Paul Kahan served both the appetizer and the entree at the April 30th Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. Plus chocolate sampling from Vosges! Executive Chef/Partner Paul Kahan has become the nationally recognizable face for a new guard of Chicago chefs. With an ever-growing list of international accolades for Blackbird, The Publican and avec, Read more…
Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival honored Kelsey Grammer with the Career Achievement Award at the 48th Hugo Television Awards Ceremony on Thursday night, April 19th. Chicago favorite and renowned actor in his own right, John Mahoney, paid tribute to Mr. Grammer, who then spoke to the crowd in a brief and moving acceptance Read more…
Dinner Party regulars said it was the best show yet, with high caliber guests MCA Curator Naomi Beckwith, Founder of the Poetry Slam March Smith, Blues Legend Billy Branch, and savory Italian dishes by Three Aces’ Matt Troost. Click the pics to watch highlights from show. Marc Smith broke out into the audience with punching Read more…
Shy Three Aces Executive Chef, Matt Troost, opened up his kitchen and showed us his simple and delicious ways for making golden beat gnocchi and ribollita on the March 26 Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. Both audience members and on-stage dinner guests were both thrilled and stuffed! Share This!
April is here, along with some unseasonably warm and beautiful weather, and that means it’s time for our “…Got Art?” blog to encourage you to get out and enjoy a fresh collection of shows and events this month. Of course, this is just a small sampling of the many amazing things going on here in Read more…
Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced today that Naomi Beckwith has been appointed the new Curator at the MCA. Beckwith is currently the Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she has focused on themes of identity and conceptual practices in contemporary art, artists of African descent, and Read more…
Billy Branch has followed a very non-traditional path to the blues. Unlike many blues artists, he isn’t from the South. Billy was born in Chicago in 1951 and was raised in Los Angeles. He first picked up a harmonica at the age of ten and immediately began to play simple tunes. Billy returned to Chicago Read more…
If you missed the February 27th Dinner Party, you missed a good one! Second City Director and Lead Guitarist of the Uptown Sound, Billy Bungeroth, talked about creative highs and lows, choreographer and artistic Director of Luna Negra, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano talked about dance taking over when words fall short and JC Brooks talked about Read more…
In a two-part interview, artist and cultural planner, Theaster Gates, discusses transformation and re-imagining possibilities through his art. Theaster Gates is an artist and cultural planner. In his performances, installations, and urban interventions, Gates transforms spaces, institutions, traditions, and perceptions. From witnessing so many torn down buildings in his neighborhood as a child, Gates had Read more…
JC Brooks joins host Elysabeth Alfano for the February 27th Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party at Chicago’s Mayne Stage
