Chicago has world-class art museums, galleries, and public art, as well as the application of artistic principles in the design and development of buildings. Here are some notable events to enrich your visit.
500 Ways of Looking at Modern
This series of exhibitions, performances, readings, family programs, talks, tours, and lectures looks at “modern” from the perspective of artists, curators, dancers, museum directors, musicians, poets, and scholars.
9.1.2009 Tuesday at 10:30am
until 6.30.2010 Wednesday
Art from Coretta Scott King Award Books,
This exhibition features original illustrations by African American illustrators whose stories promote an understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contributions to the American dream.
11.21.2009 Saturday at 10:30am
until 4.18.2010 Sunday
Featuring: African American illustrators
Chicago Model City
As part of the citywide Burnham celebration, this exhibition uses photographs, maps, videos, digital visualizations, and a large-scale model of Chicago’s Loop to consider historic and contemporary urban plans of all sizes.
6.11.2009 Thursday at 9am-6:30pm
until 11.30.2010 Tuesday
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Contemporary Sculpture from China
This exhibition of large-scale sculpture demonstrates why contemporary Chinese art has emerged as one of the fastest growing and most dynamic components of the international art scene.
4.9.2009 Thursday at 6am - 11pm
until 10.10.2010 Sunday
Boeing Galleries, Millennium Park
Featuring: Chinese Artists
Hollis Sigler: Expect the Unexpected
The exhibition shows more than 60 works dating from 1981 to 2001, including selections which document nearly a decade of the disease that took Sigler’s life in 2001.
1.30.2010 Saturday at 8:00am
until 4.4.2010 Sunday
Featuring: Hollis Sigler
In the Vernacular
This exhibition presents works by artists who strategically deploy photography’s quotidian forms as a source of inspiration through the conscious appropriation, reworking, and interrogation of the aesthetics, content, and means of distribution associated.
2.6.2010 Saturday at 10:30am
until 5.31.2010 Monday
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
This exhibition - a part of Living Modern Chicago, a city-wide celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus - aims to reignite interest in Hungarian-American artist Moholy-Nagy.
2.10.2010 Wednesday at 11:00am
until 5.9.2010 Sunday
Loyola University Museum of Art
Featuring: László Moholy-Nagy
Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside and Out
This exhibition reexamines the artist's studio as subject, revealing how the studio functions as a place where research, experimentation, production, and social activity intersect.
2.6.2010 Saturday at 10:00am
until 5.23.2010 Sunday
Museum of Contemporary Art
Sites to Behold: Travels in 18th Century Rome
This exhibition presents etchings, gouache drawings and other works depicting Rome and nearby Tivoli by 18th-century artists whose different temperaments, techniques, and styles produced a breathtaking variety of art.
11.3.2009 Tuesday at 10am
until 4.11.2010 Sunday
Featuring: 18th-century artists
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900
By examining this range of highly engaging, often mysterious and beautiful objects, this exhibition evokes the shadowed interiors and private introspections that compose a far less familiar history of late nineteenth-century art.
2.11.2010 Thursday at 10:00am
until 6.13.2010 Sunday
