticulously restored
and mastered in 2K from original
35mm elements. Bob Furmanek
is founder and president of
the 3-D Film Archive and an
award-winning producer, writer
and motion picture archivist/
historian. Greg Kintz, 3-D
Archive’s technical supervisor, has
remastered rare and vintage
stereoscopic materials for the
3-D Film Archive for over 15 years.
Free. Presented by the Film
Studies Center.
All About Bette: A Bette Davis
Retrospective
Sundays, Oct 4–Dec 6, 7pm
Beginning with her breakout role in Of
Human Bondage (Oct 4), this series
celebrates the influential and prolific
film career of Bette Davis, no doubt one
of the best actresses to grace the silver
screen. Strong-willed and independent,
CinéVardaExpo Opening Night
Screening: Agnès de ci de là Varda /
Agnès Varda: From Here to There (2011)
Episodes 1 and 2 (2012, 90 min.):
Thu, Oct 8, 5pm
Episodes 3-5 (2012, 135 min.):
Thu, Oct 8, 7pm
Part travelogue, documentary, and
visual essay, this series originally made
for French television chronicles the
indefatigable filmmaker’s travels around
the world. Visiting Mexico, Portugal, Italy,
Russia, and other locations, Varda meets
and engages in conversation with film
luminaries such as Chris Marker, Alexander
Sokurov, and Carlos Reygadas, and
visual artists including Christian Boltanski
and Annette Messager. (Filmmaker in
attendance).
Free, reservations recommended
Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions, the
Logan Center, Department of Cinema and
Media Studies, and Film Studies Center.
CinéVardaExpo: Gallery Opening
Reception for Photographs Get Moving
(potatoes and shells, too)
Fri, Oct 9, 5–9pm
Opening reception for Photographs
Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too).
Artist and filmmaker Agnés Varda will
be present. Part of CinéVardaExpo, a
weeklong program of events, workshops
and screenings.
Free.
CinéVardaExpo: My Three Lives:
An Artist Talk with Agnès Varda
Fri, Oct 9, 7pm
Logan Center Performance Hall
In this talk, Agnès Varda will speak about
her “three lives”: as a photographer, as a
filmmaker, and as a “young visual artist.”
CinéVardaExpo: Playing Colors
Sat, Oct 10, 2pm
In Du côté de la côte (1958, 24 min.),
Varda uses exquisite cinematography
in bright primary colors to conjure a
hyper-real vision of the French Riviera.
One of Varda’s most provocative films,
Le Bonheur (1965, 80 min.) examines,
with a deceptively cheery palette and
the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of
fidelity and happiness in a modern, selfcentered world.
CinéVardaExpo: Women Reply
Sat, Oct 10, 4pm
Including Réponse de femmes / Women
Reply (1975, 8 min.) and L’une chante
l’autre pas / One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
(1976, 120 mins.).
CinéVardaExpo: Sans toit ni loi /
Vagabond (1985)
Sat, Oct 10, 7pm
Shot in a semi-documentary style, the film
opens on the body of a young girl frozen
to death in a ditch somewhere in Southern
France. The film attempts to reconstruct
her life based on things said by people
who met her. Yet it is impossible to portray
Mona. The surly vagabond withdrew from
society to lead a life in complete freedom:
without money, without a place to live,
without compromises. What can we know
about her? How can rebellious silence
be narrated, or freedom on the road be
grasped?
CinéVardaExpo: Jessica Stockholder
and Agnès Varda in Conversation
Sun, Oct 11, 12–1pm
Logan Center
Jessica Stockholder, Raymond W. &
Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished
Service Professor and Chair of the
UChicago Department of Visual Arts will
engage Agnès Varda in a conversation
about her work and process.
CinéVardaExpo: Still Photography
and Moving Pictures
Sun, Oct 11, 2pm
Including Salut les Cubains / Hello Cubans
(1963, 30 mins.), composed of over 1,800
photos that offer a portrait of Cuban life
four years after the revolution, and Ulysse
(1982, 22 mins.), where Varda returns to a
photograph she took in 1954 of a naked
man and boy standing on the beach near a
goat’s corpse. When the subjects, tracked
down thirty years later, do not remember
the circumstances surrounding the photo,
the film becomes a haunting meditation
on the elusive nature of memory.
Filmmaker intro.
CinéVardaExpo: Mise-en-scène As
Installation / Installation As Mise-enscène
Sun, Oct 11, 4pm
Including 7P., cuis., s. de b... (à saisir) / 7
rms, kit, bath... [grab it] (1984, 27 mins.),
where a visit to a mysteriously empty
apartment invites the viewer to imagine
its inhabitants, its past, and its future,
and Jane B. par Agnès V. / Jane B. by
Agnès V. (1987, 97 mins.), where Varda
abandons the traditional biopic format in
favor of a freewheeling mix of gorgeous
and unexpected fantasy sequences on
famed singer, actress, and fashion icon
Jane Birkin.
CinéVardaExpo: Screening of Les
Glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners
and I (2000, 82 mins.)
Mon, Oct 12, 7pm
Black Cinema House (7200 S Kimbark Ave)
Varda used a small digital camera for the
first time. Taking François Millet’s famous
painting of the gleaners as a point of
departure, she retraces the tradition of
gleaning and searches for modern day
gleaners—those who live off what others
consider waste—both in rural France and
at weekly farmer’s markets and dumpsters
in Paris. Varda expands the notion of
“gleaning” to include herself, someone
who gleans images and stories from the
world around her. Post-screening Q&A
with the filmmaker.
Exhibitions, the Logan Center, Department
of Cinema and Media Studies, and Film
Studies Center.
Screening of Cléo de 5 à 7 /
Cléo From Five To Seven (1961, 90 min.)
Wed, Oct 14, 7:30pm
Music Box Theatre (3733 N Southport Ave)
Cléo, a singer at the start of her career,
wanders restlessly through Paris while
waiting for the results of a biopsy. Cléo’s
journey through Paris is shown in real
time, in an hour and a half, and embodies
her journey of self-discovery. Facing
death, Cléo undergoes a profound
transformation from a woman who sees
herself only through other people’s eyes
to one who engages actively with the
surrounding reality and the people she
meets on her way. Post-screening Q&A
with the filmmaker.
$12 (musicboxtheatre.com).
CinéVardaExpo Closing Night
Screening: Les Plages d’Agnès / The
Beaches of Agnès (2008, 110 min., 35mm)
Thu, Oct 15, 6pm
Using photographs, recreations, and
scenes from her films, Varda illustrates
the various stages of her life, from her
marriage to Jacques Demy and his death
in 1990 to her childhood memories
of Sète, the fishing village that would
become the subject of her first film.
Woven through these memories are
lonely, dreamlike sequences shot on the
many beaches that have influenced and
inspired the filmmaker. Post-screening
Q&A with the filmmaker.
South Side Home Movies
Thu, Oct 22, 7pm
Arts Incubator
Film historian and scholar
Jacqueline Stewart presents a
screening of 8mm, Super8mm,
16mm films, and home videos
(VHS or mini-DV) as part of an
ongoing study of the history and
culture of Chicago’s South Side.
By viewing these films, audiences
will see aspects of family and
community life often left out of
history books.
Free. Presented by Arts + Public
Life and the South Side Home
Movie Project.
Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces:
Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe,
1960–1990
Fri, Oct 23, 7pm
Independent and experimental film shorts
dating from the postwar period to the
last decades of Communism in Eastern
Europe. Including works by Mieczysław
Waśkowski and Tadeusz Kantor from
Poland; Naško Križnar and the OHO
Group from Slovenia; and Vladimir Havrilla
from the former Czechoslovakia.
Art and Film Studies Center.
An Evening with Vanessa Renwick
Fri, Oct 30, 7pm
Portland-based filmmaker Renwick’s films
“reveal the hidden stories and secret lives
that define our great national weirdness”
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Davis typically portrayed unconventional
and unsympathetic characters, yet still
managed to captivate audiences with
her powerful and iconic performances.
Highlights include Now, Voyager (Nov 15),
All About Eve (Nov 22), and What Ever
Happened to Baby Jane? (Dec 6).
PUBLIC EVENTS
All events free unless otherwise indicated.
Reservations recommended
* = Filmmaker present
(Todd Haynes). These short, personal
constructions demonstrate a wide range
of formal approaches and subjects
that include folk art, birth, hitchhiking,
death, nuclear power, gentrification,
and migration. Working in experimental
and poetic documentary forms, Renwick’s
films share a restless spirit, an interest in
outlaw art-making, and an unflagging
sense of wanderlust.
Free. Presented by the Film Studies Center.
Photographs Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too) (see
page 5)
Through Nov 8, 2015, Logan Center Gallery
Agnès de ci de là Varda / Agnès Varda: From Here to
There, Episodes 1 and 2* (see page 18)
Thu, Oct 8, 5pm, Logan Center Screening Room
CinéVardaExpo
Agnès de ci de là Varda / Agnès Varda: From Here to There, Episodes
3–5* (see page 18)
Thu, Oct 8, 7pm, Logan Center Screening Room
Filmmaker Agnès Varda in residence
at UChicago Oct 8–15 for weeklong
celebration including free public
exhibition, talks, and screenings
Renowned French film director and visual
artist Agnès Varda will spend Oct 8 to
15 in residence at UChicago as part of a
major weeklong celebration of her work,
CinéVardaExpo.Agnès Varda in Chicago.
CinéVardaExpo includes an opening reception and public
lecture by Varda on Oct 9, a conversation between Varda
and artist and Department of Visual Art faculty member
Jessica Stockholder on Oct 11, and screenings of selected
films throughout the week—many attended by Varda
herself. As part of the celebration, the Logan Center Gallery
will host an exhibition of Varda’s recent work, Photographs
Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too),” from Sep 11 to Nov 8.
“In her work, Agnès Varda displays a powerful talent for
weaving together questions of the individual and the
collective, the subjective and the objective, the real and
the imaginary, and the beautiful and the dismal,” said
Dominique Bluher, Lecturer and Director of MA Studies in
the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and one of
the organizers of Varda’s residency. “I love Varda’s poetic wit and intelligence, and the way
she anchors the conceptual in the sensual. She is also
unafraid of transformation: as she likes to put it, ‘I am an old
filmmaker who has become a young visual artist,’” Bluher
My Three Lives: An Artist Talk by Agnès Varda* (see page 18)
Fri, Oct 9, 7pm, Logan Center Performance Hall
added. “I am thrilled that Agnès Varda is coming to the
University of Chicago to celebrate her work with us.”
At 87, Varda is one of the most significant voices in French
and European cinema as well as in the world of art. Sometimes called the “grandmother of the French New Wave,”
she has created more than 40 short, documentary, and fiction films for both TV and cinema, and staged many exhibitions of photographs and installation pieces. Among her
best-known works are Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo From Five To Seven, 1961), Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond, 1985) and Les Glaneurs
et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I, 2000). Her latest feature
length film, Les Plages d’Agnès (The Beaches of Agnès,
2008), premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Sep 2009.
Since 2003, Varda was invited by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist
to show her visual art at the Venice Biennale. Since then,
her photography, installations, sculptures, and performance
pieces have been exhibited internationally.
During her visit, Varda will participate in several events for
UChicago students. These include master classes on her
work as a director of fiction and documentary films and a
gallery talk for graduate students from the Department of
Visual Arts, the Department Cinema and Media Studies, and
the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Cinema and Media Studies is offering a mixed undergraduate/
graduate course on Agnès Varda’s work this fall.
More information and full event schedule at
varda.uchicago.edu.
Playing Colors (see page 18)
Sat, Oct 10, 2pm, Logan Center Screening Room
Women Reply (see page 18)
Sans toit ni loi / Vagabond (see page 18)
Jessica Stockholder and Agnès Varda in Conversation* (see page 19)
Sun, Oct 11, 12–1pm, Logan Center
Still Photography and Moving Pictures (see page 19)
Sun, Oct 11, 2pm, Logan Center Performance Hall
Mise-en-scène As Installation / Installation As Mise-en-scène* (see page 19)
Sun, Oct 11, 4pm, Logan Center Performance Hall
Screening of Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners and I* (see page 19)
Mon, Oct 12, 7pm, Black Cinema House (7200 S Kimbark Ave)
Screening of Cléo de 5 à 7 / Cléo From Five To Seven* (see page 19)
Wed, Oct 14, 7:30pm, Music Box Theatre
(3733 N Southport Ave) $12 (musicboxtheatre.com)
Les Plages d’Agnès / The Beaches of Agnès* (see page 19)
Thu, Oct 15, 6pm, Logan Center Performance Hall
Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions, the Logan Center, Department of Cinema
and Media Studies, and Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago. Additional
support provided by the France Chicago Center, University of Chicago Arts Council,
Chuck Roven Fund, Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, DOVAOpen Practice Committee, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Institut Français
in Paris, Norman Wait Harris Fund, Ng Family Visiting Artist Fund, Department of
Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Center for the Study of Gender and
Sexuality’s Counter Cinema/Media Project.
Organized by Dominique Bluher, Lecturer and Director of MA Studies, Department
of Cinema and Media Studies; Camille Morgan, Logan Center Exhibitions Curatorial
Coordinator; Leigh Fagin, Associate Director of University Arts Engagement; Julia
Gibbs, Assistant Director, Film Studies Center.
Nosferatu (1922)
Mon, Oct 26, 7:30pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Rockefeller welcomes back
theatrical organist Dennis
James as silent film organist
par excellence! In F. W. Munrau’s
archetypal silent horror film
on the Dracula legend, which
obliterated boundaries between
the real and the unreal, the
mysterious Count Orlok
summons Thomas Hutter to his
remote Transylvanian castle in
the mountains (but we won’t tell
you the rest of the story here). 85
mins, no intermission. With live
organ accompaniment.
General $10, students free.
Presented by Rockefeller Chapel
and the Smart Museum of Art.
Inaugural Miriam Hansen Memorial
Lecture: Gertrud Koch
Fri, Nov 6, 5pm
The Miriam Hansen Memorial Lecture
honors the academic program founder’s
scholarship and contributions in the field
of cinema studies. Gertrud Koch, Professor
in Film Studies at the Freie Universität
in Berlin, will be welcomed as the first
speaker at this annual event.
Free. Sponsored by the Department of
Cinema and Media Studies.
By Susie Allen, AB’09
Opening Reception for Photographs Get Moving (potatoes and shells,
too)* (see page 18)
Fri, Oct 9, 5–9pm, Logan Center Gallery
A Trip Through China
Thu, Nov 5, 7pm
An epic travelogue shot by
Russian-American entrepreneur
Benjamin Brodsky during travels
through the Chinese metropoles
of Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing,
Tianjin, and Beijing from 1912–15.
The film is a comprehensive
portrait of Chinese life, at once
geographical, historical, and
scenic. Recently digitally restored
by the Taiwan Film Institute,
this will be the first public
screening of the film in the US
since 1919. Presented with live
musical accompaniment by
Anthony Cheung (UChicago
Department of Music) and
Lu Wang (Brown University).
Followed by a roundtable
discussion led by Ramona
Curry (University of Illinois—
Urbana-Champaign). Preceded
by reception, 6pm. (Benjamin
Brodsky, 1916, DCP, 108 min).
Free. Sponsored by the Film
Studies Center and Center for
East Asian Studies.
The Look of Silence: An Evening with
Joshua Oppenheimer
Sun, Nov 8, 6pm
Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work
filming perpetrators of the Indonesian
genocide, a family of survivors discovers
how their son was murdered and the
identity of the men who killed him.
The youngest brother is determined to
break the spell of silence and fear under
which the survivors live, and confronts
the men responsible for his brother’s
murder – something unimaginable in a
Issa Rae in Conversation
Mon, Nov 9, 7pm
Mandel Hall
Get up close and awkward with producer,
writer, and director Issa Rae. Rae will be
in conversation with Jacqueline Stewart,
UChicago Professor of Cinema and Media
Studies and Interim Director of the Gray
Center for Arts and Inquiry. Following the
discussion, Rae will sign copies of her first
book, The Misadventures of Awkward
Black Girl.
Free, registration required
(csrpc.uchicago.edu/events/issa_rae).
Presented by the Center for the Study of
Race, Politics & Culture in partnership with
the Center for the Study of Gender and
Sexuality, Office of Multicultural Student
Affairs, Arts + Public Life, UChicago
Careers in Journalism, Arts, and Media,
Committee on Creative Creative Writing,
and Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
Mothers (Majki): An Evening with
director Milcho Manchevski
Fri, Nov 13, 7pm
Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski’s
fourth feature, Mothers, is an experimental
triptych blending fiction and documentary
in a complex and troubling tale about
women’s lives in contemporary
Macedonia. Manchevski is a New Yorkbased, Macedonian-born film director,
writer, photographer and artist. His film
Before the Rain (1994) won the Golden
Lion at the Venice Film Festival, FIPRESCI
and Independent Spirit, along with
30 other awards, including an Oscar
nomination. (Manchevski, Macedonia
(FYROM), 2010, DCP, 123 min)
Free. Presented by CEERES and the
Film Studies Center as part of the 9th
Macedonian-North American Conference
on Macedonian Studies, Nov 12–14.
Michel Chion—Vowels/Consonants:
The Legend of a “Gendered” (Sexual)
Difference Told by Cinema
Fri, Nov 20, 5pm
Film Studies Center
This keynote lecture by renowned film
theorist and composer Michel Chion
(Sorbonne, Paris) argues that the
confrontation between the voice and
writing (understood as letters, typewriting,
credits, and SMS) is one of the most
exciting aspects of cinema as an “audiologo-visual art.” Introductory remarks by
Tom Gunning, professor of art history and
cinema and media.
Collegium for Culture and Society, the
Franke Institute for the Humanities, the
Department of Music, the Department of
Cinema and Media Studies, and the Film
Studies Center.
Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing,
The Road is All
Fri, Nov 20, 7pm
Rare interviews with Kurt Vonnegut
and Studs Terkel, archival footage of
1950s Chicago, and the gritty voice
of Nelson Algren himself unveil the
compelling life story of one of America’s
greatest and least understood writers.
Author of five novels and countless
other stories, reviews, essays, and the
prose poem Chicago: City on the Make,
Algren’s focus on disenchantment with
consumer culture is still resonant and his
concerns about FBI and CIA surveillance
prophetic. Introduction by Judy Hoffman,
Department of Cinema and Media Studies.
Followed by a panel discussion with codirector Mark Blottner and Nelson Algren
Committee founder Warren Leming.
(Dennis Mueller, USA, 2015, DCP, 86 min)
Free. Presented by Film Studies Center.
DESIGN
& ARCHITECTURE
2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial:
UChicago Events and Programs
Oct 3, 2015–Jan 3, 2016
Throughout the City of Chicago
Over the past 125 years, UChicago’s Hyde Park
campus has evolved into a destination for art and
architecture. While the campus’ Neo-Gothic buildings
remain a University trademark and a symbol of its
scholarly legacy, the institution now boasts new
buildings by some of the world’s most innovative and
renowned architects. Explore stunning architecture
and diverse public art during the Chicago
Architecture Biennial through exhibitions, programs,
performances, and tours across campus. More
information at arts.uchicago.edu/cab. Free.
Katarina Burin: Petra
Andrejova-Molnár
– Contribution and
Collaboration (see page 5)
Book Launch and Panel
Discussion: Fri, Nov 13, 4–6pm
(see page 15)
Neubauer Collegium for
Culture and Society Gallery
Jessica Stockholder:
Rose’s Inclination (see page 5)
Through Jul 2, 2017
Smart Museum of Art
Forms of Imagination
(see page 6)
Sep 18, 2015–Jan 8, 2016
Opening Reception –
Intentions and Provocations in
Design: Sat, Oct 3, 11am–4pm
(see page 8)
Forms of Imagination: Reveal
and Activation (see page 10)
Arts Incubator
A Historic Architecture
Tour of the University of
Chicago Campus (see page
24)
Sundays, Oct 3 and 10, 10am–
12 pm, 12–2pm, and 2–4pm
Beginning at the University
Bookstore (970 E 58th St)
Campus Edges Tours
(see page 24)
Sat, Oct 3, 11am–8pm, and
Saturdays, Oct 10, 17, and 18,
10am–5pm
Beginning at the Logan Center
Artist Talk: Jessica
Stockholder in conversation
with Sean Keller (see page 10)
Sat, Oct 10, 2pm
Smart Museum of Art
Giuliana Bruno – Surface:
Matters of Aesthetics,
Materiality, and Media
(see page 30)
Thu, Nov 12, 5pm
Smart Lecture Fall Series: Irene
Sunwoo, Chicago Architecture
Biennial Associate Curator
(see page 8)
Tue, Oct 20, 4:30pm
Room 157
Excerpts from TRIPTYCH:
CYCLE (see page 14)
Thu, Nov 12, 6–7:30pm
Arts Incubator, Second Floor
Flex Space
South Side Home Movies
(see page 19)
Thu, Oct 22, 7pm
Arts Incubator
So-called Utopias
(see page 7)
Nov 20, 2015–Jan 10, 2016
Opening Reception: Fri, Nov
20, 6–9pm (see page 16)
Thomas Hirschhorn
& Yasmil Raymond: A
Conversation about the
Gramsci Monument—A Living
Sculpture (see page 14)
Tue, Oct 27, 7pm
Penthouse
Victor Burgin: Prairie
(see page 8)
Nov 20, 2015–Jan 15, 2016
Opening Reception: Fri, Nov
20, 6–9pm (see page 16)
Neubauer Collegium for
Culture and Society Gallery
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country where killers remain in power.
Joshua Oppenheimer is recipient of a
2015 MacArthur Fellowship. His debut
feature film, The Act of Killing (2012),
was named Film of the Year in 2013
by the Guardian and the Sight and
Sound Film Poll, and was nominated
for the 2014 Academy Award® for Best
Documentary. Oppenheimer is Artistic
Director of the Centre for Documentary
and Experimental Film at the University
of Westminster in London. (Oppenheimer,
Denmark, Indonesia, United Kingdom,
2014, digital video, 99 min)
Free. Presented by the Film Studies Center.
Gordon Parks Arts Hall Celebration
5815 S Kimbark Ave
An all-family celebration of the new
Gordon Parks Arts Hall at the UChicago
Laboratory School. 11am Open House;
11:30am Celebration Program; 12:30–2pm
Lunch, 12:30–3pm Building Exploration
and Self-Guided Tours; 2–3pm Arts Panel:
The Life and Impact of Gordon Parks.
Free, RSVP requested (eventrsvps@
uchicago.edu, 773.834.0917).
Presented by the University of Chicago
Laboratory School.
Thinking Into the Future: John Ronan,
Transcending Pragmatism: Searching for
a New Chicago
Sun, Oct 4, 2pm
Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural
Center (78 E Washington St)
In this fifth event in the Frank Lloyd Wright
Trust’s annual Thinking Into the Future: The
Robie House Series on Architecture, Design
and Ideas, Chicago architect John Ronan
FAIA discusses his views on the direction
of Chicago architecture and practicing
within its building culture. In addition to
being recognized by Chicago’s Graham
Foundation, the Architectural League of
New York, the Art Institute of Chicago,
and being the subject of a Princeton
Architectural Press monograph, Ronan
is best known for his Poetry Foundation
building in Chicago (2007), which
garnered one of his firm’s two prestigious
AIA Institute National Honor Awards.
Free, reservations required (flwright.org,
312.994.4000).
Presented by the Frank Lloyd Wright
Trust and Chicago Architecture Biennial.
A Historic Architecture Tour of the
University of Chicago Campus
Sundays, Oct 3 and 10, 10am–12 pm,
12–2pm, and 2–4pm
Beginning at the University Bookstore
(970 E 58th St)
Explore the early Collegiate Gothic roots
of the UChicago campus in the original
quadrangles, the “march of mid-century
modernism” along the Midway Plaisance,
and recent architectural additions such
as the Mansueto Library and the Midway
Crossings. Walking tours led by Chicago
Architecture Foundation docents.
Presented by the UChicago Office of Civic
Engagement.
Open House Chicago
Sat, Oct 17–Sun, Oct 18, various times
Various campus locations
As part of a free weekend festival
providing access to over 150 of Chicago’s
greatest places and spaces, take guided
or self-guided tours of the Oriental
Institute, Logan Center, Frederick C. Robie
House, Saieh Hall for Economics, and
South Campus Chiller Plant. Information at
openhousechicago.org.
Free. Presented by the Chicago
Architecture Foundation in partnership
with the Oriental Institute Museum, Logan
Center, Robie House, and Department of
Economics.
The University of Chicago
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LITERATURE
Georgi Gospodinov In Conversation
with Angelina Ilieva
Thu, Sep 17, 6pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
(5751 S Woodlawn Ave)
Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov
reads from his “quirky, compulsively
readable” (New York Times) novel The
Physics of Sorrow and discusses his work
with Angelina Ilieva, lecturer in Balkan and
South Slavic Literature, UChicago.
Free. Presented by the Seminary Coop Bookstores, the Center for Eastern
European and Russian/Eurasian Studies,
the Consulate General of the Republic of
Bulgaria in Chicago, and Open Letter Books.
Poetry Reading: Parneshia Jones
and Ellen Hagan
Thu, Sep 24, 6pm
Acclaimed poets Parneshia Jones and Ellen
Hagan read from their most recent works,
Vessel and Hemisphere, respectively.
Free. Presented by the Seminary Co-op
Bookstores.
I N S TA L L AT I O N
2015 AUTUMN QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS
Inclusive. Multicultural. Prolific. Captivating.
Rockefeller Chapel
September 28 to November 20
Reading by Henri Cole, Thu, Oct 22, 5pm
Halloween Concert — Saturday, October 24
New Music Ensemble — Sunday, November 1
Wind Ensemble — Sunday, November 15
Middle East Music Ensemble — Saturday, November 21
Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass — Sunday, November 22
Jazz X-tet — Thursday, December 3
University Symphony — Saturday, December 5
Handel’s Messiah — Sunday, December 6
Full information: music.uchicago.edu
Dale Jamieson and Bonnie Nadzam:
Love in the Anthropocene
Wed, Sep 30, 6pm
57th Street Books (1301 E 57th St)
Award-winning novelist Bonnie
Nadzam and leading environmental
philosopher Dale Jamieson discuss their
collaboration Love in the Anthropocene,
a unique work that is equal parts science
fiction, literary fiction, philosophical
meditation, and manifesto.
Bookstores and the Program on the
Global Environment.
Reading by Stuart Neville: Those We Left
Behind
Thu, Oct 1, 6pm
Noted Northern Irish crime fiction writer
Stuart Neville, whose previous novel The
Ghosts of Belfast won the 2010 LA Times
Book Prize, reads from and discusses his
latest work, which Publishers Weekly calls
Reading and Performance: John
Corbett with Tomeka Reid
Sat, Oct 3, 3pm
Celebrate the release of
Chicago-based music critic,
record producer, and curator
John Corbett’s new book,
Microgroove: Forays Into Other
Music, which includes essays,
interviews, and musician profiles
that focus on jazz, improvised
music, contemporary classical,
rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and
cartoon music. A performance by
cellist Tomeka Reid will follow the
reading and discussion.
Free. Presented by the Seminary
Co-op Bookstores.
a “searing, deeply affecting psychological
thriller.”
Bookstores.
Christian Wiman Poetry Reading with
Rosanna Warren
Sun, Oct 4, 6 pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Award-winning poet and author Christian
Wiman joins Rosanna Warren, Hanna
Holborn Gray Distinguished Service
Professor, John U. Nef Committee on
Social Thought and the College, for an
evening of poetry reading and discussion.
Free. Presented by Rockefeller Chapel
and the Committee on Creative Writing.
Reading by Kristin Hersh: Don’t Suck,
Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt
Mon, Oct 5, 6:30pm
Kristin Hersh, a founding member of
the bands Throwing Muses and 50 Foot
Wave and the author of the acclaimed
rock memoir Rat Girl, discusses her new
book, which offers a personal, empathetic
look at the creative genius and oftentormented life of singer-songwriter Vic
Chesnutt. Post-talk performance by Hersh
to follow.
Bookstores.
FREEMAN’S Release Party with John
Freeman and Aleksandar Hemon
Mon, Oct 5, 7pm
The Hideout (1354 W Wabansia Ave)
Celebrate the inaugural issue of
FREEMAN’S, a new serial literary
anthology edited by former Granta editor
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Campus Edges Tours
Sat, Oct 3, 11am–8pm, and Saturdays,
Oct 10, 17, and 18, 10am–5pm
Beginning at the Logan Center
The University of Chicago’s Campus
Edges shuttle tour will visit various sites
of architectural activity and speculation
on and around the University’s Hyde Park
campus. Shuttles run every hour.
Presented by the UChicago Urban Network.
Free, registration required (omsa.
uchicago.edu/heritage-series).
Presented by the Office of Multicultural
Student Affairs, Center for the Study of
Race, Politics & Culture, Center for the Study
of Gender and Sexuality, and Committee on
Creative Writing. Creative Writing.
Naja Marie Aidt: Reading and
Conversation with Susan Harris
Tue, Oct 6, 6pm
Acclaimed Danish short story writer and
poet Naja Marie Aidt, whose previous
work has been awarded the Nordic
Council’s Literature Prize and the Danish
Critics Prize for Literature, reads from and
discusses her debut novel Rock, Paper,
Scissors, a breathtaking page-turner
and complex portrait of a man whose
life slowly devolves into violence and
jealousy. Susan Harris, editorial director of
Words without Borders, will join Naja in
conversation.
Bookstores and Open Letter Books.
Poetry & Classics
Tue, Oct 20, 6pm
Gray Center Lab
This workshop series continues with
presentations by Devin King and Stephen
Williams, who will read from the work
of Statius and the Homeric Hymns,
respectively. Free. Presented by the
Department of Classics in partnership with
the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.
Neubauer Collegium Director’s
Lecture: Robert Alter, The Challenges of
Translating the Bible
Thu, Oct 8, 6–7:30pm
Mandel Hall
Professor Robert Alter (University of
California, Berkeley) has written widely
on such topics as the European novel
from the 18th century to the present;
contemporary American fiction; modern
Hebrew literature; and the Bible’s literary
aspects. Alter’s 22 published books
include two prize-winning volumes on
biblical narrative and poetry, and awardwinning translations of Genesis and
the Five Books of Moses. In 2009, he
received the Los Angeles Times’ Robert
Kirsch Award for lifetime contribution to
American letters.
The Graywolf Poetry Tour: Mary Jo Band,
Nick Flynn, and Diane Seuss
Tue, Oct 13, 6pm
Three poets published by leading
Minneapolis-based nonprofit press
Graywolf Press come to Chicago to
read from their most recent collections.
Introductory remarks by Srikanth Reddy,
UChicago professor of English.
Bookstores and Graywolf Press.
Reading by Vu Tran
Thu, Oct 15, 6pm
Vu Tran reads from his debut
novel Dragonfish, called “that rare
hybrid marvel—a literary thriller,
a narrative of migration and loss
that upends the conventions
of any form.” Tran’s fiction
has appeared in the O. Henry
Prize Stories, A Best of Fence,
The Southern Review, Harvard
Review, and others. He received a
2009 Whiting Writers’ Award and
was a 2011 Finalist Award for the
Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise.
Tran is an Assistant Professor
of Practice in the Arts in the
UChicago Department of English.
Free. Co-presented by the
Seminary Co-op Bookstores
and the Committee on Creative
Writing..
Nicolas Lampert: A People’s Art History
of the United States
Mon, Oct 19 6pm
Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert
discusses his “much welcome, fresh view
of American political art” (Paul Buhle),
which introduces key works of American
radical art alongside dramatic retellings of
the histories that inspired them.
Bookstores.
Reading by Henri Cole
Thu, Oct 22, 5pm
Logan Center Seminar Terrace
Room
Poet Henri Cole reads from
his latest collection of poems,
Nothing to Declare. Cole has
published nine collections of
poetry, including Middle Earth,
a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
Poetry. He has received many
awards for his work, including the
Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts
Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin
Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship,
and the Lenore Marshall Award.
Free. Co-presented by the
Committee on Social Thought
and the Program in Poetry and
Poetics.
OMSA Heritage Series: Junot Díaz
Mon, Oct 19, 7pm
Mandel Hall
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz
will discuss his works in light of current
events and the changing landscape for
writers of color.
Michael N. McGregor and Don
Share – Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of
Robert Lax
Wed, Oct 28, 6pm
Pure Act tells the story of poet Robert Lax,
whose quest to live a true life as both an
artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas
Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell,
and many others. Acclaimed author, writer,
and teacher Michael McGregor, Lax’s
friend for over a decade, will discuss Lax’s
uncommon life and legacy with Poetry
magazine editor Don Share.
Bookstores and the Point Magazine.
Reading by Eileen Myles
Thu, Oct 29, 6pm
Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room
New York-based poet, novelist, performer,
and art journalist Eileen Myles, described
in Artforum as “one of the most restless
minds in contemporary lit,” reads from
new and unpublished work. Myles is the
author of nineteen books, including I
Must Be Living Twice and Chelsea Girls.
She received a Warhol/Creative Capital
art writers’ grant for The Importance
of Being Iceland and the Shelley Prize
from the Poetry Society of America.
She is currently a Guggenheim fellow
and in 2014 received a grant from the
Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Free. Presented by the Program in Poetry
and Poetics and Poem Present.
The New Speak
Saturdays, Oct 31, 5–6pm; Nov 21 and
Dec 5, 4:30–6pm
Logan Center
Participate as a performer or audience
member in this spoken word event for
teens, hosted by the Rebirth Poetry
Ensemble. The New Speak takes place
following Logan Center Family Saturdays,
a monthly series for families with children
ages 2–14. Families with teens now have
another reason to spend their Saturday at
the Logan Center!
Arts + Public Life.
Bonnie Jo Campbell with Randy Albers:
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters
Tue, Nov 3, 6:30pm
National Book Award finalist Bonnie
Jo Campbell discusses her highly
anticipated story collection Mothers, Tell
Your Daughters with fellow writer Randy
Albers. Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author
of the best-selling novel Once Upon a
River and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. Free. Presented by the Seminary Co-op
Bookstores.
Poetry Reading: Matthew Minicucci,
Caleb Curtiss, and Charlotte Pence
Thu, Nov 5, 6pm
Three award-winning poets read from
their most recent collections.
Bookstores.
Reading by Anne Boyer
Thu, Nov 5, 6pm
Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room
Poet Anne Boyer reads from new and
unpublished work. Boyer is the author
of two books of poetry, Garments
Against Women and The Romance of
Happy Workers, as well as a number
of chapbooks, including A Form of
Sabotage. Her essays have appeared in
The New Inquiry, Guernica, Mute, and
others. Her forthcoming works include a
novel, Joan, and poetry collection, Money
City Sick as Fuck. She is an assistant
professor of liberal arts at the Kansas City
Art Institute.
and Poetics and the New Voices Reading
Series.
Reading by Joyelle McSweeney
Thu, Nov 12, 6pm
Logan Center Seminar Terrace Room
Joyelle McSweeney reads from her latest
poetry. McSweeney is the author of six
books of poetry, prose and, often, plays:
Salamandrine: 8 Gothics; Percussion
Grenade; Flet; Nylund, the Sarcographer;
The Commandrine; and The Red Bird,
selected in 2001 by Allen Grossman to
inaugurate the Fence Modern Poets
Series. McSweeney has a BA from Harvard
University; an MPhil in English Studies
from Oxford University, where she was
a Marshall Scholar; and an MFA from the
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She
teaches at the University of Notre Dame.
and Poetics and Poem Present.
Reading by Garth Risk
Hallberg: City on Fire
Wed, Nov 11, 6pm
Garth Risk Hallberg reads from
and discusses his debut novel,
City on Fire. An epic exploration
of love, betrayal, forgiveness,
art, truth, and rock’n’roll set
against the gritty backdrop of
1970s New York City, the book
has been called a “remarkably
assured, multivalent tale” (Kirkus)
reminiscent of Price, Wolfe,
Franzen, Wallace, and DeLillo.
Hallberg’s previous stories, essays,
and reviews have appeared in
The New York Times Magazine,
The Los Angeles Times, and The
Millions.
Free.
Presented by the Seminary Co-op
Bookstores.
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John Freeman. Freeman and Aleksandar
Hemon will discuss today’s literature
landscape, raise a toast to launch the issue,
and read selections from the first issue,
collected around the theme of “Arrival.”
Bookstores.
Gregory Sholette: Precarious Workers of the (Art) World Unite!, Fri, Oct 9, 4pm
Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin
Family Lectures – Amitav Ghosh:
The Great Derangement: Fiction,
History, and Politics in the Age
of Global Warming
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Sep
29–30 and Oct 6–7, 5:30–7 pm
The Division of the Humanities
welcomes award-winning
author Amitav Ghosh to campus
for the annual Berlin Family
Lectures. Over four consecutive
lectures that will be published
by the University of Chicago
Press, Ghosh will investigate
global warming through the
lenses of fiction, history, and
politics. More information at
berlinfamilylectures.uchicago.edu.
Free. Presented by UChicago’s
Division of the Humanities.
Gregory Sholette: Precarious Workers of
the (Art) World Unite!
Fri, Oct 9, 4pm
Artist, writer, and activist Gregory Sholette
will discuss two politically-engaged artistic
endeavors: first, tactics used by the Gulf
Labor Coalition to call attention to the
plight of migrant workers in Abu Dhabi,
site of a new Guggenheim Museum; and
second, Marina Naprushkina’s “artificial
institution,” a sustainable art project
serving the needs of refugees fleeing
Details at neubauercollegium.uchicago.
edu/events.
Collegium for Culture and Society, Critical
Inquiry, Art History, DOVA, and Art and
Public Life.
Amplifying a Necessary Space: Sounding
Out 20 Years of Chicago’s Asian
American Jazz Festival, with Tatsu Aoki
Fri, Oct 9, 5:30pm
Gray Center Lab
Panel discussion and concert featuring
Tatsu Aoki and the Miyumi Project. Aoki is
the founding organizer of Chicago’s Asian
American Jazz Festival, whose exploration
of jazz experimentalism and Japanese
American Taiko drumming provide
examples of the strategies musicians employ
as they navigate experiences of migration,
contemporary US identity politics, and the
poetics and pragmatics of improvisation
and collaboration within and across multiple
musical and cultural traditions. More
information at graycenter.uchicago.edu.
Free. Presented by the Chicago Studies
Workshop and the Gray Center for Arts
and Inquiry.
MSA Eid-al-Adha Cultural Celebration
Fri, Oct 9, 6–9:30pm
International House, Assembly Hall
Commemorating the ending of the Hajj
(pilgrimage) and grounded in the roots of
Abrahamic sacrifice, Eid-al-Adha is both a
feast and a celebration. Rooted in the idea
that societal change requires great sacrifice
and personal commitment, an idea not
limited to Islamic teachings, this celebration
is accessible to all and serves as the
backdrop to an evening of humor, culture,
and activism.
Tickets. Presented by the Global Voices
Performing Arts Series and the Muslim
Students Association.
Humanities Day 2015: Press Play
Sat, Oct 17, 9:30am–4:30pm
Stuart Hall (5835 S Greenwood Ave)
Celebrate the humanities at this annual
event of lectures, tours, and performances
from UChicago faculty members. Choose
from more than forty presentations
throughout the day on the visual arts,
literature, music, linguistics, philosophy,
languages, and more.
Free, registration required (humanitiesday.
uchicago.edu, 773.702.7423). Presented
by UChicago’s Division of the Humanities.
Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera /
Humanities Day
Sat, Oct 17, 2–3pm
Location TBD
A discussion of the opera Afterword
with George Lewis, Sean Griffin, James
Chandler, and Jacqueline Stewart.
Created at the Gray Center for Arts and
Inquiry to premiere at MCA Chicago Oct
16–17, Afterword is a Bildungsoper—a
coming-of-age opera of ideas and
Sexing Sound: Gender Sound Music
Thu, Oct 22, 7pm
Presented as part of Sexing Sound:
Gender Sound Music, a series of
performances, installations, and
panel discussions that examine the
manifestations, contestations, and
provocations of gender and sexuality
in contemporary music and sound art,
this performances features Annie Goh
(Germany), feminist sound artist and
performer; and Lynn Book (US) and
Katherina Klement (Austria), who take
atypical approaches to voice, piano, body,
and performance. Information at goethe.
de/sexingsound.
Free. Presented by Experimental Sound
Studio, Goethe-Institut Chicago, the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Northwestern University, and UChicago.
$10–20 (tickets.chicagohumanities.org).
Presented by the Gray Center for Arts and
Inquiry and the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Chicago Humanities Festival Hyde Park
Day: Citizens
Logan Center
The Chicago Humanities Festival returns
to the UChicago campus for a daylong
exploration of inquiry and impact featuring
an exciting lineup of thought-provoking
scholars, writers, and performers.
$5–12 (tickets.chicagohumanities.org,
312.494.9509).
Presented by Chicago Humanities Festival.
The Franke Institute for the Humanities
Presents Hillary Chute on Disaster
Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and
Documentary Form
Wed, Nov 4, 5:15–6pm
Gleacher Center, Room 621 (450 N
Cityfront Plaza Dr)
The Franke Forum is a series of free public
talks by renowned UChicago scholars.
Hillary Chute is Associate Professor in
the Department of English Language
and Literature and the College. More
information at franke.uchicago.edu.
Free. Please RSVP by Fri, Oct 30
([email protected],
773.702.8274). Sponsored by the Franke
Institute for the Humanities.
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Various dates, including Sun, Oct 25,
5:30–6:30pm
Location TBD
The Gray Center hosts arts activist, spoken
word artist, and librettist Marc Bamuthi
Joseph for a multi-day research visit
around his project /peh-LO-tah/, a new
performance work that springs from a
hypothesis about links between the sport
of soccer, local and global economic
hierarchies, fan behaviors, political
allegiances, and sexual proclivities. More
International Korean Traditional
Performing Arts Competition
Sat, Nov 7, 3–7pm
The International Korean Traditional
Performing Art Committee, through
professional dance activities, establishes
the status of Korea and presents
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testament—whose libretto is drawn from
A Power Stronger Than Itself (University
of Chicago Press), George Lewis’s 2008
book on the Chicago-born, internationally
acclaimed African American experimental
music collective, the Association for the
Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Free, reservations required
(humanitiesday.uchicago.edu).
Presented by the Gray Center for Arts
and Inquiry, the Center for the Study of
Race, Politics & Culture, and UChicago
Humanities Day.
Lenka Lichtenberg & Fray, Thu, Nov 12, 7:30–9:30pm
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Image: James T. Green, Official (Original),
2015, animated GIF, installation view as
part of Three the Hard Way exhibition.
Giuliana Bruno – Surface: Matters of
Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media
Thu, Nov 12, 5pm
Professor Bruno, Emmet Blakeney Gleason
Professor of Visual and Environmental
Studies at Harvard University, is
internationally known for her research
on the intersections of the visual arts,
architecture, film, and media. Bruno will
discuss her latest research and book,
Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality,
and Media (UChicago Press, 2014). Atlas
of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture,
and Film (Verso, 2002) won the 2004
Kraszna-Krausz Book Award in Culture and
History—a prize awarded to “the world’s
best book on the moving image”—and has
provided new directions for visual studies.
Free. Presented by the Arts, Science &
Culture Initiative and Cinema and Media
Studies.
Ariella Azoulay – “Kill Me If You Wish
To”: Imperial Violence and the Common
Fri, Nov 13, 4pm
Professor, curator, and documentary
filmmaker Ariella Azoulay will present a
paper on three moments when someone
cries “kill me if you wish to”: Pende rebellion
(1931), Stephane Charbonier (Charlie
Hebdo), and Zakary Zubeide (2001). From
these three moments she reconstructs a
struggle between the Western modality
of producing art (objects of critical
inquiry) and other modalities Details at
Collegium for Culture and Society, Critical
Inquiry, Art History, DOVA, and Art and
Public Life.
A Voice as Something More: An
International Conference
Fri, Nov 20, 9:30am–Sun, Nov 22, 12pm
Society, Logan Center, and Film Studies
Center
This conference will mark the coming
of age of voice studies in a new guise,
from the psychoanalytically-oriented
philosophical approach to an assemblage
of material, grounded, embodied ones that
find something more substantial in voice.
Papers will range over recorded sound,
Jamaican pop singing, ventriloquized
voice, opera, Chinese voice theory, and
more. The keynote will be delivered by
French film theorist and composer Michel
Chion. Slovenian philosopher Mladen
Dolar will act as conference respondent.
More information at neubauercollegium.
uchicago.edu/faculty/the_voice_project.
Collegium for Culture and Society,
Franke Institute for the Humanities, and
Department of Music.
Comedy, an Issue: Infrastructures for the
Comedic Conference
Dec 10–11, all day
Society
This workshop conference for Critical
Inquiry’s upcoming special issue will give
both authors and audience a shot at
addressing the trouble comedy can make.
Comedy seems to get in trouble with more
frequency than other modes, practices,
and attitudes, making us uncertain of what
we are to feel or judge—an uncertainty
that is only sometimes a delight. How do
comedy’s scale-shifting, form-breaking
tendencies impact art, law, intimacy,
the everyday, philosophy, and beyond?
Participants include Mark McGurl, Sianne
Ngai, David Simon, Peter Goodrich, Glenda
Carpio, and Anca Parvulescu. Details at
Vends + Vibes: An Arts Marketplace
Sat, Dec 12–Sun, Dec 13, 2015
Arts Incubator
A boutique winter marketplace of
handmade crafts and unique products
soundtracked by Chicago DJs. This familyfriendly event also includes artist-led
activities for kids, an open bar with seasonal
drinks, and open studios of the Arts + Public
Life/Center for the Study of Race, Politics &
Culture Artists-in-Residence.
Free admission. Presented by Arts +
Public Life.
MUSIC
World Music Festival Chicago — Double
Bill: Fareed Ayaz & Abu Muhammad; Aziz
Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa
Sat, Sep 19, 7pm
Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad
celebrate the art of Qawwali, a traditional
form of Sufi Muslim music. Weaving
together the devotional and secular, Ayaz
and company have been bringing Qawwali
music to international audiences for over
thirty years. The double-bill is shared by
Moroccan poet-singer Aziz Sahmaoui,
whose music creates harmony between
Maghreb rock, jazz, and gnawa music.
Free. Presented by the Logan Center,
Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN),
and World Music Festival Chicago.
Climbing the Carillon Tower
Weekdays throughout the academic
year beginning Mon, Sep 21, 11:30am and
4:30pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Newly-arrived University Carillonneur Joey
Brink plays everything from medieval to
newly composed carillon music on the
bells and invites students to find out what
it takes to play! Climb the tower and see
the huge bells up close.
$5 donation, free with UCID.
Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.
Latino Music Festival: La Catrina Quartet
Tue, Sep 22, 7pm
Since its founding in 2007, La Catrina
String Quartet has been recognized as
the new vanguard for contemporary
Latin American string quartet repertoire.
The group is deeply commitment to
cultivating new works by living composers
General $10, students $5 (tickets.
Presented by the International Latino
Cultural Center and the Logan Center.
Conversation with Riccardo Muti
Mon, Sep 21, 6pm
The evening of Opening
Convocation will feature a
conversation between Maestro
Riccardo Muti, music director
of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, and Phillip Huscher,
the CSO’s program annotator.
The CSO celebrates its own 125th
season in 2015–16. President
Robert J. Zimmer will deliver
opening remarks.
Free, RSVP recommended
ARTS). Presented by the Logan
Center, the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, and University of
Chicago: 125 Years of Inquiry and
Impact.
throughout the Americas; programming
existing Latin American works rarely
performed in the US and abroad; and
bringing fresh interpretations to classical,
romantic, and 20th-century masterpieces.
More information at latinomusicfest.org.
Sunday at Rockefeller
Sun, Sep 27, 11am
Rockefeller Chapel
The Decani sing music of Renaissance
master Palestrina in the majestic acoustic
of Rockefeller Chapel. Sunday services
draw from ancient and contemporary
sources; the table is always open to
all. Followed at 12:30pm by the annual
Blessing of the Animals.
Tea & Pipes
Tuesdays, Sep 29–Dec 1, 2015
Rockefeller Chapel (Dec 1 performance in
Bond Chapel)
Come every Tuesday, help yourself to
tea and biscuits, and listen to music from
around the world on the University’s grand
8,565 pipe E.M. Skinner organ, played
by University organist Thomas Weisflog
and guests, including students from the
Chapel’s organ studio.
International House Founder’s Day with
Celebrating 20 Years of Chicago AsianAmerican Jazz with Yoko Noge and the
Jazz Me Blues
Fri, Oct 2, 5:30–7:30pm
International House Assembly Hall
Yoko Noge moved from Osaka to Chicago
in 1984 to pursue her interest in blues
music. The Jazz Me Blues, formed in
1987, melds an incredible mix of Chicago
blues, jazz, Japanese music, and Noge’s
compositions. Comprised of Noge and
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excellence in Korean culture. This
competition allows artists to showcase
their talents and love of Korean arts,
encompassing dance, singing, and
traditional instruments.
Free. Presented by the Global Voices
Performing Arts Series, the International
Korean Traditional Performing Art
Committee, and the Consulate General of
the Republic of Korea in Chicago.
Hyde Park Jazz Festival
Sat, Sep 26, 1pm–midnight and Sun, Sep 27, 1–8 pm
This annual festival features the finest in local jazz
and national and international jazz artists presenting
concerts, talks, and screenings in diverse venues.
An outdoor dance floor; food, beverage, and artisan
vendors; picnic areas; family programming round
out the event. Information and full schedule at
hydparkjazzfestival.org.
Sat, Sep 26
Tatsu Aoki: Miyumi Project
1–2pm / Smart Museum of Art
Slideshow & Discussion –
Tangible Sounds: Lauren
Deutsch and 25 Years of
Photographing the AACM
1–2pm / Logan Center
Screening Room
Justefan Group
1:30–2:30pm /
Wagner Stage at the Midway
Screening: RADHE RADHE:
Rites of Holi
2:30–3:15pm /
Isaiah Collier &
Thaddeus Tukes
2:30–3:30pm /
Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall
Whirlpool with Ron Miles
2:30–3:30pm/ Smart Museum
of Art
Dana Hall/
Nick Mazzarella Duo
3–4pm/ Logan Center
Mike Allemana & Matt
Ferguson
6–6:30pm / Robie House
Ferguson
Performance Penthouse. Free
tickets required; available 30
minutes prior to show (tickets.
Mary Stallings & Bruce Barth
7:15–8:15pm / Logan Center
Performance Hall
Ambrose Akinmusire: banyan
Performance Hall
The Eternals
7:15–8:15pm / West Stage at
the Midway
Pharez Whitted Group
3:30–4:30pm / Wagner Stage
at the Midway
Russ Johnson’s Headland
7:30–8:30pm / International
House
Screening & Discussion:
Scenes from Life
3:45–5pm / Logan Center
Screening Room
Tomeka Reid Ensemble
8:30-9:30pm / Wagner Stage
at the Midway
Fat Babies
the Midway
Rempis/Rosaly Duo
5–6pm / Logan Center
Performance Penthouse.
Free tickets required (tickets.
Ferguson
Ambrose Akinmusire: banyan
Performance Hall
five legendary Chicago musicians, the
band has performed at the Chicago Blues
Festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival, and
the Asian American Jazz Festival.
Performing Arts Series and Asian Improv
aRts Midwest.
Chicago Blues Legend Eddy Clearwater
Sat, Oct 3, 6:30–9pm
International House
Since 1932, International House has
Latino Music Festival: Being In The Moment
Sun, Oct 4, 3pm
An afternoon of improvised and
experimental music by Chicago-based
Latino composers and performers,
including Guillermo Gregorio, Frank
Rosaly, Alejandro T. Acierto, Gustavo
Leone, Elbio Barilari, Julia Miller, Rollo
Radford, and Ernie Adams. More
information at latinomusicfest.org.
Presented by the International Latino
Cultural Center and the Logan Center.
Angel d’Cuba
the Midway
Eric Schneider & Jeremy Kahn
Quartet
9:30–10:30pm / International
House
Henry Threadgill & David
Virelles
Performance Hall
Regina Carter & Xavier Davis
11pm–midnight / Rockefeller
Chapel
served the UChicago and greater
Chicago community as a residential
cultural center for international exchange
and understanding. Celebrate 83 years
of international friendship and public
programming with the high-energy
“rock-a-blues” vocals and guitar of the
legendary Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater.
Buffet at 6:30, concert at 7:45.
Performing Arts Series with generous
support from Bart Lazar, AB’82.
Sun, Sep 27
Bill McFarland &
the Chicago Horns
2–3pm / Wagner Stage at the
Midway
Mikel Patrick Avery: Parade
3–4pm / West Stage at the
Midway
Pat Mallinger Quartet with
Bill Carrothers
Midway
Juan Pastor: Chinchano
5–6pm / West Stage at the
Midway
Willie Pickens Quartet
Midway
Free, $5 donation requested.
Presented by the Hyde Park
Jazz Festival in collaboration
with UChicago Arts partners.
First Choral Sunday at Rockefeller
Sun, Oct 4, 11am
Rockefeller Chapel
Poet and writer Christian Wiman (My
Bright Abyss / Once in the West / Every
Riven Thing) offers the address at the
Sunday morning service, which is also the
first choral Sunday of the academic year,
featuring the newly auditioned students
of the Rockefeller Chapel Choir singing
Mozart’s Coronation Mass.
First Monday Jazz: Jimmy Bennington
Mon, Oct 5, 7–9pm
The October edition of this monthly
music series features Chicago-based
jazz drummer and avant-garde musician
Jimmy Bennington. Bennington studied
with Elvin Jones for eight years and has
been a significant part of the jazz and
improvised music communities for over
25 years. In Chicago, Bennington plays
regularly with Brian Smith, Fredrick
Jackson, Samuel Mösching, Dan Pierson,
Mike W Harmon, and Artie Black. His
current album was included in Downbeat
Magazine’s Best Recordings of 2014.
Piano Master Class with Eugene Gaub
Thu, Oct 8, 4pm
Fulton Recital Hall
Eugene Gaub, Associate Professor at
Grinnell College, specializes in works by
J.S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, György
Ligeti, John Adams, and complete cycles.
UChicago student pianists perform in this
Master Class, which is open to the public.
Free. Presented by the Department of Music.
Amplifying a Necessary Space: Sounding
Out 20 Years of Chicago’s Asian
American Jazz Festival, with Tatsu Aoki
Fri, Oct 9, 5:30pm
Gray Center Lab
Panel discussion and concert featuring
Tatsu Aoki and the Miyumi Project. Aoki is
the founding organizer of Chicago’s Asian
American Jazz Festival, whose exploration
of jazz experimentalism and Japanese
American Taiko drumming provide
examples of the strategies musicians
employ as they navigate experiences
of migration, contemporary US identity
politics, and the poetics and pragmatics
of improvisation and collaboration within
Latino Music Festival: Música
Temprana
Wed, Oct 14, 7pm
Música Temprana explores
repertoire from the Renaissance
and Baroque eras from Latin
America and other sources in
the former Spanish Empire.
The ensemble maps musical
developments in Latin
America from the moment
the conquistadores set foot in
the New World to the coming
of age of an independent
Latin American Baroque
repertoire. More information at
latinomusicfest.org.
Presented by the International
Latino Cultural Center and the
Logan Center.
and across multiple musical and cultural
traditions. More information at graycenter.
uchicago.edu.
Free. Presented by the Chicago Studies
Workshop and the Gray Center for Arts
and Inquiry.
Music of Polish Composers
Fri, Oct 9, 8pm
Fulton Recital Hall
Critically acclaimed pianist Svetlana
Belsky is an in-demand recitalist and
chamber musician noted for her stylistic
versatility and remarkable rapport with
audiences. Violinist Marta Szlubowska is
an acclaimed soloist, recitalist, chamber
musician, and teacher.
Newberry Consort: Music of Johann
Rosenmüller
Sat, Oct 10, 8pm
The acclaimed Newberry Consort,
specialists in early music and Department
of Music Artists-in-Residence, open
their 2015–16 season with a program of
instrumental and vocal music by Johann
Rosenmüller, a German-born Baroque
composer who spent much of his career
in Venice, and who played a significant
role in transmitting Italian musical styles to
Northern Europe.
General $35–50, students $5
(newberryconsort.org, 773.669.7335).
Presented by the Department of Music.
Chicago Folklore Ensemble
Thu, Oct 15, 7:30–9:30pm
International House
From the Serbian mountains of blood
and honey to the passionate coasts of
Argentina, from buses tearing through the
Thai countryside to sweet home Chicago,
string quartet and storyteller will take you
on a journey around the world, narrating
the sounds, tastes, and emotions stored
in the memories of Chicago immigrant
musicians.
Performing Arts Series and the Chicago
Folklore Ensemble with support from the
City of Chicago Department of Cultural
Affairs & Special Events and the Illinois
Arts Council.
Academy of St Martin in the
Fields Chamber Ensemble
Fri, Oct 16, 7:30pm
Mandel Hall
The Academy of St Martin in the
Fields opens the season with the
ensemble’s principal players for
a program of favorite chamber
works, including Schubert’s
expansive and epic Octet, Strauss,
and Mozart. 6:30pm lecture with
Woo-Chan Lee.
General $35, students $5
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Presented by UChicago Presents.
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Bossa Tres Group
2:30–3:30pm /
West Stage at the Midway
John Wojciechowski Quartet
Midway
Pacifica Quartet with Paul Lewis
Sun, Oct 18, 3pm
Pacifica Quartet, the Don Michael Randel
Ensemble-in-Residence, will perform
works by Ligeti, Beethoven, and Mozart
together with celebrated British pianist
Paul Lewis. 2pm lecture with Dan Wang.
Presented by UChicago Presents
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Fri, Oct 23, 7:30pm
The Julie and Parker Hall Annual Jazz
Concert opens Jazz at the Logan’s
third year with the series’ first vocalist.
Following her first-place win at the 2010
Thelonious Monk International Jazz
Competition, Cécile McLorin Salvant
has dazzled audiences wherever she
performs. 6pm Chicago Stage at the
Logan performance with Black Diamond,
in partnership with the Jazz Institute of
Chicago, at Café Logan.
The Carillon: Family Weekend Special
Fri, Oct 23 and Sat, Oct 24, 10am–4pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Climb the tower at your own pace,
wearing bear bells (we supply them!) to
warn others that you are coming! Try out
the bells for yourself, guided by University
Carillonneur Joey Brink and students from
the carillon studio.
Panel: Ankhrasmation and Improvisation
Sat, Oct 24, 4pm
Over nearly 50 years, Wadada Leo
University Choral Showcase:
Family Weekend Concert
Sat, Oct 24, 3pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Experience the 200 voices of the
University Chorus, Motet Choir,
and Women’s Ensemble as they
present an all-star concert this
Family Weekend.
Free. Presented by the
Department of Music.
University Symphony
Orchestra: Halloween Concerts
Sat, Oct 24, 7pm and 9pm
Mandel Hall
Maestra Barbara Schubert
thrills and delights with another
grand entrance to an exquisitely
decorated hall. Don’t be late or
you’ll miss the surprise! Hyde Park
School of Dance enhances this
year’s Legends of Yore program,
which features Wagner’s
Overture to The Flying Dutchman,
Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da
Rimini, Shore’s Lord of the Rings,
and The Devil’s Dance from The
Witches of Eastwick.
Free, donations requested:
general $10, UChicago students
and children $5.
Presented by the Department of
Music.
The Golden Quartet
Sat, Oct 24, 7pm
Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo
Smith, pianist Anthony Davis, bassist
John Lindberg, and drummer Mike Reed
perform a number of the visual scores
on display in Smith’s solo Renaissance
Society exhibition.
Wadada Leo Smith
Sun, Oct 25, 3pm
Presented in conjunction with the
Renaissance Society’s exhibition of his
scores, this concert features a solo trumpet
performance by Wadada Leo Smith.
Contempo: Shulamit Ran Portrait Concert
Tue, Oct 27, 7:30pm
The 51st season opens in celebration of
Shulamit Ran, recently retired artistic
director of Contempo (2002–2015). Ran
received the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and has
been awarded most major honors given to
US composers. The program features her
memorable and beloved works, beginning
with O The Chimneys (1969)—settings
of poems about those who perished in
the Holocaust. This evening concludes
with Bach Shards, commissioned in 2003
as part of the Brentano String Quartet’s
invitation to ten composers to write
companion pieces for Bach’s Art of Fugue.
Fauré Requiem
Sun, Nov 1, 11am
Rockefeller Chapel
The Fauré Requiem is sung in its entirety
by the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, but
in an order suited to an All Saints’ Day
liturgical performance. James Kallembach
conducts, and Thomas Weisflog
accompanies on the organ.
Presented by the Logan Center and the
DuSable Museum of African American
History.
Bach Collegium Japan
Thu, Oct 29, 7:30pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Hailed by BBC Music Magazine
as “The Kings from the East,”
Bach Collegium Japan is joined
by English soprano Joanne
Lunn, “the ideal Bach soprano…
intelligence and tonal beauty
in one” to present gems of the
Baroque era. They will perform
works by Bach, Vivaldi, and
Handel.
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University New Music Ensemble
Sun, Nov 1, 3pm
Fulton Recital Hall
The New Music The New Music Ensemble
is a group of highly accomplished
musicians devoted in part to presenting
world premieres of works by UChicago
graduate students in composition. The
Nov 1 program includes recent works by
Jack Hughes, Will Myers, Tim Page, Igor
Santos, and Kate Pukinskis, plus music
by Lee Weisert, performed by Artistin-Residence Amy Briggs, the Spektral
Quartet, and guest artists including
baritone Matthew Lake.
Music.
Val Gray Ward Homecoming: My Soul as
a Witness
Sun, Nov 1, 5:30pm
Val Gray Ward returns to Chicago with
a performance of My Soul as a Witness,
featuring original music by the Robert
Irving III Quintet and special guest vocalist
Joan Collaso, both of whom are original
members of Kuumba Theatre.
Adults $20, students $10 (tickets.
First Monday Jazz: The Bridge
Mon, Nov 2, 7–9pm
As part of a multi-year collaboration
between Chicago and French jazz artists,
The Bridge holds a performance at the
Arts Incubator. Like all French-American
ensembles that cross The Bridge for the
first time, the members of this quartet
have never played together outside a
few preparation sessions between each
saxophonist and the drummer.
Trio Leimgruber-Demierre-Phillips
Tue, Nov 3, 8pm
Bond Chapel
2015 is an anniversary year for this trio,
who have been improvising together for
15 years. It is also the 80th birthday of
member Barre Phillips, a bassist who has
been at the center of new movements
in free jazz in the US and Europe since
the 1960s. Phillips joins Swiss musicians
Urs Leimgruber and Jacques Demierre
on saxophone and piano, respectively, to
create musical relationships that are at
once intimate and surprising, subtle and
intense.
Society with support from the Swiss
Benevolent Society, Pro Helvetia, and
Fondation-Suisa.
The Bridge
Mon, Nov 4, 7–9pm
As part of a multi-year collaboration
between Chicago and French jazz artists,
The Bridge holds a performance at the
Arts Incubator. Like all French-American
ensembles that cross The Bridge for the
first time, the members of this quartet
have never played together outside a
few preparation sessions between each
saxophonist and the drummer.
Free. Presented by the France Chicago
Center.
Billy Childs Quintet with Becca Stevens,
Alicia Olatuja, and Spektral Quartet
Thu, Nov 5, 7:30pm
Pianist/composer Billy Childs remains
one of the most diversely prolific and
acclaimed artists working in music today.
He brings his latest project of music,
inspired by singer-songwriter Laura Nyro,
to the Logan Center. 6:30pm conversation
with Billy Childs and Travis Jackson.
Music From Korea
Fri, Nov 6, 7pm
Chicago’s Access Contemporary Music
(ACM) teams up with the Seoul-based
Korean National Composers Association
to present a concert of music from three
generations of leading contemporary
Korean composers. The music will be
performed by ACM’s resident ensemble
Palomar, on flute, clarinet, violin, cello,
piano, and percussion.
Advance $12, door $20, students/seniors
$8 (tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS).
Free w/UCID. Presented by the Global
Voices Performing Arts Series and Access
Contemporary Music.
Youth Choral Festival Concert
Sat, Nov 7, 5pm
Be inspired as Youth Choral Festival
participants join Chicago a cappella
onstage for the performance finale to
the fifth annual Youth Choral Festival, a
daylong event where student ensembles
work with Chicago a cappella directors
and singers in workshops, master classes,
and rehearsals. The concert will feature
all participating student ensembles, our
High School Intern ensemble, and Chicago
a cappella—each performing alone and
together as a large festival choir.
(chicagoacappella.org).
Presented by Chicago a cappella.
Voices of Kristallnacht
Sun, Nov 8, 3pm
Rockefeller Chapel
A performance of sacred Jewish music,
paying homage to the majestic service
music for choir and organ in use at the
time of Kristallnacht (Nov 9–10, 1938), in
collaboration with Cantor David Berger of
KAM Isaiah Israel. The concert features the
cantorial repertoire of Louis Lewandowski,
Solomon Sulzer, Heinrich Schalit, and Max
Janowski; motets by Salomone Rossi; the
“cathedral” version of Leonard Bernstein’s
Chichester Psalms, with organ and
percussion; and Bernstein’s rarely-heard
Hashkiveinu. Thomas Weisflog plays the
E.M. Skinner organ.
Logan Center Third Tuesday Jazz: Eric
Schneider & Jeremy Kahn
Tue, Oct 20, 7:30–10:30pm
Café Logan
Saxophonist and clarinetist Eric Schneider
and pianist Jeremy Kahn hold down the
October showcase of Chicago jazz. The
Hyde Park Jazz Society selects local jazz
musicians to perform on the third Tuesday
of every month at Café Logan. Enjoy beer,
wine, a full coffee bar, and food along with
some of the best jazz the city has to offer.
Hyde Park Jazz Society with additional
support by WDCB.
Smith has developed a systemic musical
language, Ankhrasmation, whose scores
eschew traditional notation in favor of
symbolic compositions of line, color, and
shape. Here he discusses the relationship
of his scores to improvisational music
practice with Anthony Davis, John
Corbett, and Hamza Walker.
General $20, students free (rockefeller.
uchicago.edu). Presented by Rockefeller
Chapel with KAM Isaiah Israel.
Lenka Lichtenberg & Fray
Thu, Nov 12, 7:30–9:30pm
Czech-born Canadian chanteuse Lenka
Lichtenberg creates soundscapes of
mesmerizing grandeur and beauty.
Singing in six languages, Lichtenberg
ranges from innovative expressions of
Eastern European and Middle Eastern
traditional music to her own compositions
which meld European roots with North
American jazz, Brazilian samba, Indian
classical, and more into soulful global
grooves. Her Toronto-based band Fray
plays global fusion, jazz and traditional
musicians from around the world.
General $12, students $5, free for I-House
Residents. Presented by the Global Voices
Performing Arts Series.
HotHouse Presents: 2nd Annual Old and
New Dreams Festival
Fri–Sat, Nov 13–14, 8pm; free community
matinee Sat, Nov 14, 1pm
A multi-arts celebration featuring over 20
artists rarely seen in Chicago, including
Odeon Pope, Brahim Fribgane, Adam
Rudolph, and Peter Apfelbaum.
VIP $40, general $30, UChicago
students $15 (hothouse.net). Presented
by HotHouse Center for International
Performance and Exhibition and the
Logan Center.
Arcanto Quartet
Fri, Nov 13, 7:30pm
Mandel Hall
Four musical soulmates—Antje Weithaas,
Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann, and
Jean-Guihen Queyras—founded the
Arcanto Quartet in 2002 and took the
chamber music world by storm with
their spirited playing, fueled by the joy
of bringing music to life in the world’s
greatest concert halls. They will perform
works of Bach, Schumann, and Smetana.
6:30pm lecture with Zach Loeffler.
University Wind Ensemble
Sun, Nov 15, 4pm
Under the baton of Director Chip De
Stefano, the University Wind Ensemble
performs music of Ralph Vaughan
Williams, Frank Ticheli, Václav Nelhybel,
Edward Elgar, and John Philip Sousa.
Women’s Ensemble with Artemisia
Sun, Nov 15, 7:30pm
Bond Chapel
Artemisia is a Chicago-based female
vocal trio that highlights the power of
the female voice with an intimacy of
sound and space. This unprecedented
joint concert with the UChicago Women’s
Ensemble, directed by Mollie Stone, brings
groundbreaking new music to UChicago
audiences.
Frédéric Blanc in recital
Tue, Nov 17, 7:30pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Parisian organist Frédéric Blanc presents a
recital on Chicago’s finest pipes.
Free. Presented by the American Guild of
Organists and Rockefeller Chapel.
Logan Center Third Tuesday Jazz:
Ernest Dawkins
Tue, Nov 17, 7:30–10:30pm
Café Logan
Saxophonist, composer, and founder
of the Englewood Jazz Festival, Ernest
Dawkins holds down the November
showcase of Chicago jazz. The Hyde Park
Jazz Society selects local jazz musicians
to perform on the third Tuesday of every
month at Café Logan. Enjoy beer, wine, a
full coffee bar, and food along with some
of the best jazz the city has to offer.
Hyde Park Jazz Society with additional
support by WDCB.
Spektral Quartet: Music of Prokofiev,
Schubert, Beethoven, and Cage
Thu, Nov 19, 7:30pm
The Spektral Quartet focuses on four
titans of music history, performing
Schubert’s Quartettsatz, Beethoven’s
Große Fuge, Cage’s Quartet in Four
Parts, and Prokofiev’s String Quartet
No. 1. With the intimate Logan Center
Performance Penthouse as the backdrop
for a prismatic menu, this UChicago
Ensemble-in-Residence fosters a fresh
dialogue between musical eras, unveiling
compelling connections that underlie the
diverse compositional styles.
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Fri, Nov 20, 7:30pm
Kristian Bezuidenhout has been praised
by The Boston Globe as “a vigorously
intelligent musician, well equipped
with the technique to back up some
extraordinary new ideas about old music.”
The winner of both the prestigious
first prize and the audience prize at
the Bruges International Fortepiano
Competition, Bezuidenhout performs on
this rarely-heard instrument a dynamic
program including works by C.P.E. Bach
and Mozart. 6:30pm lecture with Robert
Kendrick.
Fortepiano Workshop with Leslie Tung
Sat, Nov 21, 4pm
Fulton Recital Hall
Leslie Tung has been praised for his “sense
of history, combined with skill and heart”
(Stereophile) and his interpretations on
the classic fortepiano, the instrument
favored by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and
other Classical Era composers.
Middle Eastern Music Ensemble
Sat, Nov 21, 7pm
Director Wanees Zarour takes the
50-piece Middle East Music Ensemble
on a tour of Western Asia and Egypt. Guest
vocalists and instrumentalists enhance the
dynamism of this standing-room-only event.
Free, donations requested: general $10,
UChicago students and children $5.
UChicago Brass Ensemble
Sun, Nov 22, 2pm
Fulton Recital Hall
The University of Chicago Brass Ensemble
presents classic and contemporary works
by Wagner, Albeniz, Frescobaldi, Mouret,
Byrd, and Brahms in various ensemble
configurations, including quintets,
quartets, and octets.
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Motet Choir and University Chamber
Orchestra
Sun, Nov 22, 3pm
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
The University Chamber Orchestra,
Motet Choir, and soloists from the Vocal
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heavy metal). Climb the tower to find out more.
10.27.15 TUES | 7:30 PM
CONTEMPO: SHULAMIT RAN PORTRAIT
REVA AND DAVID LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Performance Hall, 915 East 60th Street
Tickets $25 / $5 students
Rockefeller
Every weekday
11:30 am and 4:30 pm
773.702.ARTS (2787)
contempo.uchicago.edu
Marta Ptaszyńska, Artistic Director
CINEMA & MEDIA
DANCE
LITERATURE
MUSIC
PERFORMANCE
THEATER
VISUAL ART
The Logan Center is a multidisciplinary home for
the arts at the University of Chicago. Connect
with the Logan Center for concerts, exhibitions,
performances, programs, and more from worldclass, emerging, local, and student artists.
Gem of The Ocean, Sep 10–Oct 11, 2015
Studies Program perform Joseph Haydn’s
Lord Nelson Mass (Missa in Angustiis), a
Mass for troubled times. This compelling
masterwork is performed under the
baton of Matthew Sheppard, University
Chamber Orchestra Director, and James
Kallembach, Director of Choral Programs.
University Jazz X-tet
Thu, Dec 3, 8pm
Not your average jazz band – Hear
cutting-edge, genre-bending tunes from
the University’s premier student jazz
ensemble. Guest conductors, composers,
and performers appear to bring you the
best musical experience. Directed by
Mwata Bowden.
Music.
University Symphony Orchestra
Sat, Dec 5, 8pm
Mandel Hall
Known for its imaginative presentations
of unusual repertoire and powerful
performances of major symphonic
literature, the 100-member University
Symphony Orchestra presents a program
inspired in part by literature—with
Samuel Barber’s Overture to The School
for Scandal and Aaron Copland’s The
Red Pony—plus Dmitri Shostakovich’s
surprisingly playful and transparent
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major. Directed
by Barbara Schubert.
Free, donations requested: general $10,
UChicago students and children $5.
South Side Suzuki Student Recital
Sun, Dec 6, 2pm
An afternoon recital featuring South
Side Suzuki’s group class and solo
performances by violin and viola students
in the studios of Meredith Aska-McBride,
Voices In Your Head Concert
Fri, Dec 4, time TBA
Penthouse
Voices in Your Head is a co-ed,
student-run a cappella group
consisting of both undergraduate
and graduate students whose
studies range from Economics to
Sociology to MD/PhD programs.
The group’s self-arranged
repertoire spans a unique mix
of genres including pop, rock,
and alternative music as well as
original compositions. Voices in
Your Head competes annually in
the International Championship of
Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) and
travels nationally to perform at a
cappella festivals and tours.
Advance with UCID $7, general
$10. Presented by Voices in Your
Head and the Logan Center.
Allison Bengfort, Ria Hodgson, Isabelle
Rozendaal, and Lindsay Wright.
South Side Suzuki Cooperative.
Handel Messiah
Sun, Dec 6, 3pm
Rockefeller Chapel
James Kallembach conducts the
combined voices of Motet Choir, Chicago
Men’s A Cappella, and the University
Chorus in a two-hour version of the everloved Messiah, with soloists Elisabeth
Marshall (soprano), J’nai Bridges (alto),
Matthew Dean (tenor), Will Liverman
(bass), and the Rockefeller Chapel
Orchestra, led by concertmaster Jeri-Lou
Zike.
Preferred $50, general $25, students $10
(rockefeller.uchicago.edu or at the door).
Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.
Anonymous 4
Sun, Dec 20, 4pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Anonymous 4 takes its final
bows as a quartet, presenting an
anthology of their most beloved
songs in a concert titled The Last
Noel. From their earliest program,
An English Ladymass, through
their last Christmas recording,
The Cherry Tree, they have
chosen favorites that speak as
eloquently now as they did in the
Middle Ages. These are the songs
that the women of Anonymous 4
simply have to sing together one
last time.
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THEATER, DANCE
& PERFORMANCE
Gem of The Ocean
Sep 10–Oct 11, 2015
Court Theatre
Set at the turn of the century in
Pittsburgh, tensions flare into riots in the
African American community after a steel
mill worker drowns himself rather than
confessing to a crime he didn’t commit.
Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson continues
his triumphant tour through August
Wilson’s iconic century cycle with this
fantastical story of freedom, justice, and
redemption.
$15–38 (tickets.courttheatre.org,
773.753.4472).
Presented by Court Theatre.
Joshua Monten’s Verein Tough Love
Tue, Sep 29, 4:30–6pm
Logan Center Performance Lab 701
Choreographer Joshua Monten brings his
Switzerland-based dance company Verein
Tough Love to Chicago for a performance
of Doggy Style, a production at the
intersection of dance and sign language.
Free, seating limited (more information
at graycenter.uchicago.edu). Presented
by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry in
partnership with the Center for Gesture,
Sign and Language.
Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater:
Tales of Spain / Historias de España
Fri, Oct 2, 10:15am
Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater,
currently in residence at Northeastern
Illinois University, presents an open-to-thepublic multimedia daytime lecture concert
series geared especially toward grade
and high school students. Attendees will
view the three styles of Spanish dance
(flamenco, classical and folklore) and
engage in an audience participation
segment led by Artistic Director Irma
Suarez Ruiz.
Adults $3, students $2.50; student group
reservations receive 1 free chaperone
per 10 students (EnsembleEspanol.org/
education, 773.442.5916).
Presented by Ensemble Español Spanish
Dance Theater and Center.
Suburbia
Thu, Oct 1–Sat, Oct 3 and Thu,
Oct 8–Sat, Oct 10; Thursdays and
Fridays 7:30pm, Saturdays 2pm
and 7:30pm
Logan Center, Theater West
Burnfield, USA: where suburban
living is a comfort, a party,
and a trap. Here, a group of
20-somethings congregate
outside the local convenience
store to receive an old highschool buddy, now a successful
rockstar. As the booze-fueled
reunion careens late into the
night, the celebration gives
way to jealousies, passions,
confrontations, and, ultimately,
violence. In Eric Bogosian’s
Suburbia, home is not what
you remember. Written by Eric
Bogosian and directed by Shade
Murray. $6 advance, $8 door; free
performance Thu, Oct 1 (tickets.
Presented by Theater &
Performance Studies.
Satyagraha: The Power of Truth
Sat, Oct 3, 7:30pm
A collaborative multicultural work by
the Kalapriya Center and Deeply Rooted
Dance Theater, exploring nonviolent
protest and the journey into our inner
consciences.
Free. Presented by the Logan Center, Arts
+ Public Life, Kalapriya Center for Indian
Performing Arts, and Deeply Rooted
Dance Theater.
Theater[24]
Sat, Oct 3, 8pm
Reynolds Club, FXK Theater
Six teams of writers, directors, designers,
and actors bravely go where none have
gone before, where none will ever go again.
Theater[24] is theater for the bold, the
fanatical, the brilliant, the fierce. In 24 hours
of creating and existing, guzzling, birthing,
and revelling, anything could happen and
everything will. Theater if you dare.
Presented by Theater & Performance
Studies and University Theater.
Logan Center Cabaret Series
Fridays, Oct 9, Oct 23, Nov 6, Nov 20,
and Dec 4, 8pm
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Chicago a cappella for the holidays
Sun, Nov 29, 4pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Celebrate the winter season a cappella
style, as Chicago a cappella performs a
new collection of familiar and new music,
from traditional carols and Renaissance
works to Chanukah melodies, popular
holiday favorites, and Christmas spirituals.
$12–38 (chicagoacappella.org or at the
door). Presented by Chicago a cappella
and Rockefeller Chapel.
Pipes for the Season
Sun, Dec 13, 5pm
Rockefeller Chapel
Hear Thomas Weisflog and Thomas
Wikman play an hour of music, both
mystical and majestic, for the winter
season. Hot cider!
Ron OJ Parson Play Reading: Eden
Mon, Oct 12, 7pm
Court Theatre resident director and Joyce
Foundation supported artist Ron OJ
Parson presents a staged reading of Eden,
set in 1927 in New York City’s San Juan Hill
section, in which Joseph Barton, a recent
Caribbean immigrant and follower of
Marcus Garvey, discovers to his horror that
his daughter is keeping company with an
uneducated African American man from
the rural South.
Arts + Public Life.
Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera
Fri, Oct 16 and Sat, Oct 17, 7:30pm
(220 E Chicago Ave)
On the occasion of the Association for
the Advancement of Creative Musicians
(AACM)’s 50th anniversary, Gray Center
Mellon Fellows George Lewis, Catherine
Sullivan, and Sean Griffin join forces with
the International Contemporary Ensemble
to present the MCA Chicago premiere
of a multimedia opera: a coming-of age
story of ideas, positionality, and testament.
The libretto is drawn from Lewis’ 2008
book, A Power Stronger Than Itself:
The AACM and American Experimental
Music (University of Chicago Press). More
$10–30 (experience.mcachicago.org,
312.397.4010). Presented by the MCA
Stage New Works Initiative in association
with The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.
Artists-in-Residence Reunion and
Welcome Celebration
Tue, Oct 20, 7–9pm
Center for the Study of Race, Politics &
Culture, Community Room
(5733 S University Ave)
The Arts + Public Life, Center for the
Study of Race, Politics & Culture Artists-inResidence Program celebrates five years
by bringing together program alumni to
welcome the newest residents during a
night of performance and introduction
to the residency’s cultural offerings and
friends.
Free. Presented by Arts + Public Life and the
Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture.
OFF-OFF CAMPUS:
Ripley’s Believe it or Else
Thursdays, Oct 23–Nov 20, 8:30pm
The Revival (1160 E 55th St)
Off-Off Campus is the second oldest
student improvisational theater troupe in
the country, their first Generation forming
in 1986. Now in its 30th Generation,
Off-Off continues to serve up unique
weekly shows featuring sketch comedy,
improvisation, and various Pre- and
Afterglow performances from talented
and talentless groups across campus.
Alumni include playwrights David Auburn
and Greg Kotis, and innumerable writers,
performers, upstanding civilians, and
others who also turned out fine. See them
here first. Directed by Karlee Esmailli and
Peter Moller.
Presented by Theater & Performance
Studies and University Theater.
Krapp’s Last Tape
Thu, Oct 22–Fri, Oct 23, 7:30pm and Sat,
Oct 24, 2pm and 7:30pm
Logan Center Theater West
Birthdays are an ideal moment to look
back on the past and ruminate on what
went wrong. On his 69th birthday, an
aging and so far unsuccessful writer
indulges in an annual ritual of reflection
in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape,
directed by Jonathan Sorce. But in
confronting his former selves, he must
also confront his past full of missed
opportunities for happiness, traded for the
sake of his work.
$6 advance, $8 door; free performance
Thu, Oct 22 (tickets.uchicago.edu,
773.702.ARTS). Presented by Theater &
Performance Studies and University Theater.
A Weekend of Workshops
Thu, Oct 29–Fri, Oct 30, 7:30pm and Sat,
Oct 31, 2pm and 7:30pm
Directors, devisers and performers take
the stage to exercise and explore their
craft, choosing moments that probe
our relationship to danger. In The Fear,
Guatama Mehta uses Robert Frost’s text
to face the things that go bump in the
night. Lexi Turner imagines life in the
wake of violent acts in Women on Trial.
In Almondseed/Almondella ChristianNicholas Castro Romero confronts the
limits of ambition. Coriander Mayer’s The
Candles examines the world of Moby Dick.
Jackson Ruzzo ponders death, destiny,
and humanity in Variations on the Death
of Trotsky.
Thu, Oct 29 (tickets.uchicago.edu,
Agamemnon
Nov 5–Dec 6, 2015
Court Theatre
Renowned scholar and Founding
Artistic Director Nicholas Rudall
delivers the second installment
of Court’s groundbreaking
Greek Cycle, continuing the
harrowing tale of the House of
Atreus. Troy has been captured
and the Greeks will return to
Argos victorious, ten years after
the fleet sailed from Aulis on
winds conjured by the goddess
Artemis in exchange for the
sacrifice of King Agamemnon’s
eldest daughter Iphigenia.
Agamemnon’s wife Clytemnestra
orchestrates an unexpected
welcome for her King as she
awaits his return to a house torn
apart by horror and sorrow.
$15–38 (tickets.courttheatre.org,
773.753.4472).
Presented by Court Theatre.
Excerpts from TRIPTYCH: CYCLE
Thu, Nov 12, 6–7:30pm
Performance artist Barak adé Soleil
presents selections from TRIPTYCH:
CYCLE, a performance engaging
ephemeral, social and political legacies
within disability culture and “African-
Americana.” Included is #IAMCHAIR,
a performance intervention created in
Montréal in response to a cultural venue’s
inaccessibility. Presented as part of
Forms of Imagination during the Chicago
Architecture Biennial, this performance
draws attention to the need for cultural
spaces’ architects, designers, and
organizers to always consider how design
includes and excludes the audiences they
seek to reach.
UT/TAPS & Dean’s Men present
Twelfth Night
Thu, Nov 12–Fri, Nov 13, 7:30pm and Sat,
Nov 14, 2pm and 7:30pm
Gender is bent and friendship found in
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, presented
by the Dean’s Men, directed by Romina
Nemai, a comic tale of love and confusion
set in the Nineties—when sucking on a
pacifier in homeroom was chic, the Spice
Girls were hot, and belly button piercings
were un-ironic.
Thu, Nov 12 (tickets.uchicago.edu,
773.702.ARTS). Presented by Theater
& Performance Studies and University
Theater.
Miss Julie
Thu, Nov 19–Fri, Nov 20, 7:30pm and Sat,
Nov 21, 2pm and 7:30pm
Logan Center Theater East
In the corseted world of August
Strindberg’s Miss Julie, directed by Danielle
Weider, Victorian morality governs the
lives and affairs of all. Joined by a chorus,
speaking the language of vaudeville and
burlesque, Julie struggles to cast aside the
femininity imposed on her and her body.
Sex may be the key to freedom, but corset
strings are tough to break.
Thu, Nov 19 (tickets.uchicago.edu,
Urinetown
Thu, Dec 3–Fri, Dec 4, 7:30pm and Sat,
Dec 5, 2pm and 7:30pm
Logan Center Theater West
With music and lyrics by Greg Kotis
and book and lyrics by Mark Hollmann,
Urinetown, directed by Josh Harris, invites
us to a world not so unlike our own.
Where water is in short supply, peeing is
at a premium, and nothing is more serious
than the jokes. Social irresponsibility,
capitalism, the legal system, and society
itself are stirred up when the status quo is
confronted with a splash of the ridiculous.
Thu, Dec 3 (tickets.uchicago.edu,
One Tree, Many Branches
Sat, Dec 12, 7pm and Sun, Dec
13, 3pm
Muntu Dance Theatre explores
the interconnectivity of Jamaican,
Brazilian, and African American
music and dance from the
perspective of their common
ancestral roots. World renowned
choreographer Christopher A.
Walker will be in residence with
the Company, which will feature
the premier of a new work.
Concert $10–$30 (muntu.com,
773.241.6080).
Presented by Muntu Dance Theatre
of Chicago.
ENVIRONMENT OF CONCERN
Photographs by Alison Carey, Terry Evans,
Allison Grant, Michelle Keim, and Judy Natal
OPENING RECEPTION: OCTOBER 9, 6 P.M.
The Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Gallery
Catholic Theological Union
Upcoming exhibits at CTU:
December – January: Alexandrea Pataky,
Megan Sterling, and more
February – March: Joseph Malham
5416 S. Cornell Ave., Chicago
April – May: Jose Aleman Sasieta
www.ctu.edu
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Logan Center Performance Penthouse (Oct
23: Logan Center Performance Lab 501)
Every other week, the Logan Center
hosts the Cabaret Series, a student-driven
performance series featuring an array
of assorted acts. The Cabaret Series
provides an intimate and casual setting for
UChicago students, faculty, and affiliates
to showcase their performance chops or
try out new material.
Free. Presented by the Logan Center.
Mummies Night, Sat, Oct 31, 5–8pm
YOUTH
& FAMILY
Family Day: Costume Mania
Sat, Dec 5, 1–4pm
Smart Museum of Art
Make fantastical costumes and write miniplays inspired by theatrical illustrations
by George Grosz. All materials provided.
Activities best for kids ages 4–12,
accompanied by an adult.
Family Day: Rainbow Faces
Sat, Oct 3, 1–4pm
Smart Museum of Art
Face paintings and colorful self portraits
inspired by works by Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner, Emil Nolde, and Max Pechstein.
All materials provided. Activities best for
kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
Free.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art..
Hyde Park Youth Symphony Concert:
Delights of December
Thu, Dec 17, 7:30pm
Enjoy seasonal selections performed by
the talented children of Hyde Park Youth
Symphony and the Chicago Children’s
Choir, under the direction of Music Director
Matthew Sheppard and Chicago Children’s
Choir Conductor Stephanie Gregoire.
General $15, children free (tickets.
uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS). Presented
by Hyde Park Youth Symphony, the
Department of Music, and the Logan Center.
Facets Chicago International Children’s
Film Festival
Oct 23–30, various times
Logan Center and throughout Chicago
The Chicago International Children’s
Film Festival is North America’s largest
festival of films for children, featuring over
250 films from 40 countries that range
from live-action and animated feature
films to shorts, TV series, documentaries,
and child-produced works. The festival
showcases the best in culturally-diverse,
nonviolent, value-affirming new cinema
for children. Full schedule and tickets at
facets.org.
Adults $10, children $6, Facets members
$5 (facets.org).
Presented by Facets Multimedia and the
Logan Center.
Family Day: Pillow Poppin’
Sat, Nov 7, 1–4pm
Smart Museum of Art
Silkscreen, sew, and stuff your own pillow.
Inspired by works on view in Expressionist
Impulses. All materials provided. Activities
best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by
an adult.
Free.
Logan Center Family Saturday
Festival: Make-Believe and
Memory
Logan Center
Explore the power of makebelieve and magic in this
otherworldly festival afternoon.
Enjoy film screenings by Facets’
Chicago International Children’s
Film Festival, a performance
of Grimm’s Grimmest: The
Darker Side by storyteller Judith
Heineman and musician Dan
Marcotte, art workshops by the
Oriental Museum, and more.
Costumes are encouraged for
parents and children!
Festival admission: Single tickets
$5, groups of 5+ $20 (tickets.
Onsite workshop registration is
first come, first served.
Presented by the Logan Center
and Arts + Public Life.
Mummies Night
Get up close and personal with a
mummy, discover painted coffins
and the Book of the Dead, try on
an outfit from King Tut’s closet,
and take a treasure hunt in our
Egyptian Gallery. See if you can
find out what a mummified
ancient Egyptian priestess actually
looked like when she was alive
3,000 years ago! Recommended
for children ages 4 and up,
accompanied by an adult.
Free, registration recommended
(oi.uchicago.edu/register).
Presented by the Oriental
Institute Museum.
Logan Center Family Saturdays
Saturdays, Nov 21 and Dec 5, 2–4:30pm
Logan Center
Cultivate your child’s artistic curiosity with
a season of free art workshops led by local
artists, art organizations and UChicago
students.
Free, workshop registration
recommended (tickets.uchicago.edu,
773.702.ARTS). Presented by the Logan
Center and Arts + Public Life..
Little Scribe
Sat, Dec 5, 1–3pm
Can you imagine a world without writing?
Learn how writing began, how it changed
over time, and how it changed the world
forever through this hands-on program.
Kids ages 9–12 help us “evolve” a script,
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while kids ages 5–8 take part in an
interactive tale that describes how the
alphabet was created and evolved. Fun
patches available onsite.
Free. Presented by the Oriental Institute
Museum.
Logan Center
Family Saturdays
& Family Saturday Festivals
2015-16 SEASON
Logan Center Family Saturday
Festivals
12–5 pm / Logan Center
Quarterly festivals include featured performances, dropin activities, art workshops, and more” followed by the
festival admission info.
Festival admission: Single tickets $5, groups of 5+ $20
(tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS). Onsite workshop
registration is first come, first served.
OCT 31, 2015
JAN 23, 2016
APR 30, 2016
JUN 18, 2016
Logan Center Family Saturdays
2–4:30 pm / Logan Center
Cultivate your child’s artistic curiosity with a season of free
art workshops led by local artists, art organizations, and
UChicago students.
Free, workshop registration recommended (tickets.
NOV 21, 2015
DEC 5, 2015
FEB 27, 2016
MAR 26, 2016
MAY 21, 2016
773.702.ARTS
LoganCenterFamilySaturdays
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TheUniversityofChicago
isahometoavarietyofrenowned
artsdestinationsacrosscampus.
Forcompleteinformationon
academic,professional,andstudent
artsprogramsandinitiatives,visit
arts.uchicago.edu/explore.
Professionalorganizationssuchas
ContempoandUChicago Presents,
studentgroups,anddepartmentbasedgroupsperformandexhibit
acrosscampus.Learnmoreby
visitingarts.uchicago.edu.
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Foralistofotherartsandcultural
organizationsandvenuesonthe
CultureCoastvisitculturecoast.org.
Foralistofdiningoptionsand
detailsabouttransportationand
parkingseevisit.uchicago.edu.
MuseumCampusSouthpartners:
visitmuseumcampussouth.com
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ArtsIncubator
301E.GarfieldBlvd.
arts.uchicago.edu/artsandpubliclife/ai
BondChapel
1025E.58thSt.
CourtTheatre
5535S.EllisAve.
courttheatre.org
CharlesM.HarperCenter:
ChicagoBoothSchoolof
BusinessArtCollection
5807S.WoodlawnAve.
art.chicagobooth.edu
5 Cochrane-WoodsArtCenter
5540S.GreenwoodAve.
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FilmStudiesCenter
filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu
CobbHall
5811S.EllisAve.,3rdFloor
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7
FrancisX.KinahanTheater
ReynoldsClub
5706S.UniversityAve.
3rdFloor
13
MaxPalevskyCinema
IdaNoyesHall
1212E.59thSt.
docfilms.uchicago.edu
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RevaandDavidLogan
CenterfortheArts
915E.60thSt. logan.uchicago.edu
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FultonRecitalHall
5845S.EllisAve.
MandelHall
1131E.57thSt.
GrayCenterLab
929E.60thSt.
graycenter.uchicago.edu
HackArtsLab(HAL)
5735S.EllisAve.,2ndFloor
hal.uchicago.edu
20
Rockefeller
MemorialChapel
5850S.WoodlawnAve.
rockefeller.uchicago.edu
24 ExperimentalStation
6100S.BlackstoneAve.
experimentalstation.org
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InternationalHouse
1414E.59thSt.
ihouse.uchicago.edu
12 LoradoTaftHouse
935E.60thSt.
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MidwayStudios
929E.60thSt.
NeubauerCollegium
forCultureandSociety
5701S.WoodlawnAve.
neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu
17 OrientalInstituteMuseum
1155E.58thSt.
oi.uchicago.edu
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TheRenaissanceSociety
CobbHall
5811S.EllisAve.,4thFloor
renaissancesociety.org
21 SmartMuseumofArt
5550S.GreenwoodAve.
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
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SpecialCollectionsResearch
CenterExhibitionGallery
TheJosephRegensteinLibrary
1100E.57thSt.
lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/exhibits
DuSableMuseumof
AfricanAmericanHistory
740E.56thPl.
dusablemuseum.org
25 HydeParkArtCenter
5020S.CornellAve.
hydeparkart.org
26 LittleBlackPearl
1060E.47thSt.
blackpearl.org
27 MuseumofScienceandIndustry
5700S.LakeShoreDr.
msichicago.org
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FrankLloydWright’s
RobieHouse
5757S.WoodlawnAve.
flwright.org
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CONCERT
CONCERT SERIES
SERIES
SEASON
INFO
CALENDAR
This guide provides a list of highlights for the fall season,
September, 2015–January, 2016. For a complete list of events and
exhibitions, visit arts.uchicago.edu.
LOCATIONS
See pages 44-45 for a map of over 20 arts locations on or near our
southside campus.
TICKETS
Learn about and buy tickets for arts events and performances at
the University of Chicago through the UChicago Arts Box Office
online, in person, and over the phone. To purchase tickets for Court
Theatre, visit courttheatre.org or call 773-753-4472.
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Box Office URL
ticketsweb.uchicago.edu
Address
Reva and David Logan
Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St (south entrance)
Chicago, IL 60637
Walk-up Hours
Tue–Sat, 12 pm–6 pm
(later on show nights)
Sun–Mon Closed
Phone
773.702.ARTS (2787)
VISITOR INFORMATION
Need a recommendation for lunch? Want to know more about
events and activities? Stop by any one of our information centers
to find out which tours, cafés, or museums are best suited for your
time on campus or go to visit.uchicago.edu.
Information Center
Edward H. Levi Hall
5801 S Ellis Ave, Suite 120
Chicago, IL 60637
Reva and David Logan Center
for the Arts
915 E 60th St (at Drexel Ave)
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.ARTS (2787)
ACCESSIBILITY
Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to
participate in events should contact the event sponsor for
assistance. Visit answers.uchicago.edu/19772 for information on
Assistive Listening Devices.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Located in the heart of Hyde Park’s new Harper Court development, Hyatt Place (5225 S Harper Ave) is a LEED- certified,
six-story hotel with contemporary amenities including a cafe bar,
indoor pool, fitness facility, and easily accessible and affordable
valet parking. Visit chicagosouthuniversity.place.hyatt.com or call
773-752-5300.
IT’S YOUR
TURN TO
NAME YOUR
TUNE
TRANSPORTATION
Getting to the University of Chicago is just a quick car, bike, train,
or bus ride away. For more detailed transportation information go to
visit.uchicago.edu.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
CTA (Chicago Transit Authority)
The CTA is Chicago’s public transportation system, offering a large
network of buses, elevated trains, and subways around the city.
Take the 2, 4, 6, or X28 bus from downtown Chicago or take the
Red or Green Line train toward the Garfield/55th stop and transfer
to the 55 Garfield bus. Fares are $2.25 per ride.
>> Tip Download Transloc Transit Visualization, the real-time bus
location and arrival app, uchicago.transloc.com.
Explore the world’s greatest music
across six series and 26 unique
performances in intimate venues
on the beautiful UChicago campus.
Buy single tickets at 20% off through
September 30. Or, create your own
flexible Pick 4 or Pick 6 series and
enjoy subscriber benefits.
Metra Train
The Metra Electric District Line commuter rail runs from the
downtown Millennium Station hub at Randolph & Michigan to
University Park, IL. Exit at either the 55th-56th-57th or 59th/
University stops at UChicago. Visit metrarail.com for fares,
timetables, and other details.
PARKING
Limited street parking is available around campus.
Parking Garages
The preferred visitor garage is located at 55th St and Ellis Ave.
An additional parking garage can be found at 6054 S Drexel Ave,
near the Logan Center for the Arts, open to non-permit holders
after 9am.
Visit chicagopresents.uchicago.edu
or call 773.702.ARTS.
European supergroup
Arcanto Quartet performs
favorites by Bach,
Schumann and Smetana
on November 13.
The World’s Best Music, Close to Home.
JAZZ AT THE LOGAN’S SIZZLING THIRD SEASON!
Visitors may park at the Medical Campus parking garage, three
blocks west at 59th St and Maryland Ave.
Parking Lot
Wells Lot, located at 60th St and Drexel Ave, is free after 4pm and
all day on weekends.
BIKING
Bike racks can be found at various locations on campus. All CTA
buses are equipped with bike racks, and Metra allows bikes on
trains with some limitations.
Pianist Paul Lewis
joins the Pacifica
Quartet on
October 18.
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CONCERT
CONCERT
SERIES SERIES
JAZZ
AT THE LOGAN
Chicago’s Divvy Bike system has many new and upcoming stations
in and around Hyde Park. The 24-hour bike pass will provide you
with unlimited rides for up to 30 minutes. Find more information and
a full map of Chicago stations at divvybikes.com.
The Bike Center at 53rd St and Lake Park Ave hosts rentals,
repairs, bike parking, as well as showers and lockers. You can find
more information about bike tours and rentals at choosechicago.org.
CABS & CAR SHARES
You can find cabs in front of the DCAM at the corner of Maryland
Ave and E 58th St, or you can order one online or over the phone.
Chicago Private Car (black sedans booked in advance, usually cost
15 percent more): 773.594.9021
Flash Cab: 773.561.4444 or taxiwithus.com
i-Go Car Sharing: 773.278.4446 or igocars.org
Uber Private Car (Standard taxis, private cars, and SUVs on
demand only. Pay via smartphone app, no cash needed): uber.com
Yellow Cab: 312.829.4222 or yellowcabchicago.com
ZipCar: 866.4ZIPCAR (866.494.7227) or zipcar.com
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 / 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 / 7:30 PM
BILLY CHILDS QUINTET
Julie and Parker Hall Annual Jazz Concert
with Becca Stevens, Alicia Olatuja, and Spektral Quartet
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT
6:30 PM conversation with Billy Childs and Travis Jackson
For One to Love
Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro
6:00 PM Chicago Stage at the Logan performance with Black
Diamond in Café Logan presented in partnership with the
Jazz Institute of Chicago and the Logan Center for the Arts
The award-winning Childs won another GRAMMY in 2015
for this latest project of music inspired by the brilliant
singer-songwriter, Laura Nyro.
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E 60th Street
Tickets $35 reserved seating / $5 students (with ID)
THE
REVA & DAVID LOGAN
FOUNDATION
Julie and Parker Hall
Endowment for Jazz and
American Popular Music
773.702.ARTS (2787)
chicagopresents.uchicago.edu
HUMANITIES DAY
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Literature. Visual Arts. Music. Linguistics. Philosophy.
Forty presentations by UChicago faculty members.
Free and open to the public.
See the full schedule at humanitiesday.uchicago.edu
or contact us at 773.702.7423.
Register Now!
humanitiesday.uchicago.edu
uchicagohumanities
@uchicagohum #humanitiesday

Fall 2015 - UChicago Arts

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