2014 Winter Arts Guide

WINTER 2014 ARTS & CULTURE GUIDE

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Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Best Play Award Jan 9 – Feb 9, 2014

By August Wilson | Directed by Ron OJ Parson Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama CHICAG O P R EM IER E

March 6 – April 6, 2014 Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes Court Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson

By Quiara Alegría Hudes | Directed by Henry Godinez Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play

May 8 – June 8, 2014

By David Henry Hwang | Directed by Charles Newell

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Season and Single Tickets on Sale Now Playwright David Henry Hwang

(773) 753-4472 5535 S Ellis Ave | Free Parking Student, Senior, & Group Discounts Court Artistic Director Charles Newell

CONTENTS The University of Chicago is a destination where artists, scholars, students, and audiences converge and create. Explore our theaters, performance spaces, museums and galleries, academic programs, cultural initiatives, and more.

These works appear in the Smart Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture, February 13-June 15.

The exhibition is a part of UChicago Arts’ Envisioning China: A Festival of Arts & Culture kicking off Feb 12. See page 8 for details.

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UCHICAGO ARTS WINTER GUIDE JAN 6, 2014 / ISSUE 2

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Image Credits: Page 4, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, photo by Tom Rossiter; Page 6, The University of Chicago, photo by Tom Rossiter; Page 9, Portrait of real estate broker Margie Smigel with the Chicago Stone, a record of land transfers from 2600 B.C., photo by Jason Reblando; Page 10, Chinese, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), Domino Cards or Actor Cards with Scenes from Peking Opera Plays, 41 cards, ink and color printed on paper. Courtesy Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Page 10, William Cowper, 1666-1709, The anatomy of humane bodies, with figures drawn after the life . . . Leyden: Printed for Joh. Arn. Langerak, 1737. Rare Books Collection, Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library; Page 11, Michael Portnoy, courtesy of the artist; Page 12, Karl Holmqvist, Untitled (Chessecube), 2012, black mat adhesive on pine wood, 100 x 100 x 100 cm, Edition of 12. Courtesy the Artist, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris and Galerie NEU, Berlin; Page 12, Wu Hung and Judith Zeitlan, courtesy of the Smart Museum of Art; Page 14, Karel Appel, Head #2, 1962, Oil on printed wove paper (Oil on newspaper). Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Estates of Tom Fizdale, Ruth Fizdale, and Helen Rehr, 2013.2; Page 18, Judgment (2012, d. n. rodowick); Page 19, Oshima's Death By Hanging (1968, Nagisa Ôshima); Page 20, Jason Lescalleet, courtesy of the artist; Page 20, © 2009 EYE Collection, photo D.W.B. van Maarseveen; Page 21, Rosanna Warren, courtesy of the artist; Page 22, Anthony Pateras, photo by Traianos Pakioufakis; Page 23, University Symphony Orchestra © The University of Chicago; Page 24, Third Coast Percussion photo Saverio Truglia; Page 24, Marquis Hill III, courtesy of the artist; Page 26, Anna Deavere Smith, photo by Mary Ellen Mark; Page 27, courtesy of Theater and Performance Studies; Page 28, © The University of Chicago, photo Bonnie Trafelet; Page 30, Lee England Jr., courtesy of the artist; Page 31, Maus, courtesy of Art Spiegelman

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On the Cover: Chinese, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), Imperial Opera Mask Paintings of Different Spirits, ca.

1746–95, Four album leaves, ink, and color on paper. © The Field Museum, Photographer John Weinstein.

SPEND A DAY/ CULTURE COAST

SPEND A DAY IF YOU HAVE 1 HOUR The Oriental Institute 1155 East 58th St (at S University Ave) oi.uchicago.edu Founded in 1919, this research institution and museum has one of the world’s few comprehensive collections of artifacts from the entire ancient Middle East, with most of the artifacts having been excavated by UChicago archaeologists. Highlights include monumental sculpture, mummies, and some of the world’s earliest written records.

Admission is free with a suggested donation of $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. The Suq, a cool and reasonably priced gift shop, is in the lobby.

Seminary Co-op Bookstore McGiffert House, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave semcoop.com The legendary Sem Co-op, which opened over 50 years ago as an independent bookstore on the UChicago campus, is a centerpiece of Hyde Park’s intellectual and cultural life. The bookstore recently moved from the labyrinthine stacks in the basement of the former Chicago Theological Seminary to a new space next door to the Robie House designed by Stanley Tigerman and Margaret McCurry architects.

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IF YOU HAVE 4 HOURS The Renaissance Society Cobb Hall 418, 5811 S Ellis Ave, fourth floor (at E 58th St) renaissancesociety.org Founded in 1915, the world-renowned Renaissance Society is a leading-edge, non-collecting museum focused on exhibitions, publications, and programs. The Ren is open from noon to 5 pm, Tuesday through Sunday.

Admission is free.

On any given day in our bustling creative community, you can find a number of live performances, concerts, lectures, exhibits, and more. Here are some of our favorite recommendations if you have a few hours to spare. For a full calendar of cultural events visit arts.uchicago.edu/events.

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S Woodlawn Ave (at E 59th St) rockefeller.uchicago.edu/events With Gothic grandeur and outstanding acoustics, Rockefeller is host to ceremonies, theater, orchestral performances, chorus groups, and concerts. Oh, and circus acts. Visit Rockefeller Chapel’s website for information on daily Carillon tours. >>DID YOU KNOW? The Carillon at Rockefeller Chapel, comprised of 72 bells and 100 tons of bronze, is the single largest musical instrument ever built.

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E 60th St (at S Drexel Ave) logancenter.uchicago.edu The Logan Center, a hub for the robust arts scene on campus, is a venue for exhibitions, performances, films, classrooms, studios, and more. With a screening room, black box theater, practice studios, gallery spaces, a 474-seat performance hall, and a multipurpose penthouse space, it’s easy to get inspired here. >>TIP Visit Logan’s box office for tickets and information related to campus-wide performances and events. >>FOOD Visit Café Logan for lunch or dinner, featuring an eclectic menu including wraps, sandwiches, salads, and small plates. Beverages include wine and craft beer, as well as coffee and espresso from one of our favorite local roasters Counter Culture.

IF YOU HAVE 8 HOURS Arts Incubator in Washington Park 301 E Garfield Blvd (at Prairie Ave) arts.uchicago.edu/artsandpubliclife/ai Envisioned by artist Theaster Gates, the Arts Incubator is a space for artist residencies, arts education, community-based arts projects, exhibitions, performances, and talks. The renovated 1920s building is part of the University of Chicago’s Arts + Public Life initiative.

A10 1462 E 53rd St (at Harper Ave) a10hydepark.com The newest restaurant venture by well-known chef Mattias Merges, A10 offers an updated cuisine of the French Riviera ranging from more adventurous fare like wood-fired snails to classic steak and pasta dishes.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House 5757 S Woodlawn Ave (at E 58th St) gowright.org/visit/robie-house The purest expression of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style architecture, Robie House was completed in 1910. The Robie House is considered one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture. Public tours are available Thursday through Monday. Advance tickets are highly recommended.

Smart Museum of Art 5550 S Greenwood Ave (at E 56th St) smartmuseum.uchicago.edu As part of UChicago, the Smart Museum of Art takes a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to the collection, display, and interpretation of art. Founded in 1974, Smart is home to acclaimed special exhibitions and a permanent collection that spans 5,000 years of artistic creation. The museum hosts diverse shows and exhibitions. Admission is free. >>FOOD Stop by the Smart Café for a coffee and snack. The regular menu includes vegan chili, sandwiches, assorted tofu and veggie dishes, and baked goods.

Doc Films Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E 59th St (at S Woodlawn Ave) docfilms.uchicago.edu The longest continually running university film society in the nation, Doc Films shows movies every night at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall. There’s a different theme each day of the week.

WHILE YOU’RE ON THE CULTURE COAST…

Black Cinema House 6901 S Dorchester Ave blackcinemahouse.org

Hyde Park Art Center 5030 S Cornell Ave hydeparkart.org

DuSable Museum of African American History 740 E 56th Place dusablemuseum.org

Little Black Pearl 1060 E 47th St blackpearl.org

Visit other arts and cultural organizations on the Culture Coast—a collection of artistically vibrant neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. Go to culturecoast.org to find out what’s happening on the Culture Coast or check out a few cultural locations near the UChicago campus.

Experimental Station 6100 S Blackstone Ave experimentalstation.org

Museum of Science and Industry 5700 S Lake Shore Dr msichicago.org

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House 5757 S Woodlawn Ave gowright.org

South Side Community Art Center 3831 S Michigan Ave southsidecommunityartcenter.com

Alternate Reality: A Pervasive Play Project / SHA XIN WEI, experimental phenomenologist (Montreal) / PATRICK JAGODA, prof of English > Never The Same / DANIEL TUCKER, artist & activist (Chicago) / REBECCA ZORACH, prof of Art History > Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera / GEORGE LEWIS, composer & scholar (NYC) / SEAN GRIFFIN, composer & director of Opera Povera (LA) / CATHERINE SULLIVAN, film & theater artist & prof of Visual Arts > Tell Me the Truth / CHASE JOYNT, filmmaker, performer & writer (Toronto) / KRISTEN SCHILT, prof of Sociology > The Good Book Extended / The COURT THEATRE / DENIS O’HARE, actor & playwright (NYC) / LISA PETERSON, director & playwright (NYC) / MARGARET MITCHELL, Dean of the Divinity School > The Physics and Aesthetics of Light / JAMES CARPENTER, architect (NYC) / SIDNEY NAGEL, prof of Physics > Lines of Transmission: Comics and Autobiography / ALISON BECHDEL, graphic novelist (VT) / HILLARY CHUTE, prof of English > Staging the Invisible / CLAUDIA LAVISTA, choreographer / DELFOS DANZA (Mazatlan) / SHULAMIT RAN & AUGUSTA READ THOMAS, profs of composition > What is Sculpture? / ANNE WAGNER, curator (London) / JESSICA STOCKHOLDER, artist & prof of Visual Arts

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This guide provides a list of highlights for the winter season, January–March 2014. For a complete list of events and exhibitions, visit arts.uchicago.edu.

Need a recommendation for lunch? Want to know more about events and activities? Stop by any one of our information centers to find out which tours, cafés, or museums are best suited for your time on campus or go to visit.uchicago.edu.

LOCATIONS See pages 16-17 for a map of over 20 arts locations on or near our southside campus.

TICKETS Learn about and buy tickets for arts events and performances at the University of Chicago through the UChicago Arts Box Office online, in person, and over the phone. To purchase tickets for Court Theatre, visit courttheatre.org or call 773-753-4472.

Box Office URL ticketsweb.uchicago.edu Address Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E 60th St (south entrance) Chicago, IL 60637

Walk-up Hours Tue–Sat, 12 pm–6 pm (later on show nights) Sun–Mon Closed Phone 773.702.ARTS (2787)

Information Center Edward H. Levi Hall 5801 S Ellis Ave, Suite 120 Chicago, IL 60637

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E 60th St (at Drexel Ave) Chicago, IL 60637 773.702.ARTS (2787)

ACCESSIBILITY Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in events should contact the event sponsor for assistance. Visit answers.uchicago.edu/19772 for information on Assistive Listening Devices.

ACCOMMODATIONS Located in the heart of Hyde Park’s new Harper Court development, Hyatt Place (5225 S Harper Ave) is a LEEDcertified, six-story hotel with contemporary amenities including a cafe bar, indoor pool, fitness facility, and easily accessible and affordable valet parking. Visit chicagosouthuniversity.place.hyatt.com or call 773-752-5300.

TRANSPORTATION Getting to the University of Chicago is just a quick car, bike, train, or bus ride away. For more detailed transportation information go to visit.uchicago.edu.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) The CTA is Chicago’s public transportation system, offering a large network of buses, elevated trains, and subways around the city. Take the 2, 4, 6, or X28 bus from downtown Chicago or take the Red or Green Line train toward the Garfield/55th stop and transfer to the 55 Garfield bus. Fares are $2.25 per ride. >> TIP Download Transloc Transit Visualization, the real-time bus location and arrival app, uchicago.transloc.com.

Metra Train The Metra Electric District Line commuter rail runs from the downtown Millennium Station hub at Randolph & Michigan to University Park, IL. Exit at either the 55th-56th-57th or 59th/ University stops at UChicago. Visit metrarail.com for fares, timetables, and other details.

PARKING Limited street parking is available around campus.

Parking Garages The preferred visitor garage is located at 55th St and Ellis Ave. An additional parking garage can be found at 6054 S Drexel Ave, near the Logan Center for the Arts, open to non-permit holders after 9am.

Visitors may park at the Medical Campus parking garage, three blocks west at 59th St and Maryland Ave.

Parking Lot Wells Lot, located at 60th St and Drexel Ave, is free after 4pm and all day on weekends.

BIKING Bike racks can be found at various locations on campus. All CTA buses are equipped with bike racks, and Metra allows bikes on trains with some limitations.

Chicago’s Divvy Bike system has many new and upcoming stations in and around Hyde Park. The 24-hour bike pass will provide you with unlimited rides for up to 30 minutes.

Find more information and a full map of Chicago stations at divvybikes.com.

The Bike Center at 53rd St and Lake Park Ave hosts rentals, repairs, bike parking, as well as showers and lockers. You can find more information about bike tours and rentals at choosechicago.org.

CABS & CAR SHARES You can find cabs in front of the DCAM at the corner of Maryland Ave and E 58th St, or you can order one online or over the phone.

Chicago Private Car (black sedans booked in advance, usually cost 15 percent more): 773.594.9021 Flash Cab: 773.561.4444 or taxiwithus.com i-Go Car Sharing: 773.278.4446 or igocars.org Uber Private Car (Standard taxis, private cars, and SUVs on demand only. Pay via smartphone app, no cash needed): uber.com Yellow Cab: 312.829.4222 or yellowcabchicago.com ZipCar: 866.4ZIPCAR (866.494.7227) or zipcar.com

The Arts|Science Initiative cultivates, promotes, and sustains dialogue between artistic and scientific forms of inquiry through active exchange. At the heart of this initiative is a commitment to bring together voices from diverse disciplines to explore new modes of production and investigation around common themes.

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Supporting independent cross-disciplinary research between students in the arts and the sciences for joint projects.

Encouraging dialogue and facilitating collaborative research projects among UChicago faculty.

Office at the Logan Center 915 E 60th St, Chicago IL 60637

Programs & Events The Cabinet Series Pop-up labs Visiting artists and scholars Exhibitions, seminars and workshops

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ENVISIONING CHINA

A FESTIVAL OF ARTS & CULTURE FEB–JUNE 2014

UChicago Arts presents a diverse selection of art, film, music, conversations, and performances connected to the arts and cultural history of China. From the magnificent art and spectacle of Chinese opera to rarely screened silent films and world premiere performances, the festival opens a window on the rich cultural heritage of China, past and present.

OPENING CELEBRATION

VISUAL ARTS EVENTS

At the Threshold Feb 13, 5–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art Free admission See page 12

Lecture: Universal Brotherhood Revisited: China, the Working Classes, and Visual Culture in and Around the Great Exhibition in London, 1851 Feb 27, 4:30pm Classics Building Free See page 12

EXHIBITIONS Hung Liu: Crane and Butterfly Ongoing The University of Chicago Center in Beijing Free

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Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture Feb 13–Jun 15 Smart Museum of Art Free See page 10 Inspired by the Opera: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video Feb 13–Jun 15 Smart Museum of Art Free See page 9 Silk Road and Indian Ocean Traders: Connecting China and the Middle East Feb 18–Jun 29 Oriental Institute Museum Admission free; donation suggested See page 9 Yang Fudong Feb 28–Mar 30 Logan Center for the Arts Free See page 10

Reception: Yang Fudong Feb 28, 6pm Logan Center for the Arts Free See page 12 Gallery Talk: Drama, Gardens, and Printing Culture with Isabel Wong Mar 14, 12pm Smart Museum of Art Free See page 14 Third Thursday: Bowling and Spooning Mar 20, 5:30–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art Free See page 14 Symposium: Chinese Opera in Visual and Material Culture Apr 10–12 The University of Chicago Free Curator Talk: Silk Road and Indian Ocean Traders May 1, 12:15–1pm Oriental Institute Museum Free Conference: Refiguring Chinese Religious Art: Buddhist Devotion and Funerary Practice May 16–17 Franke Institute for the Humanities Free

Ancient Trade Routes: Exploring Art and Innovation Along the Silk Road and Beyond May 31, 9:30am–2pm Oriental Institute Museum and Smart Museum of Art Free, pre-registration required Curator Tour: Performing Images Jun 7, 12pm Smart Museum of Art Free, pre-registration recommended

FILM Hong Kong Master: The Innovative Kung Fu of Lau Kar-leung Tuesdays, Jan 7–Mar 11, 7pm Max Palevsky Cinema $5 See page 18 Chinese Opera Film Series Mar 7, 7pm; Apr 6, 2pm; May 3, 7pm; May 16, 7pm Logan Center for the Arts Free See page 20

MUSIC Chinese New Year Gala Feb 2, 4-7:30pm International House General $10 See page 27 Contempo: Myth and Awakening Feb 4, 7:30 pm Logan Center for the Arts General $25 / student $5 See page 23 New Music Ensemble Feb 15, 8pm Logan Center for the Arts Free See page 23 Third Coast Percussion Feb 21, 7:30pm Logan Center for the Arts General $25 / student $5 See page 24

The Five Elements Project: Water Apr 27, 3–4pm Logan Center for the Arts General $10 / student $5 Shanghai Quartet May 2, 7:30pm Mandel Hall General $35 / student $5 Pipa Recital: Lan Weiwei Jun 1, 2pm Smart Museum of Art Free

THEATER Peking Opera Selections Apr 12, 7:30pm Logan Center for the Arts Performance Hall General $20 / student $10 M. Butterfly May 8–Jun 8 Court Theatre $15–65

FAMILY Family Day: Domino Throwdown Mar 1, 1–4pm Smart Museum of Art Free See page 30 Logan Center Family Saturdays: Eth-Noh-Tec Storytellers Mar 22, 2–3pm Logan Center for the Arts Adults $10 / children under 17 $5 See page 30 Family Day: About Face May 3, 1–4pm Smart Museum of Art Free Family Day: Shadow Stories– Folklore and Puppetry Jun 7, 1–4pm Oriental Institute Museum and Smart Museum of Art Free, pre-registration recommended

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EXHIBITIONS & VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITIONS Power and Legacy: The Cyrus Cylinder and Persian Expressions of Kingship Through Feb 2 The Oriental Institute Museum

Black Power! In Tribute to Fred Hampton Through Jan 21 Arts Incubator, Gallery French artist collective LFKs-Marseille presents an exhibition inspired by the Black Panther Party and the Black Power Movement of the 1960-1970s, in tribute to Illinois Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton. Free Presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, France Chicago Center, Arts + Public Life, Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago Office of the VP for Civic Engagement, Center for International Studies, Norman Waite Harris Fund, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Film Studies Center, UChicago Arts, Office of the Reynolds Club and Student Activities, Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and University of Chicago Urban Network

The Fifth Dimension Through Feb 16 Logan Center Gallery An exhibition which unfolds over time involving a diverse group of international artists, including Tauba Auerbach, Karl Holmqvist, Iman Issa, Ika Knežević, Geof Oppenheimer, Lili Reynaud Dewar, and Pieter Vermeersch.

Nora Schultz: parrottree-building for bigger than real Through Feb 23 The Renaissance Society This winter the Renaissance Society will present a solo exhibition of new work by Berlin-based artist Nora Schultz. This is Schultz’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, as well as the first show curated at the Renaissance Society by new Chief Curator and Executive Director, Solveig Øvstebø. Schultz produces sculptural installations that double as analog printing studios. Her primary materials are discarded objects scavenged from around her studio and the site of exhibition, often in the form of metal bars and sheets, grates, tubes, plastics, etc. Schultz repurposes this refuse into sculptural objects, as well as contact printing devices, stencils, and even simple rotary presses with which she prints (often as public performance) abstractions scaled from the intimate to the monumental, exhibited individually or in accumulating heaps. Deeply engaged with material and process, Schultz’s installations are themselves, at times, engines of ongoing artistic creation. Free Presented by the Renaissance Society.

Judy Ledgerwood: Chromatic Patterns for the Smart Museum Through Jul 20 Smart Museum of Art Chicago-based artist Judy Ledgerwood creates an immense, site-specific wall painting comprised of horizontal bands of boldly colored patterns that run across the large central wall in the Smart’s lobby. While Chromatic Patterns will be hand-painted in tempera directly on the wall, it will, in the artist’s words, “hang tapestry-like” with drooping and irregular edges that assert the primacy of the painting over the clean lines and modernist architecture of the space.

Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art

Photos by Jason Reblando pose the question, how much of the past lives on today? This series of 24 tintype portraits reveals that many of today’s professions originated in the “Cradle of Civilization” – the ancient Middle East – thousands of years ago. Reblando’s images pair an artifact that documents the origins of a specific profession with a person who, millenniums later, pursues and advances that same job. These surprising connections are vivid reminders of the intelligence, resourcefulness, and inventiveness of our ancestors. Free, donations requested.

Presented by the Oriental Institute

Super Metroid, the 20th Anniversary Jan–Mar 2014 Regenstein Library, 3rd Floor What’s in a game? Explore the anatomy of one of the highest-rated video games of all time, from music to movement, in this mini-exhibit. Free Presented by the University of Chicago Library

Inspired by the Opera: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video Feb 13–Jun 15 Smart Museum of Art Since the mid 1990s, a number of Chinese artists have incorporated the visual vocabulary of Chinese opera into new art forms. This concise exhibition reveals the continued relevance of opera within contemporary Chinese society and the experimental work of individual artists Liu Wei, Chen Qiulin, Liu Zheng, and Cui Xiuwen. Together, the works help illuminate the relationship between contemporary art and China’s cultural heritage. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art

Silk Road and Indian Ocean Traders: Connecting China and the Middle East Mini-Exhibit Feb 18–Jun 29 The Oriental Institute Museum This mini-exhibit uses the Oriental Institute’s collections to highlight trade connections over land and sea between China and the Middle East, primarily the Silk Road trade route and Indian Ocean maritime trade. It focuses on

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This mini-exhibit composed of coins, seals, an inscribed cylinder of King Nebuchadnezzar II, and a replica of the famed Cyrus Cylinder (the original of which is in the British Museum), shows how, after his capture of Babylon in 539 BC, King Cyrus of Persia expressed his kingship in a Babylonian setting and presented himself as that city’s legitimate ruler and how he used words and images to portray his rule across the Persian empire. The replica of the Cyrus Cylinder was recently donated to the Oriental Institute by the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America. Free, donations requested Presented by the Oriental Institute

The exhibition is not about the fifth dimension, it is the fifth dimension. Or rather, as there is no consensus on the definition of this realm, the exhibition (like the course taught in parallel to it) is a mutating proposition on what the fifth dimension could be. Free Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions

Our Work: Modern Jobs– Ancient Origins Through Feb 23 The Oriental Institute Museum

Chinese ceramics found in archaeological excavations throughout the Middle East, and shows how Chinese inventions inspired craft traditions in the Middle East, particularly the production of silk and paper. Free, donations requested Presented by the Oriental Institute

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Yang Fudong Feb 28–Mar 30 Logan Center Gallery A focused selection of video works spanning the more than 20-year career of one of China’s most iconic film-based artists, featuring Fudong’s poignant, multi-channel meditation on his place of birth, East of Que Village (2007). An objective if fractured depiction of an isolated village in rural Hebei, populated mostly by wild dogs, this work presents a contrast to the image of beautiful and urbane Chinese youth, which have come to define Yang Fudong’s films. While these characters still appear in the exhibition, in rarely seen singlechannel works, the overall presentation aims to present the complexity of the artist’s vision of contemporary Chinese culture. Co-curated by Wu Hung and Monika Szewczyk. Free Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions

Teen Paranormal Romance Mar 9–Apr 13 The Renaissance Society Featuring Kathryn Andrews, Ed Atkins, Chris Bradley, Roe Ethridge, Guyton/Walker, Anna K.E., and Jack Lavender. Within popular culture, expression given to adolescent drives has only intensified as the genre of Teen Romance has been distilled and repackaged as Teen Paranormal Romance. Twilight, The Hunger Games, True Blood, and the Divergent Trilogy are also dystopic, psychosexual cyphers for the panoply of Obama-era ideological positions from revanchist religious, economic, and sexual politics to Libertarian fever-dream apocalypticism. This exhibition samples artistic production in the wake of a zeitgeist that has rendered the unconscious a derelict playground home to weeds of surrealism. Free Presented by the Renaissance Society

EVENTS Curator Tour: State of Mind Sun, Jan 12, 2pm Smart Museum of Art Join co-curator Constance Lewallen for a closing-day tour of State of Mind. The tour will cover the development of the exhibition—the first comprehensive survey of conceptual art in California—as well as several of its landmark works. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art Nora Schultz Opening Reception & Artist Talk Sun, Jan 12, 4-7pm; 5pm artist talk The Renaissance Society A reception for Nora Schultz’s parrottreebuilding for bigger than real, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Features an Artist Talk at 5pm in Kent Hall Room 120. Free Presented by the Renaissance Society.

Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture Feb 13–Jun 15 Smart Museum of Art During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), opera was at the heart of Chinese social life, from the village to the court, and the spectacle of theater was found not only on the stage—in costumes, props, and face painting—but also across the full spectrum of Chinese visual culture, from scroll paintings to popular prints. This one-of-a-kind exhibition showcases how operatic characters and stories were represented in a wide array of media. Featuring approximately 80 remarkable and rarely seen objects, the exhibition reveals how Chinese visual and performing traditions were aesthetically, ritually, and commercially intertwined. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art

Artists Encounter: The Fifth Dimension Wed, Jan 15, 5pm Logan Center Gallery A conversation with Iman Issa, Geof Oppenheimer and Ika Knezevic on their participation in the exhibition and other frameworks for their practice. Free Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions Third Thursday: Draw Bad Thu, Jan 16, 5–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art Learn how to “draw badly” and experience how a consciously crude approach to drawing can help some artists find different aesthetic opportunities or truths about the human condition. The activities are inspired by the exhibition Interiors and Exteriors. All materials provided. Open to adults of all skill levels.

Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art

Imaging/Imagining: The Body as Data Mar 25–Jun 20 The John Crerar Library, Atrium, 5730 S Ellis Ave Imaging/Imagining: The Body as Text Mar 25–Jun 20 Regenstein Library, Special Collections Research Center Imaging/Imagining: The Body in Art Mar 25–Jun 15 Smart Museum of Art Organized by three physicians at the University of Chicago, these concurrent exhibitions explore intersections and contrasts between imaginative artistic depictions of the human body and the more literal imaging of the body or parts of the body created in anatomy and medicine. Free Presented by The John Crerar Library, the Special Collections Research Center, and the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with the Arts|Science Initiative Gallery Walk-Through with Hamza Walker Sat, Jan 18, 12pm and Wed, Jan 29, 6pm The Renaissance Society Associate Curator and Director of Education Hamza Walker will lead a walk-through of The Renaissance Society’s current exhibition, Nora Schultz’s parrottree - building for bigger than real. This is the Berlin-based artist’s first institutional exhibition in the United States.

Free Presented by the Renaissance Society

Artists Talk: The Fifth Dimension Thu, Jan 23, 6pm Logan Center, Seminar Terrace Room A conversation with participating artists Iman Issa, Ika Knežević, and Geof Oppenheimer Free Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions Outside the Lines Thursdays, Jan 23, Feb 6, Feb 20, Mar 6, 6–9pm Café Logan Join Outside the Lines every other Thursday at the Logan Café for free-form art-making in a casual setting. Whether you’re an idle doodler, an amateur origamist, or have enough expertise to out-sketch DaVinci, the Logan Center welcomes you to indulge in a little cathartic creative time. Sessions are informal and unstructured, so drop in for some solo drawing, get crafty with a group of friends, or improve your skills with

Rebecca Morris Mon, Feb 10, 5pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse

Michael Portnoy Mon, Jan 13, 5pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse

the help of Outside the Lines, UChicago’s student drawing organization. Basic art supplies provided, all skill levels welcome.

Free Presented by Outside the Lines and the Logan Center Sketching in the Galleries Sun, Jan 26, 2–4pm The Oriental Institute Museum Led by practicing Chicago-based artist Vesna Jovanovic, students gain new artistic skills in visual composition using assemblages of artifacts from the Henrietta Herbolsheimer, M.D., SyroAnatolian Gallery. No prior art experience is necessary. For ages 16 and older. Bring your own supplies. A supply list will be sent upon registration. Visit orientalinstitute. eventbrite.com to register (required).

Members $20 / non-members $25 Presented by the Oriental Institute Lunchtime Traveler Series Thu, Feb 6, 12:15–1pm Oriental Institute Museum Join Jack Green, PhD, Chief Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum, for a tour of the special photography exhibit Our Work: Modern Jobs–Ancient Origins. The tour will explore relationships between past and present professions through selected ancient objects from Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the modern personal stories of the portrait subjects. We will meet in the Marshall and Doris Holleb Family Special Exhibit Gallery. Free Presented by the Oriental Institute Museum

Barry Schwabsky Tue, Feb 11, 12:30pm Logan Center, Seminar Terrace Room 801 Barry Schwabsky is the art critic of The Nation and co-editor of International Reviews for Artforum. His essays have appeared in many other publications, including Flash Art (Milan), Artforum, the London Review of Books and Art in America. His books include The Widening Circle: Con­sequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting and several volumes of poetry, the most recent being Book Left Open in the Rain (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail). Schwabsky has

Epic Wednesday: BC—Before Chocolate Wed, Feb 12, 5–8pm Oriental Institute Museum Want to make your mid-week Epic? This new 21+ evening event offers visitors an alternative opportunity to experience the Museum with unique entertainment and engaging hands-on activities that connect visitors with the collections and research of the Oriental Institute. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Oriental Institute— chocolate provided while supplies last. Visit orientalinstitute.eventbrite.com to register (required). Members $12 / non-members $15 Presented by the Oriental Institute CAA 2014 Keynote: Jessica Stockholder Feb 12, 5:30–7:30pm Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor, Grand Ballroom (720 S Michigan Ave) Artist Jessica Stockholder, chair of UChicago’s Department of Visual Arts, will

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Michael Portnoy is a New York-based artist, musician, and writer. His practice spans dance-theatre, vocal power-tools, Relational Stalinism, reptangles, experimental stand-up, prog-operatic spectacle, abstract gambling, the improvement of biennials, and Icelandic cockroach porn. Portnoy’s art circles the rules of play and communication, with language itself playing a crucial role.

He has presented internationally in many museums, art galleries, theatres, and music halls, including, dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (2012). His first book, Script Opposition in Late-Model Carrot Jokes (Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp) was published in 2011. Free Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and the Open Practice Committee

Artist Rebecca Morris is Professor of Painting at Pasadena City College, and author of Manifesto: For Abstractionists and Friends of the Non-Objective. Morris is represented by Galerie Barbara Weiss in Berlin, Germany, and Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago. Morris has been included in numerous group shows including the upcoming 2014 Whitney Biennale and has had many solo exhibitions around the world. Morris has received several prestigious awards including a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship. Free Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and the Open Practice Committee

contributed to books and catalogs on artists such as Henri Matisse, Alighiero Boetti, Jessica Stockholder, and Gillian Wearing. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, New York University, Goldsmiths College (University of London) and Yale University. His most recent book, Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, was published

by Sternberg Press in 2013. Free Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and the Open Practice Committee

deliver the keynote address at the College Art Association’s 102nd annual conference, happening Feb 12–15 in the Loop.

Registration for the conference is required, but the keynote is free and open to the public. Visit conference.collegeart.org/2014/ for details.

Free Presented by the College Art Association

Logan Center Gallery through Feb 16. Free Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions and Open Practice Committee

At the Threshold Thu, Feb 13, 5–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art

Learn how to unmake texts and turn paintings into pliable textiles and back again. The activities are inspired by the work of Simon Hantaï and the Situationist texts found in the exhibition Interiors and Exteriors. All materials provided. Open to adults of all skill levels. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art

Celebrate the launch of the Envisioning China festival. The evening features creative experiences organized by Matt Austin, artist and Smart Museum interpreter in residence, as well as drinks, music, and conversation inspired by Chinese opera. Cash bar ($4 drinks for 21+). Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art Conversation in the gallery with Lisa Lee Sun, Feb 16, 3pm The Renaissance Society

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Harper Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities Department of Art History, the University of Chicago. Free Presented by the Renaissance Society.

Lili Reynaud Dewar Mon, Feb 17, 5pm Logan Center, Seminar Terrace Room Performance-based artist Lili Reynaud Dewar has delved into the lives of other artists, such as the iconic persona of Sun Ra, to cultivate her research-rich work.

Dance, sculpture and text form extravagant experiences and thoughtful meditations.

She is featured in The Fifth Dimension at the

Party: The Fifth Dimension Sat, Feb 15, 5:30pm Logan Center Gallery Featuring a performance by Karl Holmqvist, this festive event marks the culmination of an exhibition, which unfolds over time, involving a diverse group of international artists, including Tauba Auerbach, Karl Holmqvist, Iman Issa, Ika Knežević, Geof Oppenheimer, Lili Reynaud Dewar, and Pieter Vermeersch.

It also celebrates the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, following department head Jessica Stockholder’s keynote address for the 2014 College Art Association Conference, which wraps up on this date. Free Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions, the Open Practice Committee and the Department of Visual Art

Third Thursday: La Couleur Entre le Blanc Thu, Feb 20, 5–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art

Nora Schultz: Performance & Exhibition Catalogue Release Sun, Feb 23, 3pm The Renaissance Society Nora Schultz will return to the Renaissance Society for a performance on the final day of her exhibition, parrottree-building for bigger than real. Free Presented by the Renaissance Society

Universal Brotherhood Revisited: China, the Working Classes, and Visual Culture in and around the Great Exhibition in London, 1851 Thu, Feb 27, 4:30pm Classics 110 (1010 E 59th St) Patricia Sieber, Associate Professor in the Ohio State University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, presents this talk, which explores how one contributor to the China section of the “world fair” known as the Great Exhibition (1851), Peter Perring Thoms (1790–1855), printer, plebeian intellectual, former EIC employee in Macao, and literary translator from the Chinese, contested the triumphalist rhetoric of the British crown. In particular, Thoms redeployed the discourses of antiquarianism in China and in Britain respectively to create a transcultural solidarity among accomplished artisanartists East and West. Reception to follow.

Free Presented by the Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Reception: Yang Fudong Fri, Feb 28, 6–8pm Logan Center Gallery This reception marks the last weekend to see Logan Center Exhibitions’ Yang Fudong exhibition, a focused selection of video works spanning the more than 20-year career of one of China’s most iconic film-based artists.

Free Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions

Q&A WITH JUDITH ZEITLIN & WU HUNG

BY SUSIE ALLEN UChicago’s five-month Envisioning China festival will open with two Smart Museum exhibitions focused on Chinese opera.

Curated by Judith Zeitlin and Yuhang Li of the University of Wisconsin, Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture looks at the ways in which characters, stories, and images from opera were represented in other media during the Qing dynasty. A concurrent exhibition curated by Wu Hung, Inspired by the Opera: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video examines the influence of opera on contemporary Chinese art. As part of the festival, Wu is also co-curating an exhibition of contemporary artist Yang Fudong’s work with Logan Center visual arts program curator Monika Szewczyk.

Zeitlin, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Theater and Performance Studies, and Wu, the Harriet A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, discussed the traditions of Chinese opera, the connections between their two exhibitions, and what they hope visitors to the museum will learn.

What makes Chinese opera different from Western opera?

JZ: People argue if “opera” is really the right term. There are similarities and there are differences. Essentially, it’s a form of theater in which singing is the most important part.

Most characters sing most of the time. So to that extent, I feel opera is a good analogy.

The single most important thing to know about Chinese opera is the system of role types. The four main role types are the male lead, the female lead, the villain—it’s called

the “painted face” role in Peking opera—and the clown role. It’s not based on vocal range the way Western opera is, but you need a lot of specialized training to sing those parts.

Similarly, in Western opera, if you’re a soprano, you have certain kinds of training, there’s a certain kind of part composers write for sopranos, there’s a certain set of characteristics that are usually associated with sopranos. That’s another way I think Chinese and Western opera are similar.

Where I think it’s very different is the importance of movement.

Although Chinese opera can simply be sung in concert form or recital form, in its main form, actors have to be trained in all sorts of different movements. If you’re in a martial role or one of the painted face roles, you may have to do really extensive acrobatic training. If you are a female lead you may have to do a lot of very specialized gestures. There’s a lot of mime involved.

The other thing about Chinese opera that’s really different is that, until recently, there was no composer. Instead, there are systems of tunes or preexisting tunes that new lyrics are written for.

Professor Zeitlin, why were you interested in looking at the visual culture of opera in your portion of the exhibition?

JZ: By and large, if opera is represented at all in museum collections, it’s usually as opera costumes or they are treated as ethnographic objects, but not really centrally concerned with the role of theater.

Professor Wu, how did you get interested in the role of opera in Chinese contemporary art?

WH: I was inspired by Judith and Yuhang’s project. Because opera was so important in traditional Chinese visual culture, as their exhibition demonstrates, working with them, I began to think, “So what’s happened now? If opera was so important in traditional China, did it or does it just stop?” No one had connected traditional opera and contemporary Chinese art. I began to do some studies and look through artists’ work and think about this work from a different angle. I did see the connections between opera and contemporary art and for me it’s very interesting.

Did you think about how you could put your exhibitions into conversation with one another?

WH: Very much. In terms of space, people see Judith’s exhibition first—it’s almost like walking from history to the present. There are some contemporary artists that use images and stories from the main exhibition. We did collaborate when thinking about those themes and connections. They are not a single show, but they are complementary. I hope they can create dynamic interactions through the idea of art, theater, and performance.

What do you hope viewers will take away from the exhibitions?

JZ: I hope they understand how important opera has been in Chinese history since it came into being as a full-fledged art form in the tenth century. There are so many stories that are basic to Chinese culture and even today everybody knows them.

WH: This topic helped me to think about the connection between contemporary art and China’s traditional cultural heritage. There is tension, because contemporary art always reacts to the past; at the same time, this art grew in that environment, that’s their language. I hope the audience can see this work as contemporary expression, but also see the connection of these artists to their cultural history and cultural environment.

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I had been using illustrations of plays in my own research, and I was struck by how many different media opera was represented in. That led me to pursue other places that images from opera were being in the late imperial period. I was really attracted to them because they’re so vibrant—they’re really exciting. It allows you to deal with popular materials and court materials and literati materials. It gives you a really good angle to approach Chinese culture.

Lunchtime Traveler Series Thu, Mar 6, 12:15–1pm Oriental Institute Museum

Screening: Has The Film Already Started?

Fri, Jan 31, 5:30pm Logan Center, Screening Room

Join Emily Teeter, PhD, Egyptologist and Research Associate of the Oriental Institute Museum, for a discussion about one of the greatest architectural marvels in the world— the Egyptian pyramids. Teeter will use objects in the Museum’s collection to illustrate this infamous time in Egyptian history. Free Presented by the Oriental Institute Museum

Maurice Lemaître’s three-dimensional film performance asks the audience to consider when exactly a film screening starts and ends by separating the elements of light, sound, projection, and spectators. Just as 1950s Parisian Lettrism sought to bring the spirit of debate and public participation to the cinéclubs, theaters, and even streets of France through the cinema, this film invites viewers to interact with one another and the projection on screen. (Maurice Lemaître, Le Film est déjà commencé?,1951, 16mm, 62 min) Free Presented by the Film Studies Center

Opening Reception: Teen Paranormal Romance Sun, Mar 9, 4–7pm The Renaissance Society Open reception for exhibition featuring artists Kathryn Andrews, Ed Atkins, Chris Bradley, Roe Ethridge, Guyton/Walker, Anna K.E., and Jack Lavender. Free Presented by the Renaissance Society

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Gallery Talk: Drama, Gardens, and Printing Culture Fri, Mar 14, 12pm Smart Museum of Art Isabel Wong leads an insightful gallery talk through Performing Images, discussing the Chinese musical drama and its profound influence on Chinese society. Isabel Wong is an ethnomusicologist and assistant professor of music, emerita, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The conversation will continue over a provided lunch in the Smart’s lobby. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art Third Thursday: Bowling and Spooning Thu, Mar 20, 5:30–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art Using the intricately carved and finely painted objects on view in Performing Images as a guide, carve and decorate your own utensils and bowls with representations of the modern-day equivalent of Chinese opera stars (aka your favorite celebrities). All materials provided. Open to adults of all skill levels. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art Two-Day Mosaic-Making Workshop Sat, Mar 22 and Sun, Mar 23, 1–5pm Oriental Institute Museum Join artists from the Chicago Mosaic School, the first and only mosaic art school in North America, to learn about this art form with roots in the ancient world. Students will create their motif project using design inspiration from the Oriental Institute’s collections.

The workshop includes a special guided tour of the museum. No prior experience is necessary. All supplies are provided. Visit orientalinstitute.eventbrite.com to register (required). Members $157 / non-members $175 Presented by the Oriental Institute

Interiors and Exteriors: Avant-Garde Itineraries in Postwar France A series of programs including a colloquium, film screenings, lectures and related events have been organized in conjunction with this Smart Museum exhibition, curated by Jennifer Cohen and Marin Sarvé-Tarr, PhD students in Art History at the University of Chicago, in consultation with Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Associate Director of Academic Initiatives.

Interiors and Exteriors: Avant-Garde Itineraries in Postwar France Through Mar 16 Smart Museum of Art This exhibition traces the relationship between the emerging generation of avantgarde movements in 1950s France and the surrealist movement, re-established in Paris after World War II. The social milieu of the Left Bank offered rich material for artists to map social and psychological experience by tracing quotidian itineraries and social interactions. These contesting visions of the relationship between interior and exterior life in art represent a tense exploration of the location of the personal and the political within reconstruction-era France. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art Get Lost! Avant-Garde Itineraries at the University of Chicago Thu, Jan 23, 5–8pm Logan Center and Smart Museum of Art Take part in an evening of Surrealist-inspired wandering activities. The dérive (drift) across campus begins at the Logan Center with a brief talk by Interiors and Exteriors curators Jennifer Cohen and Marin Sarvé-Tarr and ends at the Smart Museum with a Surrealistthemed reception. Dress warmly and bring your phone or digital camera to document and share your unique trajectory across campus. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art

Lecture: Simon Hantaï and the Remains of Painting Thu, Feb 20, 4:30pm Cochrane-Woods Art Center, room 157 Molly Warnock, Assistant Professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver a public lecture entitled “Simon Hantaï and the Remains of Painting” as part of the Smart Lecture Series, supported by the Smart Family Foundation. Free Presented by the Department of Art History Colloquium: Avant-Garde Itineraries in Postwar France Fri, Feb 21, 9am–5pm Cochrane-Woods Art Center, room 157 Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Interiors and Exteriors at the Smart, this international colloquium examines the relationship between the emerging generation of avant-garde movements in 1950s France and the Surrealist movement, re-established in Paris after World War II. Tom McDonough delivers the keynote lecture “From Hunger Strike to Human Strike.” Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, the France Chicago Center, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Norman Wait Harris Fund, and the Uncommon Fund at the University of Chicago Lecture: Off Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde Tue, Mar 4, 4:30pm Cochrane-Woods Art Center, room 157 Kaira Cabañas, visiting professor from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, will deliver a public lecture exploring Isidore Isou’s and Maurice Lemaître’s films in relation to the ciné-club tradition, a popular educational venue for learning about film.

She analyzes how ciné-club debate became a primary material for Lettrist films both on and off the screen. The talk stems from her book Off Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in 2014. Free Presented by the Department of Art History

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On Grace A work-in-progress play by Anna Deavere Smith and cellist Joshua Roman Mon, Jan 13, 2014 / 7 pm ON GRACE & POLITICS: A CONVERSATION WITH ANNA DEAVERE SMITH AND TONI PRECKWINKLE Moderated by David Axelrod Logan Center, Performance Hall (915 E 60th St) FREE, reservations recommended graceandpolitics.eventbrite.com.

Presented by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, and UChicago Arts

Tue, Jan 21, 2014 / 7:30 pm CONVERSATION ON GRACE including a work-in-progress performance of On Grace, directed by Leonard Foglia Harris Theater (205 E Randolph St) TICKETS $25 general / $10 students harristheaterchicago.org or 312.334.7777

On Grace commissioned by Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

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In a preview of their Chicago première of Augusta Read Thomas’ Resounding Earth at the Logan Center, Third Coast Percussion presents two excerpts from Thomas’ work and three other selections as part of a special Sunday morning service, featuring Augusta Read Thomas discussing the spiritually uplifting and riveting sounds of bells as music for the soul.

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Third Floor 18 The Renaissance Society Cobb Hall 5811 S. Ellis Ave. Fourth Floor renaissancesociety.org

19 Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. rockefeller.uchicago.edu 20 Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. smartmuseum.uchicago.edu 21 Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery The Joseph Regenstein Library 1100 E. 57th St. lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/exhibits

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FILM A Woman Rebels: Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s Mondays, Jan 6–Mar 10, 7pm Max Palevsky Cinema This series of films examines the problems of gender within the studio system as it traces the early career of the greatest female star in Hollywood history.

Jan 6 A Bill of Divorcement (1932); Jan 13 Morning Glory (1933); Jan 20 Little Women (1933); Jan 27 Alice Adams (1935); Feb 3 Sylvia Scarlett (1935); Feb 10 A Woman Rebels (1936); Feb 17 Stage Door (1937); Feb 24 Bringing Up Baby (1938); Mar 3 Holiday (1938); Mar 10 The Philadelphia Story (1940) General $5 Presented by Doc Films

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Hong Kong Master: The Innovative Kung Fu of Lau Kar-leung Tuesdays, Jan 7–Mar 11, 7pm Max Palevsky Cinema A 10-film series highlighting the important contributions of the recently deceased Lau to the martial arts genre. With boundless ingenuity, Lau (a.k.a. Liu Chia-liang) elevated the presentation of kung fu onscreen, treating it as a highly specialized art form and not just a tool for exacting revenge. Of all directors in the Shaw Brothers stable, he was the foremost innovator of the kung fu film, bringing out the humor latent in synchronized movement and filming action in wide shots that emphasized the actors’ athleticism. This series represents a rare opportunity to appreciate his intricate, impeccably timed choreography as a body of work and largely on 35mm, courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive.

Jan 7 Dirty Ho (1979) Introduction by film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky; Jan 14 Return to the 36th Chamber (1980); Jan 21 Drunken Master II (1994) Introduction by Anita Chan, Director of Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York; Jan 28 Delightful Forest (1972); Feb 4 Challenge of the Masters (1976); Feb 11 My Young Auntie (1981); Feb 18 Martial Club (1981); Feb 25 Cat vs. Rat (1982); Mar 4 Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985); Mar 11 Men from the Monastery (1974) General $5 Presented by Doc Films and Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in New York Neighboring Sights and Sounds: Contemporary Latin American Cinema Sundays, Jan 12–Mar 16, 7pm Max Palevsky Cinema A golden age of Latin American cinema may be upon us. This generation of filmmakers explores dreams and fantasies in the same breath as they probe the realities of class division and violence. The dialogue between

past and present is palpable in their films: literally, in their examination of recent history, and aesthetically, in their consumption and reinterpretation of European and American directors and Latin Boom literature. This series of films highlights some of the most unique voices to arise from the region.

Jan 12 Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Brazil 2010); Jan 19 Neighoring Sounds (Brazil, 2012); Jan 26 Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico, 2012); Feb 2 La Ciénaga (Argentina, 2001); Feb 9 Housemaids (Brazil, 2012); Feb 16 Y Tu Mama Tambien (Mexico, 2001); Feb 23 Liverpool (Argentina, 2008); Mar 2 Viola (Argentina, 2012); Mar 9 Silent Light (Mexico, 2007); Mar 16 The Maid (Chile, 2009) General $5 / Jan 19 Free Presented by Doc Films and the Center for Latin American Studies Recreating Pasargadae: Cyrus the Great’s Paradise Film Screening & Talk Sun, Jan 12, 2pm The Oriental Institute Museum Pasargadae was renowned for its welcoming atmosphere and its intentional absence of walls, gates, or forbidding fortifications. The architecture and layout reflected Cyrus’ belief in openness, approachability, and the idea that it is better to be loved for one’s ideals than feared for one’s sword. This documentary rebuilds this ancient city, allowing viewers to visualize the palaces and gardens at Pasargadae. Free Presented by the Oriental Institute Science on the Screen: How to Survive a Plague Fri, Jan 17, 6pm Logan Center, Screening Room How to Survive a Plague is an award-winning film about the inspiring young people who created the most powerful social movement of our time, saving their own lives and millions more. It tells the story of how AIDS went from a death sentence to a survivable disease.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Melissa Gillian, MD, MPH, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics; Judy Hoffman, Filmmaker and Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies; Harold Pollack, Helen Ross Professor of Social Service Administration; and Kristen Schilt, Assistant Professor in Sociology. RSVP at scienceonthescreen. uchicago.edu/content/rsvp. Free Presented by the Arts | Science Initiative, Office of the Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Interval: Recent Video Work by d. n. rodowick Fri, Jan 10, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room Known primarily for his work in philosophy and the visual arts, new Cinema and Media Studies faculty member D. N. Rodowick is also an accomplished experimental filmmaker, video artist and curator. Deeply influenced by filmmakers Ernie Gehr, Hollis Frampton, and Michael Snow, as well as minimalist composers Steve Reich and Terry Riley, Rodowick’s moving image works are primarily concerned with process and performance in ways that explore fluid relations between stillness and movement, figuration and abstraction. Many of the works are produced by setting into motion a series of formal parameters and then letting them play themselves out (almost) automatically in relation to randomizing elements. Although conceptual in nature, Rodowick’s moving image work embraces affect through its hypnotic rhythms and a haunting, painterly beauty. In an evening of screening and discussion, Rodowick will present digital works produced since 2010 and premiere several new works. Free Presented by the Film Studies Center The Coca Cola Kid Fri, Jan 24, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room Inspired by the short stories of Australian fiction writer Frank Moorhouse, The Coca Cola Kid is a romantic-comedy about the misadventures of a Coca-Cola Co. executive in Australia, who combines evangelical fervor with a military mindset aimed at colonizing the last corner of Coke-free Australia. Director Dušan Makavejev stated he wanted to make a ‘love poem to Kodak’ by rendering the ‘various hues of the Australian outback’ in the film, but more than this, the taste, color, and even sound of the actual beverage are employed in the film as mediums for communicating ideological notions of American values and unbridled consumerism. (Dušan Makavejev, 1985, 35 mm, 98 min.) Free Part one of a twopart series presented by the Film Studies Center in conjunction with the Department of Cinema and Media Studies 2014 Graduate Student Conference, The Silver Screen: Theories and Histories of Cinematic Color

The Caped Crusader and the Man Behind the Mask: Batman and Sam Hamm Fri, Jan 24, 7pm Max Palevsky Cinema Sam Hamm, a screenwriter of Tim Burton’s smash-hit film Batman (1989) will be on hand to field questions about the BatUniverse that he helped create. Eschewing the usual first-installment origin story, the film drops our hero (Michael Keaton) straight into a memorable confrontation with gangster-turned-supervillain The Joker (Jack Nicholson), who wages war on Gotham City with deadly laughing gas—and has an unexpected connection to Batman’s past.

Post-screening Q & A. General $5 Presented by Doc Films and First-Aid Comics Has The Film Already Started?

Fri, Jan 31, 5:30pm Logan Center, Screening Room In conjunction with the exhibition Interiors and Exteriors: Avant-Garde Itineraries in Postwar France. See page 14 for details.

Media Aesthetics, Media Meteorology: Balázs’ Atmospheres, Benjamin’s Clouds, McLuhan’s Temperatures– Lecture by Antonio Somaini Wed, Feb 5, 7pm Cobb Hall, Room 307

The Trials of Muhammad Ali with director Bill Siegel Fri, Feb 7, 7pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Prior to becoming the most recognizable face on earth, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and found himself in the crosshairs of conflicts concerning race, religion, and wartime dissent. In 1964, when the 22-year-old Olympic gold medalist won his first heavyweight championship, he shouted, “I shook up the world!” But his earthshaking had only begun. The Trials of Muhammad Ali delves deeply into a time when an emerging sports superhero

Between Resistance and Compliance: The Ambivalent Bequest of the Theresienstadt “Ghetto” Films– Lecture by Natascha Drubek-Meyer Thu, Feb 20, 5–7:30pm Logan Center, Terrace Seminar Room More than 20 film items showing Central and Eastern European “ghettos” established

by Nazi occupiers in World War II exist, but this highly sensitive and varied footage has not been studied as a whole nor set within a historical perspective. This body of work varies from Wochenschau (Poland, September 1939) to the infamous Theresienstadt film (Bohemia, March 1945), which for decades circulated under the ironic yet unofficial title of The Führer Gives the Jews a City and displays the compliance of many “ghetto” inhabitants. Natascha Drubek-Meyer will present this last “ghetto” film alongside an earlier and little-known film on the Theresienstadt project as countervailing examples of compliance and resistance via film. Natascha Drubek-Meyer is Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Regensburg. She is co-editor of the series “Osteuropa Medial,” published by Böhlau, and the Film & Screen Media section of ARTMargins.com. Her book, Russisches Licht, was published in 2012. Free Presented by the Film Studies Center and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies

William Pope.L: The Long White Cloud Mon, Feb 24, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room A screening of Department of Visual Arts faculty member William Pope.L’s new film The Long White Cloud. Created as part of a larger project, Te Tuhi, on site in Auckland, New Zealand in 2013, the work is informed by a series of interrelated enquiries including an attempt to find solidarity between the national and the individual, a search for clarity in a ‘post-race’ culture as it supposedly exists in the U.S. and New Zealand today, to question what such a culture is and what it feels like.

It also explores the impossibility of truly connecting to another’s situation or history.

Free Presented by Open Practice Committee Woman with a movie camera, now and then (digital and analog): An Evening with Babette Mangolte Fri, Feb 28, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room “Finding the negative ghost image behind the film image is what filmmakers hope to do. How is it transformed when we look at color pixels?”

Featuring clips from her work, experimental filmmaker Babette Mangolte discusses her current project exploring new spectatorship

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Fri, Feb 21, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room Based on the famous children’s book by Ron and Judi Bartlett, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs animates the delectable world of Swallow Falls. The film follows the young scientist Flint Lockwood, who invents a powerful machine that accidentally turns rain into Jell-O and hail into gummy bears. The film’s landscape exploits the synaesthetic power of color to tap into taste, and leaves audiences salivating at the prospect of ice cream sundae slopes or hamburger hills and holding their guts as tomato tornadoes wreak repulsive havoc. (Chris Miller and Phil Lord, 2009, 3-D DCP, 90 min.) Free Presented by the Film Studies Center in conjunction with the Department of Cinema and Media Studies 2014 Graduate Student Conference, The Silver Screen: Theories and Histories of Cinematic Color.

FOTA Film Fest Sat, Feb 22, 5-7pm Logan Center, Screening Room FOTA collaborates with Fire Escape Films to put on a film festival. The catch? Each film group must incorporate five items out of a list of 15 items into their film. These items range from quotes to objects to actions. General $5 Presented by Festival of the Arts and Fire Escape Films

Film series: Death by Cinema Mondays, Jan 27–Feb 17, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room Programmed by artist and DOVA faculty member Karthik Pandian, Death by Cinema explores the relationship between human finitude and the medium of film. Each evening consists of a feature-length film or short film program addressing some dimension of mortality followed by a panel discussion with University faculty from Medicine, Cinema and Media Studies, Slavic Studies, Visual Arts, and Anthropology. Panelists include David Schutter, Tom Gunning, Malynne Sternstein, W.J.T. Mitchell, William Mazzarella, Monica Malec, and Jesse Soodalter.

Jan 27 Amour, Michael Haneke (2012, 127 min, 35mm); Feb 3 Death by Hanging, Nagisa Oshima (1968, 117 min, 35mm); Feb 10 The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, Stan Brakhage (1971, 32 min, 16mm) and The Common Task, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Information (2004, 58 min, DVD); Feb 12 Sirius Remembered, Stan Brakhage (1959, 11 min, 16mm); Feb 17 Taste of Cherry, Abbas Kiarostami (1997, 95 min, 35mm) Free Presented by the Arts Council Student Fund, the Arts | Science Initiative, and the Department of Visual Arts.

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What do we mean exactly by the term medium? This question has become particularly difficult to answer in an era in which media at times seem to have lost their connections to the objects, the materials, and the techniques that allowed us to distinguish them from one another. In an attempt to provide a new theoretical perspective to frame the question of what a medium is, Antonio Somaini (professor of Film Theory, Media Theory and Visual Culture Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3) will present and discuss the ideas of a series of authors who have conceived media in meteorological terms: as the atmospheres (Béla Balázs), the clouds (Benjamin), the temperatures (McLuhan) in which our aesthetic experience takes place. Free Presented by the Film Studies Center and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies

chooses faith and conscience over fame and fortune. (Bill Siegel, 2013, DCP, 94 min) Post-screening Q&A with director Bill Siegel.

Free Presented by the Film Studies Center

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modes for films and photography in gallery settings. Mangolte is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer, born in France and living in New York. Her most recent film, Edward Krasiński’s Studio, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2013. Recent installations include How to look… at the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennale in 2010 and Éloge du Vert at VOX in Montreal in 2013. Mangolte is also known for her photographic archive, which documents the experimental theater, dance and performance scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Free Presented by the Film Studies Center Pictures and Sounds Sat, Feb 15, 8pm Cobb Hall, Room 307 WHPK’s annual multimedia concert matches experimental performers, composers, and improvisers to film work of their choosing. This year, Maine-based artist Jason Lescalleet will present a new video series Trophy Tape, created by international artists to accompany select tracks from his Songs About Nothing album. Contributors include Aaron Dilloway, Annie Feldmeier Adam, Olivia Block, and C Spencer Yeh. The premiere screening of this series will be accompanied by a live video/ sound performance by Lescalleet. Top local acts from the vibrant Chicago experimental music scene will be featured as well. Free Presented by the Film Studies Center and WHPK

A Numerate Film History? Cinemetrics Looks at Griffith, Sennett and Chaplin (1909-1917) Sat, Mar 1, 1-6pm Cobb Hall, room 307 This one-day conference examines the possible promises—or traps—that emerge as a result of the encounter between century-old films and computational statistics. Featuring Professors Tom Gunning and Yuri Tsivian from Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and Neubauer Visiting Fellows Mike Baxter, Emeritus Professor of Statistical Archaeology at Nottingham Trent University and Daria Khitrova, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles. Free Presented by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies Charlemagne Palestine Videoworks Fri, Mar 14, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room

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Chicago, IL 60637 LOGAN CENTER 915 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637 artsandpubliclife artspubliclife arts.uchicago.edu/apl artsandpubliclife@uchicago.edu Image: Terry Adkins and Kamau Amu Patton perform as part of Lone Wolf Recital Corps for the Feedback exhibition.

Chinese Opera Film Series: Romance of the Western Chamber and Two Stars in the Milky Way with live accompaniment by Donald Sosin Fri, Mar 7, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room Romance of the Western Chamber (Xixiang Ji) is the first screen adaptation of a classical play of the same title from the Yuan Dynasty (1234-1368). One of the first films from the martial-arts-magic spirit genre cycle, it showcases a unique blend of operatic performances and cinematic inventions.

(Hou Yao, China, 1927, 35mm print courtesy of EYE International, 59 min). Showcasing Art Deco Shanghai in all its glory, Two Stars in the Milky Way plumbs the clash of social mores in 1920s China, as the demands of provincial life catch up with two modern lovers. (Tomsie Sze, China, 1931, 87 min.)

Both films feature a live score performed by leading silent film composer and pianist Donald Sosin. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art, Film Studies Center, and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies

A key figure in the history of Minimal music and video art, artist Charlemagne Palestine will present a selection of videos including his highly influential and visceral performance-based work from the mid-1970s. Born in Brooklyn, NY and currently based in Brussels, Belgium, Charlemagne Palestine has worked with artists including Simone Forti, Tony Conrad, Len Lye and Morton Subotnick. Known for his extended and physically demanding live performances, most notably 1974’s Strumming Music, Palestine created a body of ritualistic, performance-driven video works in the 1970s that investigate the performer’s body as a sonic instrument, movement and repetition, and the relationship between sound and psychological states of being.

This screening and discussion precedes a performance by Palestine at the Rockefeller Chapel on March 17, Palestine’s first appearances in Chicago since 1982’s New Music America. Free Presented by the Film Studies Center

LITERATURE Homer in Print: The Transmission and Reception of Homer’s Works Jan 13–Mar 15 Regenstein Library, Special Collections Research Center For nearly 3,000 years, the Homeric epics have been among the best-known and universally studied texts of Western civilization.

This exhibition illustrates what we can learn when we look beyond the stories to ask what sources went into shaping a particular edition or how the English translations differ from each other. Featuring early printed editions and translations, comic books, children’s books, and materials relating to the publication of Richmond Lattimore’s translation of the Iliad

by UChicago Press Free Presented by the University of Chicago Library

Hear student work at this weekly event. The format varies week to week, with readings, spoken word, open mics, slam competitions, and more. Free Presented by Catcher in the Rhyme and the Logan Center Dorothea Lasky, poet Thu, Jan 16, 6pm Cobb Hall, Room 409 (5811 S Ellis Ave) Dorothea Lasky has published three collections of poetry and several chapbooks including Poetry Is Not a Project. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, and American Poetry Review. Free Presented by the Renaissance Society and Poem Present Global Voices Author Lecture: Chris Abani & Luis Alberto Urrea Wed, Jan 22, 6–7:30pm International House, Home Room The authors read from and discuss their latest novels, Albani’s The Secret History of Las Vegas and Urrea’s The Queen of America.

Free Presented by International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores Reading by Alissa Nutting Thu, Jan 30, 6pm Midway Studios, room 108 Alissa Nutting will read from her controversial debut novel Tampa, which has been called

Chicago Humanities Forum: Haun Saussy on The Curious History of ‘Oral Literature’ Wed, Feb 12, 5:15–6pm Gleacher Center (450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr) UChicago Compararative Literature professor Haun Saussy presents a talk exploring oral literature. Oral literature—songs, stories, poems, jokes, epics—is presumably almost as old as human language, but interest in it is far younger. Saussy will examine when the nature of oral recitation and transmission becomes an important problem for philologists.

Free, RSVP by Feb 7 at 773.702.8274 or franke-humanities@uchicago.edu Sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Reading by William Fuller Thu, Feb 13, 6pm Midway Studios, room 108 William Fuller reads from his latest book, Quorum, a collection of vivid detours and deadpan visions arranged into forty-five sonnet-like poems. Part of the Ron Offen Poetry Prize Fund. Free Presented by the Program in Poetry and Poetics The Homeric Library: Translations, Editions, Commentaries Fri, Feb 14, 2014 Regenstein Library, room 122A–B Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Homer in Print, this colloquium will explore the paths through Homer’s poetry opened by UChicago Library’s Homer collection, stretching from the 15th century to the 21st. Free Presented by the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the University of Chicago Library Reading by David MacLean Thu, Feb 20, 6pm Midway Studios, room 108 David MacLean will read from his debut book The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia. MacLean grew up in Central Ohio and has worked on an assembly line in an auto plant, as a baker, as an organic

Rosanna Warren: Poetics Talk Fri, Jan 24, 1pm Midway Studios, room 108 Poet and UChicago professor Rosanna Warren will read a selection of her work including a new commission for the Reva Logan Poetry Series (Jan 23), and give a talk as part of the Poem Present Series (Jan 24). Her most recent books of poems are Departure and Ghost in a Red Hat. Free Presented by the Logan Center and the Program on Poetry & Poetics farmer, as a dishwasher, and as an outdoor educator. He has a PhD from the University of Houston, an MFA from New Mexico State University. Free Presented by the Committee on Creative Writing Alice Oswald Poetry Reading Fri, Feb 21, 6pm Logan Center, Seminar Terrace Room The author of Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad, called “luminous” by the New York Times Book Review, reads a selection of her poems. Free Presented by the Committee on Social Thought Arab Jewish Texts: Spring Conference Tue, Mar 4–Thu, Mar 6 Regenstein Library, room 122 A-B The conference will engage historians and literary scholars, novelists, and poets from the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East with the goal of publishing an anthology of translated and original works of literature.

Information at neubauercollegium.uchicago. edu Free Funded by the Neubauer Collegium with support from the Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Middle Eastern Studies Reading by D.T. Max Thu, Mar 6, 6pm Logan Center, Seminar Terrace Room Dedmon writer-in-residence D.T. Max will read from his New York Times bestselling book, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace. Max is a New Yorker staff writer and author of The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery.

Free Presented by the Committee on Creative Writing

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Catcher in the Rhyme Wednesdays, Jan 15–Mar 26, 7:30pm Café Logan

“a modern Lolita.” An assistant professor of creative writing at John Carroll University, Nutting is also the author of the awardwinning story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls. Free Presented by the Committee on Creative Writing

Rosanna Warren: Reva Logan Poetry Series Thu, Jan 23, 6pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse

MUSIC First Mondays Jazz Series Mondays, Jan 6–Mar 3, 7–9pm Arts Incubator, Second Floor Flex Space Hear Chicago musicians the first Monday of every month at the Arts Incubator. Reservations recommended: ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. Free Presented by Arts + Public Life Cello Master Class with visiting artist Joshua Roman Sat, Jan 11, 10am Logan Center, Performance Penthouse “A cellist of extraordinary technical and musical gifts…of imagination and expressive breadth,” visiting artist Joshua Roman will lead a master class as part of his three-week residency at the Logan Center. Open to the public. Free Presented by the Department of Music Pacifica Quartet, Don Michael Randel Ensemble-in-Residence Sun, Jan 12, 3pm, 2pm pre-concert lecture Logan Center, Performance Hall

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Performing works by Mozart, Shostakovich, and Brahms. Pre-concert lecture by Associate Professor Steven Rings. General admission $25 / $5 students Presented by University of Chicago Presents Motet Choir: A Winter Song Fri, Jan 17, 7:30pm Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Motet Choir sings a homecoming concert after their December tour of the East Coast.

Their program includes sacred and secular texts about winter and winter holidays, with music by Arvo Pärt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Edvard Grieg, Josquin des Prez, and contemporary composer Paul Crabtree. Free Presented by Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Anthony Pateras Sat, Jan 11, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Enjoy a performance by idiosyncratic pianist Anthony Peteras that fuses classical discipline, improvisation, and esoteric electronic research into a cohesive sonic whole. Free Presented by the Smart Museum and Lampo

Jazz Workshop with jazz composer Phillip Johnston Fri, Jan 24, 1pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Renowned saxophonist and composer leads an interactive workshop with jazz performers and UChicago composers. Free Presented by the Department of Music MLK Week 59th Street Jazz Concert featuring The Frank Walton—Yoron Israel Sextet Fri, Jan 24, 8–10pm International House, Assembly Hall An intimate evening of hot jazz featuring Frank Walton (trumpet) and his sextet—Yoron Israel (drums), Lance Bryant (tenor sax), Edwin Daughtery (alto sax), Avery Sharpe (bass), and Kevin Harris (piano) with special guest, percussionist Tony “Toca” Carpenter.

Refreshments available for purchase. Tickets at the door. General $20 / $10 UC students with ID Presented by International House 59th Street Jazz Series Inside the Composer’s Studio: A Musical Installation Sat, Jan 25, 7pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse UChicago graduate student composers trace brand new chamber music works from inception through performance. Featuring faculty members and guest musicians. Free Presented by the Department of Music 37th Season Chicago Ensemble Concert Series Sun, Jan 26, 3–5pm International House, Assembly Hall For more than 30 years, the Chicago Ensemble has brought a fascinating array of chamber works to Chicago audiences. Offering an innovative mix of familiar masterworks and lesser-known repertoire performed in varied combinations of instruments and voice, the Chicago Ensemble occupies a unique place in Chicago’s cultural life. General $25 / student $10/ free for I-House residents Presented by the International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series and The Chicago Ensemble Spektral Quartet: A Very Open Rehearsal Sun, Jan 26, 3pm Fulton Recital Hall A glimpse into the process of rehearsing a brand new piece of music. Audience participation encouraged! Free Presented by the Department of Music

Scandinavian Symphonic Sampler with VOX 3 Collective Tue, Jan 28, 7:30–9pm International House, Assembly Hall This Scandinavian Symphonic Sampler features the Lakeview Orchestra and its associate conductor Joshua Mather performing works from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Repertoire includes an 18thcentury Swedish sinfonia, Grieg’s Ludvig Holberg-inspired suite, and Nielsen’s Suite for Strings. Vocalists from VOX 3 Collective will present songs for piano and voice from these three Scandinavian countries prior to the concert. General $15; Free for I-House Residents Presented by International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series, the Chicago Community Trust, and the Swedish American Museum Piano Master Class with Ursula Oppens Thu, Jan 30, 7pm Fulton Recital Hall Renowned new music performer, recording artist, and champion of 20th century American composers Ursula Oppens leads a master class for UChicago pianists. Open to the public. Free Presented by the Department of Music Vocal Master Class with Tracy Watson Fri, Jan 31, 4:30pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Mezzo-soprano Tracy Watson, a prolific performer known for the depth and beauty of her voice as well as her interpretive skills, leads a master class for UChicago vocalists.

Open to the public. Free Presented by the Department of Music Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio Fri, Jan 31, 7:30pm, 6:30pm pre-concert lecture Mandel Hall Performing works by Beethoven, Verdi/ Liszt, Debussy, Kopytman, and Brahms.

Pre-concert lecture by Distinguished Service Professor Philip V. Bohlman. General admission $35 / $5 students Presented by University of Chicago Presents As Dreams Fall Apart: The New Budapest Orpheum Society at the Edge of History Sun, Feb 2, 3pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Ensemble-in-residence the New Budapest Orpheum Society members include Julia Bentley (mezzo soprano), Philip V. Bohlman (artistic director), Stewart Figa (baritone), Danny Howard (percussion), Iordanka Kissiova (violin), Ilya Levinson (music director and piano), Mark Sonksen (double bass), and Don Stille (accordion). Free Presented by the Department of Music

University Chamber Orchestra: Water Music Sat, Feb 8, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Program includes Handel’s Water Music Suite and Haydn’s Symphony No. 99. Free Presented by the Department of Music

University Symphony Orchestra with Tracy Watson, mezzosoprano: Symphonic Seascapes Sat, Feb 1, 8pm Mandel Hall University Symphony Orchestra plays Mendelssohn’s haunting Hebrides Overture; Elgar’s evocative Sea Pictures, with guest soloist Tracy Watson; and Frank Bridge’s luxuriant four-movement suite, The Sea. Suggested donation: General $10 / student $5 Presented by the Department of Music Contempo: Myth and Awakening Tue, Feb 4, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall

Dr. Rachael Gates: DeMystifying The Voice Fri, Feb 7, 4:30pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Vocal health specialist and guest lecturer Dr. Gates will cover topics from Anatomy through Z-packs in this practical, voices-on lecture.

Free Presented by the Department of Music Spektral Quartet: Counterpoint Fri, Feb 7, 8pm Fulton Recital Hall Ensemble-in-residence Spektral Quartet presents a program inspired by Shulamit Ran’s Bach Shards, plus selections by Beethoven, Ligeti, and J.S. Bach, with works

by Chicago composers Marcos Balter and Dave Reminick. General $10 / students free Presented by the Department of Music South Asian Sound Interventions: An Evening of Karnatak Music with Minu Pasupathi, vocalist Sat, Feb 8, 7pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Ragas and other vocal traditions drawn from South Asian classical repertoire, accompanied by musicians on mridangam and violin. Free Presented by the Department of Music

Music by Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois, and others, with a projected backdrop of illustrations and supertitle translations. For tickets visit tnc. tixato.com/buy. General $38 / students $5 Presented by the Department of Music Second Tuesday Jazz Series Tue, Feb 11 and Mar 11, 7:30-10pm Café Logan Hear Chicago jazz musicians, selected by the Hyde Park Jazz Society, on the second Tuesday of every month. Vibraphonist Justefan plays Feb 11, and Mar 11 features a group led by Robert Irving III, longtime pianist for Miles Davis. Free Presented by the Hyde Park Jazz Society and the Logan Center Folk Festival Feb 13–16, various times Mandel Hall and Ida Noyes Hall The University of Chicago Folk Festival is a three-day celebration of traditional music from the United States and around the world. This year’s Folk Fest will mark the 54th anniversary. The event includes small performances, workshops, and lectures during the day in Ida Noyes Hall followed by large performances in Mandel Hall each day.

Visit uofcfolk.org for details. Workshops free; concert cost TBD Presented by the Folklore Society KT Sullivan: A Workshop on Cabaret Artistry Fri, Feb 14, 3:30-5pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse KT Sullivan, star of the most sophisticated cabaret rooms in the United States and abroad, presents a public workshop on cabaret performance. Free Presented by the Department of Music Paulinho Garcia’s Valentine’s Day CD Release Dinner-Concert: Beautiful Love Fri, Feb 14; 6:30 pm doors; 7pm dinner; 7:30-9:15pm concert International House, Assembly Hall Chicago’s undiscovered Brazilian gem, vocalist/guitarist Paulinho Garcia infuses American songbook standards with bossa nova soul on his new solo album Beautiful Love, released during this Valentine’s Day cabaret dinner concert catered by Piccolo Mondo Ristorante. Advance tickets at paulinhogarcia.com. Dinner & concert

New Music Ensemble with Third Coast Percussion, and Amy Briggs and Daniel Schlosberg, piano Sat, Feb 15, 8pm concert, pre-concert discussion 7pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Lu Wang’s multi-media Cross Around is the featured work in this concert. Anthony Cheung leads a pre-concert discussion.

Free Presented by the Department of Music Logan Center Penthouse Salon Series: KT Sullivan Sat, Feb 15, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse KT Sullivan’s Remembering Mabel salutes Mabel Mercer. The New Yorker calls KT Sullivan “as vocally, comically and theatrically assured as contemporary cabaret performers get.” Cabaret seating $40 / general $30 / UChicago students $10 Presented by KMP Artists and the Logan Center Vocal Studies Program: Chamber Music for Voice Sun, Feb 16, 3pm Fulton Recital Hall This concert will feature works by Handel, Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, and more. Free Presented by the Department of Music Piano Master Class with eighth blackbird pianist Lisa Kaplan Thu, Feb 20, 1:30pm Fulton Recital Hall Lisa Kaplan, member of ensemble-inresidence and Grammy-winning eighth blackbird, will lead a piano master class with UChicago pianists. Open to the public. Free Presented by the Department of Music Marcus Weiss, saxophone: Giorgio Netti’s necessità d’interrogare il cielo Thu, Feb 20, 8pm The Renaissance Society In the last ten years Marcus Weiss has premiered more than a hundred works for either solo saxophone, chamber music or saxophone concertos. He teaches saxophone and chamber music at the Musikhochschule Basel in Basel, Switzerland. Free Presented by the Renaissance Society International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella: University of Chicago Quarterfinal Sat, Feb 22, 8pm Mandel Hall Hosted by UChicago’s Voices in Your Head, this ICCA Quarterfinal competition will feature collegiate groups from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wheaton College, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern

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A program of Chicago “firsts” including Old Kings in Exile—a recent work by Australian composer Brett Dean and co-commissioned by the Nash Ensemble, the Australia Ensemble, and eighth blackbird—and Lei Liang’s work for saxophone quartet, performed by the pioneering Anubis Quartet, “a 15-minute tour de force: a dense example of profound cross-culturalism” (James Keller, Chamber Music magazine). General admission $25 / $5 students Presented by University of Chicago Presents

The Newberry Consort: Feast of the Pheasant Sun, Feb 9, 3pm concert, 2pm pre-concert discussion Bond Chapel

$70 / Concert only (balcony seating) $15 Presented by the International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series

Third Coast Percussion Fri, Feb 21, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Composer and UChicago Professor Augusta Read Thomas composed Resounding Earth for Third Coast Percussion, collecting over 125 bells from around the world to create a beautiful and unprecedented sound world.

Third Coast Percussion will also perform works

by Guo Wenjing and John Cage. There will be a post-concert talk with Third Coast Percussion, Augusta Read Thomas, and UChicago Assistant Professors Kaley Mason and Seth Brodsky. General admission $25 / $5 students Presented by University of Chicago Presents

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University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bradley University, and UChicago. Visit varsityvocals.com/acappella-events.html for details. General $18 / student $15 Presented by Varsity Vocals University Wind Ensemble with Julie DeRoche, clarinet, and U-High Concert Band: Inspirations Sun, Feb 23, 4pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Works by Stamp, Tull, and Tchaikovsky, plus Marco Pütz’s Concerto for B-flat Clarinet and Wind Ensemble with guest soloist Julie DeRoche. Free Presented by the Department of Music The American Songbook with Nathan Harris, piano Sun, Feb 23, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Student soloists present timeless tunes from Tin Pan Alley by Gershwin, Cole Porter, Ellington, Hammerstein, and more. Free Presented by the Department of Music Venice Baroque Orchestra with Philippe Jaroussky, counter-tenor Fri, Feb 28, 7:30pm, 6:30pm pre-concert lecture Mandel Hall Philippe Jaroussky makes his Chicago debut with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, one of Europe’s premier ensembles devoted to period instrument performance. They will perform works by Porpora and Handel.

Professor Martha Feldman will give a preconcert lecture. General admission $35 / $5 students Presented by University of Chicago Presents

Chicago a cappella: Youth Choral Festival Sat, Mar 1, 5pm Logan Center, Performance Hall

Viola Master Class with Jennifer Stumm Fri, Mar 7, 3:30pm Fulton Recital Hall

The finale to a day of workshops for area student ensembles, this concert will feature all participating ensembles and Chicago a cappella performing alone and together as a large festival choir. Buy tickets at chicagoacappella.org. Adult $10 / student $5 Presented by Chicago a cappella

Hailed by The Washington Post for the “opallike beauty” and “phosphorescent energy” of her playing, Jennifer Stumm leads a public master class for viola. Open to the public.

Free Presented by the Department of Music

University Brass Ensemble Sat, Mar 1, 8pm Fulton Recital Hall This student ensemble of horns, trumpets, trombones, baritones, and tuba presents a varied season of formal and informal concerts on campus. Free Presented by the Department of Music Contempo: New Music for Violin & Piano Sun, Mar 2, 3pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Violinist Miranda Cuckson and Boucourechliev Prize-winning pianist Ning Yu present a program of contemporary violin and piano music in the intimate Logan Center Performance Penthouse. General admission $25 / $5 students Presented by University of Chicago Presents VocalEssence in concert Sun, Mar 2, 3pm Rockefeller Memorial Chapel A collection of American and Mexican choral music, including some of the leading choral composers of today: Stephen Paulus, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Eric Whitacre, and a salute to Stephen Foster on the 150th anniversary of his death. Rockefeller Chapel Choir also joins VocalEssence in a new work

by Timothy Takach. Tickets at rockefeller. uchicago.edu or at the door. General $20 / free to UChicago students Presented by Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Brothers, Sing on!

Fri, Mar 7, 7pm Rockefeller Chapel Chicago Men’s A Cappella and the Notre Dame Men’s Glee Club each present their own classics, from the Renaissance era to choral music for men’s voices of the 19th and 20th centuries, along with the collegiate songs from the two universities. Tickets available via ticketsweb.uchicago.edu or at the door. Cost TBD Presented by Chicago Men’s A Cappella The Ambrose Akinmusire Project Fri, Mar 7, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Winner of the 2012 DownBeat Critics Poll for Best Jazz Trumpet and the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, Ambrose Akinmusire records on the prestigious Blue Note label. He has collaborated with the leading artists of contemporary jazz, including Vijay Iyer, Stefon Harris, Christian McBride, and Jason Moran. Part of the Jazz at the Logan concert series. General admission $35 / $5 students Presented by University of Chicago Presents

Middle East Music Ensemble: The Persian Concert Sun, Mar 2, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall A selection of Persian classical songs and instrumental pieces specially arranged for the 45-piece MEME orchestra, featuring guest instrumentalists and singers. Suggested donation: General $10 / students $5 Presented by the Department of Music Listening Party with Ambrose Akinmusire Thu, Mar 6, 7pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire will host a listening party. Playing select recordings of his own choosing, he will discuss and interpret the music in an intimate setting that encourages audience engagement. Free Presented by University of Chicago Presents and Hyde Park Jazz Fest

59th Street Black History Month Jazz Celebration with WHPK Jazz Format Sat, Feb 22, 8–10pm International House, Assembly Hall The 4th Annual Black History Month celebration of jazz, “Our Gift to the World,” features The Marquis Hill Septet with Marquis Hill, trumpet/flugal horn; Christopher McBride, alto saxophone; Justin Thomas, vibraphone; Joshua Ramos, bass; Makaya McCraven, drums; and Juan Pastor, percussion. Special guest Willie Pickens will be awarded the WHPK REACH Award. Reserved VIP $25 / general $10 / students $8 Presented by International House 59TH Street Jazz Series & WHPK Jazz Format.

Piano Master Class with Jura Margulis, University of Arkansas Sat, Mar 8, 3pm Fulton Recital Hall Pianist Jura Margulis, internationally recognized for his compellingly communicative performances, as well as for the range of his tonal palette and his consummate virtuosity, leads a public master class for piano. Free Presented by the Department of Music University Symphony Orchestra with Jennifer Stumm, viola Sat, Mar 8, 8pm Mandel Hall William Walton’s Portsmouth Point Overture and virtuosic 1929 Viola Concerto, plus Sergei Prokofiev’s 1944 Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major. Suggested donation: General $10 / students $5 Presented by the Department of Music Britten: The Centenary Year Sun, Mar 9, 3pm Rockefeller Memorial Chapel The combined voices of the University of Chicago Chorus, Motet Choir, the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, the Women’s Ensemble, and Chicago Men’s a Cappella offer a feast of Benjamin Britten’s music, joining their 200 voices together for the majestic Rejoice in the Lamb and other works. Free Presented by Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

in a concert on their spring tour, directed by Benjamin Hutto. Free Presented by Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Jazz X-tet Thu, Mar 13, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Winter concert for the Jazz X-tet, led by jazz luminary Mwata Bowden. Free Presented by the Department of Music Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company and the University Chamber Orchestra Fri, Mar 14, 8pm; Sat, Mar 15, 8pm; Sun, Mar 16, 2pm Mandel Hall Gilbert and Sullivan’s canonic comic operetta drops anchor at Mandel Hall with the 40-member University Chamber Orchestra and new stage director Charlie Marie McGrath. The satirical Victorian tale sets adrift aristocratic airs in honor of true love.

The score includes I’m Called Little Buttercup, When I Was a Lad, I Am the Captain of the Pinafore, and many others that will have you singing from the masts. Appropriate for all ages. Visit ticketsweb.uchicago.edu for tickets. Donors $50 / general $20 / students and children $5 Presented by the Department of Music National Cathedral School Choir in concert Fri, Mar 21, 8pm Bond Chapel Motet Choir hosts the singers of Washington’s National Cathedral School Choir and St. Alban’s School Chorale and Madrigal Singers

Rembrandt Chamber Players Sun, Mar 23, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall RCP High School Competition winners perform a program including an Andre Previn Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano; Johann Sperger Quartet in D major for solo bass, flute, viola, and cello; and Brahms’ Trio for clarinet, cello and piano. Buy tickets at rembrandtchamberplayers.org. General $35 / 18-30 years old $20 / students $10 Presented by Rembrandt Chamber Players 49th Annual Eastern European Folk Festival Fri, Mar 28–Sun, Mar 30 International House, Assembly Hall Guided by master dance teachers and virtuoso musicians, you’ll dance, sing, and jam all weekend long! One of the largest festivals of Balkan and Eastern European folk music, dance, and culture in the U.S., this event attracts enthusiasts from all over the country. Fri, 8pm–12am; Sat, 9am–1am; Sun, 9am–3pm. Visit balkanskeigre.org for ticket and reservation details.

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On Grace & Politics: A Conversation with Anna Deavere Smith & Toni Preckwinkle, moderated by David Axelrod Mon, Jan 13, 7pm Logan Center, Performance Hall

Seven Guitars Thu, Jan 9–Sun, Feb 9 Court Theatre

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Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson returns to direct Seven Guitars, August Wilson’s haunting Century Cycle play about fate, justice, and the Blues. In the backyard of a Pittsburgh tenement in 1948, six characters gather to mourn the missing seventh: Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton, a blues guitarist with feet of clay who died with fame and celebrity just beyond his reach. Stitched with vibrant swatches of American blues lyrics and harmonized through a seven-piece ensemble, Wilson’s signature voice is at its richest in Seven Guitars as it seeks to explore the disappointingly dissonant harmonies we sometimes find in the circular nature of hope, violence, fate, and justice. Visit CourtTheatre. org or call 773-753-4472 for full schedule and ticket pricing. Single tickets: $15–65 Presented by Court Theatre

PhiNix hosts weekly workshops for all who are interested in hip hop/urban dance.

Styles include housing, breaking, popping, contemp hip hop, and general studio style choreography. In addition to our own dancers holding class, we invite professional Chicago teachers down every few weeks.

Visit phinixdancecrew.uchicago.edu for an updated schedule with details on each week’s class. Free Presented by PhiNix Dance Crew

Anna Deavere Smith’s work-in-progress Conversation On Grace Tue, Jan 21, 7:30pm Harris Theater (205 E Randolph St)

Theater[24] Sat, Jan 11, 8pm Reynolds Club, Francis X. Kinahan Theater Theater[24] is a balls-to-the-wall stageplay cage match, a testing ground for the grit and gusto of our most fearless thespians. Every quarter, writing teams are given twelve hours to write the script, and directors, designers, and actors are given twelve hours to pull the show together. Past plays have been about love, murder, time travel, and dogs.

But there’s no telling what will happen next.

See for yourself! Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. General $4 Presented by University Theater and Theater & Performance Studies

Logan Center Cabaret Series Fridays, Jan 17, Jan 31, Feb 14, Feb 28, March 14 Logan Center, Performance Penthouse This student-driven series ranges from solo guitarists to string quartets, slam poets to performance artists, swing dancers to pop-n-lockers, and everything in between.

Whatever the specialty, this series provides an intimate and casual setting for UChicago students, faculty, and affiliates to show off a hidden talent or workshop original material.

This quarter, Logan Center Cabaret Series will team up with Sex Week (Feb 14) and Festival of the Arts (FOTA) (March 14) to bring two performance showcases that transcend the typical variety show. Free Presented by the Logan Center

Empowerment Fri, Jan 17, 7pm and Sat, Jan 18, 2pm and 7pm Bartlett Arts Rehearsal Space (BARS) UChicago Maya’s Empowerment is a dance representation of finding strength through adversity. Using both Western and Eastern dance styles, Empowerment showcases Maya’s conception of power and

This public conversation on the theme of grace between Smith and the Cook County Board President is part of Smith’s three-week residency as a 2014 UChicago Presidential Arts Fellow. Walk-ups welcome; reservations recommended at graceandpolitics.eventbrite. com Free Co-presented by the Institute of Politics, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, and UChicago Arts

Conceived and created by renowned actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith in collaboration with cellist Joshua Roman, On Grace explores ideas of forgiveness and survival as Smith performs verbatim excerpts of interviews she conducted with renowned scholars, theologians, and politicians. The performance will feature two parts: a viewing of the work-in-progress and an audience discussion. The event is the culmination of Smith’s three-week residency as a 2014 UChicago Presidential Arts Fellows. Directed by Leonard Foglia.

Purchase tickets at harristheaterchicago.org or by calling the Box Office at 312-334-7777 General $25 / students $10 Co-presented

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powerlessness, and the journey between the two states, described through the unity (and disunity) of movement. Free Presented by UChicago Maya

9 Beginnings: Chicago Thu, Jan 23–Sat, Jan 25, 7:30pm Gray Center Lab in Midway Studios Chicago-based performance company Every house has a door will be in residence at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry January 5–25 to develop and present 9 Beginnings: Bristol & Chicago. This performance engages with the Live Art Archives of The University of Bristol and Arnolfini in the UK, and the Randolph Street Gallery archives at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 9 beginnings restages the beginnings of nine performances by nine different artists or companies,

and reimagines them as a single new composition. Lin Hixson, director. Matthew Goulish, dramaturg, Selma Banich (Croatia) and Sebastián Calderón Bentin (Panama), performers. Supported in part by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation International Connections Fund. For more information on open rehearsals and workshop performances, visit graycenter.uchicago. edu. Free Presented by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry La Esmeralda and the Hunchback of Notre Dame Fri, Jan, 31, 7pm and Sat, Feb 1, 4pm Logan Center, Performance Hall

Sun Tzu’s The Art of Core: Everyday Workout Fridays, Jan 31–Feb 28, 8:30pm University Church (5655 S University Ave) The alumni of Off-Off Campus are truly what separate this troupe from its peers.

They are Pulitzer Prize winners, Broadway musical writers and actors, and Second City mainstagers. They are in improv and sketch groups in Chicago and across the nation. They are writers for TV and film, they create video games (e.g. You Don’t Know Jack), and of course, they are doctors, lawyers, economists, and scholars. Now in its 28th Generation. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. General $5 Presented by Off-Off Campus and University Theater and Theater & Performance Studies Chinese New Year Gala— Year of the Horse Sun, Feb 2, 4–7:30pm International House, Assembly Hall Celebrate the Year of the Horse with a Chinese New Year festival featuring traditional dance and music performances

by UChicago students, Chinese dumpling making, and other celebratory activities.

General $10 Presented by the Global Voices Performing Arts Series and the Chinese Student and Scholar Association Making a (Re)Entrance Wed, Feb 5 and Wed, Mar 12, 8–9:30pm Gray Center Lab in Midway Studios This winter performance series brings together halfway house residents from the Crossroads Adult Transition Center with students and staff from UChicago in

Steppin into History: Black History Month Celebration Fri, Feb 7, 7–10pm International House, Assembly Hall Enjoy an exciting night of dance and history.

Learn about two distinct dances that have deep roots in the African-American experience, in addition to live performances and interactive dance lessons. Free Presented by the Global Voices Performing Art Series and the International House Community Fellows CES Fest 2014: Featuring Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story, croMagnum, Pygmalion and Galatea, The Clouds, and Achilles & Cygnus Thu, Feb 6-Sat, Feb 8, 7-10pm each day Ida Noyes Hall, Third Floor Theater CES Fest 2014, following up on the success of last year’s inaugural Fest, features a full length musical (Thrill Me), an original comedy (croMagnum), two shorts, and a fight choreography piece. Shows run

A Weekend of Workshops Thu, Feb 6–Fri, Feb 7, 7:30pm; Sat, Feb 8, 2pm & 7:30pm Reynolds Club, Francis X. Kinahan Theater Every quarter, workshops give student directors the opportunity to stage big ideas in small ways. Productions are always constrained technically, but this quarter the focus is on other forms of constraint. Kayla Mathisen directs No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, where hell is a room full of strangers who may not be so strange.

Maria Decker presents David Ives’ Sure Thing, the tale of a romance that develops exactly according to plan. And Springwood Central Honors Society is a play written and directed by Christopher Deakin, about a student trapped in their diary and in the world of their youth. Test your claustrophobia in the Francis X. Kinahan Theater in the Reynolds Club. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. Advance $6 / door $8 Presented by University Theater and Theater & Performance Studies

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University Ballet of Chicago takes you back to 17th century medieval Paris with this full-length production based on the familiar Victor Hugo story, with choreography

by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugini. Join us for an evening of romance, gypsies, and tambourines galore! Visit us at uballet.uchicago.edu for more information.

Advance general $10 / students & children $5. Door general $12 / students & children $7 Presented by UBallet

two whimsical evenings of theater, music, and food. The series explores the status of entrances and re-entrances–both on stage and in society–while radicalizing the aesthetic and social parameters of civically engaged performance. Directed by Adi Barak & Amy Stebbins. For more information, visit graycenter.uchicago.edu. Free Presented by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

successively throughout the evening. Visit ticketsweb.uchicago.edu for tickets. General $5 Presented by the Classical Entertainment Society (CES) Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love Thu, Feb 13–Fri, Feb 14, 7:30pm; Sat, Feb 15 at 2pm and 7:30pm Logan Center, Theater West

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GRAY CENTER LAB Chicago’s best new venue for experimental arts – Newcity

BY SUSIE ALLEN Since its founding in 2011, the Richard & Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry has provided a forum for collaborative experiments that bring together artists and scholars at the University of Chicago.

Now, those collaborations have a new home.

Earlier this fall, the Gray Center opened the Gray Center Lab, a 1,100 square-foot space located in Midway Studios that can be configured to serve as a classroom, studio, collaborative workspace or exhibition and performance space. It features professional sound and lighting systems in order to accommodate the diverse forms of work taking place at the Gray Center.

“We wanted to leave the space as open to redefinition as possible, without prescribing the forms of that possibility. I hope that when our fellows walk into the space, they can reimagine it in ways that line up with

GRAY CENTER LAB EVENTS Tell Me The Truth Jan–March, various times Multi-media artist Chase Joynt and UChicago sociologist Kristen Schilt explore the construction of public narratives about transgender identities in a year-long project including multi-media installations, screenings, and artist salons. Free See page 31 9 Beginnings: Chicago Jan 23–25, 7:30p Chicago-based performance company Every

their aspirations for their projects,” said David Levin, director of the Gray Center.

That strategy seems to be paying off.

In response to the quality and variety of projects presented in the brief time since the Gray Center Lab opened its doors, Newcity recently named the Gray Center Lab Chicago’s best new venue for experimental arts, calling it a “a much-needed incubator of the local creative culture.”

The Gray Center’s inaugural exhibition in the Lab, Unfurling: Five Explorations in Art, Activism, and Archiving, featured new works from five artists with an interest in local and socially engaged research and practice in the arts. “Never the Same,” a collaborative project supported by the Gray Center, presented Unfurling. It’s one of the many innovative projects sponsored by the Gray Center through its signature initiative, the Mellon Residential Fellowships for Arts Practice and Scholarship.

The Gray Center seeks out challenging projects with the potential to have a lasting impact upon participants, according to Levin. “If we’re successful, what happens at the Gray Center today will differ from what happened yesterday or what will happen tomorrow.”

Visit the Gray Center Lab at Midway Studios For more information, visit graycenter.uchicago.edu

house has a door restages the beginnings of nine performances by nine different artists or companies, reimagined as a single new composition. Free See page 26 Making a (Re)Entrance Wed, Feb 5 and Wed, Mar 12, 8-9:30p Bringing together halfway house residents with UChicago students and staff in two whimsical evenings of theater, music, and food, this series explores the status of entrances and re-entrances while radicalizing the aesthetic and social parameters of civically engaged performance. Free See page 27

In a cheap motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert, old flames May and Eddie struggle to quit their love affair. Theater & Performance Studies lecturer David New plays the Old Man, who may or may not even exist. Together they search for the difference between what is truth and what is remembered. Grab your Valentine or UChicago Crush and head over to the Logan Center’s Theater West to catch Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love.

Directed by Julia Santha. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu.

Advance $6 / door $8 Presented by University Theater and Theater & Performance Studies Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House Thu, Feb 27–Fri, Feb 28, 7:30pm; Sat, Mar 1, 2pm and 7:30pm Logan Center, Theater East Reality and fantasy ebb and flow in Macarthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl’s work, The Clean House (2005 Pulitzer Prize Finalist). Matilde, a recent immigrant and housekeeper, is searching for the perfect joke. Lane is frustrated by the uncleanliness of her house and the unwillingness of her housekeeper to clean. Along with her husband Charles and his lover Ana, they live in a shifting world where apples are infinite and cancer can be cured by “you medicine.” Life is complicated in The Clean House. Directed by Sasha Ayvazov. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago. edu. Advance $6 / door $8 Presented by University Theater and Theater & Performance Studies Global Girls Cultural Showcase Sat, Mar 1, 1–3pm International House, Assembly Hall An international performance showcase honoring individuals and organizations that empower women and girls locally and globally. Highlights include a variety of traditional performing arts demonstrations including Capoeira, Indian, African, Kuttu, ballet and the Global Girls Everyday People Theatre Company. Awards recognizing individuals and organizations will be presented throughout the event. Tickets available at the door. General $20 Presented by the International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Thu, Mar 6–Fri, Mar 7, 7:30pm; Sat, Mar 8, 2pm and 7:30pm Reynolds Club, Francis X. Kinahan Theater The founder of UChicago’s only Commedia dell’arte troupe, director Zev Hurwich presents Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His production promises more joy and more fun for all Athenians: the lovesick lovers, mixed-up mechanics, and fantastical faeries. What happens in the forest definitely won’t stay there. Let the Dean’s Men cure your winter blues with a dose of summer magic. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. Advance $6 / door $8 Presented by the Dean’s Men, University Theater, and Theater & Performance Studies

Water by the Spoonful Thu, Mar 6–Sun, Apr 6 Court Theatre

Voices Fri, Mar 7–Sat, Mar 8, 7:30pm Logan Center, Theater East “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”

– Martha Graham. Ten pieces of work comprised of student choreography ranging from duets to full company performances.

With Voices, UChicago’s oldest dance group is joined by University Theater and a cappella group Ransom Notes to examine and celebrate the ways we use expression.

Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb. uchicago.edu. Advance $6 / door $8 Presented by UC Dancers, University Theater, and Theater & Performance Studies Gingarte Capoeira Women’s Performance Sat, Mar 8, 6–9pm International House, Assembly Hall Gingarte Capoeira Chicago dance company presents the performance Mulheres da

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Capoeira, under the leadership of Mestre Marisa Cordeiro, the highest ranking female capoeiristas in the United States and founder of the first capoeira organization in Chicago. Hailing from Curvelo, Brasil, she is well respected as a pioneer for women in capoeira. General $15 / UChicago students $5 Presented by the International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series

Godspell Thu, Mar 13–Fri, Mar 14, 7:30pm; Sat, Mar 15, 2pm and 7:30pm Logan Center, Theater West Before Stephen Schwartz wrote the music for Wicked, he wrote the music for Godspell (based on the book by John-Michael Tebelak). Director Marisa Chilberg’s production of the classic 70s musical is set in Hyde Park where an ensemble of modern apostles traipse through the New Testament, discovering what holds communities together. How can so many beliefs and fears and hopes possibly lead to a sense of belonging?

Godspell explores this question through a blend of age-old parable and contemporary experience, of hymnal lyrics and folk anthem, of head and heart.

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Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Water by the Spoonful takes a painfully honest and surprisingly humorous look at the unconventional communities we create when we seek redemption from our personal failings.

Iraq war veteran Elliot Ortiz has returned home only to find himself haunted by the ghosts of his past while his overachieving cousin Yaz seeks to define herself amidst the chaos of her family. Meanwhile, Elliot’s estranged mother Odessa struggles to stay clean as she moderates a chat room for recovering crack

addicts like herself. Dancing artfully from story to story, playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes ties together the lives of each of these lost souls in a play of genuine warmth about forgiveness and redemption. Directed by Henry Godinez.

Visit CourtTheatre.org or call 773-753-4472 for full schedule and ticket pricing. Single tickets: $15–65 Presented by Court Theatre

FAMILY Family Day: Wrapping Paper Sat, Jan 4, 1–4 pm Smart Museum of Art Bring your discarded holiday giftwrap to the Smart, tear it to shreds, and glue it to a vibrant community mural. All materials provided. Recommended for ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art Junior Archaeologists Sundays, Jan 12, Feb 9, and Mar 9, 2–4pm The Oriental Institute Museum

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Let loose your inner Indiana Jones! Children and parents have a chance to dig into our simulated excavation in the Oriental Institute’s Kipper Family Archaeology Discovery Center. This program also includes an interactive guided tour of the galleries. Recommended for ages 5-12. Visit orientalinstitute.eventbrite.com to register (required). Members $5 / non-members $9 Presented by the Oriental Institute LamaSeuss: One Cent, Two Cent, Old Cent, New Cent Sun, Jan 19, 2-3pm The Oriental Institute Museum Our favorite 40-ton winged man-bull has selected a new book to read—Dr. Seuss’ One Cent, Two Cent, Old Cent, New Cent.

Learn about the origins of money and how to count like an ancient Mesopotamian!

Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Visit orientalinstitute.eventbrite.com to register (recommended, not required).

Free Presented by the Oriental Institute Kids’ Mosaic-Making Workshop Sun, Jan 26, 2–5pm The Oriental Institute Museum Enjoy an afternoon with your kiddo making mosaics! The workshop invites you and your child or small friend (under the age of 12) to learn about the process and origins of mosaic-making. The class covers motif design, mosaic composition, cutting, and grouting. No prior experience is necessary.

All tools and supplies are provided. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult.

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Free Presented by the Oriental Institute Family Day: Ray Day Sat, Feb 1, 1–4 pm Smart Museum of Art On view at the Smart, Man Ray’s 1963 Rayogram is a photographic image the artist

made without using a camera.

Following similar techniques, make your own photo-drawing using light. All materials provided. Recommended for ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art Telling My Family Story Sun, Feb 2, 2–3:30pm The Oriental Institute Museum

Logan Center Family Saturdays: Lee England Jr. Family Matinee Sat, Jan 18, 2–4:30pm Logan Center A full day for the family, featuring a family matinee concert

by Lee England Jr., a classically trained violinist who performs a “musical-gumbo” style that mixes R&B, gospel, jazz, and hip-hop. Following the concert, enjoy familyfriendly art workshops presented in partnership with local artists, arts organizations, and student organizations.

Ticket information and arts workshop reservations at ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. Workshops free. Matinees: General $10 / ages 17 and under $5 Presented by the Logan Center and Arts + Public Life

What do bakers, manicurists, and stone carvers have in common? They all represent professions with roots in the ancient world. With generous funding from the Illinois State Humanities Council, the Oriental Institute engaged two sixthgrade classes in an oral-history project that connected them through their families and friends with these and other ancient professions. Come celebrate the students’ achievements. The presentations will be on view followed by a reception. Free Presented by the Oriental Institute The Nightingale Sat, Feb 15, 7pm and Sun, Mar 16, 2pm Performance Hall

Based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson, the cast includes the talented dancers of The Hyde Park School of Dance and features original choreography by Artistic Director August Tye and the HPSD artistic team. Visit hydeparkdance.org for details.Adult $20 / senior & student $10 / ages five and under free Presented by Hyde Park School of Dance Logan Center Family Saturdays: Third Coast Percussion’s The Color of Sound Sat, Feb 22, 2–4:30pm Logan Center Chicago’s premier percussion ensemble will bang, scrape, and shake a stage full of instruments including tin cans, glass bottles, a wooden log, and percussion from five continents. Join Third Coast on stage after the performance for a chance to play the instruments in an “instrument petting zoo.” Ticket information and arts workshop reservations at ticketsweb.uchicago.edu.

Workshops free. Matinees: General $10 / ages 17 and under $5 Presented by Arts + Public Life, the Logan Center, and University of Chicago Presents

Family Day: Domino Throwdown Sat, Mar 1, 1–4pm Smart Museum of Art In 1900s Beijing, fans of the Chinese opera could collect playing cards of their favorite actors and opera characters. See an original set of Chinese opera domino cards in Performing Images, make your own playing cards, and then join in a dominoes tournament. All materials provided.

Recommended for ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult. Free Presented by the Smart Museum of Art Logan Center Family Saturdays: Eth-Noh-Tec Family Matinee Sat, Mar 22, 2–4:30pm Logan Center Storytellers Nancy Wang and Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo inspire the imagination and bring their stories alive by weaving together music, dance, and rhythmic dialogue. Ticket information and arts workshop reservations at ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. Workshops free. Matinees: General $10 / ages 17 and under $5 Presented by the Logan Center and Arts + Public Life

MULTIDISCIPLINARY Tell Me The Truth Jan–Mar, various times Gray Center Lab in Midway Studios Chase Joynt, Toronto-based multi-media artist, and Kristen Schilt, faculty member in the Department of Sociology, explore the construction of public narratives about transgender identities in a year-long project entitled Tell Me The Truth. Joynt & Schilt will create a series of multi-media installations that deploy and disrupt positions of scholarly, artistic, and experiential authority. For more information on screenings, installations, and related artist salons at the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, visit graycenter. uchicago.edu. Free Presented by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

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MODA’s 10th Annual Fashion Show Fri, Feb 21, 8–10pm Union Station (500 W Jackson Blvd) MODA, the fashion organization at UChicago, is dedicated to showcasing style on campus and connecting the university community to the greater Chicago fashion scene. Featuring student work and local designers, the MODA Spring Fashion Show is an annual fashion fete. The event includes a pre-show cocktail reception, musical performances, a runway show, and an after-party at an exclusive downtown location. Tickets $12-32 Presented by MODA

Chicago premiere! Celebrated cartoonist Art Spiegelman collaborated with acclaimed jazz composer Phillip Johnston for this innovative show combining slides, talk, film, and a live original score played by Johnston’s sextet.

Wordless! brings to life the work of the five most important artists of the wordless graphic novel—Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Milt Gross, Otto Nückel, and Si Lewen—with new original work by Spiegelman. General $20 / students $10 Presented by the Logan Center with the support of UChicago Arts, UChicago’s Humanities Division, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, Arts Council, the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, Critical Inquiry, Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, and the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. Additional support from the Committee on Creative Writing and Departments of Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, English Languages & Literature, Music, and Visual Arts. NewCity is the official media sponsor.

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Cultural Planning and Research Lecture Series Jan 14 and 28, Feb 11, 20, and 25

Project, and Chicago Cultural Plan, cultural industries and scenes, and doing research in the arts in academia vs. as a consultant.

Most winter lectures will be held at noon at the Cultural Policy Center; visit culturalpolicy. uchicago.edu for details on time, address, and room number. Free Presented by the Cultural Policy Center

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