Arts Chicago

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And let's not forget the Art Fairs in the suburbs this weekend:




July 12 & 13

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Skokie

47th Annual Art Fair

10 am to 5 pm

Held on the Village green, a beautiful parkway on Oakton, next to the Skokie Library

75 Exhibitors


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Northbrook

Art in the Park - A Fine Arts Festival

10 am to 5 pm

Village Green Park - new location

This is the 8th year of a fine art festival in Northbrook. This festival replaces Arts in Northbrook. The new location, in the beautiful Village Green Park, brings the festival to a downtown location that historically has been THE meeting place for the village.

175 Exhibitors


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Oak Brook

45th Annual Oakbrook Center Invitational Craft Exhibition

Saturday 10 am to 7 pm; Sunday 11 am to 6 pm

Throughout the mall at Oakbrook Center
Lots of parking and free admission

If you are looking for jewelry or wearables this is definitely the show for you! Contrary to our motto "Art not available at a mall near you"�, this is one great exception. Oakbrook Center has been voted the #1 shopping destination by Illinois shoppers, and the craft exhibited at this event is as wonderful as what you find in the fine stores.

160 Exhibitors



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Naperville

Naperville Woman's Club Art Fair

10 am to 5 pm

Mitchell Mansion, Naper Settlement, Porter and Aurora Aves.

This event will celebrate its 41st anniversary in 2008 and be an exciting time for the local and national award winning artists participating as well as for buyers.



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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire Art Festival

Olde Half Day Rd. & Milwaukee

150 exhibitors



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Orland Park

Village of Orland Park Art Fair

Hosted by the Orland Park Arts Commission

Saturday – 10am – 5pm
Sunday – 10 am – 4 pm

Orland Park Crossing – 143rd Street & LaGrange Road

50-60 exhibitors

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tpe (or anyone), do you know what companies responsible to organizing and planning the art fairs? I know their are a few major players like chicagoevents.com....

I'm doing my first art fair at the Taste of Lincoln on July 26th. if that goes well I'd like to start doing them on a regular basis.

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Originally Posted by tpe

Thanks. I should check the arts festival calendar more frequently. You mean:

The 17th Annual Chicago Tribune Magnificent Mile Art Festival
July 11-13
Downtown Chicago
Plaza south of the Tribune Tower

Sculpture, pottery, jewelry and photography from over 150 award-winning artists, in addition to live music performances daily.

yup thats the one. can you post that calender?

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Originally Posted by Chicagophotoshop

yup thats the one. can you post that calender?

Sure. You'll find this calendar very useful -- and not just in Chicago.

http://www.artfaircalendar.com/

[Chicagophotoshop]

[tpe]

Originally Posted by Chicagophotoshop

tpe (or anyone), do you know what companies responsible to organizing and planning the art fairs? I know their are a few major players like chicagoevents.com....

I'm doing my first art fair at the Taste of Lincoln on July 26th. if that goes well I'd like to start doing them on a regular basis.

I know that the really great/international ones are managed by a few big companies. But as to the local ones, I am not so sure, although it would make sense that it would follow the same model. I had thought that the local ones such as the Old Town, Lincoln Park, and the Lakeview East Art Fairs were managed by the local community non-profits (e.g., the Old Town Triangle Association) or the local Chamber of Commerce, but I am not really so sure that they are the ones that really put the art fairs together.

Let me ask some people and get back to you on this...

And good luck, Chicagophotoshop, on your first art fair. Sometimes, it may take a few fairs to get a local following. Let us know here what art fairs you will be doing. I would probably meet you in one of them, if not the one you mentioned.

[Chicagophotoshop]

awesome thanks. yea come on by. taste of lincoln 26th/27th

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It's never too early to subscribe to the Lyric Opera's 2008/2009 Season.

The music for the Countess Geschwitz (Lulu's lesbian lover) in Act 1 is worth the price of subscription.

Do any of you remember the 1987 Production of Lulu at the Lyric? I remember some of the older patrons leaving in a huff. I would expect that after 20 years, the Lyric Opera-goers are now a bit more forgiving of Berg.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...51C1A961948260


http://www.lyricopera.org/

Audio Preview with Sir Andrew Davis: http://stream.lyricopera.org/Season_Preview_0809.wax

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Manon: Natalie Dessay
Des Grieux: Jonas Kaufmann
Lescaut: Christopher Feigum
Count des Grieux: Raymond Aceto
Guillot: David Cangelosi
Brétigny: Jake Gardner

Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume
Director: David McVicar
Designer: Tanya McCallin*
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Chorus Master: Donald Nally
Original Choreographer:
Michael Keegan-Dolan*

*Lyric Opera debut







Leïla: Nicole Cabell
Zurga: Nathan Gunn
Nadir: Eric Cutler
Nourabad: Christian Van Horn

Conductor: John Mauceri
Original Production: Nicolas Joël
Director: Herbert Kellner
Original Designer: Hubert Monloup
Set Designer: Scott Marr
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Chorus Master: Donald Nally








Lulu: Marlis Petersen
Dr. Schön/Jack The Ripper: Wolfgang Schöne*
Countess Geschwitz: Jill Grove
Alwa: William Burden
Schigolch: Artur Korn
Painter/Black Man: Scott Ramsay
Animal Trainer/Athlete: Jan Buchwald*
Prince/Marquis/Manservant: Rodell Rosel
Wardrobe Mistress/Schoolboy/Groom: Buffy Baggott

Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
Director: Paul Curran
Designer: Kevin Knight
Lighting Designer: David Jacques

*Lyric Opera debut








Porgy: Gordon Hawkins*/Lester Lynch*
Bess: Morenike Fadayomi*/Lisa Daltirus*
Crown: Lester Lynch/Terry Cook
Serena: Jonita Lattimore
Clara: Laquita Mitchell*
Maria: Marietta Simpson
Sportin' Life: Jermaine Smith*
Jake: Eric Greene*

Conductor: John DeMain*/Kelly Kuo*
Director: Francesca Zambello
Set Designer: Peter J. Davison*
Costume Designer: Paul Tazewell*
Lighting Designer: Mark McCullough*
Chorus Master: Donald Nally
Choreographer: Denni Sayers

*Lyric Opera debut







Cio-Cio-San: Patricia Racette
B. F. Pinkerton: Frank Lopardo
Suzuki: Katharine Goeldner*
Sharpless: James Westman*
Goro: David Cangelosi

Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
Original Director: Harold Prince
Director: Vincent Liotta
Set Designer: Clarke Dunham
Costume Designer: Florence Klotz
Original Lighting Designer: Ken Billington
Lighting Designer: Christine Binder
Chorus Master: Donald Nally

*Lyric Opera debut








Isolde: Deborah Voigt
Tristan: Clifton Forbis
Brangäne: Petra Lang*
Kurwenal: Juha Uusitalo*
Marke: Stephen Milling*

Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
Director: José María Condemi
Designer: David Hockney
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Chorus Master: Donald Nally

*Lyric Opera debut







Cavalleria Rusticana

Santuzza: Guang Yang/Dolora Zajick
Turiddu: Carlo Ventre/Vincenzo La Scola
Alfio: Mark Delavan
Lola: TBA
Mamma Lucia: Judith Christin

Pagliacci

Canio: Vladimir Galouzine
Nedda: María Martínez*
Tonio: Mark Delavan
Silvio: Christopher Feigum
Beppe: Keith Jameson

Conductor: Renato Palumbo
Stage Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Designer: Michael Yeargan
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Chorus Master: Donald Nally

*Lyric Opera debut








Belmonte: Matthew Polenzani
Konstanze: Erin Wall
Osmin: Andrea Silvestrelli
Blonde: Aleksandra Kurzak*
Pedrillo: Steve Davislim
Pasha Selim: TBA

Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
Director: Chas Rader-Shieber
Designer: David Zinn
Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind*
Chorus Master: Donald Nally

*Lyric Opera debut

[tpe]

This is more a private acquisition on my part, but as I'm all for discussing the subject of collectors and collections in Chicago, I might as well add this here.

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A pair of literati (Bunjinga) scroll paintings by the Japanese artist Nakabayashi Chikuto (1776-1853)

Chikuto (1776-1853) moved to Kyoto with Yamamoto Baitsu in 1803 to join the art circle of Rai Sanyo. He went on to author many theoretical and practical guides for literati painting. His works are held in the collections of the Ashmolean, British, Freer, Seattle, V&A and Indianapolis museums.

Painted in the eighth year of the Bunsei era, 1825.

Details:

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Field of memes
Mario Ybarra Jr. throws a curveball at the Art Institute of Chicago.

By Lauren Weinberg


Mario Ybarra Jr., Take Me Out…No Man Is an Island (installation view), 2008.
Photo: Courtesy of Mario Ybarra Jr. and Anna Helwing Gallery

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/artic...field-of-memes

Excerpt:

Many have suffered for their art, but only Mario Ybarra Jr. chewed more than 100 pieces of Wrigley’s Winterfresh gum for the Art Institute of Chicago’s Focus series. The 34-year-old Los Angeles artist is participating in Focus—which highlights emerging artists and lesser-known work by established ones—at an exciting time in his career. Earlier this year, Ybarra’s Scarface Museum (2006) was featured in the Whitney Biennial: This collection of Scarface memorabilia, which belongs to an incarcerated friend of Ybarra’s, embedded the struggles of the artist’s Latino community in a traditional museum environment...

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This exhibit illustrates the important contributions by the architect CROMBIE TAYLOR, photographer AARON SISKIND, AND IIT'S INSTITUTE OF DESIGN – in the early 1950s—work with revolutionary impact on our understanding of Louis Sullivan, an architect of central importance to the history of American architecture and Chicago.
This exhibit is the first remounting of Siskind’s 1954 Institute of Design photographic survey of Sullivan’s architecture and the first showing of Sullivan’s polychromatic Auditorium Building and Garrick Building stencils since the 1960s. It coincides with the publication of co-curator Jeffrey Plank’s new book, Aaron Siskind and Louis Sullivan: The Institute of Design Photo Section Project.

EXHIBIT HOURS: Daily 10 am – 3 pm (closed July 4 – 6)

ADMISSION: $5

http://mies.iit.edu/

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Press release:

http://www.saic.edu/news/releases/in...rent/SLC_17761

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SAIC Names Architect and Artist Wellington Reiter Its 4th President


School of the Art Institute of Chicago Names Architect and Artist
Wellington Reiter Its 4th President

July 10, 2008 -- Barry MacLean, Chairman of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has announced the appointment of Wellington Reiter as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's fourth President. Mr. Reiter, who joins the School of the Art Institute on August 25, 2008, is an internationally recognized architect, artist, and urban designer, and currently holds the position of Dean of the College of Design at Arizona State University. In addition to his academic role, Reiter was instrumental in shaping a new university campus in the heart of downtown Phoenix that unites progressive academic, architectural and public art agendas...

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The Stone Summer Theory Institute at the School of the Art Institute, a forum for art theoreticians, hosts several public lectures from Mon 7/14 to Sat 7/19 on topics including “Who Needs Words?” and “What Does Seeing an Image Mean?”...

http://www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org/

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All these events take place in the ballroom, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Avenue, unless otherwise noted.

Tickets at the door or on this site.

July 14
9-noon Opening round table

The Faculty will open the problem of the image in an informal conversation. The session will be taped, and audience questions may be added to the book.


July 14,
7:30-9:30 PM Marie-José Mondzain

Opening lecture: "What Does Seeing an Image Mean?"
The lecture will be preceded by the screening of a film, "Das Stahltier." A translation will be provided.


July 16,
7:30-9 PM Jacqueline Lichtenstein

Lecture: "Up Close and From Afar: Image and Painting"


July 17,
7:30-9:30 PM W.J.T. Mitchell

Lecture: "Sounding the Idols of the Present: Terrorism and Cloning." The lecture will be preceded by a screening of Errol Morris's "Standard Operating Procedure."


July 19,
9AM-3PM Closing round table

The Faculty will discuss the week's seminars. The session will be taped, and audience questions may be added to the book. There will be a morning session, 3 hours, followed by a 1-hour break, and a 2-hour afternoon session.

Price Auditorium, Art Institute (use the Michigan Avenue entrance before Museum opening hours).

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The Sun-Times review of the CSO opening concert this summer in Ravinia:

Bell, Slatkin and CSO lead rousing journey
CONCERT REVIEW | Sibelius concerto takes dramatic twists and turns

July 11, 2008

BY WYNNE DELACOMA


Joshua Bell at the Ravinia Festival on Wedneday night. (Russell Jenkins/Ravinia Festival (Courtesy Ravinia Festival)

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainmen...-rav11.article

Excerpt:

Wednesday isn't usually the most festive day of the week, but you wouldn't have known that from the thousands of people who found their way to the Ravinia Festival for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's first concert of its summer season. The pavilion was full, and the lawns were crowded for the concert Wednesday night, conducted by Leonard Slatkin, that featured Joshua Bell in the Sibelius Violin Concerto.

True, the weather was balmy, and the program all but guaranteed a packed house, offering a popular young soloist and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 as the closer. But the large, enthusiastic audience was an encouraging sign for the rest of the CSO's Ravinia schedule, which includes some truly solid fare: Bernard Haitink's festival debut next Wednesday with the CSO in Mahler's Seventh Symphony, Ravinia music director James Conlon in Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand'' on July 26 and a pair of Mozart operas in the Martin Theatre in mid-August.

Slatkin knows how to rev up a crowd, and after a noisy "Star-Spangled Banner,'' he got down to real symphonic business with an alternately moody and noisy foray into George Enescu's familiar "Romanian Rhapsody'' in A Major, Op. 11, No. 1. The CSO winds and strings sounded lush yet full of energy in the leisurely folk tunes that opened the rhapsody, but the blaring brass turned harsh in the fast and furious closing sections...

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This weekend:





OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC presents...
The 11th ANNUAL CHICAGO FOLK & ROOTS FESTIVAL
SATURDAY JULY 12th & SUNDAY JULY 13th
NOON - 10pm each day
WELLES PARK
4400 block of North Lincoln Avenue between Montrose and Sunnyside in the Lincoln Square neighborhood

Admission: $7 suggested donation for adults / $3 suggested donation for seniors and children

Chicago Folk & Roots Festival is sponsored by Bank of America and WXRT.

For more information:
Old Town School of Folk Music call
(773) 728-6000 or visit
www.chicagofolkandroots.org

The Chicago Folk & Roots Festival is a two-day cultural festival held in the heart of Lincoln Square, one of Chicago's most diverse neighborhoods. The artistic vision of the Festival is to showcase local and internationally known artists in various music and dance idioms in celebration of the diversity of folk and world culture.

Lineup subject to change / Rain or shine / All ages welcome!

No dogs, bikes, coolers, bottles or recording devices allowed. Parking is extremely limited; driving is strongly discouraged. Welles Park is accessible via the CTA Brown Line at the Western Avenue stop or the Western Avenue bus to Montrose.






http://www.oldtownschool.org/

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At the Newberry Library:

http://www.newberry.org/




Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape


Sally A. Kitt Chappell

Saturday, July 12, 11:00 am
Speaker: Sally A. Kitt Chappell

Historian Sally A. Kitt Chappell sees Chicago in the forefront of global efforts to end the divide between town and country by bringing into harmony buildings and landscapes, culture and nature, commerce and leisure. In Chicago's Urban Nature, she provides new insights into such historic Chicago sites as Jens Jensen's Garfield Park Conservatory and Frederick Law Olmsted's Jackson Park. Then she takes us to innovative contemporary green spaces they influenced, from City Hall's rooftop garden to the North Lawndale Green Youth Farm and the new Millennium Park. The sixty-six beautiful spaces described in the guidebook meld art, architecture, and ecology. Far more than retreats - they're now essential parts of the cultural life of the modern city.

Chicago's Urban Nature will be for sale at the Newberry Library's A. C. McClurg Bookstore. A book signing will follow the talk.

Admission is free. No reservation is required.

The Newberry Library gratefully acknowledges the National Endowment for the Humanities and Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Haffner for their generous support of public programming. Major funding is also provided by Richard and Barbara Franke, the MacLean-Fogg Family, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. McGhee, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally, and the McCormick Tribune Foundation.

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Final Weekend at the Elmhurst Art Museum:



image hosted on flickr




http://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/




Susan Giles: Splice



Chicago artist Susan Giles will showcase Cantilevered Eave a life-size, white foamcore replica of a small segment of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House... Giles will also present her most recent work in a new series, UNTITLED, a series of paper models of iconic buildings that have been spliced together to create an amalgam. A red Neuschwanstein Castle settled on top of a green Cathedral of Notre Dame, a lavender Himeji Castle slid into the side of a brown Parthenon and an orange Big Ben collided with a blue Leaning Tower of Pisa. Each model is made from a single, solid color of paper so that when it is merged with another building the elements of each remain visible...


Cat Chow: Speak Softly



Speak Softly is an exhibition of recent works by New York artist and designer Cat Chow, best known for her intricate craftsmanship that transforms everyday objects into garments and works of art that are elegantly simple in form, yet complex in construction.

Speak Softly takes the viewer into a world of systems where the rational and irrational intermesh. Chow’s work, though grounded in mathematics, still maintains an emotional consciousness. Furthermore, these works are amalgamations of masculine and feminine qualities that seduce the viewer through her use of industrial materials, repetitive hand gestures, and inventive fabrications...

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Don't forget that LH's Furniture and Decorative Arts Auction is this Sunday. Tomorrow is final preview day.



Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
1338 W. Lake (60607)
Tel 312-280-1212
Fax 312-280-1211
http://www.lesliehindman.com/


Preview Dates
Wednesday, July 9, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Thursday, July 10, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Friday, July 11, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday, July 12, 10:00am - 3:00pm

Auction Date
Sunday, July 13, 12:00pm (Lots 1 through 465)
Monday, July 14, 10:00am (Lots 466 through 803)



A French Gilt Bronze and Marble Figural Clock, $6,000-8,000


A Tiffany Studios Bronze Table Lamp Base, $6,000-8,000


An English Chinoiserie Tall Case Clock, $4,000/6,000

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Chicago Believes Olympic Celebration
July 14, 2008 at 8:00PM
Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago IL



Enjoy a FREE CONCERT from the Pritzker Pavilion Great Lawn, featuring Olympians and Olympic sports demonstrations, members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Latin guitar sensation The Bandoleros, Chicago tenor Rodrick Dixon, Hubbard Street Dance, Cirque S

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/olymp...061908.article

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Painting Forensics—Investigating Northern Renaissance Art
7/17, 6-7 p.m.
Fullerton Hall
Free

Molly Faries, Indiana University-Bloomington, presents a lecture that coincides with the exhibition New Light on Old Masters and the publication of its related catalogue, Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600.

This lecture highlights the technical methods of investigation that figure in both the catalogue and exhibition. The lecture will draw on the speaker's expertise in the field of technical investigation and in infrared reflectography (IRR) in particular, a technique that discloses the hidden layout sketches in paintings. Many of the examples to be shown derive from what the speaker calls her "IRR expeditions"—field trips that have taken her to countless churches and museums in this country and Europe. One part of the lecture will cover recent advances in infrared technology and imaging techniques. Another section will deal with some of the more interesting drawing and painting procedures that have been discovered in northern European works from this period. Finally, the speaker will comment on the ways the combined evidence can lead to a broader understanding of workshop practices and art production in an age of increasing commercial opportunities.


Hans Memling. Virgin and Child, 1485/90. Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection.

http://www.artic.edu/aic/