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Jazz pianist, composer, and performance artist Jason Moran is deeply invested in reassessing and complicating the relationship between music and language; his extensive efforts in composition, improvisation, and performance challenge the status quo.
Join Dr. Sharada Srinivasan from the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bengaluru, India for a talk exploring the unique blend of art, technology, philosophy, and dance in the centuries-old bronze, “Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja).”
Join Professor Luis Vargas-Santiago to explore how Frida Kahlo’s groundbreaking self-portraits sparked a creative revolution, influencing generations of artists to use personal intimacy as inspiration for art that advocates for social change and collective liberation.
Hear from Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director of Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), as he discusses his curatorial practice, which includes past exhibitions in São Paulo—both at MASP and elsewhere—that have informed his project for the Biennale Arte 2024.
Join art historian and curator Rita Kersting to explore how the radical, anti-war artist collective Cologne Progressives merged art and political activism.
Join artist Lee Kang-hyo for a conversation on his influences and learn how his ceramics relate to the performances he enacts as he paints them.
Join art historian Paul B. Franklin for a talk exploring how love, as much as aesthetics, nourished Mary Reynolds’s and Marcel Duchamp’s art.
Join us for an afternoon of discussion and performance celebrating Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection. Hear from Art Institute research associate Jeffrey Nigro on the rich histories of the rarely seen works on view in this landmark exhibition, and experience centuries of mythic storytelling brought to life through the music of Eternal City: Art and Music in Rome performed by Dutch soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg and musician Stephen Alltop.
Join Chicago-based artists B. Ingrid Olson and Richard Rezac for a conversation moderated by Giampaolo Bianconi, Dittmer Associate Curator in Modern and Contemporary Art about the intricacies and continued impact of Westermann’s work.
Join curators Gloria Groom and Jacquelyn N. Coutré for an intimate reception and lively discussion about the wildly popular Dutch artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh.
