Art Institute of Chicago News

Performance Space 122's contemporary performance festival, COIL, returns in an expanded edition for its seventh year.

From February 24 to May 13, 2012, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents John Chamberlain: Choices, a major retrospective comprising approximately ninety-five works by the important American artist and the first U.S. museum presentation of his work since 1986. The exhibition examines Chamberlain's development over his sixty-year career, exploring the shifts in scale, materials, and techniques informed by the assemblage, or collage, process that has been central to his working method.

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange has announced the WORKS IN PROGRESS SHOWCASE featuring BAX Artists-in-Residence.

Opening December 18th at Ferndale's Ringwald Theatre for an exclusive four-day engagement is the return of the comedic duo of The SantaLand Diaries & Season's Greetings from award-winning humorist David Sedaris and adapted for the stage by acclaimed director Joe Mantello and featuring Joe Bailey and Joe Plambeck.

Printworks Gallery has announced the opening of Mirror Shards, a one-person show featuring new mixed-media drawings and paintings by one of Chicago's most accomplished artists, Riva Lehrer.

This winter and spring The Frick Collection presents an exhibition of nine iconic Impressionist paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, offering the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format.

Performance Space 122 is set to present the New York debut of Chicago performance collective Every house has a door in the New York premiere of Let us think of these things always.

On Sunday, Nov. 13 at 2 p.m., the Auditorium Theater of Roosevelt University will present a screening of the award-winning landmark film Brokeback Mountain, followed by two events: a panel discussion with Chicago historian and film experts, and Beyond Brokeback, a staged reading of messages, essays, poetry, and music inspired by the film.

Printworks Gallery has announced the opening of Mirror Shards, a one-person show featuring new mixed-media drawings and paintings by one of Chicago's most accomplished artists, Riva Lehrer.

Writers' Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma, continues its 20th Anniversary Season with The Caretaker by Harold Pinter, directed by Ron OJ Parson.

David Zwirner will present an exhibition of new works by Neo Rauch, on display at the gallery's 533 West 19th Street space. The exhibition, the artist's fifth solo show at the gallery, consists of small and large format paintings-several larger-than-life-as well as a bronze sculpture, representing one of the first instances Rauch has worked in three-dimensional form.

As fiscal year 2011 comes to a close, the League of Chicago Theatres looks back over a season of remarkable achievements, both artistic and financial.

Performance Space 122's 2012 COIL Festival to premiere experimental dance, theater and performance works from around the world, January 5-29.

Anna Kustera Gallery will present a two-person exhibition of new sculpture by Gregory Green 'Through the Night Softly' and Andrew Cornell Robinson 'Disobedience'. Both installations address strategies of empowerment and historical engagement with governmental as well as geographical centers of power.

Robert Flaxman, President of FlaxGold, Inc., announced today that FlaxGold's film 'A Labor of Love' will screen at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago on Wednesday, November 2, at 8:00 pm.

ACA Galleries has announced Theodoros Stamos: Evidence of Wonder - A Survey 1940s - 1990s. This survey features work from 1943 to 1992 and shows how the natural world was a source of inspiration and imagery throughout Stamos' career. This is the first solo exhibition of his work at the gallery since 1993.

Victoria Theatre Association will present David Sedaris, author of the previous bestsellers Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and regular National Public Radio contributor, for one night only at the Victoria Theatre, Thursday, October 27th at 7:30pm.

One of America's pre-eminent humor writers, David Sedaris is the author of the bestsellers Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Were Engulfed in Flames, and a regular National Public Radio contributor.

GERING & LóPEZ GALLERY will present Attack of the Bricks: Star Wars, a solo exhibition of new photography by David Levinthal.

David Zwirner will present an exhibition of new works by Neo Rauch, on display at the gallery's 533 West 19th Street space. The exhibition, the artist's fifth solo show at the gallery, consists of small and large format paintings-several larger-than-life-as well as a bronze sculpture, representing one of the first instances Rauch has worked in three-dimensional form.