The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce the appointments of new conservators in two departments at the museum: Antoinette Owen as senior conservator of prints and drawings, and Sylvie Pénichon as conservator of photographs. Owen and Pénichon join the staff of more than 25 conservators and conservation scientists in multiple conservation centers and laboratories at the museum, including paintings, objects, photographs, prints and drawings, textiles, and research science.
How has post-war art and culture manipulated concepts of beauty and the sensual-manufacturing the illusion of danger as beauty itself? What role does color have in this powerful alchemy? Is there truth in this ideation of aesthetics, or is this cultural serum truly toxic?
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton will continue Season 36 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park, tonight, December 12-15, 2013. Click below for a sneak peek at ONE THOUSAND PIECES!
If you're allergic to shopping malls, excessive commercialism or egg nog, The Ringwald Theatre has the perfect solution to restore a smile to your overburdened holidays. Opening December 20th 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.
David Vestal passed away this week at home in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Born in Menlo Park, California in 1924, Vestal studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago before becoming involved in photography in the late 1940s through the Photo League in New York.
The Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), has organized the first retrospective ever mounted of Christopher Williams—one of the most influential artists working in photography today. The Production Line of Happiness—which premieres at the Art Institute of Chicago on January 25 and runs through May 18, 2014—charts Williams's 35-year career in a multipart installation, fronted by hundreds of feet of brightly colored vinyl, that spans three sets of galleries across the museum: the Allerton Building Photography Galleries (lower level, 1–4); the Bucksbaum Galleries for Photography in the Modern Wing (ground floor, G188–189); and the Architecture and Design Galleries in the Modern Wing (second floor, G283–285). This exhibition marks a homecoming for Williams, who had his first-ever museum showing in 1982 at the Art Institute. Following its premiere in Chicago, Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness will travel to MoMA (August 2–November 2, 2014), and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (April–June 2015).
The restoration and preservation of Walt and his brother Roy's birthplace and home officially got underway today, on Walt Disney's 112 th birthday, at a press conference held at the historic site. The home is located at 2156 North Tripp Ave. in Chicago, Illinois.
Today, December 5, 2013 the New-York Historical Society will welcome Dr. Judith Barter, who will deliver the 2013 C. Richard Hilker Lecture on the relationship between trompe l'oeil and modernism in America at the close of the nineteenth century.
Rachel Rosenthal Company's Instant Fairy Tales, the latest offering in Rachel Rosenthal's remarkable career, is a brand new quarterly series of original fairy tales for the 21st century. Instant Fairy Tales: The Longest Winter, the series' inaugural offering on January 25th and 26th at Espace DbD in Los Angeles, features an allegorical tale about learning to care for the environment. This first quarterly installment features costumes and sets in a visual style based on the 'ukiyo-e' woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige, which depict the Japanese 'floating world' of the theatre, restaurants, teahouses, geisha, and the natural world.?
Writers Theatre has announced the On To A New Stage Campaign, a $31 million fundraising campaign that will establish the nationally-recognized company's new home - a theatre center designed by Chicago's internationally renowned Studio Gang Architects, led by principal Jeanne Gang.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ There are now two museum buildings, not one, at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. A light-filled concrete and glass pavilion designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano opens Wednesday, November 27, across the lawn from the Museum's original home, Louis I. Kahn's modernist icon of 1972.
This season, the Art Institute of Chicago invites visitors to feast their eyes on the rich tradition of food in American art with the opening of the major exhibition Art? and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine.Exploring the many meanings and interpretations of eating in America, Art and Appetite--on view from today, November 12, 2013 through January 27, 2014 in the museum's Regenstein Hall --brings together 100 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the 18th through the 20th century to demonstrate how depictions of food have allowed American artists to both celebrate and critique everything from the national diet to society and politics. Following its premiere at the Art Institute, Art ?and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine will travel to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas (February 22-May 18, 2014).
Hauser & Wirth presents an exhibition comprising two new series of works by artist Roni Horn. Opening today, 11 November 2013, 'Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake' will fill the gallery's West Chelsea space in Manhattan with large format drawings and two multi-part sculptures that continue Horn's exploration of the nature of perception, memory, and identity. The experiential quality of Horn's glass installations link the relationship of time to space and light. Employing the formal devices of pairing, repetition, and doubling, Horn challenges the viewer to reconcile the eye and the mind. 'Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake' will be on view through 11 January 2014.
Strawdog Theatre Company and Interim Artistic Director Hank Boland present a new adaption of Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations, adapted by Gale Childs Daly and directed by Jason W. Gerace, beginning today, November 11 - December 14, at Strawdog Theatre, 3829 N. Broadway Street. Preview performance tickets are $15 with performances Friday, Nov. 1 and Nov. 8, Saturday, Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 3 at 4 p.m. There is a Preview Party, Saturday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m., with $50 tickets that include access to a post-performance reception. Opening/Press night is Monday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. Industry night is Monday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. The performance schedule is Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. Single Tickets are $28 and on sale now. Subscriptions, group, senior and student discounts are also available. Tickets may be ordered online at strawdog.org or by calling 773.528.9696.
Evermore! - Raven Theatre's quarterly showcase of performers from a variety of disciplines - will present its fall programs on two weekends in November. On Sunday, November 17, at 7:30 pm, the program will be Songwriters with Switchback - with the headlining duo Switchback joined by the singer-songwriters Anna Fermin and Al Rose. The following weekend, poet Marc Kelly Smith will perform his trio of original one act plays called Flea Market Friday, November 22 and Saturday November 23 at 8 pm and Sunday, November 24 at 3:30 pm.
The Art Institute of Chicago once again embraces the holidays by offering visitors from near and far wondrous new additions to the museum, art-filled events and programs, music, miniatures, mistletoe, and more. The festivities begin with the museum's 22nd annual Wreathing of the Lions ceremony on November 29, 2013 and continue through Wednesday, January 8. This season, the Art Institute offers passion, inspiration, creativity, and contemplation—experiences that will last the whole year.
Skarstedt presents David Salle: Ghost Paintings, featuring 13 works made in 1992, but never exhibited before this year. The exhibition travels from the Arts Club of Chicago, where it was seen in summer 2013. It will be on view at Skarstedt (20 East 79th Street) from November 8 through December 21, 2013.
Five towering stone sculptures set in a suggested fog-shrouded Chinese landscape are now on view on the Art Institute of Chicago's Bluhm Family Terrace. The installation, titled we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our faces look twisted., was created exclusively for the Art Institute by Swiss-born, New York–based artist Ugo Rondinone. The installation is on view through April 20, 2014.
At the gala 45th Annual Equity Jeff Awards held at Drury Lane Oakbrook on Monday, November 4, Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 'Good People' received the award for Production-Play in a large tier theatre. Principal Actress Mariann Mayberry was also honored for her role in this David Lindsey-Abaire play, which considers the dangerous consequences of holding on to the past or leaving it behind. William Brown received Best Director of a play for Writers Theatre's production of the French farce 'The Liar', adapted by David Ives.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton will continue Season 36 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park, December 12-15, 2013. Click below for a sneak peek at ONE THOUSAND PIECES!
