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UCHICAGO ARTS SPRING 2017 EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS GUIDE IN THIS ISSUE Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? arts.uchicago.edu EXPLORE THE ANCIENT WORLD conceptually, aesthetically, and pragmatically? Join a group of distinguished artists from around the world as they propose, interrogate and/or challenge how an object, oi.uchicago.edu image, or performative intervention might 1155 east 58th street open up a novel vision of human rights. 2O14 /2O15 COJAZZNCERT SERIES AT THE LOGAN FEATURED ARTISTS Lola Arias / Jelili Atiku / Tania Bruguera / Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti of Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency / Zanele Muholi / Carlos Javier Ortiz / Laurie Jo Reynolds | arts.uchicago.edu 2 SATURDAY, APRIL 29 and MONDAY, MAY 1 Logan Center for the Arts, VIJAY IYER SEXTET 915 E 60th St, Chicago FRIDAY, MAY 19 / 7:30 PM PLUS: Free Listening session with Vijay and Kate Dumbleton Thurs, May 18 / 7 PM / Performance Penthouse Presented in partnership with Hyde Park Jazz Festival Chicago Stage at the Logan presents Julius Tucker Quartet Fri, May 19 / 6 PM / Café Logan Presented in partnership with the Jazz Institute of Chicago Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Logan Center for the Arts Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St. GRAYCENTER.UCHICAGO.EDU Tickets $35 / $28 UCID / $5 students 773.702.ARTS (2787) | chicagopresents.uchicago.edu UCHICAGO ARTS SPRING 2017 EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS GUIDE The University of Chicago is a ICON KEY destination where artists, scholars, UChicago student event students, and audiences converge and create. Explore our theaters, Concrete Happenings event performance spaces, museums Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial event and galleries, academic programs, cultural initiatives, and more. ON THE COVER An image from “Sixty Six” (2002–2015), a 12-part feature-length anthology of short For a full list of arts events at films by Lewis Klahr. Credit Lewis Klahr, via UChicago, visit arts.uchicago.edu. Museum of Modern Art, New York. PHOTO CREDITS Page 4: Wolf Vostell, Cadillac in Concrete, 1970, Part 1: Painted plaster, acrylic, pencil and crayon, on photographic print on chipboard; Part 2: Offset print on chipboard of a | arts.uchicago.edu page spread from Artforum (September 1970). Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions and The James M. Wells Curatorial Discretion Acquisition Fund, 2016.18. Art © The Wolf Vostell Estate; Samuele Pucillo in “Fire at Sea,” a documentary by Gianfranco Rosi. 1h 54m; University of Michigan carillonneur Tiffany Ng combines electronic music with the bells. Photo by Nick Hagen; Summer Arts Fair photo courtesy of Arts + Public Life;Page 5: (Banner) Wolf Vostell, Fliegende Zementwolke ueber Chicago (Flying Cement Cloud over Chicago), 1970. Cement on print mounted on chipboard. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 2016.17. Art © The Wolf Vostell Estate; Austin (Chad) Hill, preparing to launch a fixed-wing drone at Fifa, Jordan. Photo by Morag Kersel, courtesy of the Follow the Pots Project; Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The So-called Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli, 1763, From the Views of Rome, Etching on laid paper. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, University Transfer from Max Epstein Archive, Gift of the Carnegie Corporation, 1967.116.162; Page 6: Wolf Vostell, Cadillac in Concrete, 1970, Part 1: Painted plaster, acrylic, pencil and crayon, on photographic print on chipboard; Part 2: Offset print on chipboard of a page spread from Artforum (September 1970). Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions and The James M. Wells Curatorial Discretion Acquisition Fund, 2016.18. Art © The Wolf Vostell Estate; Correct Opinions artwork courtesy of Arts + Public Life; Looted pots image courtesy of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society; Page 7: Astrid Klein, Fly catcher III, 1987–91. Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers, Berlin. Photo by Tomek Ogrodowczyk; Shanna Zentner, detail of “Untitled" 3 installation, vinyl paint on wall, dimensions variable, 2015; Zine scan courtesy of OOMK; Page 8: What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? artwork courtesy of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry; Kerry James Marshall, Slow Dance, 1992-93, acrylic and collage on canvas, 75 by 74 inches. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of ChicagoPurchase, Smart Family Foundation Fund for Contemporary Art, and Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions © Kerry James Marshall; Page 11: (Banner) An image from “Sixty Six” (2002–2015), a 12-part feature-length anthology of short films by Lewis Klahr. Credit Lewis Klahr, via Museum of Modern Art, New York; Omer Fast: Remainder, 2015, film, 97 minutes. Courtesy Soda Pictures, London. © Chris Harris;Page 12: Wolf Vostell, Still from the film Desastres (Disasters), 1972. 16mm film transferred to digital video; color, 45 minutes. Art © The Wolf Vostell Estate; An image from “Sixty Six” (2002–2015), a 12-part feature-length anthology of short films by Lewis Klahr. Credit Lewis Klahr, via Museum of Modern Art, New York;Page 13: (Banner) Gwendolyn Brooks art by Dirk Hagner; Cover artwork from Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan. Published by Restless Books (March 14, 2017); Page 14: Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy; Gwendolyn Brooks image courtesy of Brooks Permissions; Edwidge Danticat photo by Jonathan Demme; Angela Jackson photo courtesy of Betty J. Jackson Uzzell; Page 17: (Banner) Vijay Iyer Sextet image courtesy of UChicago Presents; Roomful of Teeth photo courtesy of Roomful of Teeth; First Monday Jazz image courtesy of Shanta Nurullah’s Sitarsys; Page 18: Sofia Gubaidulina photo courtesy of Contempo; CHI: an Augusta Read Thomas special, in Rockefeller Chapel’s splendid acoustic. Imagery by Gearóid Burke; Page 20: (Banner) Vijay Iyer Sextet image courtesy of UChicago Presents; Imani Winds photo by Matt Murphy; The Bridge photo from left to right, top to bottom: Pierre- Antoine Badaroux, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jim Baker, and Jason Roebke; Dukati & Biseri photo courtesy of Dukati & Biseri Folklore Ensemble; Page 23: (Banner) UT/TAPS photo by Matthew Gregory Hollis; Chaon Cross stars in The Hard Problem at Court Theatre this March–April. Photo by Joe Mazza; Aparsa photo by Kiran Misra; Page 25: (Banner) Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House image courtesy of Frank Lloyd Wright Trust; Cooking class photo courtesy of the Oriental Institute; Page 26: Dana Simmons (PhD candidate, Neurobiology) and Pierce Gradone (PhD candidate, Music Composition) work on their Collaborative Grant project (net)work in the Hansel neurobiology lab at UChicago; Page 27: (Banner) Ancient Earthy Day photo courtesy of the Oriental Institute; Community Stewardship Day 2016, Printmaking Skillshare. Credit: Arts + Public Life; Summer 2016 DAP teens built playhouse for Chicago Youth Programs. Credit: Sara Pooley. 5 EXHIBITIONS & VISUAL ART 10 WHAT IS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS? 11 FILM 13 LITERATURE 14 GWENDOLYN BROOKS CENTENNIAL 17 MUSIC 23 THEATER, DANCE | arts.uchicago.edu 4 & PERFORMANCE 25 MULTIDISCIPLINARY 27 YOUTH & FAMILY 29 INFO 30–31 MAP EXHIBITIONS & VISUAL ARTS quietly and strangely asserting themselves (May 31), and Larry Norman (June 1). EXHIBITIONS both as assemblages of relationships Free. Learn more at and as discrete, holistic entities. smartmuseum.uchicago.edu. Free. Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Presented by the Renaissance Society. RELATED EVENT: HOMER TO VONNEGUT: A PRINT ODYSSEY Thu, Apr 20, 5:30–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art Tue, Apr 25, 5:30–7:30pm National Veterans Art Museum This two-part program explores the space between literature and art, war and peace, and land and sea. Inspired by the Smart Museum’s exhibition Classicisms and the National Veteran Art Museum’s exhibition Vonnegut’s Odyssey, | arts.uchicago.edu DRONES IN THE DESERT: both sessions will include a tour, brief ARCHAEOLOGY FROM ABOVE discussion, and art-making component. Ongoing Free, but space is very limited. Oriental Institute Museum CLASSICISMS Advanced registration required: This photo show explores how aerial Through Jun 11, 2017 smartmuseum.uchicago.edu. perspectives allow archaeologists to Smart Museum of Art Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and National detect patterns that may be invisible Classicism, as an aesthetic ideal, is often Veterans Art Museum. or unrecognizable from the ground. associated with a conventional set of rules Kites, fishing poles, ladders, balloons, founded on supposedly timeless notions RELATED EVENT: 5 unpiloted aerial vehicles [UAVs], full-size such as order, reason, and decorum. But CURATOR TOUR classicism is actually far from a stable helicopters and planes, and satellites are Sun, Jun 11, 2pm concept. Through 70 objects spanning all used to produce images that aid in Smart Museum of Art antiquity to the 20th century—paintings, assessing and planning archaeological Led by exhibition co-curator Anne Leonard, ancient and modern sculpture, cast plaster monuments, sites, and landscapes. Interim Senior Director of Academic replicas, photographs, drawings, and The exhibit addresses how recent and Curatorial Initiatives and Curator of prints—this exhibition traces classicism’s technological developments are creating European Art at the Smart Museum. new opportunities, and illustrates the use meanings from varying artistic, cultural, Presented by the Smart Museum