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Acclaimed writer Peter Cole joins professor Rachel Shteir for a reading and conversation about his new book, The Poetry of Kabbalah. Peter Cole is the author of a number of books, including Things on Which I've Stumbled and Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, co-written with Adina Hoffman. He is the translator of numberous volumes from Hebrew and Arabic, including the a...   [more]

Spertus is pleased to again be a site for openhousechicago, a festival of free behind-the-scenes access to many of Chicago’s great spaces and places. Presented by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.    [more]

Fashion Focus Chicago 2012 returns for its eighth year October 15-21 for a week-long celebration of Chicago's thriving fashion industry while showcasing some of its top designers. Highlights include three headlining runway shows in Millennium Park and fashion events at various locations around the city. Fashion Focus will feature a variety of free and affordable industry happenings, shopping and des...   [more]

“The History, Theory, and Practice of Prime Numbers” Karen Reimer’s site-specific installation at Gallery 400 is the latest entry in her ongoing series Endless Set (begun 2007), in which appliquéd pillowcases marry hand-sewn fabric's domesticity to the infiniteness of the prime number sequence. In this lecture, Professor Ramin Takloo-Bighash provides insight into the mathematical concept of the pri...   [more]

 In 2011, as part of the exhibition Without You I’m Nothing: Art and its Audience, artist Kirsten Leenaars produced On Our Way to Tomorrow, a soap opera based on real-life drama that was filmed on location using MCA staff and visitors as the core actors and extras. While the characters are fully fictionalized, scripts and improvisations were based on their actual positions at the museum. Leena...   [more]

MCA: Internet Superheroes: Art and Technology Chicago Dirty New Media: Round Robin October 16, 2012 6pm Bottom level of the MCA parking garage FREE for Illinois residents   Every third Tuesday of the month, explore the intersection between art, technology and the internet along with the MCA as we meet the brilliant minds who make the virtual world more interesting. This October, a real-time au...   [more]

With growing emphasis on the social and cultural roles of today’s institutions, education and visitor experience is increasingly important for museum and exhibition professionals. Four speakers will put forth their diverse experiences in the field and open up forum for discussion. Professor of Art History and Museum Studies Margaret Lindauer will present her research on the social, cultural, an...   [more]

How are the ordinary experiences of self-taught artists like William Hawkins and Hawkins Bolden important to the aesthetics and landscape of black vernacular art?  Self-taught artist William Hawkins had an astonishing body of large-scale paintings while working at numerous jobs simultaneously.  Hawkins Bolden, who lost his sight in childhood, constructed scarecrows to place in his home garden. Th...   [more]