UCHICAGO ARTS WINTER 2017 EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS GUIDE IN THIS ISSUE Family-oriented Saturday Arts Programs Court Theatre: All My Sons interview The Ties that Bind: Pan-Africanism and the South Side arts.uchicago.edu Valentina Kulagina, International Working Women’s Day Is the Fighting Day of the Proletariat (detail), 1931, lithograph on paper (poster). Courtesy of Ne boltai! Collection 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60647 smartmuseum.uchicago.edu UCHICAGO ARTS WINTER 2017 EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS GUIDE The University of Chicago is a ICON KEY destination where artists, scholars, UChicago student event students, and audiences converge Logan Center Fifth Anniversary event and create. Explore our theaters, performance spaces, museums and galleries, academic programs, cultural initiatives, and more. ON THE COVER All My Sons cast. Photo: Joe Mazza. Courtesy of Court Theatre. For a full list of arts events at UChicago, visit arts.uchicago.edu. PHOTO CREDITS Page 4: Neubauer Collegium, Terence Gower Havana Case Study. Photo by Robert Heishman; Screenshot from Lemonade. Courtesy of HBO/Tidal; Jen Bervin, Silk | arts.uchicago.edu Poems, 2016. Jen Bervin holding a silk cocoon and a silk film. Montalvo Arts Center, 2016, photo by Charlotte Lagarde; Family Days at the Smart Museum of Art. Photo by Erik L. Peterson; Page 5: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Avant Toute, Discipline, 2017. Courtesy of the Artists. Photo: Boudewijn Bollmann; Migrants and refugees arrive by dinghy after crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos Greece, Sep. 10, 2015. Photo: Anonymous Syrian photographer; Neubauer Collegium, Terence Gower Havana Case Study. Photo: Robert Heishman; Installation of Conversations with the Collection: Building/Environments; Page 6: Mike Cloud, Removed Individual, 2013. Image courtesy the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery, New York.; Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Avant Toute, Discipline, 2017. Courtesy of the Artists. Photo: Boudewijn Bollmann; Page 8: Screenshot from Storm Children, Book One (2014), Directed by Lav Diaz. Courtesy of the Film Studies Center; Screenshot from Lemonade. Courtesy of HBO/Tidal; Page 9: Jean-Pierre Lèaud and Louis XV in a scene from Albert Serra's The Death of Louis XIV. Courtesy of Cinema Guild; Screenshot from The Woman Who Left (2016), Directed by Lav Diaz. Courtesy of Star Cinema; Screenshot from Far Off Sounds (Episode: Onyx Ashanti). Courtesy of Far Off Sounds; Page 10: Screenshot from Hand Held Day by Gary Beydler; Page 11: Poster artwork for Urban Art and the Block. Courtesy of UChicago Urban; Page 12: Cover artwork from No Dictionary of a 3 Living Tongue by Duriel E. Harris. Courtesy of Nightboat Books; Duriel E. Harris. Photo: Gina Sandrzyk; Cover artwork from A People’s History of Chicago by Kevin Coval. Courtesy of Haymarket Books; Jen Bervin, Silk Poems, 2016. Jen Bervin holding a silk cocoon and a silk film. Montalvo Arts Center, 2016, photo by Charlotte Lagarde; Page 13: Samantha Hunt. Photo: Marion Ettlinger; Elizabeth Acevedo photo, courtesy of the artist; Page 14: Sam Trump photo courtesy of the artist; Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, with paintings by Lisa Alvarado. Photo: Charlie Gross; Eighth Blackbird, photo courtesy of the artist; Third Coast Percussion. Photo: Saverio Truglia; Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Photo: Marco Borggreve; Eastern European folk dancers, photo courtesy of International House; Page 20: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner cast. Photo: Joe Mazza. Courtesy of Court Theatre; All My Sons cast. Photo: Joe Mazza. Courtesy of Court Theatre; Page 21: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner cast. Photo: Joe Mazza. Courtesy of Court Theatre; Page 22: All My Sons cast. Photo: Joe Mazza. Courtesy of Court Theatre; Page 23: Red-headed Woodpeckers from 1901 (top) and 1982, The Field Museum. Photo: Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay; Committed Knitters photo courtesy of Arts + Public Life; Community yoga with Chaturanga Seeds photo courtesy of Arts + Public Life; Vends + Vibes photo courtesy of Arts + Public Life. Photo: Sara Pooley; Red-headed Woodpeckers from 1901 (top) and 1982, The Field Museum. Photo: Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay; Page 24: Family Days at the Smart Museum of Art. Photo by Erik L. Peterson; Family Weekends photos courtesy of the Oriental Institute Museum; Page 25: Family Days at the Smart Museum of Art. Photo by Erik L. Peterson; Logan Center Family Saturdays photo courtesy of the Logan Center for the Arts; Family Weekends photos courtesy of the Oriental Institute Museum; Page 26: Family Days at the Smart Museum of Art. Photo by Erik L. Peterson; Hyde Park Youth Symphony photo courtesy of Hyde Park Youth Symphony; Page 27: University of Chicago campus photo © The University of Chicago. 5 EXHIBITIONS & VISUAL ARTS 7 THE TIES THAT BIND 8 FILM 11 DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE 12 LITERATURE & LECTURES 14 MUSIC 20 THEATER, DANCE & PERFORMANCE 22 ALL MY SONS | arts.uchicago.edu 4 23 MULTIDISCIPLINARY 24 FAMILY WEEKENDS 25 YOUTH & FAMILY 27 INFO 30 MAP EXHIBITIONS & VISUAL ARTS THE FIRST 1000 YEARS: REVOLUTION EVERY DAY ANATOLIAN STUDIES Through Jan 28, 2018 AT CHICAGO Smart Museum of Art Presented on the centenary of the Russian Ongoing Revolution, this exhibition juxtaposes Oriental Institute Museum, lower level Soviet posters from the 1920s and 1930s The Oriental Institute is one of the world’s with works on video and film with a focus main centers of Hittitology (the study of on the experiences of women under (and the ancient languages and cultures of after) communism. Featuring works by Turkey). This exhibit looks at Chicago’s Lene Berg, Olga Chernysheva, Vitaly contribution to the field, including the Komar, Anri Sala, and Cauleen Smith. early years of Hittitology, the careers of Free. faculty members Hans G. Guterbock and Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Harry Hoffner, the creation and progress TERENCE GOWER: of The Chicago Hittite Dictionary, and the HAVANA CASE STUDY Oriental Institute’s expeditions to Turkey. Through Jan 26, 2018 Free; suggested donation: adults $10, Neubauer Collegium for Culture children under 12 $5. and Society Presented by the Oriental Institute. | arts.uchicago.edu Based on extensive research in Cuba and US archives, this exhibition uses American diplomatic architecture as a lens through which to explore US international relations. Comprising models, photographs, collages, and archival documents, the project centers on the history of the US embassy in Havana. CONVERSATIONS WITH On the Neubauer Collegium’s terrace, a THE COLLECTION: monumental sculpture presents a 1:1 scale 5 outline of the ambassador’s balcony, a BUILDING/ENVIRONMENTS potent symbol of diplomatic stalemate Through Mar 11, 2018 and its political and economic fallout. Smart Museum of Art Free. This exhibition mixes works from across Presented by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture eras, cultures, and media to question the BROWN PEOPLE ARE THE and Society in partnership with the Chicago ways we occupy and perceive the built Architecture Biennial. environment—the everyday structures we WRENS IN THE PARKING LOT have built around us. Building/Environments Through Jan 7, 2018 ALEJANDRO CESARCO: SONG offers a significant reconfiguration of the Logan Center Gallery Through Jan 28, 2018 Smart’s collection as well as our own interior Initiated by artist and University of Chicago The Renaissance Society environment, opening up new perspectives Department of Visual Arts faculty member Song features newly commissioned works on beloved artists and art objects. William Pope.L, Brown People Are the alongside recent projects. With video, Free. Wrens in the Parking Lot is a DIY media sound, and photographic elements, this Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. campaign and exhibition facilitated by poetic installation suggests themes of faculty, students, staff, and community duration, refusal, repetition, and affective RESURGENCE AND INNOVATION: members of the Reva and David Logan forms. Sometimes romantic, other times ARTISTS’ INSPIRATION IN Center for the Arts to reflect on issues of melancholic, Cesarco’s works evince connectedness, home, and immigration. a deep engagement with the histories NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE Free. and aesthetics of Conceptual Art. Through March 18, 2018 Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions and the Free. Smart Museum of Art Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry Presented by the Renaissance Society. Organized by several UChicago students, at the University of Chicago. this exhibition explores the eclectic range of sources and precedents that served as inspiration for nineteenth- Irwin, Kenneth Noland, and others. discussions in various fields, including century artists in France: photographers Free. media studies, ecology, and philosophy. documenting medieval monuments, Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Free. printmakers producing scenes of Presented by the Renaissance Society. modern leisure, painters reflecting on HIGHLY VISIBLE, HARDLY SEEN: their creative practice through the lens THE OBJECT OF POLITICS IN OPEN PRACTICE COMMITTEE: of classical mythology, and more. BHARTI KHER Free. LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Thu, Jan 18, 5pm Mon, Feb 26, 6pm Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 157 Logan Center, Performance Penthouse (5540 S Greenwood Ave) An artist talk with Bharti Kher as part of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: This talk, given by Sonja Drimmer, examines DoVA’s Open Practice Committee. Bharti BECOMING GOD IN medieval objects that have resisted Kher is an Indian contemporary artist. Her ANCIENT EGYPT inclusion and legibility