The celebrated NPR humorist comes to Columbus for an evening of cutting wit, social satire, and riveting conversation, featuring all-new, unpublished readings and recollections, and a question and answer session. Experience the hilarious brilliance that created national bestsellers-Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk-as well as the recent paperback release of Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls. Sedaris will also hold a post-show book signing.
Andrea Rosen Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of work by Sharon Hayes, Tony Lewis, and Adam Pendleton at Gallery 2. The exhibition explores the relationship between the use of language and the formal and social implications of abstraction.
CHICAGO - American mezzo-soprano J'nai Bridges is one of 20 international finalists for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015 competition. Bridges, a third-year member of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is currently portraying Vlasta in Lyric's mainstage premiere of Mieczys?aw Weinberg's The Passenger.
The Art Institute of Chicago Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Alison Sowden is pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah Johnston as the organization's new Controller, effective April 13, 2015. In this capacity, Johnston will be responsible for all accounting activities of the museum and the School of the Art Institute, which have a combined annual budget of $230 million.
CHICAGO - The Art Institute of Chicago Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Alison Sowden is pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah Johnston as the organization's new Controller, effective April 13, 2015. In this capacity, Johnston will be responsible for all accounting activities of the museum and the School of the Art Institute, which have a combined annual budget of $230 million.
Andrea Rosen Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of work by Sharon Hayes, Tony Lewis, and Adam Pendleton at Gallery 2. The exhibition explores the relationship between the use of language and the formal and social implications of abstraction.
The eerie effects and seductive textures of the medium of mezzotint are brought vividly to life at the Art Institute of Chicago in the exhibition Burnishing the Night: Baroque to Contemporary Mezzotints from the Collection, opening today, February 21, and continuing through May 31, 2015, in Galleries 125-127.
Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840, will open at the Art Institute of Chicago on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2015, with a special ribbon-cutting featuring bagpipes and local dignitaries. It will be the first major exhibition to showcase the decorative and fine arts of 18th century Ireland, bringing together more than 300 objects – many never before seen in public – lent by public and private collectors across North America. The exhibition, which continues through June 7, 2015, will provide an extraordinarily rich overview of Ireland's creative legacy. To add to the Gaelic atmosphere of the show, a temporary Irish pub will be created in the museum's Café Moderno where guests can hoist a beer after they visit the exhibition.
CHICAGO – Eldzier Cortor, the painter and printmaker whose iconic images of African American life have made him one of the country's most revered artists, will be honored by the Art Institute of Chicago in February when he receives the museum's Legends and Legacy Award and his work is showcased in the special exhibition Eldzier Cortor Coming Home: Recent Gifts to the Art Institute.
CHICAGO - The Art Institute of Chicago, named the best museum in the world by TripAdvisor, and Threadless, the global design community best known for its independent artist-designed t-shirts, today announce the launch of an ongoing series of collaborative t-shirt design challenges, called the Art Institute x Threadless Explore Series. Encouraging artists to explore the artwork and exhibitions at the Art Institute, the series will kick off with Shatter Rupture Break, a t-shirt design challenge inspired by the current exhibition of the same name. Artists from around the world will have three weeks to submit their designs to the challenge, which will then be voted on by the Threadless community of more than 3 million users. The winning design will be announced and shown on April 10 at the Art Institute's After Dark event. In addition, the winning artist will receive $2,000, a modern art book library curated by the Art Institute, and his or her original design will be printed on a t-shirt for sale on Threadless.com.
CHICAGO - The Art Institute of Chicago, named the best museum in the world by TripAdvisor, and Threadless, the global design community best known for its independent artist-designed t-shirts, today announce the launch of an ongoing series of collaborative t-shirt design challenges, called the Art Institute x Threadless Explore Series. Encouraging artists to explore the artwork and exhibitions at the Art Institute, the series will kick off with Shatter Rupture Break, a t-shirt design challenge inspired by the current exhibition of the same name. Artists from around the world will have three weeks to submit their designs to the challenge, which will then be voted on by the Threadless community of more than 3 million users. The winning design will be announced and shown on April 10 at the Art Institute's After Dark event. In addition, the winning artist will receive $2,000, a modern art book library curated by the Art Institute, and his or her original design will be printed on a t-shirt for sale on Threadless.com.
Regen Projects presents Walid AlBeshti, an exhibition of recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty. This is the artist's third solo presentation at the gallery.
Heartbeat Opera is a new company intent upon re-imagining opera in intimate spaces for a new generation. Employing a minimalism that allows the emotional integrity of the music to shine through, the company's work focuses on the body of the singer and the visceral power of the music.
From March 10 to September 20, 2015, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents Richard Estes: Painting New York City, the first exhibition of the art of Richard Estes to focus on the artist's technique and process, through an examination of his New York City paintings, prints, and photographs. Spanning from the mid-1960s to the present and featuring over forty paintings and works on paper, the exhibition is Estes' first New York City museum survey. It is also the first solo painting show in the history of the Museum of Arts and Design.
Heartbeat Opera is a new company intent upon re-imagining opera in intimate spaces for a new generation. Employing a minimalism that allows the emotional integrity of the music to shine through, the company's work focuses on the body of the singer and the visceral power of the music. Co-Artistic Directors Louisa Proske andEthan Heard, who trained together in the Directing program at the Yale School of Drama, are committed to nurturing the actor in every singer they work with. The company creates productions of classics and new pieces that are daring and visceral—productions that manifest the emotional grandeur and theatrical power of opera with minimal means. Heartbeat's one-act festival presentation of György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragments, directed by Heard, and the New York premiere of Jacques Offenbach's Daphnis & Chloé, in a new English translation directed by Proske, marks this young company's debut. Heartbeat Opera's resident music ensemble Cantata Profana, described by The New York Times as “a stylish early music ensemble,” will provide musical accompaniment.
State Street turns into a Red Carpet extravaganza on Sunday, February 22 when the Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC) of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) hosts Chicago's longest-running awards show viewing party, “Hollywood on State: A Red Carpet Celebration,” for the 87th Academy Awards®.
A major exhibition of works by one of the world's most celebrated portrait painters, John Singer Sargent, opens at the National Portrait Gallery tomorrow (Thursday 12 February 2015). Organised in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the exhibition brings together, for the first time, a collection of the artist's intimate and informal portraits of his impressive circle of friends, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin.
Nearly nine out of every ten seats were filled at last month's inaugural Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, a major success that attracted a total audience of more than 14,000 to 83 different festival events, sold out more than 80 percent of its shows, and played to 87 percent capacity over the course of its 12-day run, January 14-25.
The final performances of 'Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine,' Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage's social satire, and a jazz concert that celebrates the music of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, are just two of the Evanston campus events at Northwestern University celebrating Black History Month.
