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Francis Alys Sept 28, 1 of 3
Mexico City-based artist Francis Alÿs will present his animation Bolero, along with the 511 graphite drawings from which the animation is made, and Politics of Rehearsal, a 30-minute video that combines footage of a speech by President Truman, narration by critic Cuauhtémoc Medina, and a rehearsal for a striptease. Rehearsal parallels sociopolitical promises from Latin America with the tactics of a stripper—always leaving something to be desired.
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The Renaissance Society Zagajewski: "Autumn is always too early. The peonies are still blooming, bees are still working out ideal states, and the cold bayonets of autumn suddenly glint in the fields and the wind rages...." reading on Nov 22, 2pm at The Renaissance Society

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The Renaissance Society Renaissance Man of Sound: Joe McPhee’s Survival Unit III brings avant-garde jazz to Bond Chapel (pre-concert reception at The Ren at 7pm) http://tinyurl.com/RSjoenewcity

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Joe McPhee is a Renaissance man of sound. The 70-year-old horn and reed player’s versatility has made him one of the free music community’s most cherished
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The 8 pm concert will be preceeded by a reception in the gallery at The Renaissance Society, at 5811 South Ellis Avenue, 4th floor, from 7 to 8pm.

"We're all survivors, and perhaps the message here is that we need to get our individual voices heard and not become reticent when matters go awry. McPhee and his band mates... execute a spiritual cleansing process, teeming with vivid dialogues and multilayered textures. An eventful and undeniably persuasive listening experience it is."
(AllAboutJazz.com)
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Concert and preconcert reception
Time:7:00PM Monday, November 9th
Location:concert in Bond Chapel at 8, reception at The Renaissance Society at 7pm
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The Renaissance Society Mon Nov 9, 8pm Joe McPhee concert in Bond, pre-concert reception at The Ren at 7pm. As always, free. http://tinyurl.com/RSmcph

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The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other Fables, critically documents and examines the social impact of global economics. Always aiming to p...
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The Renaissance Society RenSoc is joining http://www.britannica.com/blogs/ Look out for posts about contemporary art!

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Britannica Blog is a place for smart, lively conversations about a broad range of topics. Art, science, history, current events – it’s all grist for the mill. We’ve given our writers encouragement and a lot of freedom, so the opinions here are theirs, not the company’s. ...
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The Renaissance Society Before tonight's concert by Hans Koch, drop by to see Allan Sekula's exhibit "Polonia..." from 7 to 8pm. http://tinyurl.com/RSnovevents

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The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other Fables, critically documents and examines the social impact of global economics. Always aiming to p...
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The Renaissance Society film/discussion series on the 20th anniversary of the transitions marking the end of the Cold War http://tinyurl.com/cis1989RS

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The series is cosponsored by the International House Global Voices Program, Doc Films, and the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies.
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The Renaissance Society YANG FUDONG in Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture at MoCP until Dec 23 and http://tinyurl.com/fudongRS in 2004 at The Renaissance Society.

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Olivo Barbieri, Shanghai, 2001 from NSFE series, Courtesy of Howard Stein Joy of Giving Something and Yancey Richardson Gallery
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Sekula "What’s interesting is what one makes of the fact that the United States
is able to mobilize other countries to assist it in circumventing its
own laws and often in violation of the laws of the country that is
assisting, and all of this is happening in secret. The Polish
government doesn’t admit that any of this hap...pened, and the American
government admits it happens, but won’t say where. It exists in a gray
zone of acknowledgment and non acknowledgment—it’s part of the politics
of the moment."
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BW Your previous photographic work deals a lot with issues pertaining to globalization—photos of people that are explicitly and intentionally political. “Polonia” is different. I like to think that lately, ...
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The Renaissance Society Michael Zerang composed the music for Redmoon's Hunchback. Cool!Zerang plays with Joe McPhee's Survival Unit (Joe McPhee, saxophone; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello; Michael Zerang, percussion) Mon, Nov 9, 20098:00 pm Bond Chapel (1050 East 59th Street) at the U of C Admission FREE

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Engineering Wonder
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The Renaissance Society Katharina Grosse at the Denver Museum of Art http://tinyurl.com/DMAgrosse opens Nov14 (group show)

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The work of Dusseldorf-based artist Katharina Grosse (b. 1961, Germany) presses against or explodes the confines of the painterly tradition.  Engaging a range of surfaces, including aluminum, canvas, paper, and existing architectural elements, Gr...
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The Renaissance Society The new book about Katharina Grosse's installation at The Ren is available for purchase

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The work of Dusseldorf-based artist Katharina Grosse (b. 1961, Germany) presses against or explodes the confines of the painterly tradition.  Engaging a range of surfaces, including aluminum, canvas, paper, and existing architectural elements, Gr...
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The Renaissance Society Did you know that Laszlo Maholy-Nagy had an exhibit of his paintings at The Renaissance Society in 1939, and now at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt until Feb. 7, and beginning Nov 8 at the MOMA in a group show about the Bauhaus

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The President and board of directors of the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago announce an exhibition of paintings by L. Moholy-Nagy, Director of the School of Design, Chicago. April 7 to May 7, daily, including Sunday, from two until five, ...
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The Renaissance Society BenRossi:"if Poland's anviety as a country defined by conquest and occupation is vividly rendered by Sekula's photographs, so too is the role of Chicago in providing Poles with a diasopirc identity."

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The Renaissance Society's new exhibit featuring Polish artist Allan Sekula focuses on nearly all aspects of the Polish identity.
Tim Porges
Tim Porges
Yes, and for Serbia and Croatia as well.
October 19 at 11:29am
Larry Rothfield
Larry Rothfield
Ben Rossi is one smart kid!
October 19 at 4:49pm
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The Renaissance Society "Allan Sekula is a storyteller, a very good one, who refuses to stick to a linear narrative." Lori Waxman in the Chicago Tribune

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Allan Sekula is a photographer, a very famous one, who does not trust pictures to tell the whole story. He is also a storyteller, a very good one, who refuses to stick to a linear narrative.The results are rarely tidy or predictable. ...