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Event For: Sunday, February 14, 2010
Exhibitor: [Hyde Park Art Center]

Posted: 2010-02-08 10:14:58

All Exhibitions Reception Sunday, February 14, 3-5pm

Join us this Sunday to welcome six new exhibitions: Andreas Fischer: Ghost Town; Aspen Mays: From the Offices of Scientists; Flow Interrupted; Notes to Nonself by Diane Christiansen and Shoshanna Utchenik; Stan Chisholm: ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened; and The Way Things Are by Bob Peters and David Schutter. Light refreshments will be served. Also, don't forget that this Friday, February 12, is our monthly "Cocktails and Clay" night from 8pm to midnight: we've got 45 minute clay sessions back in our studios, a live DJ and drink specials all night.

Event For: Sunday, February 14, 2010
Exhibitor: [The Renaissance Society]

Posted: 2010-02-11 14:39:23

A reading by Charles Bernstein, Sunday, February 14, 2010, 2 pm University of Chciago, Swift Hall 106, 1025 East 58 Street. Highly esteemed poet, professor, and literary scholar Charles Bernstein will do a reading dedicated to his daughter Emma. The reading coincides with the release of "All the Whiskey in Heaven," a "best of" Bernstein's work from the past thirty years. Bernstein explores how language both limits and liberates thought, modulating the comic and the dark structural invention with buoyant soundplay, giving way to poems of lyric excess and striking emotional range. In addition, the reading will celebrate the recent release of "Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture," a collection of essays in which poets and critics, Bernstein among them, address the question of what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as 'secular', and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. The reading will be followed by a discussion and reception.

Event For: Sunday, February 14, 2010
Exhibitor: [Evanston Art Center]

Posted: 2010-02-12 09:22:55

Christo's Gates: Why is this Art? Evanston Art Center Presents a Slide Lecture on Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Theory and Practice Sunday, February 14th 2:00 p.m. Lecture followed by a reception

Katherine Hilden, Artist and Evanston Art Center Faculty member, will present a timely lecture on the art projects that Christo and Jeanne-Claude have installed all over the world in the past fifty years. This is the 5th anniversary of "The Gates" in New York's Central Park. The celebrated projects of the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have puzzled many people because these projects are both enormous in scale and yet temporary. The 7,500 Gates installed in Central Park in February, 2005 were up for only 16 days, after being in the making for 26 years. This lecture will address the question, why is this Art?

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