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Lectures and Events

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Upcoming Events & Programs

The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University,

• A Lichtenstein Primer April 25
• Reeltime: Following Sean April 25
• Pop Art Package April 13–June 13
• MFA Thesis Exhibition April 27–June 17
  
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Block Cinema, a collaboration of Northwestern University's School of Communication and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, screens classic and contemporary films. Block Cinema is dedicated to providing the Northwestern campus, the North Shore, and Chicago with a quality venue for repertory cinema.

"Cosmophilia" — literally “love of ornament” — examines one of the most characteristic, and attractive, features of Islamic art. Covering a millennium of Islamic history in regions extending from Spain to India, this comprehensive exhibition demonstrates the extraordinary range and visual virtuosity of one of the world's great artistic traditions. With works drawn from the David Collection in Copenhagen, Denmark, it offers a rare opportunity for audiences in the United States to study one of the finest collections of Islamic art in the world. Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen

Starts: 2/1/2007
Ends: 5/20/2007
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Smart Museum of Art
Contact Name: C.J. Lind
Phone: 773.702.0200
Email: cjlind@uchicago.edu
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/

The traditional art of the Japanese color woodblock print was revived from near extinction at the start of the twentieth century. Wildly popular in Europe and the United States, these shin haga or “new prints” were often created for sale abroad. This exhibition of prints from the Smart Museum's collection examines the ways in which these popular woodblock prints provided a powerful, alluring image of Japan for Western audiences. Exported Visions: Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints
Starts: 3/17/2007
Ends: 6/10/2007
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Smart Museum of Art
Contact Name: C.J. Lind
Phone: 773.702.0200
Email: cjlind@uchicago.edu
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/

Controversial in his lifetime, the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes continues to generate strong responses in the present. A series of prints entitled Disasters of War , which he made during the conflict between Spain and France in the early 1800s, depicted the brutality and suffering of war so graphically that they were not published until after his death. The same prints have served as inspiration for the work of the brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman, British artists who work collaboratively. Their print series Disasters of War updates Goya's images while retaining his shock value as well as aspects of his style and technique.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 - NOVEMBER 20, 2007 
In the mid-twentieth century, as New York became the center of the art world, Chicago artists responded to the same social and intellectual currents, but with a distinctly regional focus. This exhibition brings together the work of more than twenty artists active at the time and demonstrates the diversity of their interests and approaches.

In the nineteenth century, German artists and writers rejected the formal ideals and aesthetic principles of antiquity and instead turned inward, drawing inspiration from local scenery, Gothic art, and Renaissance masters. With works from the private collection of Stephen and Elizabeth Crawford and from the Smart Museum, this exhibition surveys the German Romantic and Nazarene movements in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Majestic Nature/Golden History: German Romantic Art from the Crawford Collection and the Smart Museum of Art
Starts: 4/24/2007
Ends: 10/21/2007
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Smart Museum of Art
Contact Name: C.J. Lind
Phone: 773.702.0200
Email: cjlind@uchicago.edu
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/

XPerience Chicago presents a FREE trip to Artropolis, Chicago's celebration of art, antiques, and culture, at the Merchandise Mart. Enjoy a rich menu of art and entertainment unique to Chicago, including an international contemporary art show, a world-class antiques fair, and three satellite art shows.
ARTROPOLIS
Date: 4/30/2007
Time: 2:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Merchandise Mart
Contact Name: Regine Desruisseaux
Phone: (773) 702-4547
Email: rdesruis@uchicago.edu
Categories: Exhibitions , Other , Recreations , Talks , Workshops
Description:

DePaul University Gender Studies Program
Wednesday, May 2, 6:00 (Reading), more information forthcoming.
Helena Maria Viramontes will be doing a reading of her new novel, Their Dogs Came With Them (2007) . In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth. Virtamontes is the author of Under the Feet of Jesus , and Moths and Other Stories.

On May 2, at 7pm FACETS: there is a documentary on the Jehovah's Witnesses called KNOCKING. It is an objective view of them that runs counter to everyone's perceptions, which I am sure will be controversial in our department. But, considering the number of World Religion classes that are taught, someone should be interested in this.
http://www.facets.org/asticat

Friday, May 4, 2007
DePaul Opera Theatre presents  The Beggar's Opera   
7:30pm, DePaul Concert Hall

May 4- 10, at 7 and 9 pm: FACETS are showing called CAFE SATAREH, a commercial Iranian film about three women of different ages and situations. Within a fictional narrative, the film focuses on the plight of women in Iran . The commercial cinema differs from the “art” cinema of Iran. The former consists of films made for the Iranian populace; the latter consists of films made for an international audience that are often banned in Iran . Though the commercial films are not as innovative, they are often more revealing in a lot of ways.
http://www.facets.org/asticat

Saturday, May 5, 2007
DePaul Wind Ensemble and University Singers     8:00pm, DePaul Concert Hall
Clayton Parr, conductor
Flynn: The Words of St. Vincent
DePaul Wind Ensemble
Donald DeRoche, conductor
Flynn: American City
Rindfleish: The Light Fantastic

May 5-6 FACETS: There has been an on-going African Film Festival at Facets, which plays on the weekends only. On May 5-6, there is a selection of prize-winning shorts from all over Africa , beginning at 1pm. Sunday, May 6, 2007
http://www.facets.org/asticat

DePaul Opera Theatre presents  The Beggar's Opera   
2:00pm, DePaul Concert Hall

DePaul University Gender Studies Program
Monday, May 7, 5:30 (Reception); 6:00 (Reading), Student Center, Room 314.
Dr. Jacqueline Taylor reads from her new book, Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom. Waiting for the Call takes readers from the foothills of the Appalachians--where Dr. Taylor was brought up in a strict evangelical household--to contemporary Chicago, where she and her lesbian partner are raising a family that includes two adopted children from Peru. Waiting for the Call engagingly demonstrates how one woman bridged the gulf between faith and sexual identity without abandoning her principles . Dr. Taylor is a performance studies specialist, and author of Grace Paley: Illuminating the Dark Lives. She is Dean of the new College of Communications at DePaul.

Picking up where the likes of Hans Hoffman, Larry Poons, and Jules Olitski left off, Rebecca Morris' paintings are a lovingly destructive embrace of high modernist tenets as espoused by critics such as Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried. What was once celebrated as pure painting had degenerated into a ubiquitous abstraction that Morris redeems through congealed layers of paint that are a testament to her conviction. Her Paintings say it loud. Abstract and I'm Proud!
Exhibition of paintings by Rebecca Morris
Starts: 5/8/2007
Ends: 6/19/2007
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: The Renaissance Society, Cobb Hall, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, 4th Floor
Contact Name: The Renaissance Society
Phone: 773-702-8670
Email: info@renaissancesociety.org

FACETS: The Human Rights Film Festival runs May 9 to 17, with a variety of films about third-world countries, activists, and other political topics. This is generally a great selection of films. http://www.facets.org/asticat

Bross Lecture: Joseph Koerner
Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 6 - 7:30pm Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall 111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60603 Enter through the Michigan Avenue Entrance.
Bross Lecture: Joseph Koerner Thursday, May 10, 2007, 6 - 7pm Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium

DePaul University Gender Studies Program Wednesday, May 9, 6:00-9:00 pm,
Room to be announced.Suzanne Pharr on "A Wedge in the Nation: How Racism and Homophobia Divide Us." Suzanne Pharr will share with us a recent history of how homophobia and racism have been used to divide the country. She will specifically focus on how, since the 1970s, lgbt people have been blamed for the breakdown of the family and religious values, and how people of color have been blamed for the breakdown of law and order and economic security. She will trace this history and the methods used to divide communities, and she will suggest ways that educators and activists can engage in rebuilding democracy. Sponsored by the Teaching, Learning, and Negotiating Diversity Committee.

The political and cultural implications of exhibiting Islamic art in the West during a lecture by Linda Komaroff, Curator of Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, University of Chicago.
Lecture: Collecting and Exhibiting the Middle East in a Post-9/11 World
Date: 5/17/2007
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Smart Museum of Art
Contact Name: C.J. Lind
Phone: 773.702.0200
Email: smart-museum@uchicago.edu
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/

The tour begins at the Oriental Institute Museum, 1155 E. 58th Street, and finishes at the Smart Museum. As a noteworthy end to "Cosmophilia," join us for a free collaborative tour that explores Islamic works at two University of Chicago museums. Begin at the Oriental Institute Museum to discover how archaeological excavations have revealed the art and architecture of a medieval Persian city in the exhibition "Daily Life, Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy." Then continue to the Smart Museum for an engaging discussion of general themes of Islamic ornamentation, including artisans' use of pattern, representation, and writing on varied Islamic objects that span time periods and cultures. This tour is free, but advanced registration is encouraged as space is limited. Call the Oriental Institute Museum at 773.702.9507 to register.
Cross Campus Tour of Islamic Art
Date: 5/20/2007
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Oriental Institute, Smart Museum of Art
Contact Name: C.J. Lind
Phone: 773.702.0200
Email: smart-museum@uchicago.edu
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/

DePaul University Gender Studies Program
Thursday, May 24, 3:30-5:30 pm, Student Center, Room 314A/B (2250 N. Sheffield).
On the Cutting Edge: Women's and Gender Studies Studies Present Their Capstone Research Projects. Come to hear current Women's and Gender Studies Majors present their cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and very exciting research projects. These are capstone research projects reflecting their individual research questions and interests.

Modernism was an innovative aesthetic recognized by its crisp forms and progressive materials, but Modernism was also a way of thinking about contemporary life. With works representing several major artistic and design movements -- including Symbolism, Jugendstil, Expressionism, Constructivism, and the Bauhaus -- this exhibition looks at the various "modernisms" that contributed to the richness of life in Germany and Austria during a period of cultural, social, and political transformation.
Living Modern: German and Austrian Art and Design, 1890-1933
Starts: 6/7/2007
Ends: 9/16/2007
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Smart Museum of Art
Contact Name: C.J. Lind
Phone: 773.702.0200
Email: cjlind@uchicago.edu
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/

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