Art
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ReMake Estate: Brand New Day.
ReMake Estate is a really cool project going on in Gary (Indiana) in which an abandoned house on 24th and Massachutsetts will be reborn as a meeting space and a community garden. The project is being organized in conjunction with interested local community groups and Australian-based artists Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg. The artists (from…
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Cocktails and Clay: sensual overload in hyde park
Perhaps one of the greatest (Nancy Reagan-approved) conceptions of sensual overload ever! Hyde Park brings it back one-mo’-gin : Friday, March 12 at the Hyde Park Art Center… play with clay, explore the exhibitions, enjoy drink specials, and dance! Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago, IL 60615
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African Art and the Modernist Eye: at the Art Institute
For my art-lovers: something to check out tomorrow evening…African Art and the Modernist Eye, a lecture exploring how traditional African Art was catapulted to the cutting edge of the Modern Art scene Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 6:00 p.m. Inspired by a modernist fascination with the “primitive,” the first half of the 20th century saw…
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Under the Spell of Red and Brown Water
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “In the Red and Brown Water,” now playing at Steppenwolf’s Upstairs Theater, is an exercise in duality that lends itself to complete immersion, an exercise in which you’re left like a used bag of orange pekoe (feeling purposefully spent). Reality blends with chorus-driven fantasy, magic with carnality, and comedy with tragedy in this…
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Tofu Chitlin Circuit presents: Black Thang
THE SYNOPSIS: “Black Thang” by Ato Essandoh is the story of Sam, a black man, and Mattie, a white woman, and what happens when their relationship progresses from merely a one-night stand to something more…but not without some controversy. Meanwhile, Keisha (Mattie’s best friend), struggles to hold onto her relationship with her long-time boyfriend Omar, and Jerome (Sam’s best…
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Passing Strange: a righteous afro-rock opera
“Passing Strange“, the Tony-nominated black rock-opera is righteous…. Amen. Passing Strange is the coming-of-age story of “Youth” (Daniel Breaker), a kid growing up somewhere in LA in the seventies. He is disillusioned because he doesn’t fit the common definition of blackness. Floating above the city, getting high in his choir director’s blue Volkswagen beetle, “Youth” decides to…
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WORD: Across Generations
WORD: Across Generations Sunday, January 17 2:00pm – 3:30pm Victory Gardens Biograph Theater 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago Join The Public Square and Chicago Public Radio for WORD: Across Generations with poets Carloyn Rodgers, John Murillo, and Aja Monet. •Carolyn Rodgers (see poem below) emerged from the Black Arts Movement in Chicago in the 1960s…
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All Power To The People: The Revolutionary Art Of Emory Douglas
The University of Chicago’s Center for the Studies of Race, Politics, and Culture, DOVA (Department of Visual Arts) Temporary Gallery, Black Panther Party Illinois History Project, and Diasporal Rhythms for an exhibit of works by Emory Douglas, internationally known artist and former Black Panther Party Minister of Culture. Location: DOVA Temporary (5228 S. Harper). Exhibit runs December 2,…
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the heart of Funkadelic’s image, crafted in Chicago
This week the Sun-Times published an article talking about Pedro Bell, the man behind the iconic cover art, liner notes, and other print ephemera for Funkadelic from 1973 till about 1986. Pedro, a Chicago native who went by Sir Lleb, has hit hard times. Today he’s facing dire straits in Hyde Park, though his work was recently featured…
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AREA/Chicago Release Party… inside and outside Chicago
(above, Pigasus [the pig candidate for President from the Yippie party] at a rally, Chicago 1968. classic Windy City protest) AREA/Chicago announces a publication release / art happening…. (AREA Chicago Art/Research/Education/Activism is a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting and networking local social, political and cultural movements.) AREA #9 Release Party marks the release of…
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