May Highlights

    May Highlights

      
    Sven-David Sandström

    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
    Baroque and Neo-Baroque: The Music of Handel and Sandström
    8 p.m. Friday, May 16 and 3 p.m. Saturday, May 17

    The bombastic “Dettingen Te Deum” of G.F. Handel will be paired with “Magnificat” by living Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström. It was written for Baroque instruments and will feature the Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Baroque Band. The event is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Doris Taub Memorial Fund, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and the Consulate General of Sweden, Chicago. Tickets at the door will be $20 general, $10 student and senior and $5 student in advance. Call (773) 702-7059 for more information.
    5850 S. Woodlawn Ave.

      
    Pulling Mouth (1969)

    Film Studies Center
    Symposium: “The Early Films of Bruce Nauman: Between Art History and Film Studies”
    10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 17

    In the late 1960s, when video was gaining ground as a new medium, American artist Bruce Nauman used 16mm film for his conceptual and philosophical exploration of the studio, the body, perception and art-making in general. The one-day symposium will feature nine short Nauman films, most rarely seen outside of a traditional art exhibition space. A keynote address titled “Making Up Art,” presented by Constance Lewallen, adjunct curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific film archive, will precede the films. A roundtable discussion featuring a group of scholars and curators will follow the screening. For a list of films, visit http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.
    Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., Room 307

      
    John Sloan, Washington Arch (1923), Etching, Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963.

    Smart Museum of Art
    “Seeing the City: Sloan’s New York” opening
    5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 22

    In gritty depictions of urban life, John Sloan celebrated the metropolis of New York by focusing on street scenes, elevated trains, public spaces and the lives of ordinary Americans. Gathering material from 1900 to the 1930s, the exhibition maps Sloan’s New York and examines the personal meaning tied to the places he chose to depict again and again. Exhibition curators Joyce Schiller and Heather Campbell Coyle of the Delaware Art Museum will present an introductory lecture. A reception will follow at the Smart Museum of Art. The exhibition will run through Sunday, Sept. 14.
    Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 S. Greenwood Ave., Room 157

      
    Ivan Brunetti, self-portrait

    Committee on Creative Writing
    Ivan Brunetti lecture
    5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 29

    Ivan Brunetti works as a Web designer, and in the past, has taught classes on editorial illustration and comics at the University and Columbia College in Chicago. In 2005, he curated “The Cartoonist’s Eye,” an exhibit of 75 artists’ work, for the A+D Gallery of Columbia College; the exhibit was a preview for An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, which he edited. A second volume of the anthology is scheduled for the fall of 2008. He has contributed comic strips for The Chicago Reader and has drawn comics and illustrations for, among others, The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and “Scooby-Doo.” Recently, he drew a comic-strip sequence for the city of Las Vegas, on the theme of “Thirst,” for The Aerial Gallery, which consists of 50 serialized artworks printed onto banners along Las Vegas Boulevard. The Las Vegas exhibition will be on display until February 2009.
    Rosenwald Hall, 1101 E. 58th St., Room 405