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January 1994
Monthly Calendar
Graphic Tours: Travel and 19th Century: French Works on Paper, exhibition 235, 245-247
Edvard Munch and Alban Berg Exhibition 235, 248-250
Recent Acquisitions: 20th Century Works on Paper in the Department of Prints and Drawings, exhibition 235
New and continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 235-240
Martin Luther King, Jr., program 240
January 4, 1994
Correction for African American History Month programs 241
January 6, 1994
Museum Studies (v. 19, no. 2), AIC periodical surveying museum acquisitions since 1980 selected by AIC Director and President James N. Wood with essays by editor of Publication Department Margherita Andreotti and Museum curators Ghenette Zelleke, David Travis, and James Ulak 242-244
January 24, 1994
Graphic Tours: Travel and 19th Century French Works on Paper, exhibition coordinated by curator of Prints and Drawings Martha Tedechi and research assistant Jay Clarke in collaboration with Northwestern University students granted by the Andrew W. Mellon Program in art objects and museum internship 245-247; Ed Paschke, department chairman at Northwestern University, Chicago 247
January 25, 1994
Violent Passions: Edvard Munch and Alban Berg, Lyric Opera of Chicago production in association with exhibition at AIC 235, 248-250
Museum shop, Valentine’s Day gift ideas 251-254; the Hodge Collection of valentines in Prints and Drawings Department, facsimiles 251; first American valentine card, adaptation from the 1849 original 251
February 1994
Monthly Calendar
With Open Eyes: Images from the Art Institute, AIC laser disc publication and interactive exhibition 255, 268-270
Exhibition of Daniel Libeskind and The Jewish Museum in Berlin 255
The Drawings of Joseph Beuys, exhibition 255, 261-267
Continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 256-260
Chicago Symphony Chamber Music Series at AIC 257
February 4, 1994
Thinking is Form: the Drawings of Joseph Beuys 255, 261-267; exhibition venues 264; the artist’s visit to Chicago and SAIC in 1974, 266-267
With Open Eyes: A Multimedia Exploration of Art, AIC electronic publication, demonstration and contents 255, 268-270
February 15, 1994
The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, grant for African Arts collection; remarks by AIC Director and President James N. Wood 271-273
March 1994
Monthly Calendar
Textile Acquisitions from 1988-1992, 274, 290-292, 380
Continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 274-279
March 4, 1994
Retrospective exhibitions of Odilon Redon and Goya 280-283
March 14, 1994
Lessons from Life: Photographic Works from the Boardroom Collection of Martin Edelston, exhibition and gift of the collection; remarks by AIC Director and President James N. Wood 274, 284-286
March 16, 1994
Museum shop, Easter and Passover gift ideas 287-289
March 23, 1994
Selected Textile Acquisitions, 1988-1992, exhibition 274, 290-292
March 24, 1994
Dr. Charles Stuckey, Head of the Department of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture; Frances and Thomas Dittmer endowment for a curatorial chair as a part of AIC Board of Trustees capital campaign entitled The Second Century Fund: Securing Chicago’s Masterpiece; remarks by AIC Director and President James N. Wood 293-294
April 1994
Monthly Calendar
Reinstallation of Ancient Art Galleries in McKinlock Court; Robinson Glass Collection 295, 378; events 309
Continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 296-301
April 4, 1994
Dr. Yutaka Mino, Head of Asian Art Department, resignation; comments by AIC Director and President James N. Wood 302-303
April 11, 1994
The Art of Horace Pippin, exhibition; Dr. Albert C. Barnes, collector 295, 304-308; exhibition venues 308; events 354-355
April 15, 1994
Kraft Education Center: Eric Beddows exhibition 301, 309-310
April 21, 1994
Spring book signing events at Museum shop featuring Judith Stein, Lynn H. Nicholas, Naomi Shihab Nye, Nancy Mathews, Eric Beddows, Annette Blaugrund, Meredith Etheringston-Smith, Eleni Fourtouni, Theodore E. Stebbins, Humphrey Wine 311-315
April 24, 1994
John James Audubon: The Watercolors for The Birds of America, exhibition from The New York Historical Society collection, venues and catalogue 316-320, 329
April 27, 1994
Museum shop, gift ideas for Mother’s Day 321-324
April 28, 1994
The Actor’s Image: Printmakers of the Katsukawa School, AIC publication by keeper of the Buckingham Print Collection Osamu Ueda 325-328
May 1994
Monthly Calendar
Italian Sculpture, 1860-1925, from the Gilgore Collection, exhibition 329, 337-339
The Golden Age of Florentine Drawing: from Leonardo to Volterrano, exhibition 329-330, 341-343, 379
Continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 330-336
May 9, 1994
Italian Sculpture, 1860-1925, from the Gilgore Collection 329, 337-340, 380; Sheldon and Irma Gilgore 337, 339; Chiseled with a Brush: Italian Sculpture, 1860-1925, from the Gilgore Collections, AIC publication by curator of European Decorative Arts Department Ian Wardropper 344-346
The Golden Age of Florentine Drawing: from Leonardo to Volterrano, exhibition 329-330, 340-343, 379
May 24, 1994
World Cup Soccer Games, Chicago Day, free museum admission 347-348
June 1994
Monthly Calendar
Continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 350-353
June 2, 1994
AIC and SAIC Summer Programs with Chicago Park District, Horace Pippin outdoor workshop 354-355
June 6, 1994
Museum shop, Father’s Day gift ideas 356-360
Garden Restaurant, 14th season of Ray Bailey jazz quintet 361-362
June 8, 1994
Odilon Redon exhibition, installation and catalogue 372-375, 400; programs 368-372, 381
June 10, 1994
1994-1995 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE (376-389)
Galleries of Ancient Art in McKinlok Court, reinstallation by Ian Wardropper and John Vinci 295, 309, 378
Knotted Splendor: European and Near Eastern Carpets from the Permanent Collection, exhibition 383, 413, 422-426, 446
Dieter Appelt, photography exhibition 385, 475-476, 479-480, 486
Gustave Caillebotte: The Urban Impressionist, exhibition 386
Louis Sullivan and the Prairie School, exhibition 386
Bruce Goff, exhibition of the artist’s architectural archive and drawings from Architecture Department and AIC Ryerson and Burnham Libraries 387
June 20, 1994
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Selected Projects, interactive exhibition, computer installation 382, 390-391
June 24, 1994
Goya: Truth and Fantasy, exhibition organized by Del Prado, Madrid and by Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue 382, 392-395; programs 396-399, 401, 408
July 1994
Monthly Calendar
New and continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 402-407
July 22, 1994
Celebrating America: A Collection of Poems and Images of American Spirit, children’s book compiled by L. Whipple, AIC publication 409-410
July 26, 1994
Transforming Vision: Writers on Art, AIC publication 411-412, 435, 460
August 1994
Monthly Calendar
New and continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 413-417
August 2, 1994
Illustrations by Leovigildo Martinez and Leyla Torres, exhibition 418-420, 492; Martinez and Matthew Gollub, book signing event 419
Up and Down, All Around, AIC video release for children 421
August 4, 1994
Knotted Splendor: European and Near Eastern Carpets, exhibition 413, 422-426; curator of Textile Department Christa Thurman 426; carpet adaptations in Museum shop 427-428, 446; Textile Department, funding 428
September 1994
Monthly Calendar
British Delft From Colonial Williamsburg, exhibition from collection of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, VA, 429
Continuing exhibitions, public, programs, and lectures 439-433
September 12, 1994
Museum shop, 1994-1995 Holiday Gift Catalogue 434-437
Museum Studies, AIC periodical (vol. 20, no. 2), special issue featuring Winterbotham Collection of European Paintings 438-439
September 14, 1994
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1781-1841: The Drama of Architecture 384, 440-443, 463,486, 489, 501-502; installation 442-443; Stanley Tigerman 463; curators Kurt Foster, John Zukowsky 442-443; Exhibition of Karl Schinkel’s textile design, gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of John Maxon, comments by Christa Thurman 444-445, 486
September 20, 1994
Museum shop, Fall trunk shows: Minasian rugs, Halcyon Days Enamels, Limoges, Antique jewelry, Noguchi lamps, Caithness paperweights, Maximal Jewelry, Recife pens; Twilight Shopping 446-449
September 22, 1994
Julia Perkins, appointed Assistant Director for Community Programs in the Museum Education Department; Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, Refocus/Resources Initiative for African-American community, funding 450-451
September 23, 1994
Architecture gallery, dedication in the name of Dr. Kisho Kurokawa (Japan); The Japan Foundation gallery endowment; lecture by the architect 452-454
September 28, 1994
Fall book signing events at the Museum shop featuring James Yood, Thomas Locker, Lois Ehlert and Sara Weeks, Victoria Lautman, Carlos Fuentes, Eleanor Dwight, Meryle Secrest 455-459; special event marking AIC publication of Transforming Vision: Writers on Art edited by Edward Hirsh; readings and book signing by Mark Strand, Reginald Gibbons, Jorie Graham, Li-Young Lee, Susan Mitchell, Gerald Stern, Gary Wills 460 (411-412, 435), 490; Festival of Children’s Books 461; Bystander: A History of Street Photography, book by Joel Meyerowitz and AIC curator of Photography Colin Westerbeck 461, 503
September 29, 1994
Corporate Gift Program at the Museum shop 462a
October 1994
Monthly Calendar
Friedrich Schinkel, 1781-1841: The Drama of Architecture, installation by Stanley Tigerman 463
Continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 463-471
October 7, 1994
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, expansion and Reading Room restoration, comments by Director of AIC Libraries Jack Perry Brown; architectural firm of Shepley, Coolidge and Root; description of the 1901 original decor, Elmer E. Garnsey’s design and Louis J. Millet’s skylight; conversion of card catalogue into on-line computerized information system made possible by Rosenbaum Foundation, Rice Foundation, and Mellon Foundation; renovation of office and stack spaces, electronically operated storage system 472-474
October 18, 1994
Transforming Visions: Writers on Art, AIC publication edited by Edward Hirsch; evening of readings by Mark Strand, Reginald Gibbons, Jorie Graham, Li-Young Lee, Susan Mitchell, Gerald Stern, Gary Wills 460 (411-412, 435), 484-485, 490
October 19, 1994
Dieter Appelt Exhibition, events, seminar, SAIC Visiting Artists program, lecture by the artist 475-476; Dieter Appelt, AIC publication by curator of Photography Sylvia Wolf, first English-language monograph on the artist 479-480, 486
November 1994
Monthly Calendar
Continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 486-494
5th Annual Chicago Humanities Festival 488
November 4, 1994
“Wreathing the Lions” event at Museum’s main entrance 477, 481-483; second annual Christmas exhibition Glad Tidings of Great Joy coordinated by AIC deputy director Teri J. Edelstein, programs and lectures; Glad Tidings of Great Joy, AIC publication of Gospels481, 486, 495-496
November 8, 1994
American Arts Department, Henry Luce Foundation grant for major publication, fellowship, and research of the department holdings coordinated by Department curator Judith A. Barter 497-500
November 21, 1994
Lyric Opera of Chicago concerts in association with Karl Friederich Schinkel exhibition 501-502
December 1994
Monthly Calendar
New and continuing exhibitions, public programs, and lectures 503-510
Bystander: A History of Street Photography, exhibition and publication by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck 503
December 8, 1994
Three photography exhibitions: Bystander: A History of Street Photography; Joel Meyerowitz; Andre Kertez 511-512
December 27, 1994
African American History Month, 1995 events and program schedule 513-517; Joseph A. Yoakum exhibition 513-514
