September 1, 2009–June 30, 2010
Overview: Poet Wallace Stevens may have had “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” but this season,
the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago,
and Poetry Foundation come together to present 500 Ways of Looking at Modern, a yearlong exploration of what modern means.
Featuring exhibitions including Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago and Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917, the season also offers weekly performances, readings, and lectures looking at “modern” from the perspective of artists, curators, dancers, museum directors, musicians, poets, and scholars.
Vasily Kandinsky. Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913. Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection. |
