Summer 2016 UChicago Arts Guide

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Summer 2016 UChicago Arts Guide
UCHICAGO ARTS
SUMMER 2016 EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS GUIDE
UCHICAGO ARTS
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SUMMER 2016 EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS GUIDE
The University of Chicago is a
destination where artists, scholars,
students, and audiences converge
and create. Explore our theaters,
performance spaces, museums and
galleries, academic programs, cultural
initiatives, and more.
ICON KEY
UChicago student event
ON THE COVER
The mummy and coffin of Meresamun.
Courtesy of the Oriental Institute.
@uchicagoarts
S P E N D A DAY
5
EXHIBITIONS
& V I S UA L A R T S
9
CONCRETE HAPPENINGS
10
FILM
12
ARCHITECTU RE
& DESIGN
13
L I T E R AT U R E 15
MUSIC
17
T H E AT E R , DA N C E
& PERFORMANCE
18
YO U T H & FA M I LY
20–21
ARTS MAP
23
INFO
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CONTENTS
4
SPEND A DAY
ON ANY GIVEN DAY IN OUR BUSTLING CREATIVE COMMUNITY, YOU CAN FIND A NUMBER OF LIVE PERFORMANCES,
CONCERTS, LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS, AND MORE. HERE ARE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO GET YOU STARTED.
FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF ARTS AND CULTURE EVENTS, VISIT ARTS.UCHICAGO.EDU/EVENTS.
O R I E N TA L I N ST I T U T E M U S E U M
QUICK VISIT
Short but sweet, this quick tour is perfect for getting
a taste of the arts on campus. Start at the Oriental
Institute Museum and travel back in time through
their permanent collections of antiquities and
artifacts. Be sure to visit the exhibition Don’t Take
My Stuff–Tell My Story (page 6). Pop across the new
pedestrian walkway to the Seminary Co-op Bookstore
(semcoop.com). The Plein Air Café (pleinaircafe.
co), an atelier-inspired eatery, is right next door.
P R I N T S A N D P R I VACY
HALF-DAY TOUR
Begin at the University’s art museum, the Smart
Museum of Art, for their exhibition Prints and
Privacy (page 5). For a light lunch, stop by the
Smart Café, then head over to the Regenstein
Library Special Collections Research Center for
the Cyris Leroy Baldridge exhibition (page 5).
FULL-DAY VISIT
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ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL
For a full day of UChicago Arts, start at The
Renaissance Society, a renowned contemporary
art museum on campus. For lunch, head to Medici
(medici57.com) on 57th Street followed by a guided
tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, one of
the architect’s Prairie Style gems (tickets at cal.
flwright.org/tours/robie or 312.994.4000). Take
a short walk down the street and 271 steps up
to the largest musical instrument ever built: the
Laura Spelman Carillon at Rockefeller Memorial
Chapel. Afterward, make your way to dinner
at A10 (a10hydepark.com) on 53rd Street.
EVENING VISIT
LO G A N C E N T E R FO R T H E A RTS
Book tickets for Man in the Ring (page 16) at
Court Theatre (courttheatre.org). Continue your
artsy evening by checking out the Arts + Public
Life and Center for the Study of Race, Politics &
Culture Artists-in-Residence exhibition, Resonant
Objects, at the Reva and David Logan Center
for the Arts (page 6) followed by a show in the
Logan Center’s performance hall or theaters (arts.
uchicago.edu/events). More of a cinephile? Find
free screenings from the Film Studies Center
in the FILM section of this guide (page 10).
EXPLORING THE
NEIGHBORHOODS
C U R R E N CY E XC H A N G E C A F É
Start your day at the Blackstone Library (4904 S
Lake Park Ave). Afterward, make your way west
across Washington Park (or take the 55 bus toward
Garfield) to the Arts Block. Eat lunch at the Currency
Exchange Café (305 E Garfield Blvd), browse the
selection at BING Art Books, and stop in at the Arts
Incubator next door, where you’ll find exhibitions,
performances, community arts projects, and events.
BEN RIVERS
EXHIBITIONS
& VISUAL ARTS
EXHIBITIONS
A THREATEN ED HER I TAGE
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
More information at oi.uchicago.edu.
Free. Suggested donation: adults
$10, children under 12 $5.
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
A M ER I C A N G L ASS N OW
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
Through Jul 10, 2016
Reception: Fri, Jul 8, 7–9pm
Logan Center, Gidwitz Lobby
The premier juried show for
contemporary stained glass, now
in its fifth year, brings the work
of leading artists with a fresh and
versatile take on a treasured medium
to the Logan Center before traveling
to Washington, DC. Awards ceremony
and reception with exhibiting artists
will be held on Fri, Jul 8, from 7–9pm.
Free.
Presented by the American Glass Guild
and the Logan Center.
PER SEP OL I S: I M AGES
OF AN EMPI RE
Ongoing
Oriental Institute Museum
The exhibition presents large-format
photographs of the ruins of one
of the greatest dynastic centers
of antiquity built at the height of
the Achaemenid Persian empire
(550-330 BC). The photographs,
taken during the Oriental Institute’s
Persepolis Expedition (1931–1939),
record the forests of columns,
monumental audience halls, and
stone relief carvings of the people
who came from all corners of the
empire to honor the Persian king.
sides of human behavior. Each of
these fragile works survives because
it was valued by collectors, and
each continues to resonate today.
Free.
PR I NT S A N D P R IVACY
Through Aug 14, 2016
Smart Museum of Art
Organized by University of Chicago
students, this intimate exhibition
examines the ways in which
printmaking was closely associated
with the private sphere in Europe
between 1500 and 1900. Drawn from
the Smart Museum’s collection, the
15 prints on display engage with
many different interests and subjects:
from political unrest to religion, from
artistic inspiration to the darker
CY R U S L E R OY B A L DR IDG E :
IL LU STRATOR , E X P LOR E R ,
ACTIV IST
Through Sep 9, 2016
Special Collections Research
Center, Regenstein Library
Cyrus Baldridge (1889-1977) was
an artist, illustrator, and author
whose travels took him across
Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Far
East. His prodigious artistic talents
and education at UChicago (AB
1911), combined with a humanistic
political awareness, led to the
publication of several lavishly
illustrated books focusing on his
experience of world cultures. This
exhibition explores Baldridge’s
unconventional life, showcasing his
original illustrations for the first time.
Free.
Presented by the University of Chicago Library.
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Ongoing
Oriental Institute Museum
In many parts of the world, political
instability and conflict have displaced
populations and created threats to
archaeological sites, landscapes,
and museums. This series of panels
documents threats to heritage in the
Middle East and suggests possible
ways to prevent further losses and
build a stronger future for the past.
More information at oi.uchicago.edu.
Free. Suggested donation:
adults $10, children under 12 $5.
SHARED PAST, S HA R ED
F UTURE: THE M A R I N E
BI OLOGI CA L LA B O RATO RY
AND THE U N I VER S I T Y
OF CHI CAG O
Through Oct 30, 2016
Crerar Library Atrium
The recent affiliation between
UChicago and the Marine Biological
Laboratory (MBL) is the latest
chapter in the long, intertwined
history of the two institutions.
Charles Otis Whitman, the first
director of the MBL, also established
biology at the University. Frank
Lillie, Zoology chair, became the
second director and remained
president of the MBL corporation
until 1942. This exhibition highlights
and celebrate our shared history.
Free.
Presented by the University of Chicago Library.
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D ON’T TAKE M Y ST UFF–
TEL L MY STO RY
Through Nov 1, 2016
Oriental Institute Museum
When an archaeological site has been
damaged, a page from the storybook
about humankind (aka “history”)
has been ripped out before it could
ever be written. Today, heritage is
under threat as never before. K–12
students and adults respond to the
memory of the history that has been
lost due to looting and destruction,
and hope for the history yet to
be discovered by archaeologists
through two-dimensional art.
Presented in collaboration with
The Dream Rocket Project. More
information at oi.uchicago.edu.
Free. Suggested donation:
adults $10, children under 12 $5.
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
JESS ICA STO CKH O L DER:
R OS E’S IN CL IN AT IO N
Through Jul 2, 2017
Smart Museum of Art
In a site-specific installation,
UChicago professor and artist
Jessica Stockholder intersects the
Smart’s threshold with a wave of
color and texture that climbs to the
clerestory, cuts across the lobby
floor, and travels outwards into
the Museum’s sculpture garden.
Free.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
R ESON A N T OB J ECT S
Jul 8–Aug 28, 2016
Logan Center Gallery (915 E 60th St)
and Arts Incubator
(301 E Garfield Blvd)
Reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6–8pm
Resonant Objects showcases
the breadth of production by
Chicago-based artists Greg Bray,
Aquil Charlton, and Nazafarin Lotfi
during their participation in the
University of Chicago’s Arts + Public
Life and Center for the Study of
Race, Politics & Culture Artists-inResidence Program. On view at the
Logan Center Gallery and at the
Arts Incubator in Washington Park,
Resonant Objects features works that
examine the artists’ shared interest
in the social and spatial conditions
of their surroundings. See related
programs on pages 7 and 13.
Free.
Presented by Arts + Public Life; the
Center for the Study of Race, Politics &
Culture; and Logan Center Exhibitions.
R ESON A N T OB J ECT S
O P E N I N G R EC E P T I ON
AF T E R PA R T Y
Fri, Jul 8, 8:30–10:30pm
TAC’s Lounge (5114 S Prairie Ave)
Keep the party going with a
performance featuring exhibiting
artist Aquil “AQ” Charlton
and his band, Simpson X.
Free.
Presented by Arts + Public Life; the Center
for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture;
Logan Center Exhibitions; and TAC’s Lounge.
R ESON A N T OB J ECT S
PAN E L D I S C USS I ON
Sat, Jul 9, 3–4:30pm
Arts Incubator (301 E Garfield Blvd)
Join us for a conversation with
Resonant Objects artists Greg Bray,
Aquil Charlton, and Nazafarin Lotfi
led by Yesomi Umolu, Logan Center
Exhibitions Curator and Tempestt
Hazel, independent curator.
Free.
Presented by Arts + Public Life; the
Center for the Study of Race, Politics &
Culture; and Logan Center Exhibitions.
FA M ILY B U SIN E SS
Jul 8–Aug 26, 2016
Opening reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6–8pm
Arts Incubator (301 E Garfield Blvd)
Family Business showcases the
works of Arts + Public Life staff
and teaching artists. Featured art
works engage a range of mediums,
including sculpture, photography,
poetry, mixed media, woodwork, and
other installations. The exhibition
will show the diverse talents of the
Arts + Public Life team members
who dedicate their time and
efforts to creating spaces for arts
and culture on a daily basis.
Free.
Presented by Arts + Public Life.
EC H OE S OF OU R J OU R N E Y:
B R ON Z E V IL L E A N D TH E
G R E AT M IG RATION
Jul 14–Oct 2, 2016
Opening reception:
Thu, Jul 14, 6–9pm
Gallery Guichard (463 E 47th St)
and Café Logan (915 E 60th St)
This historic joint exhibition
celebrating the centennial of the
Great Migration features artwork
created on the original doors and
windows of the Bronzeville Artist
Lofts (BAL) by six BAL resident
artists. The doors will be exhibited at
Gallery Guichard, while the windows
will be shown at Café Logan.
Free.
Presented by Gallery Guichard
and the Logan Center.
S UMM E R T E E N S HOW
Wed, Aug 10, 6–8pm
Flex Space at the Arts Incubator
(301 E Garfield Blvd)
At this culminating event, the
Arts Incubator’s summer program
participants and interns will share
their final projects—performances,
designed objects, presentations,
and more. All community
members are welcome to attend
and celebrate our teen artists’
creative accomplishments.
Free.
Presented by Arts + Public Life, After School
Matters, and the Leo S. Guthman Fund.
CONVER S ATIO N S W I T H T HE
COL LECTI ON : B ELO N GI N G
Aug 2016–Jun 2017
Smart Museum of Art
As part of its annual Conversations
with the Collection series, the
Smart presents an experimental
installation on the theme of
belonging. By juxtaposing artworks
from different cultures and eras, the
project explores the many ways we
understand our place in the evershifting world around us, while also
reflecting on the implications of
“belonging” for museum display itself.
Free.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
S UMMER CO O KO U T
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
EX H IBITIO N O PEN IN G :
BEN R IVERS
Sat, Sep 10, 5–8pm
The Renaissance Society
(5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th floor)
The Renaissance Society presents
the first US exhibition by Ben Rivers,
a London-based artist who primarily
works in moving image. Straddling
the lines between documentary
and fiction, experimental film and
cinema, his practice is concerned
with the process of filmmaking,
while exploring ideas of utopia,
landscape, freedom, and flux. At
the Renaissance Society, Rivers
will present new and recent works
within a site-specific installation.
Free.
Presented by the Renaissance Society.
LA R RY AC H IA M P ON G :
O PEN SE ASON
Sep 16–Oct 30, 2016
Reception: Wed, Sep 21, 6–8pm
Logan Center Gallery
Working across sound, video,
performance, and installation,
London-based artist Larry
Achiampong (b.1984) explores
shifting notions of identity and
belonging in our post-digital age.
OPEN SEASON is the artist’s first
international solo exhibition and
features works from the past
five years. The exhibition will
include a new version of works
titled #OPENSEASON, based on
Achiampong’s ongoing series
of blackboard drawings, as
well as Sunday’s Best—a newly
commissioned video piece.
Free.
Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions.
FI N D I N G FA N ON FI L M
SCREE N I N G A N D
ART IST TA L K
Fri, Sep 16, 7pm
Black Cinema House
(7200 S Kimbark Ave)
Join us for a screening of two films
from Finding Fanon, a trilogy inspired
by the lost plays of the radical
philosopher, writer, and humanist
Franz Fanon (1925–1961), followed
by a conversation with artist Larry
Achiampong and Yesomi Umolu,
Logan Center Exhibitions Curator.
Free.
Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions
and Black Cinema House. Co-sponsored by
the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
T HEY 2 01 6 AT E X P O C HI CAG O
Sep 22–25, 2016
Navy Pier
The University of Chicago presents
They 2016, a presentation of
works by recent graduates from
the Department of Visual Arts
MFA program. Artists include
Carris Adams, Alex Calhoun,
Autumn Clark, Zachary Harvey,
David Lloyd, Sara Rouse, Tori
Whitehead, Richard Williamson.
Curated by Zachary Cahill.
General one-day $20 / three-day
$30, groups $15 each, student and
senior discounts at the door.
Presented by the Department of
Visual Arts and UChicago Arts.
Sep 22–Dec 30, 2016
Smart Museum of Art
Drawing on a recent bequest to the
Museum, this exhibition presents
several hundred photographic
works that span the very earliest
days of the medium to the nearpresent day. These works—from
rare vintage prints to contemporary
classics—are organized in thematic
clusters that reflect their collectors’
commitment to humanist values
and social engagement, including
sections on the natural and built
world; photographic experimentation;
documentary; portraiture; and
“fifteen minutes of fame,” which
features images of notable figures.
Free.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
VISUAL ARTS
IN A N TIC IPATION
OF B E LON G IN G
Jul 5–Aug 14, 2016
Smart Museum of Art
For this experimental program, the
Smart joins together with cultural
and community partners to think
critically and creatively about what
it means to belong. Participants will
use art in the Museum’s collection
to spark conversation about the
aesthetic, social, and political
conditions that either encourage
belonging or propagate exclusion.
The partners—Arts + Public Life’s
Teen Arts Council, Odyssey Institute
Program, Red Line Service, and
Stockyard Institute—will design plans
to physically transform the Smart’s
galleries into an idealized space
of belonging and share through a
series of public events. This project
anticipates Conversations with the
Collection: Belonging, a yearlong
exhibition, opening on August 16.
Free, select events open to the
public. Learn more at
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
T R AV E L I N G B AC K TO
PERSEPOLIS
Thu, Jul 7, 12:15–1pm
Oriental Institute Museum
Join Kiersten Neumann, PhD, curator
of Persepolis: Images of an Empire,
to explore what the large-scale
archival photographs of Persepolis
tell us about the Oriental Institute
Persian Expedition to Iran (1931–
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Thu, Aug 18, 5–7:30pm
Smart Museum of Art
Join the Smart Museum for the
opening of Conversations with the
Collection: Belonging as well as the
debut of reinstalled Modern Art and
Design and European Art galleries.
Plus, a capstone celebration with the
Smart’s In Anticipation of Belonging
summer partners: the Arts + Public
Life Teen Arts Council, Odyssey
Institute Program, Red Line Service,
Stockyard Institute, and others.
Free, RSVP recommended
(SmartRSVP@uchicago.edu or
facebook.com/smartmuseum).
TH E R E WAS A W H OL E
COL L ECTION M A DE :
P H OTOG RA P H Y
F R OM L E STE R A N D
B E TTY G U TTM A N
1939) and the role of photography
in representing the Achaemenid
Persian empire — the “exotic Orient”
of the early twentieth century.
Free. Registration not required.
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
WORKS H OP WIT H AQ U IL
CH AR LTO N AN D T H E M O B IL E
MU S IC BOX
Sat, Jul 9, 11am–2pm
Arts Incubator (301 E Garfield Blvd)
The Mobile Music Box is a bicycle& solar-powered music class,
instrument-making workshop, and
street studio. Aquil Charlton, a
musician and teaching artist from
Chicago’s South Side, has developed
the Box to provide innovative
and intuitive music education
in communities where there is
limited access to such programs.
Free.
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Presented by Arts + Public Life; the
Center for the Study of Race, Politics &
Culture; and Logan Center Exhibitions.
S UMMER CO O KO U T
Thu, Jul 14, 5–7:30pm
Smart Museum of Art
Join the Smart Museum for the
debut of the latest changes to its
Asian art gallery, featuring a rare and
recently acquired 12th-century carved
wood Buddhist guardian figure
as well as select scroll paintings,
prints, sculptures, and ceramics
from China, Japan, and Korea.
Free, RSVP recommended
(SmartRSVP@uchicago.edu,
facebook.com/smartmuseum).
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
POTTERY AS A TO O L F O R
U NDERSTAN DIN G T H E PAST
Thu, Aug 4, 12:15–1pm
Oriental Institute Museum
Join PhD candidate in Egyptian
archaeology and Tell Edfu ceramicist
Natasha Ayers as she discusses
how archaeologists use pottery
to understand chronology, trade
relations, and cultural practices in
the ancient world. This exploration of
pottery as a tool for understanding
the past will use examples on display
in the Oriental Institute Museum.
Free. Registration not required.
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
PLEIN AIR F IG U RE DRAWIN G
Thu, Aug 4, 5:30–7:30pm
Smart Museum of Art
Join the Smart and UChicago’s
student org Outside the Lines
for a free figure drawing session
in the Museum’s Vera and A.D.
Elden Sculpture Garden. When
posing, live models will utilize
sculptures like Scott Burton’s Bench
and Table and Richard Hunt’s
Why. All materials provided.
Free, drop in or join in on
facebook.com/smartmuseum.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art
and Outside the Lines.
PRIN T M A K I N G WOR KS HOP :
SCRATC H A N E TC H
Thu, Aug 11, 5:30–8pm
Smart Museum of Art
(5550 S Greenwood Ave)
Thu, Aug 18, 5:30–8pm
Spudnik Press
(1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302)
Learn the age-old art of etching as
the Smart Museum and Spudnik Press
team up in this two-day printmaking
workshop. On August 11, we’ll tour the
Prints and Privacy exhibition at the
Smart with curator Anne Leonard and
then retire to the “studio” to etch our
on our own copper plates. On August
18, at Spudnik, Founder Angee
Lennard takes us behind the scenes
as we finish our plates, wipe them,
and send them through the press.
Free, advance registration required
(smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/
register).
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art
and Spudnik Press.
KIN G S HI P I N A N C I E N T EGY P T
AN D BE YON D
Thu, Sep 1, 12:15–1pm
Oriental Institute Museum
Looking at objects in the
collections, Jonathan Winnerman,
PhD candidate in Egyptology, will
guide visitors through the role of
both the king and his office and
explore whether he was a human,
a god, or something in between.
Free. Registration not required.
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
ST ROL L E R TOUR : A N I MA L S
IN A N C I E N T A R T
Tue, Sep 13, 2–3pm
What kind of animals—both real
and imagined—can we find in the
ancient Middle East? How did ancient
artisans and artists incorporate
animal motifs in their work? Stroll
through our Egyptian and Persian
galleries to find out how animals
inspired minor arts, architectural
building, and even mummification.
General $15; members, UChicago
students/faculty $10, for up to two
adults. General $7, members $5 for
additional adult registrant. Babies in
strollers free. Registration required
(oi.uchicago.edu/programs).
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
F IN DIN G FA N ON FI L M
SCREENING AND
A R T I ST TA L K
Fri, Sep 16, 7pm
Black Cinema House
(7200 S Kimbark Ave)
Join us for a screening of two films
from Finding Fanon, a trilogy inspired
by the lost plays of the radical
philosopher, writer, and humanist
Franz Fanon (1925–1961), followed
by a conversation with artist Larry
Achiampong and Yesomi Umolu,
Logan Center Exhibitions Curator.
Free.
Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions
and Black Cinema House. Co-sponsored by
the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
OP E N I N G R EC E P T I ON :
TH E R E WAS A W H OL E
COL L ECTION M A DE
Wed, Sep 28, 7–8:30pm
Smart Museum of Art
Celebrate the Estate of Lester and
Betty Guttman’s extraordinary gift
of several hundred photographs
to the Smart Museum during
this opening reception.
Free.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
A UChicago Arts initiative, Concrete
Happenings invites art-lovers and carlovers, artists and scholars, drivers and
pedestrians to confront the power of
public art—the strange power of a massive
sculpture produced by Fluxus artist
Wolf Vostell. In 1970, in Chicago, Vostell
encased a Cadillac in concrete.
From Fall 2016 to Spring 2017, a range of
free, interdisciplinary programs across
campus will engage both scholarly and
general audiences in the rich themes
surrounding Concrete Happenings.
Concrete Happenings is organized by UChicago Arts in partnership with
the University of Chicago’s Department of Art History, Neubauer Collegium
for Culture and Society, Smart Museum of Art, University Library: Special
Collections Research Center, and Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
The initiative is directed by Christine Mehring, Chair and Professor in the
Department of Art History.
Additional UChicago program partners include Chicago Center for
Contemporary Theory; Film Studies Center; Franke Institute for the
Humanities; Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry; Humanities
Division; Institute for Molecular Engineering; Rockefeller Chapel; UChicago
Urban; and the Departments of Cinema and Media Studies, Germanic Studies,
and Music. Other partners include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago;
the Arts Club of Chicago; and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 11am–4pm
Methods and Materials to Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Ave)
to Arts Club of Chicago (201 E Ontario St) to
University of Chicago Campus North Parking
Garage (5525 S Ellis Ave)
Vostell’s Concrete Traffic makes several stops on its return
to the University of Chicago campus. First, outside of
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Concrete Traffic will
be joined by a number of classic Cadillacs and cement
trucks as a backdrop for a free public discussion with
Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the
MCA, and Christine Mehring, faculty director of Concrete
Happenings and Professor and Chair, Department of
Art History at UChicago. Afterward, a “happening” will
take place at the sculpture’s original downtown site now
across from the present-day Arts Club of Chicago. Finally,
the sculpture will make its way past Midway Studios
and the Logan Center for the Arts, site of its original
location at the University of Chicago, before arriving at
its new location in the Campus North Parking Garage.
Free.
Presented by the Arts Club of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Smart Museum of Art, and UChicago Arts.
Concrete Happenings has been made possible by each of the programming
partners above, as well as the Goethe-Institut, the Smart Museum’s Pamela
and R. Christopher Hoehn-Saric Exhibitions Fund, and the Wolf Vostell Estate.
Support for the conservation of Concrete Traffic has been graciously provided
by Reva and David Logan Foundation; Maja Oeri; Christian Scheidemann and
Contemporary Conservation, New York; Friends of Heritage Preservation; JP
Brown, Conservator, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL; UChicago Arts Campus
and Public Art Fund; Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society; and
Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.
IMAGE CREDIT: David Katzive, view of Wolf Vostell’s Concrete Traffic as it moves
down, I-90 to the University of Chicago, June 1970. Collection of the Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago. Photo © MCA Chicago.
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The product of that “happening,”
Concrete Traffic, will be installed in a
University of Chicago campus parking
garage this fall. It will serve as the
provocation for a comprehensive suite
of exhibitions and interactive public
programs—performances, screenings,
talks, art workshops, happenings—that
offer unique opportunities to engage
with a crucial art historical moment and
movement, and to explore the intensities
with which an artwork can form and
transform its publics.
Concrete Traffic
Procession to the
University of Chicago
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FILM
SU M M E R N I G HTS V I N TAG E
F IL M S E R I E S
Wed, Jul 20, 6pm
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
2h 3min
At the height of the Roman Civil
War, a young Cleopatra meets a
middle-aged Julius Caesar who
teaches her how to rule Egypt.
Directed by Gabriel Pascal, starring
Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh.
S U MMER N IG H TS VIN TAG E
FILM S ER IES
Wednesdays, 6pm; pre-screening
thematic gallery tour starts at
5:15pm in the lobby
Oriental Institute Museum
Join a special gallery tour guided by
Emily Teeter, PhD, Egyptologist and
Special Exhibit Coordinator of the
Oriental Institute Museum, followed
by a screening of some of America’s
favorite vintage and campy films on
ancient Egypt. Films are screened in
the Oriental Institute’s atmospheric
Breasted Hall. Seating is available
on a first-come, first-served basis.
Free. Registration not required.
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
SU M M E R N I G HTS V I N TAG E
F IL M S E R I E S
Wed, Aug 3, 6pm
The Mummy (1932)
1h 12min
A living mummy stalks the
beautiful woman he believes is
the reincarnation of his lover.
Directed by Boris Karloff, starring
Boris Karloff and Zita Johann.
SU M M E R N I G HTS V I N TAG E
F IL M S E R I E S
Wed, Aug 17, 6pm
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
1h 46min
A captured architect designs
an ingenious plan to ensure the
impregnability of tomb of a self-
absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed
with the security of his next life.
Directed by Howard Hawks, starring
Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins.
F IN DIN G FA N ON FI L M
SCREENING AND
A R T I ST TA L K
Fri, Sep 16, 7pm
Black Cinema House
(7200 S Kimbark Ave)
Join us for a screening of two films
from Finding Fanon, a trilogy inspired
by the lost plays of the radical
philosopher, writer, and humanist
Franz Fanon (1925–1961), followed
by a conversation with artist Larry
Achiampong and Yesomi Umolu,
Logan Center Exhibitions Curator.
Free.
Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions
and Black Cinema House. Co-sponsored by
the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
G R E E N R OOM
Sat, Jul 16, 7 and 9pm
Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall
Down-and-out punk rockers The
Ain’t Rights barely scrape by as a
disappointing tour winds down.
Desperate after headlining a Mexican
restaurant, they agree to perform at
a Neo-Nazi punk bar in rural Oregon.
Finishing their set, they witness a
murder backstage, forcing the venue’s
owner (Patrick Stewart) to detain
them as the only witnesses to the
crime. A bloody, tense fight for survival
with zealous Nazi punks ensues.
(Jeremy Saulnier, 2015, 95 min, DCP)
General $5/film, $20 quarterly pass.
Presented by Doc Films.
CEMETERY O F S PLEN D O R
Sat, Jul 23, 7 and 9:30pm
Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall
Ghosts and dreams permeate waking
life in this meditation on Indonesia
and its martial history. Jenjira is a new
nurse at a dilapidated schoolhouseturned-clinic that may also rest atop
a mausoleum of ancient kings. She
befriends a patient who belongs to a
group of wounded soldiers afflicted
with a mysterious sleeping sickness.
Connected to luminescent dream
machines that ease their sleep, they
are called by the dead kings to restage
the battles of yore. (Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, 2015, 122 min, DCP)
General $5/film, $20 quarterly pass.
Presented by Doc Films.
NEI GHBOR S 2 :
SOR ORI TY R I S I N G
Presented by Doc Films.
Presented by Doc Films.
M O UN TA IN S M AY DE PA RT
Sat, Aug 13, 7 and 9:30pm
Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall
Mountains May Depart traces the
aftermath of a love triangle between
three friends, following the trio
as they navigate life in a rapidly
changing China. Splitting the film
between 1999, 2014, and 2025,
director Jia muses on China’s recent
economic rise and speculates on
the uncertain future. Calling it his
most emotional work, Jia grounds
his film by examining the effects of
these changes on his characters and
the intimate details of their lives.
(Zhangke Jia, 2015, 131 min, DCP)
General $5/film, $20 quarterly pass.
Presented by Doc Films.
A PR I L A N D TH E
EXT RAOR DIN A RY WOR L D
Sat, Aug 20, 7 and 9:15pm
Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall
April (Marion Cotillard) lives in a
dystopian past whose differences from
our world are not immediately clear.
In this foreign variant of 1941 France,
she sets out in search of her missing
scientist parents. Accompanied by a
talking cat named Darwin and a host
of helpful friends, April investigates
what makes the planet still rely on
coal long into the twentieth century,
finding far more in the process. This
animated French film will excite and
delight. (Christian Desmares and
Franck Ekinci, 2015, 105 min, DCP)
General $5/film, $20 quarterly pass.
Presented by Doc Films.
THE LOBSTE R
Sat, Aug 6, 7 and 9:30pm
Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall
After his wife leaves him for another
man, David (Colin Farrell), now
newly single, has forty-five days at
a regimented singles’ convention
in a country hotel to find a new
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Sat, Jul 30, 7 and 9pm
Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall
When a group of college women
decide they don’t want to abide by
the tight-laced rules of the existing
sororities, they found Kappa Nu to
show that Greek life debauchery
does not have to be limited to frats.
Desperate to reclaim the serenity of
their family home, the couple next
door (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne)
has to call in help from their old
nemesis Teddy (Zac Efron). Scandal,
shenanigans, and cringe-worthy
moments abound in this new comedy.
(Nicholas Stoller, 2016, 92 min, DCP)
General $5/film, $20 quarterly pass.
partner. Should he fail, he will get
turned into the animal of his choice
(“most people pick dogs”- “why
there’s so many”) and released
into the woods. Yorgos Lanthimos’
latest surreal satire is a takedown of
modern social conditioning with a
drab dystopian backdrop. (Yorgos
Lanthimos, 2015, 118 min, DCP)
Genearl $5/film, $20 quarterly pass.
F R A N K L LOY D W R I G H T, D I N I N G TA B L E A N D S I X S I D E C H A I R S , 1 9 07–1 9 1 0,
D E S I G N E D FO R T H E F R E D E R I C K C . R O B I E R E S I D E N C E .
O N D I S P L AY AT T H E S M A RT M U S E U M O F A RT.
ARCHITECTURE
& DESIGN
D E S I G N A N D BUI L D
Mondays and Fridays, Jul 1, 8, 11, 15,
18, 22, 25 and 29, 11am and 1pm
Frederick C. Robie House (5757 S
Woodlawn Ave)
Join us in our Pop Up Design Studio
in the courtyard of the Frederick C.
Robie House. Explore and create with
a series of free design workshops.
Free.
Third Saturdays, Jul 16, Aug 20,
and Sep 17, 10–11am
Frederick C. Robie House
(5757 S Woodlawn Ave)
This monthly program includes a
brief tour and directed workshop
that explores the Robie House
up close. Explore a unique detail
of Wright’s design and learn
how to build the same detail
for an original LEGO model.
General $25 children; adult
chaperones free (flwright.org/
programs/designandbuild).
Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.
TH INKING IN TO T H E F U T U RE:
TH E R O BIE H O U SE SERIES
ON ARCH IT ECT U RE, DESIG N
AND IDEAS
Thu, Sep 29, 6pm presentation /
5pm cocktail reception
Logan Center
Award-winning architect Toshiko
Mori, the Robert P. Hubbard Professor
in the Practice of Architecture
at Harvard University Graduate
School of Design, is the guest
speaker for this annual program.
The topic of her presentation is
“Dialogue in Architecture.”
General, non-members: $25;
Frank Lloyd Wright Trust members,
University of Chicago alumni, faculty
and staff, AIA Chicago members,
teachers: $20; students $5
(flwright.org).
Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.
D ESIG N TE A M @
RO B I E HOUS E
Thursdays, Jul 7, 14, 21, and 28,
10–11:30am
Frederick C. Robie House
(5757 S Woodlawn Ave)
Play, create, and be inspired at Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Robie House. Design
Team activities allow families to
share in the creative process through
interactive investigations, hands-on
exploration, and crafts. Each week
presents a different design challenge.
General $5 children; accompanying
adults free (cal.flwright.
org/programs/youthfamily/
designteam/).
Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.
Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.
OP E N D E S I G N ST UD I O
W I T H L EG O®
Third Saturdays, Jul 16, Aug 20,
and Sep 17, 11am–12pm
Frederick C. Robie House
(5757 S Woodlawn Ave)
Build with LEGOs in the Robie House
billiards room during the Open
Design Studio following Design &
Build: Prairie Style. Designs can be
purchased at the end of the hour.
Free; registration encouraged
(flwright.org/programs/
opendesignstudio).
Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.
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S E M I N A RY CO - O P B O O KSTO R E
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LITERATURE
R EADING BY KAL ISH A
BU CKH ANON : SO LEM N :
A NOVEL
PO E T RY R E A D I N G
BY J OHN KOE T HE A N D
DAV I D T R I N I DA D
TR IO ACCOR D:
A J OU R N E Y AC R OSS
TH E E N G L ISH C H A N N E L
Fri, Jul 8, 6pm
57th Street Books (1301 E 57th St)
The new novel from the awardwinning, critically-acclaimed author
of Conception and Upstate, Solemn is
a powerful new story of unseen black
youth: Solemn Redvine, a girl whose
life winds in unexpected directions
as she lives with simple people but
complicated circumstances in a
Mississippi mobile home community.
Free.
Thu, Jul 21, 6pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
(5751 S Woodlawn Ave)
About John Koethe’s 10th collection
of poetry, The Swimmer, NPR says,
“These poems won’t shatter the
universe, but that’s precisely their
point, the tragedy they lament: that
as individuals we are small and the
universe pays our seemingly vast
inner lives no mind.” The winner of
the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
reads from his new work along with
acclaimed poet David Trinidad,
whose latest Notes on a Past Life
has been hailed as “breathy and
breathtaking…a mature, wise, and
enlightening book.” (Denise Duhamel)
Free.
Sun, Aug 21, 3pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
(5751 S Woodlawn Ave)
The viola da gamba is central to
the musical styles of 16th and 17th
century France and England. It
provides rich harmonies in lute
song, adds decorative obbligato in
French cantatas, and can even stand
alone as a solo instrument in the
lyra viol style. Please join University
of Michigan alumni James Perretta
(viola da gamba), Ashley Mulcahy
(mezzo soprano), and Francis Yun
(harpsichord) as we explore these
colorful styles along with solo
music for voice and harpsichord.
Free.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
AAR O N S HKU DA O N
THE LOF T S O F SO HO :
GENTRI F I C AT I O N , A RT, A N D
I ND USTRY I N N EW YO R K,
1950-1980
Mon, Jul 11, 6pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
(5751 S Woodlawn Ave)
In The Lofts of SoHo, Aaron Shkuda
studies the transition of the district
from industrial space to artists’
enclave to affluent residential area,
focusing on the legacy of urban
renewal in and around SoHo and the
growth of artist-led redevelopment.
Shkuda explores conflicts between
residents and property owners and
analyzes the city’s embrace of the
once-illegal loft conversion as an
urban development strategy. As
Shkuda explains, artists eventually
lost control of SoHo’s development,
but over several decades they
nonetheless forced scholars,
policymakers, and the general public
to take them seriously as critical
actors in the twentiethcentury American city.
Free.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores
and UChicago Alumni Association.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
O RGY E N C HOWA N G
RIN P OC HE ON OU R P R ISTIN E
M I N D: A P RACTIC A L G U IDE
TO U N CON DITION A L
HA P P IN E SS
Thu, Aug 18, 6pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
(5751 S Woodlawn Ave)
A Tibetan Buddhist master shows
how to pull away the veil of
preconceived notions of ourselves
and the world in order to find
true happiness. In this effective,
jargon-free guide to the apex
of Tibetan Buddhist teachings,
Orgyen Chowang empowers us
to gradually experience our mind
as pure awareness–free from the
feelings, thoughts, and other mental
events that obscure its true nature.
Free.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
FR E S H AY E R S : N I C HOL S O N
BA K E R ON SU B STITU TE :
G OIN G TO SC H OOL W ITH A
TH OU S A N D K IDS - W I T H BI LL
AY E R S
Wed, Sep 7, 6pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
In 2014, after a brief orientation
course and a few fingerprinting
sessions, Nicholson Baker became
an on-call substitute teacher in a
Maine public school district. He
awoke to the dispatcher’s fiveforty a.m. phone call and headed
to one of several nearby schools;
when he got there, he did his best
to follow lesson plans and help his
students get something done. What
emerges from Baker’s experience
is a complex, often touching
deconstruction of public schooling
in America: children swamped with
overdue assignments, overwhelmed
by the marvels and distractions
of social media and educational
technology, and staff who weary
themselves trying to teach in step
with an often outmoded or overly
ambitious standard curriculum. Baker
is one of the most inventive and
remarkable writers of our time, and
Substitute, filled with humor, honesty,
and empathy, may be his most
impressive work of nonfiction yet.
Free.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores
and The Civic Knowledge Project.
Studs Terkel, an American icon
who had no use for America’s cult
of celebrity. Drawing from over
one hundred interviews of people
who knew and worked with Studs,
Wieder creates a multi-dimensional
portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy
from Chicago who, in public life,
became an acclaimed author and
raconteur, while managing, in his
private life, to remain a mensch.
Free.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
READING BY CO L SO N
WH ITEH EAD: T HE
UND ER GR OUN D RA I LR OA D
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores,
UChicago Arts and the University of
Chicago Committee on Creative Writing.
READING BY J O N AT H AN F.
PU TNAM: THE S E HO N O R ED
D EAD : A L I NCO LN A N D
SPEED MYSTE RY
Wed, Sep 14, 6pm
57th Street Books (1301 E 57th St)
Trial lawyer and Lincoln scholar
Jonathan F. Putnam presents
his debut novel, These Honored
Dead, the first book in his Lincoln
and Speed Mystery Series. About
the novel, Pulitzer Prize winning
author Dorkis Kearns Goodwin
writes, “Jonathan Putnam combines
an historian’s understanding of
character and context with a
remarkable narrative drive that kept
me fascinated from start to finish....
One of the most enjoyable works of
fiction I have read in a long time.”
Free.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
FR ES H AYERS: AL AN
WEIDER ON ST U DS T ERKEL :
PO LITICS , CU LT U RE, B U T
MOSTLY CON VERSAT IO N WITH BILL AY ERS
Thu, Sep 15, 6pm
57th Street Books (1301 E 57th St)
Alan Weider and Bill Ayers discuss
this unparalleled introduction to
J O H N F R E E M A N ON
FR EEM A N ’ S: FA M ILY W I T H
AL EKSA N DA R HE M ON
Tue, Sep 20, 6pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
(5751 S Woodlawn Ave)
The inaugural issue of renowned
literary critic John Freeman’s
anthology FREEMAN’S led the San
Francisco Chronicle to name it as “a
new literary journal that is sure to
become a classic in years to come.”
The second issue, FREEMAN’S: Family
once again collects a wide-ranging
group of never-before-published
stories, essays, and poetry, this time
centered broadly around the topic
of family, from both emerging voices
and the world’s best known writers.
Free.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
READIN G BY
G U IL L E R MO SACCOMA N N O:
GES ELL DOM E
Thu, Sep 22, 6pm
57th Street Books (1301 E 57th St)
Winner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett
Award, Guillermo Saccomanno’s
Gesell Dome is a mosaic of misery,
a page-turner that will keep
you enthralled until its shocking
conclusion. Like True Detective
through the lenses of William
Faulker and John Dos Passos.
Free.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores
and Open Letter Books.
READIN G BY J OS E FI N E
KLO U G A R T: ON E OF U S
I S S LEE P IN G
Sat, Sep 24, 3pm
57th Street Books (1301 E 57th St)
Hailed as one of Denmark’s greatest
contemporary writers, Josefine
Klougart’s English-language debut,
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores
and Open Letter Books.
R OBE R T K . E L D E R ON
H IDDE N H E M IN GWAY: IN SID E
TH E E R N E ST H E M IN GWAY
A R C H IV E S OF OA K PA R K W I T H E T HA N MI C HA E L I
Tue, Sep 27, 6pm
57th Street Books (1301 E 57th St)
Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest
Hemingway Archives of Oak Park is
part time capsule, part biography
of the Nobel Prize-winning author.
This hardcover coffee table book
features never-before-seen items
such as family photos, teenage
diaries, bullfighting tickets, love
letters—even a dental x-ray. Hidden
Hemingway is a chance for a new
generation to discover a literary
genius and for fans to see him as
more than just the larger-thanlife myth he created for himself.
Free.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
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Tue, Sep 13, 6pm
Logan Center
New York Times bestselling
author and Pulitzer Prize finalist
Colson Whitehead presents The
Underground Railroad, a magnificent
tour de force chronicling a young
slave’s adventures as she makes
a desperate bid for freedom
in the antebellum South.
Admission TBA.
One of Us Is Sleeping, is a
haunting novel about loss in all
its forms. A true-to-life, deeply
poetic novel that works in the
same vein as Joan Didion, Anne
Carson, and Virginia Woolf.
Free.
ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL
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MUSIC
TH E BELLS O F SU M M ER:
W ES LEY A RAI
Sun, Jul 10, 5pm
Rockefeller Chapel lawn
The third of seven concerts in this
year’s Bells of Summer series,
hour-long concerts on Rockefeller’s
famed bells, which you can enjoy on
the lawn with your picnic supper!
Wesley Arai of the University of
California, Berkeley, plays music of
Matthias van den Gheyn and Geert
d’Hollander as well as arrangements
of folk music for carillon.
Free.
Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.
TH E BELLS O F SU M M ER:
H YLKE BA N N IN G
Sun, Jul 17, 5pm
Rockefeller Chapel lawn
The fourth of seven concerts in this
year’s Bells of Summer series, hourlong concerts on Rockefeller’s famed
bells, which you can enjoy on the
lawn with your picnic supper! Hylke
Banning, carillonneur in Amersfoort,
The Netherlands, plays a program of
twentieth century carillon classics,
with arrangements of Bach and
Debussy as his opening selections.
Free.
Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.
T H E BE L L S OF S UM M E R :
KY MBE R LY STON E
T HE BE L L S OF S UMM E R :
J OE Y BR I N K
Sun, Jul 24, 5pm
Rockefeller Chapel lawn
The fifth of seven concerts in
this year’s Bells of Summer
series, hour-long concerts on
Rockefeller’s famed bells, which
you can enjoy on the lawn with
your picnic supper! Kymberly
Stone, associate carillonneur at
Brigham Young University, plays
a program including the Arrival of
the Queen of Sheba, and favorites
from Fiddler on the Roof.
Free.
Sun, Aug 7, 5pm
Rockefeller Chapel lawn
The seventh of seven concerts in
this year’s Bells of Summer series,
hour-long concerts on Rockefeller’s
famed bells, which you can enjoy
on the lawn with your picnic
supper! Joey Brink, UChicago
carillonneur, rounds out the series
with Rockefeller commissions, pieces
representing a year in Chicago, and
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah as the
last piece of this year’s festival.
Free.
Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.
Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.
WOR KS HOP W I T H AQUI L
C HA R LTON A N D T HE M OBI LE
M US I C BOX
T H E BE L L S OF S UM M E R :
EL L E N D I C K I N S ON
Sun, Jul 31, 5pm
Rockefeller Chapel lawn
The sixth of seven concerts in this
year’s Bells of Summer series, hourlong concerts on Rockefeller’s famed
bells, which you can enjoy on the
lawn with your picnic supper! Ellen
Dickinson, advisor to the Yale Guild
of Carillonneurs, plays a program
of favorites including a suite of
African American spirituals and
a Nocturne written by UChicago
carillonneur Joey Brink for her!
Free.
Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.
Sat, Jul 9, 1–2pm
Arts Incubator (301 E Garfield Blvd)
The Mobile Music Box is a bicycle& solar-powered music class,
instrument-making workshop, and
street studio. Aquil Charlton, a
musician and teaching artist from
Chicago’s South Side, has developed
the Box to provide innovative
and intuitive music education
in communities where there is
limited access to such programs.
Free.
Presented by Arts + Public Life; the
Center for the Study of Race, Politics &
Culture; and Logan Center Exhibitions.
CH AMBER MUSIC IN T EN SIVE
2016 PRES EN TS I N
RESP ONSE: M US I C I N
D I ALOGUE W I T H CULT UR E
Thu, Jul 14–Sun, Jul 17, 2016
Logan Center, Performance
Penthouse
The Chamber Music Intensive is an
annual mini festival and chamber
music boot camp for adult amateurs
and college-level string players and
pianists looking to hone their skills in
an inviting and rigorous environment.
Related events are free and open to
the public; all take place at the Logan
Center Performance Penthouse. For
more information visit arts.uchicago.
edu/chamber-music-intensive.
Free.
Presented by the Department of Music.
Kim Kashkashian performs
selections from György Kurtág’s
Signs, Games and Messages,
and discusses the dynamics
of being a “citizen musician,”
transforming personal artistic
success into tangible, social good.
Free.
Presented by the Department of
Music and the Logan Center.
CH AM BE R M US I C I N T E N S I V E
2 016 : F I N A L CON C E R T
Sun, Jul 17, 2pm
Logan Center, Performance
Penthouse
The musical celebration of four
vigorous days! Chamber Music
Intensive participants present
Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E
minor, Brahms’ Piano Quartet in C
minor, Haydn’s Quartet No. 62 in C
major, “Emperor,” and other works
from the chamber music repertoire
that directly or subversively engages
with politics and social issues.
Free.
HY D E PA R K JA ZZ FE ST I VA L
Sat–Sun, Sep 24–25
Various venues
The 10th anniversary Hyde Park
Jazz Festival, unfolding on 13
stages across Hyde Park September
24–25, will feature a commission and
performance by MacArthur Fellow
Miguel Zenon with the Spektral
Quartet, a solo performance by the
venerable pianist and composer
Randy Weston on the occasion of
his 90th birthday, a performance
by Iraqi-American trumpeter and
composer Amir ElSaffar and his
critically acclaimed Two Rivers
Ensemble, and more than 30
additional performances and
programs across the neighborhood.
For a complete schedule and
more information, visit http://
www.hydeparkjazzfestival.org.
Free.
Presented by Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Presented by the Department of Music.
FACULTY R EC ITAL :
SPEKTRAL QUA RT ET
W ITH PIANIST DAN IEL
S CH LOS BER G
Presented by the Department of Music.
KIM KAS H KASH IAN :
PER FORMAN CE AN D
CO NVER SATIO N
Fri, Jul 15, 5:30pm
Logan Center, Performance
Penthouse
Internationally renowned,
GRAMMY Award-winning violist
Sat, Sep 10, 1pm
Logan Center, Performance
Penthouse
Songs of Fauré, Chausson, Debussy,
and Ferré performed by Nicholas
Phan, tenor; Kelley O’Connor, mezzosoprano; Scott Allen Jarrett, piano;
and the Spektral Quartet. Ticket
includes post-concert reception.
General $35, seniors $30, students
$15.
Presented by the Collaborative
Arts Institute of Chicago.
T H E SE V E N T H A N N UA L
CO M M U N I T Y CA FÉ :
WO RL D M US I C FE ST
Sat, Sep 10, 7pm
(doors open at 6pm)
Logan Center, Performance Hall
Celebrate the 18th Annual World
Music Festival and the Seventh
Annual Community Café: World
Music Fest with an opening
performance by J.A.S.S. Quartet,
playing a dynamic and exciting blend
of Carnatic Raga, North Indian folk,
classical rhythms, and jazz’s harmonic
structure to create a distinctly
contemporary classical collaboration.
This night will be a double-bill, with
the second major performance
being named later this summer.
Visit worldmusicfestivalchicago.
org for more information.
Free.
Presented by World Music Festival
Chicago 2016, Inner-City Muslim
Action Network, Old Town School of
Folk Music, and the Logan Center.
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Thu, Jul 14, 7pm
Logan Center,
Performance Penthouse
UChicago Ensemble-in-Residence
Spektral Quartet and pianist Daniel
Schlosberg present Music for Food,
a performance featuring Robert
Schumann’s heart-rending Piano
Quintet in E-flat Major and other
works, benefiting the food pantry at
St. Paul and the Redeemer Church. In
lieu of tickets, audience members are
requested to bring non-perishable
food items or a monetary donation.
Free; donation requested.
L ES SY MBOL I ST E S :
CO L L A BORAT I V E WOR KS
F EST IVA L C LOS I N G CON C E R T
M A N I N T H E R I N G AC TO R KA M A L A N G E LO B O L D E N
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THEATER, DANCE
& PERFORMANCE
UCH ICAG O P ERF O RM AN CE
LAB PR ES E N TS H O U SE
TH EATRE OPEN H O U SE
UC HI CAG O P E R FOR MA N C E
L AB P R E S E N TS WA L KA BOUT
T H E AT E R OP E N HOUS E
Sat, Jul 23, 4pm
Logan Center
Featuring work from Shade Murray,
Nathan Allen, Carolyn Defrin, Brett
Neveu, and others, The House is
thrilled to host and support artists
this summer who are creating 17
original pieces that will use actors,
puppets, and movement and more
to tell exciting new stories. This
showcase is an opportunity for
you to meet the artists involved
and be a part of this fun process!
Be sure to stay for the pizza
reception afterwards at 6pm.
General $10 suggested donation;
free for UChicago students, faculty,
and staff (bit.ly/29ls76L).
Tue, Aug 16, 7pm
Logan Center
Walkabout Theater will present
Tall Girl and the Lightning Parade,
an immersive, celebratory outdoor
parade performance with live music,
dance, masks, and stilt-walkers.
The performance is inspired by the
Tzutujil Mayan story told by Martín
Prechtel in his book The Disobedience
of the Daughter of the Sun, depicting
Tall Girl and her magical courtship
with the iridescent Hummingbird
Boy. The spectacle will be performed
in both English and Spanish and
is suitable for the entire family.
Free.
Presented by The House Theatre
and UChicago Performance Lab.
UCH ICAG O P ERF O RM AN CE
LAB PR ES E N TS H Y PO CRIT ES
O PEN H O U SE
Sat, Aug 13, 12pm
Grey Center for Arts and Inquiry
Hot on the heels of Sean Graney’s
laudable All Our Tragic, The
Hypocrites is joining UChicago
Performance Lab to present a staged
reading of Aristophanesathon, a
conjoined adaptation of eleven
Aristophanes comedies. As a threepart event, running five to six hours
with a cast of six actors playing
thirty characters, it is developed to
be nimbly performed in any setting.
Free.
Presented by The Hypocrites and
UChicago Performance Lab.
Presented by Walkabout Theater
and
UChicago Performance Lab.
UC HI CAG O P E R FOR MA N C E
L AB P R E S E N TS SA LON AT HON
O P E N HOUS E
Sun, Sep 11, 3pm
and Tue, Sep 13, 7:30pm
Logan Center, Room 701
Salonathon, Chicago’s home for
underground, emerging, and genredefying art will present three new
works from featured artists Bea
Cordelia, Aasia Bullock, and Dewayne
Perkins and Matt Leyes. The new
work will feature presentations on a
woman’s experience with transphobia
and self doubt to find the core of
herself, a narrative set of sketches
following two comedians through
their journey of being black in a
mostly white community, and an
intimate look at the highs and lows of
Leyes’ drag persona Judy Rosenblatt.
Free.
Presented by Salonathon and
UChicago Performance Lab.
M A N IN TH E R IN G
Thu, Sep 15–Sun, Oct 16
Court Theatre
Based on the true story of six-time
world champion boxer Emile Griffith,
Man in the Ring charts Emile’s rise
to his infamous match against
archrival Benny “Kid” Paret. When
Benny challenges Emile’s sexual
identity, Griffith responds in the ring
and leaves a mark that lingers long
after their legendary encounter.
Ticket prices vary; discounts
available for UChicago students
and faculty (courttheatre.org,
773.753.4472).
Presented by Court Theatre.
FA M I LY P R O G R A M AT T H E S M A RT M U S E U M O F A RT.
YOUTH & FAMILY
IN T ROD UC T I ON TO
H IEROG LY P HS
Tue, Jul 5–Aug 14, 2016
Smart Museum of Art
For this experimental program, the
Smart joins together with cultural and
community partners to think critically
and creatively about what it means
to belong. Participants will use art
in the Museum’s collection to spark
conversation about the aesthetic,
social, and political conditions that
either encourage belonging or
propagate exclusion. The partners—
Arts + Public Life’s Teen Arts Council,
Odyssey Institute Program, Red Line
Service, and Stockyard Institute—will
design plans to physically transform
the Smart’s galleries into an idealized
space of belonging and share through
a series of public events. This project
anticipates Conversations with the
Collection: Belonging, a yearlong
exhibition, opening on August 16.
Free, select events open to the
public. Learn more at
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu.
Thursdays, Jul 7 and Jul 28,
1:30–3:30pm
Oriental Institute Museum
Learn the basics of the Egyptian
hieroglyphic writing system
and discover some sneaky tips
that will have you reading some
ancient Egyptian artifacts in no
time. Explore the differences and
similarities between hieroglyphs
and the writing system used
for English. For ages 5–12.
Members $10; non-members $14 (1
child + 1 adult) $5; each additional
registrant $7. Registration required
(oi.uchicago.edu/programs).
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
ONE. BIG. EGY P T IAN . M U RAL .
Tuesdays, Jul 5 and Jul 26
10:30am–12:30pm
Oriental Institute Museum
Find out how those amazing
Egyptian murals were made by
helping us to create one from paper
using the techniques and “rules”
that make ancient Egyptian art
so recognizable. For ages 5–12.
Free. Registration recommended (oi.
uchicago.edu/programs).
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
D ES I GN TE A M
@ RO B I E HOUS E
Thursdays, Jul 7, 14, 21, and
28, 10–11:30am
Frederick C. Robie House (5757 S
Woodlawn Ave)
Play, create, and be inspired at Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Robie House. Design
Team activities allow families to
share in the creative process through
interactive investigations, hands-on
exploration, and crafts. Each week
presents a different design challenge.
General $5 children; accompanying
adults free (cal.flwright.
org/programs/youthfamily/
designteam/).
Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.
FAM ILY DAY: S UM M E R
CO M IC S FE ST I VA L
Sat, Jul 9, 1–4pm
Smart Museum of Art
Design your own comic books and
make sidewalk chalk comic strips
with local artist Donavan Tribble.
Join in a “how-to-draw” workshop
and learn how to string drawings
together into panels, pages, and
full comic books. Plus, help us
draw a collaborative comic book
or listen in to a reading of Anouk
Ricard’s comic Anna and Froga.
Free.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and
CAKE Chicago Alternative Comics Festival.
D E S I G N A N D BUI L D
Third Saturdays, Jul 16, Aug 20,
and Sep 17, 10–11am
Frederick C. Robie House
(5757 S Woodlawn Ave)
This monthly program includes a
brief tour and directed workshop that
explores the Robie House up close.
Explore a unique detail of Wright’s
design and learn how to build the
same detail for an original
LEGO model.
General $25 children; adult
chaperones free (flwright.org/
programs/designandbuild).
Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.
OP E N D E S I G N ST UD I O
W I T H L EG O®
Third Saturdays, Jul 16, Aug 20, and
Sep 17, 11am–12pm
Frederick C. Robie House
(5757 S Woodlawn Ave)
Build with LEGOs in the Robie House
billiards room during the Open
Design Studio following Design &
Build: Prairie Style. Designs can be
purchased at the end of the hour.
Free; registration encouraged
(flwright.org/programs/
opendesignstudio).
Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.
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I N ANTI CI PATI O N O F
BELONGI NG
DRAW ING H O U R
AGES 5–ADU LT
Wednesdays, Jul 20 and Aug 10,
10:30am–11:30pm
Oriental Institute Museum
Exercise your creativity in a morning
of drawing in The Edgar and Deborah
Jannotta Mesopotamian Gallery
(July 20) and The Joseph and Mary
Grimshaw Egyptian Gallery (August
10) of the Oriental Institute Museum.
Practice looking closely and develop
drawing skills. Choose ancient
sculptures and pottery to sketch, or
grab a drawing worksheet to loosen
up and get inspired. All materials
are provided and you are welcome
to bring your own sketchbook (only
pencil is allowed in the gallery). Drop
in at any time. For ages 5–adult.
Free. Registration recommended
(oi.uchicago.edu/programs).
Presented by the Oriental Institute.
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FAMILY DAY: A DAY
AT TH E BEACH
Sat, Aug 6, 1–4pm
Smart Museum of Art
The Smart and Families Read (an
initiative of WYCC Public Television)
join forces in this all-ages family
day celebrating living in the city in
the summer, going to the beach,
reading together, and making art.
Together, we’ll read Tar Beach, the
Caldecott Award-winning book by
Faith Ringgold, and make our own
quilt paintings, colorful painted
beach towels, and picnic blankets.
Free.
Presented by the Smart Museum of
Art and WYCC PBS Chicago.
protest ephemera and begin
to stage their own protest.
MOV E ME N T
C UBA N SA L SA W I T H
ARIF SMITH
SU IT E 1 6 : S UM M E R A R TS
WO R KS HOP S FOR A D ULTS
Logan Center for the Arts
(915 E 60th St)
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
(929 E 60th St)
16 mini-workshops in movement,
storytelling, visual arts, and writing—
take up to four classes in each track,
or mix and match! Learn more at
arts.uchicago.edu/summer-artworkshops-for-adults.
$10 class, register at tickets.
uchicago.edu.
More details at arts.uchicago.edu/
summer-art-workshops-for-adults.
VISUA L A R TS
B O OK BI N D I N G W I T H N OR T H
B RA N C H P R OJ EC TS
Tue, Jul 12, 5:30–7pm
Logan Center
Learn basic bookbinding techniques
to get you started in the book arts. In
this workshop, learn about materials,
tools, and methods for making your
own variations of pamphlets, stab-­
bound books, and other common
non­adhesive bindings. Participants
take home 4­5 different books at
the end of the session that can be
used for journals and sketchbooks.
CRE AT E A ME ME OF YOUR
OWN W I T H
CEC I L M C D ON A L D
FAMILY DAY: M AKE A
CLAY WAR RIO R
Sat, Sep 10, 1–4pm
Smart Museum of Art
In the spirit of the Field Museum’s
exhibition Terracotta Warriors, the
Smart Museum is taking another
look at our own clay warriors,
ladies, and horses from ancient
China. Build your own clay figure
for protection, companionship,
or to ride off into the sunset.
Free.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.
Tue, Jul 19, 5:30–7pm
Logan Center
Engage with your students using their
language as a political memester
this summer with distinguished
photographer Cecil McDonald. Learn
the most effective technique to
create compelling captions for your
personal and/or political images on
social media and print platforms.
PROT E ST PA RA P HE R N A L I A
WIT H L I S E BAG G E S E N R OSS
Tue, Jul 26, 5:30–7pm
Logan Center
VOX POPULI! Express yourself
through the creation of buttons,
t-­shirts, flags, posters, and flyers.
Participants will look at various
Tue, Jul 5, 5:30–7pm
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Developed in the 1950s, rueda
de casino (wheel of salsa) is a
dance genre shaped by several
African­rooted traditions found in
Cuba, including son and rumba.
Couples dance in a circle, guided
by a leader who indicates when to
execute synchronized movements.
This style of salsa emerged in the
casinos, or dance halls, in Havana
and Santiago among black Cubans,
and often incorporates movement
vocabulary that reflects Cuba’s rich
ethnic diversity and popular culture.
Register yourself and a partner or
come alone and meet someone new!
BEG I N N I N G A FR OCON T E MP ORA RY W I T H
V E R S HAW N WA R D OF
R E D C L AY DA N C E
Tue, Jul 12, 5:30–7pm
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Red Clay Dance Company’s Founder
and Artistic Director Vershawn Ward
presents a special summer master
class! This class is open to all levels
and is an excellent opportunity to
learn the basics of Afro­
Contemporary dance. Afro-­
Contemporary Dance is the
signature style of Red Clay
Dance Company and fuses
movements from West African
and contemporary dance forms.
Participants will build core strength,
fluidity, stamina, and rhythm.
G O DJ : BAS I C S OUN D S K I LLS
FOR T HE C UR I OUS A D ULT
W I T H DAV E M A Z E
Tue, Jul 19, 5:30–7pm
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
DJ Science was designed to
increase analytical and critical
thinking through science and
technology exploration in relationship
to audio engineering, music
production, and DJ performing
arts. Learn the fundamentals of
DJ performance skills including
basics of creating playlists, DJ
cueing, and back spinning.
BEG I N N I N G SA L SA 1 01 W I T H
BL A N CA AV I L E S
Tue, Jul 26, 5:30–7pm
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Learn the basic steps of dancing
to salsa. You will learn partner
technique, turn combinations, and to
lead and/or follow to get on the dance
floor and have a great time. Register
yourself and a partner or come alone
and meet someone new!
W RITING
TH E BO O K O F YO U R L IF E:
AN ADU LT M EM O IR WRIT IN G
WO RKS H OP WIT H
QU RAYS H A L I L AN SAN A
Thu, Jul 7, 5:30–7:30pm
Logan Center
Memoir is the narrative of personal
experience. This interdisciplinary
memoir writing workshop will give
you the opportunity to revisit the
past and reflect on the present.
From tapping musical memories
with audio recordings to using
familiar film and video to unlock
memories, participants will write
personal stories sharing their wisdom
by looking back and forward.
Though memoir is most commonly
written in prose, participants may
also explore poetic memoir.
BETW EEN A WO N DERF U L
R O CK AND A G REAT H ARD
PLACE: PLAYWRIT IN G AN D
TH E POWER O F STO RY WIT H
GLO RIA BO N D CLU N IE
M OR E T HA N WOR DS W I T H
S COT T W HI T E HA I R
Thu, Jul 21, 5:30–7:30pm
Logan Center
This class will discuss blogging
platforms and communities, blog
types, audience demographics,
content creation vs content
harvesting, the ups and downsof
interaction via comments, the use
of social media, and the importance
of an author’s commitment
to any successful blog.
Thu, Jul 14, 5:30–7:30pm
Logan Center
Words are one way that we
communicate with each other,
but words aren’t always the most
effective or engaging way to
connect with an audience. In this
fun, interactive workshop, we’ll
explore and experiment with using
our voices and bodies to their full
potential in the telling of a story.
F IF T H WOM A N , OR OF
PERSON A A N D I M AG I N AT I ON
WIT H AV E RY R . YOUN G
G OI N G D OW N TO T HE R OOT:
P UL L I N G A N D P E R FOR M I N G
STOR I E S FR OM YOUR FA M I LY
T R E E W I T H T RAC I E D. HA LL
Thu, Jul 28, 5:30–7:30pm
Logan Center
Nina Simone’s “Four Women” was
released in 1966. Thalami Davis’
of “The Village Voice” stated the
song was “an instantly accessible
analysis of the damning legacy of
slavery, that made iconographic the
real women we knew and would
become.” This workshop examines
persona writing and Afro­Mysticism,
inviting you to further engage the
song’s theme and challenges by
creating a fifth character. Participants
should be prepared for movement.
STO RYT E L L I N G
T H IS STORY S ME L L S L I K E
H O M E W I T H E MI LY L A N SA N A
Thu, Jul 7, 5:30–7:30pm
Logan Center
Through a series of sense memory
exercises, you will be encouraged to
remember specific moments and to
uncover stories born of kitchen smells,
playground sounds, and moments on
their journeys. This workshop is for
anyone who loves stories and wants
to explore personal memories.
Thu, Jul 21, 5:30–7:30pm
Logan Center
Pulling from her own exploration
of the performance of personal
narratives, Tracie. D. Hall, guides
you through the three-step
process of identifying important or
almost forgotten family histories;
using them to build compelling
stories; and turning these stories
into performance pieces.
D E LV I N G I N TO P E R S ON A L
STOR I E S OF S OC I A L J UST I C E
W I T H JAS M I N CA R D E N AS
Thu, Jul 28, 5:30–7:30pm
Logan Center
Do you have a personal experience
of social justice you would like
to tell? Are you struggling with
internal questions you don’t have
answers for? If so, bring your story
bits, life moments, or incomplete
journeys and together we can
further unpack the story you want
to tell. Using traditional storytelling
techniques and non­traditional
theater techniques we’ll explore
personal stories of social justice.
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Thu, Jul 14, 5:30–7:30pm
Logan Center
Release your inner playwright!
For those who write and for those
who have always wondered about
writing, experience beginning
your own play. In this on-your
-feet, hands­-on workshop, excite
your imagination, learn basic play
structure, and gain insight into how
playwriting techniques can help
you better understand yourself
and the world around you.
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The University of Chicago
is a home to a variety of
renowned arts destinations
across campus.
For complete information on academic,
professional, and student arts
programs and initiatives, visit
arts.uchicago.edu/explore.
Professional organizations such as
Contempo and UChicago Presents,
student groups, and department-based
groups perform and exhibit across
campus. Learn more by visiting
arts.uchicago.edu.
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For a list of other arts and cultural
organizations and venues on the
Culture Coast visit culturecoast.org.
For a list of dining options and
details about transportation and
parking see visit.uchicago.edu.
Museum Campus South partners
visitmuseumcampussouth.com
Public art location. Learn more
about public art on campus at publicart.uchicago.edu.
U C H I C AG O A R T S V E N U E S
1 Arts Incubator
301 E. Garfield Blvd.
arts.uchicago.edu/artsandpubliclife/ai
2 Bond Chapel
1025 E. 58th St.
3 Court Theatre
5535 S. Ellis Ave.
courttheatre.org
4 Charles M. Harper Center:
Chicago Booth School of
Business Art Collection
5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.
art.chicagobooth.edu
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Cochrane-Woods Art Center
5540 S. Greenwood Ave.
6 Film Studies Center
filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu
Cobb Hall
5811 S. Ellis Ave., 3rd Floor
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5706 S. University Ave.
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Fulton Recital Hall
5845 S. Ellis Ave.
9 Gray Center Lab
929 E. 60th St.
graycenter.uchicago.edu
10 Hack Arts Lab (HAL)
5735 S. Ellis Ave., 2nd Floor
hal.uchicago.edu
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Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
docfilms.uchicago.edu
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Mandel Hall
1131 E. 57th St.
16
Neubauer Collegium
for Culture and Society
5701 S. Woodlawn Ave.
neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu
Midway Studios
929 E. 60th St.
11 International House
1414 E. 59th St.
ihouse.uchicago.edu
17 Oriental Institute Museum
1155 E. 58th St.
oi.uchicago.edu
12 Lorado Taft House
935 E. 60th St.
18 The Renaissance Society
Cobb Hall
5811 S. Ellis Ave., 4th Floor
renaissancesociety.org
19 Reva and David Logan
Center for the Arts
915 E. 60th St.
logan.uchicago.edu
20Rockefeller
Memorial Chapel
5850 S. Woodlawn Ave.
rockefeller.uchicago.edu
21 Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Ave.
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
22 Special Collections Research
Center Exhibition Gallery
The Joseph Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th St.
lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/exhibits
23 DuSable Museum of
African American History
740 E. 56th Pl.
dusablemuseum.org
24 Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
experimentalstation.org
25 Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Ave.
hydeparkart.org
26 Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
semcoop.com
27 Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S. Lake Shore Dr.
msichicago.org
28 Frank Lloyd Wright’s
Robie House
5757 S. Woodlawn Ave.
flwright.org
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The CTA is Chicago’s public transportation system,
offering a large network of buses, elevated trains, and
subways around the city. Take the 2, 4, 6, or X28 bus
from downtown Chicago or take the Red or Green
Line train toward the Garfield/55th stop and transfer
to the 55 Garfield bus. Fares are $2.25 per ride.
» TIP Download Transloc Transit Visualization,
the real-time bus location and arrival app,
uchicago.transloc.com.
Metra Train
The Metra Electric District Line commuter rail runs
from the downtown Millennium Station hub at
Randolph & Michigan to University Park, IL. Exit at
either the 55th-56th-57th or 59th/University stops
at UChicago. Visit metrarail.com for fares, timetables,
and other details.
PARKING
Limited street parking is available around campus.
Parking Garages
The preferred visitor garage is located at 55th St
and Ellis Ave.
BIKING
Bike racks can be found at various locations on
campus. All CTA buses are equipped with bike racks,
and Metra allows bikes on trains with some limitations.
Chicago’s Divvy Bike system has many new and
upcoming stations in and around Hyde Park. The
24-hour bike pass will provide you with unlimited
rides for up to 30 minutes. Find more information
and a full map of Chicago stations at divvybikes.com.
Ancien Coffee & Cycles at 53rd St and Lake Park Ave
offers bikes sales, repairs, bike parking, as well as
coffee and brunch. You can find more information
about bike tours and rentals at choosechicago.org.
CABS & CAR SHARES
You can find cabs in front of the DCAM at the corner
of Maryland Ave and E 58th St, or you can order one
online or over the phone.
Chicago Private Car (black sedans booked in
advance, usually cost 15 percent more): 773.594.9021
Flash Cab: 773.561.4444 or taxiwithus.com
i-Go Car Sharing 773.278.4446 or igocars.org
Uber Private Car (Standard taxis, private cars, and
SUVs on demand only. Pay via smartphone app, no
cash needed): uber.com
Lyft (Standard taxis and SUVs on demand only.
Pay via smartphone app, no cash needed): lyft.com
Yellow Cab 312.829.4222 or yellowcabchicago.com
ZipCar 866.4ZIPCAR (866.494.7227) or zipcar.com
The Campus South Parking Garage is located at
6054 S Drexel Ave, near the Logan Center for
the Arts, open to non-permit holders after 9am.
Visitors may park at the Medical Campus
parking garage, at 59th St and Maryland Ave.
PHOTO CREDITS
Cover: The mummy and coffin of Meresamun. Courtesy of the Oriental Institute; Contents, page 3: Image from The Two Eyes are Not Brothers. 2015. Directed by Ben
Rivers; André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Untitled [Unidentified sitter, cancelled plate], ca. 1860, Albumen print from wet-collodion unmounted negative, Image (Sheet):
7 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (18.4 × 24.4 cm). Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Estate of Lester and Betty Guttman, 2014.271; Spektral Quartet photo by
Drew Reynolds; Man in the Ring actor Kamal Angelo Bolden; Photo credit to Joe Mazza. Courtesy of Court Theatre; page 4: Oriental Institute Musuem photo courtesy
of Oriental Institute Musuem; Boetius Adams Bolswert, After Abraham Bloemaert, Landscape, c. 1614, Etching on laid paper. Smart Museum of Art, The University of
Chicago, Bequest of Ruth Philbrick, 2010.37; Rockefeller Pipes photo courtesy of Rockefeller Chapel; Logan Center for the Arts photo courtesy of the Logan Center for
the Arts; Currency Exchange Café photo courtesy of Currency Exchange Café; page 5: Ben Rivers, Camden Arts Centre. Photo by Valerie Bennett; Winged sphinx from
the Palace of Darius, Persepolis, Iran (5th century B.C.) (P-565). Credit: Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri,
Untitled [Unidentified sitter, cancelled plate], ca. 1860, Albumen print from wet-collodion unmounted negative, Image (Sheet): 7 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (18.4 × 24.4 cm). Smart
Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Estate of Lester and Betty Guttman, 2014.271; Cyrus Leroy Baldridge (1889-1977). The Desert Well, Persia. 1936. Lent
by The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago; University Transfer from Max Epstein Archive; page 6: Resonant Objects artwork by David
Giordano; Family Business artwork courtesy of Arts + Public Life; page 7: Larry Achiampong, Sunday’s Best (video still), 2015–16. Courtesy of the artist; The Two Eyes are
Not Brothers. 2015. Directed by Ben Rivers. Photo by Marcus Leith; page 8: Smart Museum of Art Summer Cookout photo by Erik L. Peterson; Oriental Institute Tour. Photo
by Spencer Bibbs; page 9: David Katzive, view of Wolf Vostell’s Concrete Traffic as it moves down, I-90 to the University of Chicago, June 1970. Collection of the Museum
of Contemporary Art Chicago. Photo © MCA Chicago; page 10: Finding Fanon 1, (video still), 2015. Courtesy Larry Achiampong and David Blandy; page 11: The Lobster,
Yorgos Lanthimos, 2016. page 12: Frank Lloyd Wright, Dining Table and Six Side Chairs, 1907–1910, Designed for the Frederick C. Robie Residence. Smart Museum of Art,
The University of Chicago, University Transfer, 1967.73-79; Toshiko Mori, courtesy of Harvard University Graduate School of Design; page 13: Seminary Co-op Bookstore
photo courtesy of the Seminary Co-op Bookstore; The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Penguin Books; page 14: John Freeman photo by Deborah Treisman;
page 15: Rockefeller Pipes photo courtesy of Rockefeller Chapel; Design by Gearóid Burke, The Bells of Summer, seven summer Sundays at Rockefeller, 5pm; page 16:
Spektral Quartet photo by Drew Reynolds; Kim Kashkashian photo by Claire Stefani; page 17: Man in the Ring actor Kamal Angelo Bolden; Photo credit to Joe Mazza.
Courtesy of Court Theatre; page 18: Oriental Institute family event. Photo by Spencer Bibbs; page 19: Smart Museum of Art family program. Photo by Erik L. Peterson;
Suite 16 photo by Michael Mabbo.
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Parking Lot
Wells Lot, located near the Logan Center at
60th St and Drexel Ave, is free after 4pm and
all day on weekends.