Hyde Park
Out but not Down
Just as the modest wooden structure in the yard at 57th and Woodlawn brings together events from different times and places, SHoP was intended from its beginnings in October 2011 to provide a meeting point for differing perspectives. SHoP’s current arrangement, however, will soon be coming to an end in the summer with the... »
Hyde Park Knights
Three University of Chicago undergraduates who don hoodies instead of shining armor, wield UCIDs instead of crests, and iPhones instead of lances may not be the epitome of medieval warriors, but these three students take to the streets with bravado and a passion for service. »
PUSH for Justice
“Stop the killing!” Stop the killing. Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. is speaking at the national headquarters for his Rainbow/PUSH coalition, blocks from President Obama’s Hyde Park home. »
Chasing Andrei
Saturday night’s director event at the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center could have been called a lot of things, not the least accurate being something like “Trakovsky does Tarkovsky,” or “Solaris Changed My Life—Let’s See Who Else Agrees.” But the FSC went with the sufficiently self-evident, “Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky.” »
Voice of the People
Last Wednesday at ten of three, a small group had already started to gather around the locked doors of an out-of–the way University of Chicago classroom a full forty minutes before vaunted Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton was scheduled to give a lecture entitled “The Death of Criticism?” Though a quick search for the... »
Fantastically Bored
Chris Vorhees and SIMPARCH's fantastically mundane “Uppers and Downers”has transformed the Smart Museum lobby into a grand domestic scene of clean contrast. »
Forces in Focus
“Riffs” is a collection of the artist’s photographs and films. Together, the images swirl around the singular subject of life in Northern Africa, a place where colonizers came for raw resources, the Rolling Stones for drugs, and now European corporations for profit. »
Artistic Taste
In most museums, ad hoc audience participation is frowned upon: look, but please don’t touch, thank you very much. But at Wednesday’s opening of the newest exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art – Feast: Radical Hospitality In Contemporary Art – the audience was invited to grab a piece of the art and take... »
