The University of Chicago’s peculiar relationship with books can be traced to Robert Maynard Hutchins. The University’s fifth president, it was Hutchins who instituted a Great Books class, the forerunner to today’s Core curriculum. Also under Hutchins’s watch, the UofC…
Out in the Cold: What will the University of Chicago do with its deteriorating public art?
by Elly Fishman •
Just outside the University of Chicago’s Midway Studios stands a time-worn Cadillac entombed in a 20-ton coat of concrete. This 1970 Wolf Vostell sculpture, “Concrete Traffic,” has sat outside the Studios for 40 years. Nearly 20 feet in length and…
Cultural Crock Pot: Café Trinidad offers homestyle island fare
by Mackenzie Cramblit •
Serial dieters and otherwise picky eaters beware: Café Trinidad serves up generous portions of Trinbagonian food just like your fantasy grandmother used to make. The food is as filling as it is flavorful. You may want to save the calorie…
Silence is Golden: Artists examine quiet in the Renaissance Society’s latest exhibition
by Michael Joyce •
One hundred clear plastic balls with curled slips of blank paper embedded in them litter the floor of the Renaissance Society’s gallery. Five and seven-eighths inches in diameter, they’re big enough to maneuver around, and light enough for a toddler…
Dour in the Streets: Millions of Dead Cops rise from the grave
by Michael Joyce •
When the Austin hardcore punk band the Stains played their first Los Angeles show in 1981, they were dismayed at the presence of another Stains on the bill, bringing to three the number of hardcore punk bands with that name.…
No Gallery Like Home: A Hyde Park couple invite art into their living room
by Julia Pagnamenta •
Laura Shaeffer and Andrew Nord’s Home Gallery is an artistic haven in the midst of Hyde Park. The walls of their two-story home function as a gallery as well as a living space: open to the public, their home provides…
Artist Games
by Kristin Cordova •
Strange contraptions greet revelers who come to try their hand at King Ludd’s Midway Arcade, housed at the Experimental Station on 61st Street and Blackstone Avenue. Don’t expect to see Pac-Man, and leave your quarters at home. This arcade is…
Watercolors and Glitter
by Leah Reisman •
ART’s all-caps name is representative of the enthusiasm and creativity of the group it refers to. Begun last fall under the umbrella of the Chicago Adolescent Mentoring Program and led by University of Chicago students Rachel Reed and Josh Nalven,…
Blitz Egg
by Mackenzie Cramblit •
History was made—fast—on a Monday afternoon in the Bartlett Trophy Lounge at the University of Chicago. At 5:00pm on April 20, the Armenian Students Association, in partnership with the Center for Eastern European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, hosted its first annual…
