March-April Highlights

	Sol LeWitt

Smart Museum of Art
“Sol LeWitt: Color and Line”
Tuesday, March 26-Sunday, June 8

In the 1960s and ’70s, Sol LeWitt was one of the first artists to use color and line as building blocks in a serial approach to art. By systemically varying and combining color and line and other basic elements, LeWitt (1928-2007) sought to eliminate “the arbitrary, the capricious and the subjective as much as possible.” The approach was pivotal to the development of the minimalist and conceptualist art. Mechanical reproduction also was key to LeWitt’s approach, and his most extensive experiments with color and line occurred as he began print making in 1970. The exhibition features a selection of lithographs and artist books from the period and sheds light on the highly systematic—and extremely diverse—ways in which LeWitt deployed color and line within the print making process.
5550 S. Greenwood Ave.

	Das Küchen Bachen, reproduced from Paul Christian Kirchner. Jüdisches Ceremoniel, oder, Beschreibung dererjenigen Gebräuche. Nürnberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1724.

Special Collections Research Center
“Images of Politics, Prayer, and Everyday Life from the Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection”
Through Monday, July 7

Assembled over many years by University alumnus Harry Sondheim (A.B. ’54, J.D. ’57), the collection spans the 16th to the late-20th century and includes early books, prints, drawings newspaper and magazine illustrations and ephemeral items, such as New Year’s cards and postcards depicting Jewish life and customs. The exhibition is organized around representations of the Jewish life cycle—birth, circumcision, naming, bar/bat mitzah, marriage and death—and those of the Jewish calendar—the Sabbath, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Sukkot and Passover. Sondheim also collected numerous images of Jews at labor and leisure and pursued his passion for illustrators and artists Ben Shahn, Moritz Oppenheim, Ephraim Lilien, Alfred Szyk, Alphonse Lévy and Bernard Picart.
Joseph Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th St.

	Ensemble Balkanske Igre will provide Balkan music and dance.

International House
43rd Annual Eastern European Folk Festival of Music and Dance
Friday, March 28-Sunday, March 30

The festival, which will bring together enthusiasts of Balkan music, dance, food and culture, will begin Friday with workshops and a dance party with Turkish music from James Stoyanoff and Lamajamal, from 8 p.m. until midnight. On Saturday and Sunday, there will be folk dance and music workshops from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with master teachers from around the world. A special guest this year is Martin Koenig, the co-founder of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in New York, who will give multimedia presentations on Balkan folklore and teach workshops on Vlach dances. At 6 p.m. Saturday, there will be an Eastern European buffet, and a performance and dance party with live music. Tickets are available in advance or at the door and are $40 general, $25 student/senior for Saturday’s dinner, concert and party; $25/$15 for Saturday’s concert and party only; $20/$10 for Friday’s dance party; and $12/$8 for each day of the workshop. For a full list of performers, visit http://ihouse.uchicago.edu.
1414 E. 59th St.