Arts Chicago

[wim hoppenbrouwers]

Hallo. use anaglyph glasses (red/cyan) to see depth and prevent possible headache.

[i_am_hydrogen]

I'm not sure how this thread was unstuck. But it's back.

[tpe]

Thanks. I should really try to put updates here once in a while... Missed a lot of stuff already this year...

[tpe]

Make Your Design Voice Heard:
Vote for the 2011
People's Design Award!


Every year, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum confers the National Design Awards, which are chosen by a jury of distinguished design gurus. But do you agree with the experts? Whether it's handmade or mass-produced, high-end or low brow, if it's well-designed, we want to hear about it!

Cast your vote on your favorite design from product design to architecture and from graphic design to fashion design.

Don't forget to celebrate National Design Week October 15-23!

•Vote for the People's Design Award online at www.cooperhewitt.org.

•Browse and vote for your favorite nominees, or nominate a new design by uploading your own images.

•Voting will close on October 17, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. EST.

•Visit cooperhewitt.org on October 20 at 9:00 p.m. EST to see the winner announced live at the National Design Awards Gala in New York City.

•Be sure to discuss this year's nominations on Twitter, using #peoplesdesign.


Current Nominees include:




Aqua Building

[i_am_hydrogen]

Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
When:
Where: Art Institute of Chicago
Through 1/15:
Price: $18

Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Innovation—the first-ever retrospective of Goldberg's work, opening today—features 100 of his drawings, models, and photographs, as well as little-known examples of his graphic and furniture design.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago...nt?oid=4585469

[tpe]

University of Chicago Presents' Classic Concert Series 2011-2012

Borodin Quartet

Friday / October 21, 2011 / 7:30 PM / Mandel Hall

(Mandel Hall debut)



Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Stravinsky: Concertino
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 1 in C major, op. 49
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, op. 117

Commanding a special position in the chamber music world, the Borodin Quartet's affinity with Russian repertoire was stimulated by a close relationship with Shostakovich, who personally supervised its study of each of his quartets. Hear the Quartet's stunning, signature interpretations in their Mandel Hall debut. This event is part of The Soviet Arts Experience.

"Everything had a deep and understated gravity, as though they were exploring the most private corners of the human soul." (The Financial Times)

http://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/

[tpe]

The Newberry Consort will be playing in my old Parish tonight...

Celestial Sirens
Friday, January 20, 2012. 8:00pm, Saint Clement Church
At the door: $35 general/$5 students (cash only)



This season's Howard Mayer Brown Memorial concert features an ensemble of eight women's voices directed by Ellen Hargis. We'll explore the music of the baroque convents of Italy and Mexico, where behind cloister walls, these gifted women composed, arranged, and performed virtuoso music for their own devotional use, singing in astonishing vocal ranges. Organ and viola da gamba will accompany the music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Alba Tressina, and Sulpitia Cesis; and from the Newberry Library Choirbooks, compositions by Fabían Pérez Ximeno, Juan de Lienas, and Tomás Luis de Victoria.

http://www.newberryconsort.org/curre...n/sirens.shtml



The Newberry Consort

Beguiling and intelligent, provocative and classic, ravishingly beautiful and deliciously edgy-The Newberry Consort has been delighting audiences for nearly three decades. Directed by David Douglass, Newberry Musician-in-Residence, and early music diva Ellen Hargis, the ensemble plumbs the Newberry Library's vast music collection and assembles a star-studded roster of local and international artists to bring you world-class performances of music from the 13th to the 18th centuries…and occasionally beyond!

Affiliated with the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, the Consort also serves as an ensemble-in-residence at both the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. In addition to an annual concert series in Chicago, the Consort has an active touring schedule. This season, traveling to several cities across the US, the Consort will offer two popular programs: Beautiful Dreamer: Music of Lincoln's America and Fair Oriana: an Early Film with Early Music, featuring an Elizabethan score to accompany Sarah Bernhardt's 1912 silent film Elizabeth I.



St Clement Chruch

Saint Clement Church is located at 642 West Deming Place in Chicago (two blocks west of Clark and two blocks north of Fullerton).

[tpe]

The Joffrey Ballet's 2012-2013 Season has just been announced. I got my announcement in the mail last friday...

Every Chicagoan should do his/her part in supporting such a treasure.

http://www.joffrey.org/2012-2013-season



Fall - October 17-28, 2012

Pretty BALLET

Choreography: James Kudelka
Music: Bohuslav Martinü
In the piece the Chicago Tribune called "thrilling, ingeniously designed, devilishly rebellious and brash in its showmanship," James Kudelka "tends to the muse," wistfully paying homage to the art of Ballet.

Forgotten Land

Choreography: Jirí Kylián
Music: Benjamin Britten
Searching for lost homelands, lost lovers, and lost times, this piece is "fiendishly fast and lusciously fluid."
―Houston Chronicle


The Green Table

Choreography: Kurt Jooss
Music: F.A. Cohen
An epic anti-war masterpiece, this must-see piece is "perfectly structured and so rich in imagery."
―The New York Times




The Nutcracker - December 7-27, 2012


December 7-27, 2012
Collaboration conceived and directed: Robert Joffrey
Music: Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
America's #1 Nutcracker and a Chicago holiday tradition!



Winter - February 13-24, 2013

Interplay

Choreography: Jerome Robbins
Music: Morton Gould
Lighthearted and wonderfully playful, this charming Robbins' piece is full of youth and energy. "Exhilarating."
―San Francisco Chronicle

World Premiere

Choreography: Stanton Welch
See a brand new work by Welch, Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet, whose choreography is "making the world take notice."
―San Francisco Chronicle

Nine Sinatra Songs

Choreography: Twyla Tharp
Music: Frank Sinatra
Tharp creates an enchanting mix of ballet and ballroom dance set to the incomparable Frank Sinatra. With glamourous dancing, Sinatra's classic recordings and costumes by Oscar de la Renta, this piece is an "indisputable winner."
―The New York Times.





SPRING - April 24-May 5, 2013

Othello

Choreography: Lar Lubovitch
Music: Elliot B. Goldenthal
Chicago-born Lubovitch's interpretation of Shakespeare's classic tale is transformed into an emotionally riveting ballet set to Goldenthal's powerful score. Witness the passion, ambition and tragedy in this "enthralling, boldly original" ballet.
―Chicago Sun-Times

[tpe]

Tonight is opening night...

http://www.merchandisemartantiques.com/spring/



In With the Old

Showcasing more than 120 of the world’s top dealers of antiques and fine art, the 15th annual Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair is Chicago’s ultimate treasure hunt. From the seasoned collector to anyone with an appreciation for timeless design, shoppers will find a wonderfully diverse array of art, antiques and jewelry from antiquities to 20th Century modernism.

Categories include: 20th Century Design, Americana, Architectural Design, Asian Art & Antiquities, Barometers, Books, Ceramics, Clocks, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Maps, Modernism, Paintings, Posters, Prints, Sculpture, Silver, Textiles, Tribal Art.

A number of compelling special events and features will complement The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair experience. Click here for details.


Spring 2012 Fair Dates and Hours

Thursday, April 26 • Opening Night Access • 8–10 pm
Friday, April 27 • 11 am–7 pm
Saturday, April 28 • 11 am–7 pm
Sunday, April 29 • 11 am–6 pm
Monday, April 30 • 11 am–3 pm

[tpe]

Vintage Murano Glass on the Block
By TIM McKEOUGH
Published: May 30, 2012



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/ga...tml?ref=garden

Frank Toskan, a founder of MAC Cosmetics, spent about two decades amassing his collection of Murano art glass, and on June 9, Wright in Chicago will auction it off.

“It really spans the entire 20th century, right up to some contemporary pieces,” said Richard Wright, the owner of the auction house. “It has a few super-rare, high-flying lots, but also a really uniform quality. They’re perfectly executed, or rare colors, or better than average examples the entire way through.”

The auction will offer more than 150 pieces, including an orange and green intarsio vase by Ercole Barovier for Barovier & Toso from 1963 (estimate: $15,000 to $20,000), left, and a blue rilievi vase by Carlo Scarpa for Venini from 1935 (estimate: $30,000 to $40,000).

Information: (312) 563-0020 or wright20.com.

[i_am_hydrogen]

Next up for the Art Institute: Picasso

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...titute-picasso

More than 250 paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings will be pulled from the museum's vault and borrowed from private collections in the city for the show.

It's the first major Picasso exhibition by the Art Institute in 30 years.

The show runs Feb. 20 through May 12 and the member preview is Feb. 16-19.

[tpe]

Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

Next up for the Art Institute: Picasso

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...titute-picasso

I have to make a trip just to see this. Thanks!

[i_am_hydrogen]

Originally Posted by tpe

I have to make a trip just to see this. Thanks!

Yeah, it's a must see!

[tpe]

Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

Yeah, it's a must see!

I am also hoping to see the exhibition of Late Roman and Byzantine objects from the BM, and the new Jaharis galleries. The Lycurgus Cup alone is worth seeing...

[tpe]

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Gets Major Gift from Zell Family Foundation
By CAROL VOGEL

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...on/?ref=design

Excerpt:

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, has received a $10 million gift from longtime supporters Sam Zell, the real estate magnate, and his wife, Helen, a museum board member, through the Zell Family Foundation, to create what they are calling “The Zell Fund for Artistic Excellence.” ...

[tpe]

Raising a Paddle for the Gio Pontis
By JULIE LASKY
Published: December 5, 2012



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/ga...tml?ref=garden

On Dec. 13, Wright in Chicago will hold an auction of 20th-century Italian masterworks, with almost half of the pieces by Gio Ponti. “He is the overarching figure of Italian design,” said Richard Wright, the auction house owner, tracing that arc from the 1920s, when Ponti began his career as an architect, industrial designer and editor in Milan (he founded the Italian magazines Domus and Stile), to the 1970s, the last decade of his life.

Many of the items are from Loris Manna, a Milanese collector who wrote a book in 2000 about Ponti’s work in majolica. Among the objects Mr. Manna is relinquishing is a circa 1955 bookcase, above, designed by Ponti with the artist Piero Fornasetti, its panels displaying trompe l’oeil illustrations of knickknacks and stacked volumes. The price is estimated at $50,000 to $70,000.

Information: (312) 563-0020 or wright20.com.

[i_am_hydrogen]

Bump... The exhibit opens tomorrow and runs through May 12th.

http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/picasso-and-chicago

Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

Next up for the Art Institute: Picasso

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...titute-picasso

[desertpunk]

Chicago's own Nick Zanca AKA Mister Lies:



Also check out new [more minimalist] work on self-renamed Wendybird's Bandcamp: http://wendybird.bandcamp.com/