Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Title: Wicker Park/Bucktown First FridayLocation: Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 North Milwaukee AveStart Time: 18:00Date: 2010-10-01End Time: 22:00 Share This!
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Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Title: Wicker Park/Bucktown First FridayLocation: Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 North Milwaukee AveStart Time: 18:00Date: 2010-09-03End Time: 22:00 Share This!
Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Title: Wicker Park/Bucktown First FridayLocation: Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 North Milwaukee AveStart Time: 18:00Date: 2010-08-06End Time: 22:00 Share This!
Smart Readings: Containing Emotions: Chairs
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Title: Smart Readings: Containing Emotions: ChairsLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Read excerpts from poems and essays and think about what it means to be held by ordinary and extraordinary chairs. Led by poet Matthias Regan, workshop participants will examine feeling—the dimension of experience where sensation meets emotion—in relation Read more…
Redrawing Wright
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Title: Redrawing WrightLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Enjoy an afternoon of sketching Frank Lloyd Wright-designed objects featured in the Smart Museum’s exhibition “Good Design” and then stroll over to the nearby Robie House to sketch the interior and exterior of Wright’s icon of modernism. This adult workshop is Read more…
A Break with the Past: The Bauhaus, Hitler, and Chicago
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Title: A Break with the Past: The Bauhaus, Hitler, and ChicagoLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Join Alan Fern, emeritus director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, for a talk about the people and ideas that led to the foundation of the Bauhaus, a school of architecture and Read more…
Smart Readings: Containing Emotions: Bowls
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Title: Smart Readings: Containing Emotions: BowlsLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Read excerpts from poems and essays and think about what it means to hold ordinary and extraordinary bowls. Led by poet Matthias Regan, workshop participants will examine feeling—the dimension of experience where sensation meets emotion—in relation to objects Read more…
Furnishing the Good Fight: Mid-Century Modern and the Cold War
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Title: Furnishing the Good Fight: Mid-Century Modern and the Cold WarLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Consider how mid-century modern design helped brand the West and East during the Cold War. This free lunch-hour talk will be led by Maggie Taft, PhD candidate in art history at the University Read more…
Mid-Century: Good Design in Europe and America, 1850–1950
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Title: 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…
Hard Headed Heart
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Title: 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…
