Monumental public art is no stranger to Chicago. The Picasso in Daley Plaza is a Chicago icon. Cloud Gate and Crown Fountain draw both tourists and natives alike to the city’s playground of Millennium Park. It is safe to say Chicagoans are used to seeing large-scale artwork in their city. What they may not be Read more…
Title: Mid-Century: Good Design in Europe and America, 1850–1950Location: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Link out: Click hereDescription: Between 1850 and 1950, progressive artists, designers, and architects decisively reshaped the everyday world of objects. Advocating for design reform-and by extension, social reform-they promoted a host of competing ideologies that embraced Read more…
Title: Hard Headed HeartLocation: Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 North Lincoln Avenue Link out: Click hereDescription: Blair Thomas, Chicago’s most acclaimed puppet master, returns this summer with Hard Headed Heart, a wonderful trio of interconnected solo shows including: The Puppet Show of Don Cristobal – Based on the bawdy script by Federico Garcia Lorca, this Read more…
Title: Calder and Contemporary Art: Using the FamiliarLocation: MCA Theatre, 220 East Chicago AvenueDescription: How do artists see the familiar anew, and how can viewers do the same? In this opening conversation, MCA curator Lynne Warren engages artists Jason Meadows and Jason Middlebrook, and Calder Foundation registrar and scholar Jessica Holmes in a discussion about Read more…
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Sunday was the last day to see The Art Institute of Chicago’s blockbuster Matisse show. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 had a lofty goal: to show the artist’s previously unexplored evolutionary period, when he developed what he would later call “the methods of modern construction.” The show was impressive in both the amount and variety of Read more…
Title: Americatown at the Chicago Underground Film FestivalLocation: The Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State StreetDescription: Shot over a 9,000-mile road trip, filmmaker Kenneth Price and his stars (comedy duo the Superkids) explored the mythology and culture of the United States in all its glory to create the microcosm of Americatown. Director Kenneth Price Read more…
Title: Life is Unpredictable: Films by Jonas Mekas at the Chicago Underground Film FestivalLocation: The Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State StreetDescription: Jonas Mekas’ work as a filmmaker, curator, and critic has justifiably earned him the title “godfather of American avant-garde cinema.” The screening will feature eight of his films, four to twenty-three minutes Read more…
Title: Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (mostly) American Avant-Garde at the Chicago Underground Film FestivalLocation: The Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State StreetDescription: VISIONARIES simultaneously acts as a comprehensive primer about the birth of the American avant-garde cinema and a loving portrait of its tireless ringmaster, Jonas Mekas. Jonas Mekas, director Chuck Workman, and Read more…
Why do Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds summon such a dream-like, fanciful state that other Mylar balloons don’t? I believe it is the pillow shape and reflective silver color. They are at once futuristic and welcoming. This installation could easily be found on the set of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, with the difference being that these clouds Read more…
