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Aug. 16, 2001
Vol. 20 No. 20

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    Summer Highlights

    [red planet] by h.c. westermann
    Smart Museum of Art
    “See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann”
    Through Sunday, Sept. 9
    10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; noon-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday
    5550 S. Greenwood Ave. 702-0200. Free.
    American sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker H.C. Westermann has for more than 40 years been regarded as a central figure in American art of the postwar period. The Smart Museum is presenting through Sunday, Sept. 9, an exhibition of nearly 50 lithographs, linoleum cuts, woodblock prints and related drawings and ephemera by this artist who was highly influential in Figurative and Pop Art trends as well as in the locally based Chicago Imagist movement. This exhibition has been organized in conjunction with an exhibition of the artist’s sculptures at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave.


    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
    Carillonathon!
    6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. 702-7059. Free.
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel will present its final evening concert of the summer, featuring carillonneur John Widmann, Frederick, Md.. The public is invited to bring a picnic and enjoy the concert from the chapel lawn. Tours of the carillon will begin at 5:30 p.m.


    Office of the Reynolds Club and Student Activities
    Outdoor movie on the Midway
    When We Were Kings
    8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21
    On the Midway, between 59th and 60th streets, just west of the skating rink.
    Free.