Museums can sometimes act as portals to rich and complex worlds. The Museum of Contemporary Art’s Figures of Speech, a retrospective on the work of 38-year-old Virgil Abloh, manages to reveal as much about one of the cornerstones of our culture, fashion, as it does about the prolific creative output of a gifted artist. Because …
Back in the day when air transportation didn’t exist and long distance communication was still in the form of the written word, travel wasn’t really travel unless things went wrong. Not infrequently, catastrophically wrong. Today, most travel is for pleasure and we plan meticulously to insure nothing goes awry when we head to the airport …
A & A Ballet, a three-year-old dance school currently housed in the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Ave., is one of those places with the gift of turning raw talent into prodigious proficiency. Actually a combination of experience and skill, that gift comes in the form of the school’s co-founders, Anna Reznik and Alexei Kremnev. …
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For years Eclipse Theater has steadfastly enriched and enlivened Chicago’s theater landscape each new artistic season by focusing on the plays of a single playwright. By providing audiences with a more complete understanding of a writer’s body of work, they can draw a deeper appreciation for his/her contributions to the culture and posterity. Last year’s …
Just off the main hall of the Art Institute’s Modern Wing, a bold reimagining of the past has resulted in a beautiful collection of photographs that keep you trying to unlock their secrets. Created by Dawoud Bey, a highly-regarded Chicago artist and now a recent MacArthur genius grant awardee, the artist takes a detour from …
About 90 seconds into Sneaky Pete, Giordano Dance Chicago’s opening piece in its 56th Spring season Saturday night, you knew the evening was going be solid. The sleek machine founder Gus Giordano created over half a century ago is still purring like a Ferrari as it continues to capitalize on the company’s many strengths. Listing …
Often called infinitely fascinating, Africa is unexpected and exciting in a million different ways. If you’ve finally decided to go on a safari and live your fantasy, there’s many ways to do so. Most people choose conventional accommodations that include a comfortable bed, hot meals and showering facilities when they book their lodging. More intrepid …
In 1958, sixty years ago, the United States military had only been integrated for 12 years and the nation was beginning to convulse under the demands of a burgeoning civil rights movement. In 1958, it would be another seven years for the voting rights act to become law. It’s also when a little black boy …
Nothing beats a great creative partnership. When two exceptional talents join forces, wonderful results flow in torrents. Veteran contemporary dance stalwart Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and six-year-old Malpaso Dance Company of Cuba went into a huddle last year to immerse themselves in each other’s work. The objective; learning through sharing. In the end, their …
There are places in the world that let you know immediately how closely we’re connected and Cape Town is one of them. Seventeen hours by air from the United States, three-quarters of an entire day, it is on the surface very much like what a large American city looks like with its solid infrastructure and …