Arts Chicago

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America in the Age of Obama
Dates: February 11, 2009
Times: 7:30pm
Price: $55, $35



Presented by the Auditorium in partnership with The City Lights Orchestra, conducted by Rich Daniels

featuring:
Grammy Winner Linda Clifford
Jazz Trumpet Legend Orbert Davis
The Soul Children of Chicago under the direction of Walt Whitman
Suzanne Palmer, Bruce Mattey and Mark Madsen
The Walter Payton College Prep Concert Choir under the direction of Jeffrey Weaver

special guests:
CBS 2 Chicago Anchor Jim Williams
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Charles R. Middleton

FOUR EASY WAYS TO PURCHASE TICKETS:
Online:
Phone: 312.902.1500
In person: Auditorium Box Office, 50 E. Congress Parkway (open Monday-Friday noon-6pm)
Groups 10+: 312.431.2357

This event has been partially sponsored by the Chicago Federation of Labor as well as the IL AFL-CIO and many of their affiliated locals. Proceeds benefit the Auditorium and the City Lights Foundation, serving at-risk youth in Chicago.



Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
50 East Congress Parkway
Chicago, IL 60605
Phone: (312) 922-2110 x0
Fax: (312) 431-2360
Email: info@auditoriumtheatre.org
http://auditoriumtheatre.org/wb/

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Premiere Auction

Featuring Decorative Arts
Asian Works of Art
Fine Silver Articles
and A Unique Collection of Paperweights

Sale# 69

609 Lots Catalogued
Live! Auction in Chicago

February 7, 2009 * 10:00 AM

Preview
Begins Monday February 2nd
Open throughout the week from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Extended viewing until 7:00 pm on Thursday, February 5th
Preview from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Saturday, February 7th

Susanin's
900 South Clinton
Chicago, Illinois 60607
312-832-9800
fax 312-832-9311
email info@susanins.com



LALIQUE FROSTED TIGER FIGURE.
H: 6" W: 3" D: 9"
$600/$800


CLICHY FACETED PAPERWEIGHT.
Circa 1850, with a rose center and two concentric rings of canes set over a lacy ground
2" x 2.75"
$2,000/$4,000


NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH GILT BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A ROBED FIGURE.
Stamped with the foundry mark "Susse Freres Editeurs, Paris"
Height: 24.5"
$3,000/$5,000

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Focus: The Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago:

Chicago, the Modern City: The Bergman Collection


Max Ernst. The Massacre of the Innocents, 1920. Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection.

Few private collections match the breadth, depth, and singular intent of the Lindy and Ed Bergman collection of Surrealist art. They began collecting in 1955 and over the course of three decades formed what many consider to be one of the greatest collections of Surrealist art ever assembled. The list of artists represented in the Bergman collection read like a history book on Modernism: Jean Arp, Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola), Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, John Graham, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso.

"Through these works we made friends with the artists, we met new people, and learned so many things," Lindy Bergman said in a 1991 Chicago Sun-Times interview. "This art opened up all kinds of opportunities that made for a great life."

After making several gifts of art to the Art Institute in the 1960s and 1970s, the Bergmans contributed 37 works in 1982 to establish the Edwin and Lindy Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, considered the finest collection of this artist's work in the world. A few years after Ed Bergman's death in 1986, Lindy committed the permanent loan of 77 works of Dada and Surrealism from the Bergman collection to the museum, one of the most important gifts of art ever made to the Art Institute. Today, the museum's Bergman collection numbers nearly 200 paintings, drawings, prints, collages, and sculptures.

In addition to gifts of art, the couple both held auspicious posts of leadership within the museum. Ed Bergman was a vice chair of the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute. Lindy Bergman is a Life Trustee, Distinguished Benefactor, and Honorary Governing Member. The couple's daughter Betsy Bergman Rosenfield is an Honorary Governing Member and her husband, Andrew, is vice chairman of the Board of Trustees. Son Robert Bergman is a trustee, and daughter Carol Ann Bergman Cohen is an Honorary Governing Member.

"Lindy is very proud to have made this historic contribution to the Art Institute," said Andrew Rosenfield. "She and Ed always wanted others to enjoy the great art that they collected together and which gave them and their family so much pleasure."

The Modern Wing will showcase the Art Institute's collection of modern art–a collection rivaled in quality and vastness only by those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The new wing will be a tribute as well to all those Chicagoans who, like the Bergmans, have contributed to the stature of the museum?s stellar modern collection.

The Modern Wing will open on May 16, 2009.



The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6404
http://www.artic.edu/aic/

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Winter Program

February 18 – March 1, 2009

Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
M–F 12:00 – 6:00pm
Box Office: 50 E Congress Pkwy
http://auditoriumtheatre.org/wb/

Performance Dates and Times
Wednesday, February 18 - 7:30 PM
Friday, February 20 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 21 - 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, February 22 - 2:00 PM
Friday, February 27 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 28 - 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, March 1 - 2:00 PM

Kettentanz
Choreography by Gerald Arpino
Music by Johann Strauss, Sr. and Johann Mayer
A beautiful interpretation of the music of Old Vienna filled with Viennese polkas, gallops and waltzes. Kettentanz was created by Gerald Arpino, co-founder of The Joffrey Ballet, in grateful thanks to Vienna for the warm welcome they gave the company during their tour there.

Mobile
Choreography by Tomm Ruud
Music by Aram Khachaturian
This serene meditation was inspired by the mobiles of the famed artist Alexander Calder. The ballet consists of a trio in which a man balances two women in slowly evolving positions that depend on balance and equilibrium, much like a mobile does. Joffrey Premiere

Hand of Fate pas de deux (from Cotillon)
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Chabrier
Set in a haunted ballroom, this pas de deux from ballet icon George Balanchine’s Cotillon (1932), reveals the figure of fate as she visits a young girl’s cotillion. The atmospheric pas de deux pairs fate with a young cavalier and leaves the audience wondering what is real and what is fantasy. It shows Balanchine’s great choreographic abilities at a young age.

Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky
Reconstructed and staged by Millicent Hodson & Kenneth Archer
Music by Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring stands as one of the most magnificent musical and dance masterpieces of the twentieth century. Choreographed by the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky, the piece caused riots in the streets when it was first staged. It disappeared only to reemerge due to the urging of Robert Joffrey and the painstaking research of Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer. It is not to be missed.

The Joffrey Ballet
Joffrey Tower
M-F 12:00 - 6:00pm
Box Office: 10 East Randolph Street
http://www.joffrey.com/index.asp

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Save the date:




Joffrey Dancer Victoria Jaiani. Photograph by Herbert Migdoll

The Women’s Board of The Joffrey Ballet
requests the pleasure of your company

Spring Gala
Friday, April 24, 2009

Performance begins promptly at 6:30 p.m.

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
50 East Congress Parkway

Dinner and dancing at the Chicago Hilton and Towers

720 South Michigan Avenue

Music by Rich Daniels and The City Lights Orchestra

Black Tie

Parking available at the hotel

Trolley service provided after the performance

2009 Spring Gala Co-Chairs: Mary Jo Basler, Sandy Deromedi, & Jay Franke

Gala Tickets and Tables Reservation Form:

http://www.joffrey.com/pdfs/2009%20G...Reg%20Form.pdf

The Joffrey Ballet
Joffrey Tower
M-F 12:00 - 6:00pm
http://www.joffrey.com/index.asp

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They will be playing Prokofiev and Schubert:

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Atrium String Quartet

Today 12:15pm


Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall
78 E Washington St (at Michigan Ave)
Chicago
312-744-6630

Tickets: Free



The ATRIUM STRING QUARTET is the first Quartet from Russia which has won the two most important International Competitions for String Quartets. They first rose to international prominence in April 2003 when they won the First Prize and the Audience Prize in the London International String Quartet Competition which was held at the prestigious Wigmore Hall, when they made their debut on BBC Radio 3 with a performance of the Fifth String Quartet of Shostakovich. On top of that they made their debut CD recording for EMI Classics

Recently the jury of the 5th International String Quartet Competition in Bordeaux 2007 in France unanimously awarded them the Premier Grand Prix and the Prix MMSG.

The Quartet was founded in the autumn of 2000 in the St Petersburg Conservatoire under the inspiration of Professor Joseph Levinson, cellist of the celebrated Taneyev Quartet. They received coaching from members of the Alban Berg Quartet, the Vermeer Quartet, and the Danel Quartet and also from Professor Eberhard Feltz, Berlin. Important steps of Atrium Quartet's development were second prizes at International Competitions in Moscow (2001), Cremona (2002) and Weimar (2002). Resulting from the Weimar competition the Atrium quartet realized the recording of Quartets by Shostakovich and Debussy for MDR in Leipzig.

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At the Art Institute:

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Audible Feast Celebration

Rubloff Auditorium

Tonight 6pm

Tickets: $75, dinner and program $500, table for ten dinner and program $7,500



http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audiblefeast

Chicago Public Radio invites you to celebrate the power of storytelling on Wednesday, February 4th at The Art Institute of Chicago. Join us as Ira Glass of WBEZ’s This American Life, Peter Sagal of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!, a co-production of NPR and Chicago Public Radio and Scott Simon of NPR’s Weekend Edition tell some of their favorite stories.

Before the program you can enjoy dinner in the Stock Exchange Trading Room at 6 pm (tickets are $500 each).

The one-hour program begins at 8 pm and afterward everyone is invited to a dessert reception.
Enter at the Special Event Entrance, 230 Columbus Drive. For questions or sponsorship information, call 312.948.4717 or email specialevents@chicagopublicradio.org.


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Science Chicago—A Technical Study of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Bus Tours

2/6, 12-1 p.m.

Morton Auditorium

FREE




Inge Fiedler, conservation microscopist, discusses the technical study of Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884, painted between 1884 and 1886. Using an innovative technique commonly called "pointillism," Seurat, who preferred the term "chromo-luminarism," created a masterpiece that still astonishes visitors today. Learn how it was created from someone who has examined the painting very, very closely.


Georges Seurat. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884, 1884-86. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.

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Artists Connect Series: Edra Soto Connects with William Blake

2/7, 12-1 p.m.

Price Auditorium

FREE



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The Mysteries of Munch's Working Methods—Recent Research on The Scream and Madonna

Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth

2/12, 6-7 p.m.

Rubloff Auditorium

$10; Members free with ticket



Ingebjorg Ydstie

Ingebjorg Ydstie, Director of the Munch Museum in Oslo, will address the shocking theft of Edvard Munch's The Scream and Madonna from the Munch Museum in 2004, the lengthy process to both recover and restore the paintings, and the resulting insights into the artist's working methods and technical experimentation.

Tickets are also available at the Art Institute admissions desk or by phone at (312) 575-8000.

Purchase Online:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1...dp_Artist_Name

Members receive free admission but must have a ticket.

Sponsored by The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

Reservations: Required
Event Code: EAIJ0212

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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
60603-6404
http://www.artic.edu/aic/

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Winard Harper Sextet

Jazz Showcase
806 S Plymouth Ct (at Polk St)
Chicago
312-360-0234
http://www.jazzshowcase.com

Tonight–Sat 8pm, 10pm , Sun 4pm, 8pm, 10pm

Tickets: Wed 4, Thu 5 and Sun 8 $20; Fri 6 and Sat 7 $25

Jazz drummer Winard Harper arrives with his crowd-pleasing sextet. Harper came into his element during the '80s trad-jazz revival (think: Wynton), and while we always wished to hear Harper looser with his meter and with his song choices (deeply conservative), he remains a great ambassador for the soulful, hardbop legacy. -- Timeout Chicago

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The NY Times review:

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A New Look at an Old Farm Threatened by Heat
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Published: February 4, 2009


Liz Lauren. "Desire Under the Elms" at the Goodman theater in Chicago features Carla Gugino and Pablo Schreiber as a stepmother and stepson caught up in an intrafamily triangle.

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/02/...chicago&st=nyt

Excerpt:

CHICAGO — A long, heated gaze between stepmother and stepson kindles a fatal conflagration in the major new revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms” at the Goodman Theater here.

In the eyes of Eben Cabot, the young farmhand squirming under the thumb of his brutish father, there is little more than seething hate. The piercing look of Abbie Putnam, his father’s new bride, is hard too. But there are excitement, curiosity and a fierce hope of salvation in it as well. Time freezes; fate descends in all its awful majesty on a squalid kitchen in 19th-century New England; and a significant but mostly unloved drama by a great American playwright bursts into gripping, immediate life...


Photo Gallery:


A revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms" opened Jan. 26 at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. The play stars, from left, Pablo Schreiber as Eben Cabot, Brian Dennehy as Ephraim Cabot, Eben's father, and Carla Gugino as Abbie Putnam, Ephraim's new wife.
Photo: Liz Lauren


The play, directed by Robert Falls, takes place in 19th-century New England. Walt Spangler's set includes a massive pile of stones.
Photo: Liz Lauren


Eben's brothers Peter and Simeon are played by Boris McGiver, left, and Daniel Stewart.
Photo: Liz Lauren


In his review, Charles Isherwood writes: "At times Ms. Gugino sounds like she's performing Tennessee Williams, while Mr. Dennehy employs a traditional Irish brogue more suited to O'Neill's later plays. Still, Mr. Falls's operatically scaled production honors O'Neill's mighty ambition."
Photo: Liz Lauren


"Mr. Dennehy supplies a performance of intelligence and integrity, but Ephraim often seems a softer, friendlier figure than he should. . . Honorably, Mr. Dennehy wants to ensure that Ephraim doesn't come across as a slit-eyed hillbilly of caricature, but his naturalistic approach underplays the harsh, almost inhuman flintiness that is Ephraim's defining characteristic."
Photo: Liz Lauren


Of Ms. Gugino and Mr. Schreiber, Mr. Isherwood writes: "Playing lovers fated by the hard facts of their lives and their burning souls to enact a drama that scrambles to reach to the heights of tragedy – and some would argue doesn’t quite make it – they are utterly riveting, from first long look to turbulent, animalistic embraces to grim march toward retribution.
"The heat they generate, as Abbie's desperate need for Eben transforms his passionate hatred into passionate love, could melt a hunk of granite."
Photo: Liz Lauren


"Desire Under the Elms" is part of an international festival called "A Global Exploration: Eugene O'Neill in the 21st Century," organized by the Goodman. The production runs through March 1.
Photo: Liz Lauren

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Sandra Rosas Ridolfi: Highrise

February 1 – April 12, 2009, Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery

Opening Reception
Sunday, February 8, 3-5 pm


Stardust, 1991, collage and oil on canvas, 46 × 60 inches, collection of Larry and Laura Gerber

This panoramic video work made by emergent artist Sandra Rosas Ridolfi deconstructs one of the most revolutionary modern structures: the skyscraper. Fascinated with the symmetry and repetition common to highrise buildings that fill Chicago’s cityscape, Ridolfi spends hours recording the architecture and the corresponding pattern of daylight and human activity weaving in, around, and through it. Highrise distorts our perception of the urban grid by focusing on the texture and movement inherent to the concrete jungle.

Notions of temporality take on surprising nuances in Ridolfi’s Highrise. The artist transposes video footage of the urban landscapes taken during the winter season to portray the actual conditions affecting the Center’s façade in real time during the run of the exhibition. Subtlety, the incongruities between the video and its canvas of the Hyde Park Art Center’s architecture heighten the viewer’s awareness of human presence in seasonal time.

Sandra Rosas Ridolfi earned a BFA in Mexico City before becoming an active member of the Chicago art scene when moving to the city in 2005 to pursue an MFA in Art and Technologies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited in a number of local and international venues including participation in group exhibitions such as Fideofest in Tallin, Estonia, and Chicago’s all night art festival, Looptopia, in 2008. Ridolfi currently serves as an instructor of holography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Glenn Wexler: Transit 2

February 1 – May 31, 2009, South Stairwell

Exhibition Reception
Sunday, February 8, 3-5 pm



WATCH YOUR STEP! The adventurous photographer and printer, Glenn Wexler has created a lightbox installation utilizing the movement of the south stairwell at the Art Center. Overlapping digital images of architectural design, signs, lighting, billboards, displays, people and plant-life, Glenn Wexler’s photograph-based installation analyzes the urban setting and the components that form it. Transit 2 features pictures Wexler shot during his reoccurring travels through cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Bangkok and Hong Kong, often in and around train stations and airports. This site-specific installation illuminates the crevices of the brick stairwell, traversing the functional space with backlit photographs that address the rapid development of metropolitan areas and the clash of cultures as a result.

Glenn Wexler’s prints, etchings and photographs analyze the urban setting and the components that form it, overlapping digital images of architectural design, signs, lighting, billboards, displays, people and plant-life. Exhibitions of Wexler’s work have been held in US institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chicago Cultural Center and the Rockford Art Museum. Additionally he has exhibited abroad in Germany, Italy, France, Hong Kong and Switzerland. His work is included in museum, corporate, and personal collections. He has taught at in Illinois at Harper College, Palatine, Crow Island School, Wilmette, and in Chicago at Kass Meridian Gallery, Anchor Graphics, and Gallery 37. Glenn Wexler currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.

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Altogether Mutable: The work of Mary Lou Zelazny

February 1 - April 12, 2009, Gallery 1

Opening Reception
Sunday, February 8, 3-5 pm

Art Thing: Artist and Curator Talk
Tuesday, March 3, 4-5 pm

Bits and Pieces: a video screening and discussion curated by Livebox
Thursday, April 2, 6-8 pm
A 50-minute screening of new work by 9 artists that focus on collage techniques in video will be followed by a discussion led by Catherine Forster.



curated by Allison Peters Quinn

Altogether Mutable is the first retrospective dedicated to the work of Mary Lou Zelazny. For nearly thirty years, Ms. Zelazny has consistently woven narrative, humor and sexuality into the painted image through the seamless use of collage and realism. This exhibition presents a comprehensive selection of this important Chicago artist’s oeuvre to date featuring over 70 collaged paintings and paint studies made between 1980 and 2008.

This exhibition is presented in its entirity online through the Illinois State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Visit the “online exhibitions” section to view the works.

Instructed by artists including Ray Yoshida and Karl Wirsum and shown early in her career at the momentous Phyllis Kind Gallery, painter Mary Lou Zelazny is often grouped with the Chicago Imagists. This exhibition aims to expand such perceptions by revealing a trajectory of technical styles and socially-conscious subjects that have pushed Zelazny to go beyond the Imagist tradition and forge a path in the canon of painting. Her works pose questions and make pointed observations concerning the complexity of human relationships and the socialized - even commercialized - roles we play in those relationships. According to Zelazny, “Collage never completes the story; instead it leaves openings for multiple interpretations.”

Mary Lou Zelazny is known for blending the skilled rigors of painting and the spontaneity of collage to create multiple meanings that unravel before our eyes and drive the content of her work. She studied painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the School of the Art Institution of Chicago, where she has been Adjunct Professor since 1990. She has also been a visiting artist at various colleges and universities including Maine College of Art, Williams College, University of Iowa, and Northwestern University. Collected by the Rockford Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the McCormick Place West Public Art Collection and other corporate and private collectors, her work has received many solo and group exhibitions in Chicago and the Midwest. Zelazny is currently represented by Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago.

A color catalogue featuring reproductions of all of the exhibited works and essays by Allison Peters Quinn and a short story by author John Haskell will be available. The catalogue for Altogether Mutable is made possible by support from the Grainger Foundation Faculty Research Grant from the School of the Art Institute, a special assistance grant from the Illinois Arts Council Michael and Sandra Perlow, Paul and Amy Carbone, Larry and Laura Gerber, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Grossman, Carl Hammer, and friends of the artist.

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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
Phone: 773-324-5520
http://www.hydeparkart.org/

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Ongoing:

Abandoned Demolition: New painting by Andy Paczos

January 18 – May 24, 2009, Gallery 4

Opening Reception
Sunday, February 8, 3-5 pm

Art Thing
Tuesday, February 3, 4-5 pm

curated by Chuck Thurow and Pat Swanson

EXHIBITION DATE EXTENDED!



Paczos’ urban landscapes break from the popular depictions of civic landmarks, and document Chicago’s marginalized industrial wastelands.

Abandoned Demolition is a solo exhibition featuring recent oil paintings by Andy Paczos. The paintings in this exhibition are the product of three years of the artist’s continued focus on one particular neglected industrial site in Chicago culminating in an exhibition both contemplative and powerful. In this series of fourteen works, Paczos examines the relationship between human productivity and natural growth through exploring how sites of abandonment are being re-inhabited in unexpected ways.

Paczos’ urban landscapes break from the popular depictions of civic landmarks, and document Chicago’s marginalized industrial wastelands. Working directly on-site, Paczos negotiates conventional boundaries in order to intimately contemplate his subject. In Abandoned Demolition, Paczo’s paintings consider a single location-the deserted 15 acre plot previously home to the Chicago Paperboard Company-and capture a range of temporal and climactic conditions. As nature slowly reclaims previous places of human production, the notion of atrophy is called into question. Often criticized as industrial decay, these neglected sites experience a new kind of growth as they transform into organic environments.

Andy Paczos has lived in Chicago since 1983. He received a BFA from the University of Montana and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For the past eight years his work has concentrated on deserted industrial grounds.

A color catalogue featuring images of the paintings and essays by the curators is now available. The catalogue has been made possible through the support of: Rodrigo Avila and Julie Smith, John and Sandy David, Peter and Megene Forker, Carlo and Isabel Georg, Lance Know and Mary Lambert, Elizabeth and Jeff Louis, Janet L. Melk, Tom Melk and Sarah Potter, Dr. Robert Mruphy, Gretchen Pfeutze, Lorenzo Rodriquez and Cristina Revert, the Stefan and Clair Sarles family, John and Marianne Strokirk, Patricia Swanson, and Chuck Thurow.

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Ancillary Ancestry: An ulterior genealogy by Chris Garofalo

January 18 – March 29, 2009, Lobby

Exhibition Reception

Sunday, February 8, 3-5 pm



Commingling the strange with the familiar, Chris Garofalo’s hybrid forms envision potential relationships between Earth’s species during imaginary eras of time.

Ancillary Ancestry suspends macrobiotic forms amid the glass bi-level stairwell in the lobby. With this installation, Garofalo introduces a crossbreed of organically inspired specimens to a functional space, thus transforming visitors into explorers of an alternate environment.

Commingling the strange with the familiar, Chris Garofalo’s hybrid forms envision potential relationships between Earth’s species during imaginary eras of time. Garofalo’s forms appropriate characteristics from both flora and fauna, fusing qualities that result in physiognomies both beautiful and alien. Ranging in scale from the immense to the minute, Garofalo’s highly detailed clay sculptures reveal a devotion to life forms and a curiosity about a world evolved without the impact of humans. Garofalo’s delicate and sometimes aggressive forms point to the fragility of nature while conflating the senses of wonder and alienation that arise in an increasingly hybridized and technological world.

Chris Garofalo worked in printmaking and graphic design before discovering her passion for sculpture. A native of Illinois, she has lived in Chicago since 1980. She has been exhibiting her sculptures since 1991, including a highly acclaimed installation at the Garfield Park Conservatory in 2005. In 2007 she received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painter and Sculptor Grant Award and is currently represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.

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Broad Shoulders and Brotherly Love

January 18 - March 29, 2009, Gallery 2

Exhibition Reception
Sunday, February 8, 3-5 pm



Artwork by: Lauren Adelman, Amanda Burk, Charles Burwell, Anthony Campuzano, Nicholas Conbere, Lydia Diemer, Joy Feasley , Sherman Fleming, Daniel Heyman, Jim Houser, Joe Immen, Homer Jackson, John Jacobsmeyer, Lauren Kussro, Maximillian P. Lawrence, Isaac T. Lin, Sarah McEneaney , Cedar Nordbye, Alice Oh , Diane Pieri, Bruce Pollock, Judith Schaechter, Anne Seidman, Willie Stokes, Justin Strom and Lenore Thomas, Gayle Tanaka, Jackie Tileston, Jonathan Thomas, William Earle Williams, and Ben Woodward.

East coast style meets Midwest sensibility in Broad Shoulders and Brotherly Love, a group exhibition of print-based works sampling the archives of two of the most highly respected national non-profit organizations dedicated to innovative techniques and concepts in print media. Both Anchor Graphics (Chicago) and Philagrafika (Philadelphia) selected an outstanding variety of work from the other’s residency program or invitational portfolio collection. This exhibition is held in conjunction with Global Implications, the 2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference happening March 25-29, 2009 at Columbia College Chicago.

Digital, silkscreen, and woodcut prints, lithographs, engravings, linocut collages, printed paper constructions, and smoked paper prints presented in this show demonstrate the experimental trends in printmaking today. James Iannaccone, the Assistant to the Director at Anchor Graphics chose work by the following artists from the Philagrafika Invitational Portfolio program: Charles Burwell, Anthony Campuzano, Joy Feasley, Sherman Fleming, Daniel Heyman, Homer Jackson, Maximillian P. Lawrence, Isaac T. Lin, Jim Houser, Sarah McEneaney, Alice Oh, Diane Pieri, Bruce Pollock, Judith Schaechter, Anne Seidman, Willie Stokes, Jackie Tileston, William Earle Williams, and Ben Woodward. Rebecca Mott, Program Coordinator for the Portfolio program at Philagraphika chose work by the following artists from Anchor Graphic’s Artists-In-Residence Program: Lauren Adelman, Amanda Burk, Nicholas Conbere, Lydia Diemer, Joe Immen, John Jacobsmeyer, Lauren Kussro, Cedar Nordbye, Justin Strom and Lenore Thomas, Gayle Tanaka, and Jonathan Thomas.

Anchor Graphics at Columbia College, Philagrafika, and the Southern Graphics Council are all organizations with missions committed to the sustainability and support of fine art print works. Anchor Graphics aims for the advancement of the fine art of printmaking through artist residencies, exhibitions, lectures, and producing fine art print editions. They encourage education in printmaking through their Print Collectors Club and through public access to the print equipment. Philagrafika advocates for the value of printmedia and its critical role in current art practices through an international contemporary art festival, an annual invitational portfolio, and special projects.

The Southern Graphics Council is a non-profit membership organization that works for the advancement of understanding and scholarship of the print, drawing, book and paper arts. The SGC organizes an annual conference to promote dialogue through critical and technical information exchange and includes awards, publications and sponsored exhibitions. For the first time, the conference comes to Chicago and is hosted by Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago.

Timeout Chicago Review:
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/artic...brotherly-love

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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
Phone: 773-324-5520
http://www.hydeparkart.org/

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Philharmonic farm league

Chicago Composers Forum gives rookies a shot at the bigs.

By Bryant Manning


HIGH GALLERY DIET Members of the MAVerick Ensemble pose with composers at CCF’s last New Music in the Gallery concert. Preissing, far left, and Syverud, far right, again premiere new works on Sat 7.

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/artic...ic-farm-league

When arts patron Betty Freeman died last month at the age of 87, the vast outpouring of memorials on music critics’ and performers’ blogs was heartening. Contemporary-music supporters are often the scene’s most undervalued players—and they’re needed more than ever during this economic meltdown. Having celebrated its fifth birthday in January, the Chicago Composers Forum has been quietly nourishing the city’s vibrantly youthful new-music culture. Funded by the Alphawood and Donnelley foundations and city arts programs, CCF bestows about $100,000 per year on aspiring composers. The org aims to help new composers get their works performed by nationally recognized ensembles.

Thirty-five-year-old composer Ryan Ingebritsen, a Minneapolis native who knows the challenges of winging it on his own, says CCF has been responsible for connecting him with the right company. “Chicago can be a tough city to break into if you’re coming from the outside,” he says, reflecting on his move here in 2002. A live-music sound engineer by day, Ingebritsen says it’s not hard to conceive the format of a concert; dealing with venues, promotion and performers is the real headache. On Saturday 7, at Packer Schopf Gallery, CCF hooks up Ingebritsen with drumming legends Third Coast Percussion to play his electronic work Il Creazione Di Un Piccolo Universe. A U.S. premiere, this five-channel speaker work that combines both sampled and live drum sounds was written in Poland in 2001, while Ingebritsen studied on a Fulbright scholarship. In addition, fellow composers Chris Preissing and Stephen Syverud will debut pieces.

“Composing music is such a lonely process,” says Kate Dumbleton, CCF’s executive director and sole paid staffer. “These people don’t spend a lot of time networking.” In addition to public performances, informal workshops of opuses in progress allow composers to hear a composition in its infant stages. Ingebritsen feels composers “have to stay connected to what other composers are doing and be able to exchange creative ideas.” For an annual membership fee of $45 ($25 for students), budding scoresmiths have their compositions submitted to various musical groups. From there, those ensembles select the works they want to play, whether in a workshop or bona fide performance.

Dumbleton, 42, expresses frustration with the term composer. These architects of imaginary landscapes don’t have to come from academia; there are those without conservatory sheepskins who blur genres through experimentation or even improvisation. Moreover, she wants to bring back a greater recognition to these musical creators. “The audience’s experience is so often the ensemble or the performer, leaving the composer marginalized,” says the part-time instructor of arts administration at the School of the Art Institute. “People always come out of a concert saying, ‘What an amazing orchestra!’ We need to work on that.” CCF insists composers attend each performance so that they’re visible and able to answer questions—or just to hear your rapturous applause.

CCF presents works of Ryan Ingebritsen and four other composers Saturday 7 at Packer Schopf Gallery.

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packer schopf gallery
942 W. Lake St.
Chicago, IL 60607
p 312.226.8984
c 773.458.3150
packer@packergallery.com
http://www.packergallery.com/index.php

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Japan Dance Now
Chicago Debut

February 5, 6 & 7 * 8:00 p.m.

Japan Dance Now features three of the hottest emerging contemporary dance companies in Japan in one multi-media evening:

Nibroll, an inventive artist collective, brings together movement, media, sound, visual art and fashion design in an exploration of Japan’s youth culture. In an excerpt from Coffee, pedestrian movement and familiar acts, such as drinking a cup of coffee, trigger inner explosions of aggressive behavior.

BABY-Q is a highly stylized multi-media performance group known for its cutting-edge use of multiple art forms and technology juxtaposed with the physicality of the human body. Founder and dancer-choreographer Yoko Higashino, performs E/G-Ego Geometria, a solo work with live music and video that has grown to be a highlight of Baby-Q’s performances.

Based in Osaka, the Sennichimae Blue Sky Dance Club, is an all-female butoh-influenced company devoted to uncovering original physical expression with a pop sensibility. On the program is an excerpted version of The end of Water, a series of vignettes presenting multiple images of femininity.

Buy:
http://tickets.colum.edu/tickets/pro....aspx?PID=1417

Video:
http://www.colum.edu/dance_center/vi...tid=1733282195


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The Dance Center
of Columbia College Chicago
1306 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60605
(312) 369-8300 phone
(312) 369-8036 fax
http://www.colum.edu/dance_center/

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Ricky Ian Gordon, who died in 1996, reimagined the ancient myth with his own lyrics and music, to be presented as a theatrical song cycle in two acts. Chicago Opera Vanguard stages the production. -- Timeout Chicago

http://www.4ringcircus.net/COV/index.htm

PREVIEW: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 28

PERFORMANCES:
THURSDAY JANUARY 29
FRIDAY JANUARY 30
SATURDAY JANUARY 31
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8

ALL PERFORMANCES ARE AT 8PM

SUGGESTED ADMISSION DONATION:
Thursdays and Sundays: $20
Fridays and Saturdays: $25
Preview: $15
[Student: $10]
[Student Preview: $5]

AT THE AV-AERIE
2000 W. Fulton Street

Orpheus enchants and hypnotizes the world with his clarinet. A magical retelling of the ancient myth, Gordon composed this “Theatrical Song Cycle in Two Acts” as a tribute to his lover, who died of AIDS in 1996.

A hit at Lincoln Center's American Songbook series and Opera Long Beach, ORPHEUS & EURIDICE receives its Chicago Premiere.

“Ricky Ian Gordon’s music is caviar for a world gorging on pizza.”
– The New York Times

Music & Lyrics
Ricky Ian Gordon

Costumes
Project Runway's
Steven Rosengard
www.stevenrosengard.com

Featuring
Ken Gasch dancer/choreographer
Rebecca Prescott soprano
Patrick Rehker clarinet
Logan Vaughn dancer/choreographer

Men's Wardrobe & Costume Construction Philip Dawkins

Lighting Design
Richard Ebeling

"Creature" Design
Jaime Reda

Sound Design
Florian Staab

Music Director
Nick Sula

Production by
Eric Reda

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Bank of America Great Performers Series

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Sunday
February 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

Schumann - Gesänge der Frühe (Early Morning Songs)
Chopin - Berceuse in D-flat Major
Debussy - Suite bergamasque
Messiaen - L’alouette lulu from Catalogue d’oiseaux
Carter - Night Fantasies
Bartók - Out of Doors

Known for his sense of adventure and boundless energy, Pierre-Laurent Aimard never ceases to thrill Symphony Center audiences. The incredible pianist made his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1977 at the age of 20, and since then he has cultivated an impressive international career as a champion of both new music and classical repertoire.

The February 8th performance is part of the Bank of America Great Performers Series: Piano E series.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs at
Symphony Center
220 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60604
http://www.cso.org/index.html

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Civic Orchestra of Chicago
The Musicians of Tomorrow are at Symphony Center Today

Sunday in the Park with Civic

String Quartet

Sunday
February 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.



Free Interactive Concerts for Children

Indian Boundary Park Cultural Center
2500 West Lunt Avenue (West Rogers Park)
Chicago

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DuPage Opera Theatre

The Beggar’s Opera

Music by Benjamin Britten

Harry Silverstein, Stage Director
Kirk Muspratt, Conductor

Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, 3 p.m.
Tickets: $43 adult/41 senior/33 youth

In English

Thieving highwaymen, a clandestine marriage, tormented love, and poison cups are all inspiration for Britten’s extraordinary imagination. Our cast of beggars, working in the local laundry in exchange for food and warmth, let you in on their entertainment of the evening, an opera spontaneously created from their surroundings. This host of unique vocal characters … Old Macheath, dastardly Filch, naughty Lucy Lockit, Jenny Diver, the infamous Suky Tawdry, and a host of other characters round out this tale of pirating robbers and ladies of the night.

A ballad opera, all in the name of fun, including a costumed, interactive orchestra and Maestro Muspratt himself on stage!

McAninch Arts Center
425 Fawell Blvd
College of DuPage
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
(630) 942-4000
www.AtTheMAC.org

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Piazzolla Tangazo
Ginastera Concerto for Harp
Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”)


ALASTAIR WILLIS


YOLANDA KONDONASSIS

http://www.elginsymphony.org/

HEMMENS THEATRE
45 Symphony Way
Elgin, Illinois
847.931.5900

BOX OFFICE

Hours: M-F 10am-5pm
Call (847) 888-4000

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Found in Translation: Reflections of the Chinese Poets

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 12:00 PM

Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue

Free admission



Bilingual readings of ancient and contemporary Chinese poetry are matched with iconic art images and music from virtuoso pipa player Yang Wei.

Presented by the Art Institute of Chicago

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Found in Translation: For Czeslaw Milosz

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 12:00 PM

Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue

Free admission



Nobel prize winner Czeslaw Milosz looked deeply into the paintings of European and Asian masters as he confronted the challenges of a war-torn world. Readings include Polish with English translations and art images.

Presented by the Art Institute of Chicago

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Found in Translation: For Octavio Paz

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 12:00 PM

Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue

Free admission



Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz found cultural truths inscribed in ancient and modern works of art, from Aztec stones to the surreal mindscapes of Spanish painter Joan Miró. Readings include Spanish with English translations and art images.

Presented by the Art Institute of Chicago

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Found in Translation: Tomaz Salamun

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 12:00 PM

Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue

Free admission



Renowned Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun reads selections from his more than thirty books of poetry.

Co-sponsored with the Art Institute of Chicago and the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa.

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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6404
http://www.artic.edu/aic/

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And don't forget to check out a copy of the February 2009 issue of Poetry Magazine:



Kim Addonizio · Sarah Barber · Charles Bernstein · Marianne Boruch · Mary Ann Caws · Averill Curdy · Sasha Dugdale · Stephen Dunn · Thomas Sayers Ellis · David Ferry · Hate Socialist Collective · Michael Hofmann · Rhoda Janzen · Nate Klug · Bruce Mackinnon · Joshua Mehigan · Ange Mlinko · Peter Munro · D.A. Powell · Kevin C. Powers · Chelsea Rathburn · Michael Ryan · A.E. Stallings · Jon Stallworthy · The Editors · Wendy Videlock · Virgil · Arthur Vogelsang · Dean Young ·

Cover art: Tony Fitzpatrick, detail from "Red Diamond Horse," 2008.


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