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DEBORAH STRATMAN — 41es. Over the years, Rezac has earned accolades 38 ologists who had worked on it. This year, the SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcityfrom many groups, including the National En- work culminated in an installation at Sectordowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foun- WILLIAM J. O’BRIEN 2337 inspired by his research. Mallozzi is as-dation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the sistant professor of sound at the School of theAmerican Academy in Rome. The creative prowess of William J. O’Brien can- Art Institute of Chicago as well as co-founder not simply be contained in any one medium. and director emeritus of Experimental Sound37 Consider his ceramic and felt efforts, which Station, a recording studio, sound art gallery twist these most traditional of forms into bul- and archive located in Ravenswood.JAN TICHY bous, loud, delightfully atavistic icons and to- tems which seem poised to vibrate apart in ri- 40Photographer and filmmaker Jan Tichy has kept otous defiance of their immobile position. Theya remarkably low profile despite his impressive are almost always, as befits shackled chaos, ALBERTO AGUILARaccomplishments since relocating to Chicago left unnamed. O’Brien added to that prodigiousfrom Prague (by way of Tel Aviv) just over a de- output this year with a showing at Shane Alberto Aguilar gave his final lecture at Haroldcade ago. Now an associate professor of pho- Campbell Gallery, where, surrounded by his Washington College on April 17, where hetography at the School of the Art Institute of typically nameless textiles and flanked by two taught for the past twelve years. Typical of Agu-Chicago, His work can be found in collections nameless sentinels, the artist erected a circus ilar, the invitation to the lecture was itself a workincluding MoMA, the Art Institute and the Tel tent, or “magic box,” adding space itself to his of art. Framed as an open-ended poem, the in-Aviv Museum of Art. Last year, Tichy had solo list of mastered mediums. vite read, “The final lecture will end with ques-shows at the MSU Broad, the Berman Museum tions/The final lecture will end with uncertain-of Art at Ursinus College, and at Drdova Gallery 39 ty.” When asked what his future plans were,in Prague. Tichy is also known for his social prac- Aguilar replied that he’d be making art—and hetice public projects, such as his 2011 “Project LOU MALLOZZI is. He’s part of upcoming exhibitions at the Mu-Cabrini Green,” which illuminated the building seum of Contemporary Art Detroit and at Cen-before it was demolished; and his current, Lou Mallozzi was on residency in Vienna in tro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Hava-NEA-funded “Heat Light Water Project” in a for- 2015 when he became obsessed with ground- na. Along with his former student and frequentmer industrial building in Gary, Indiana. Tichy breaking archaeological discoveries in the re- collaborator Alex Bradley Cohen, he is takingwill return in September with another light and gion—the grave of the oldest known twin child over Logan Square’s Comfort Station for thearchitecture work as one of the four artists se- burial and one of the oldest painted objects month of September to create a space for peo-lected for the monumental “Art on theMART” ever discovered, a piece of ivory marked with ple “to slow their minds and bodies and enjoydigital projection on the facade of the downtown red ochre. Mallozzi visited the museums that art that comforts, holds and listens.” He is alsoMerchandise Mart. displayed the artifacts, as well as the original working on an solo exhibition for Gallery 400, dig site, even tracking down one of the archae- 51

TONY LEWIS — 46 and Ballroom Marfa. Her latest ALBERTO AGUILAR — 40 project, “Hello Ladies,” is a hybrid documentary blending history, geography and ethnography to explore the legacy of the public voices of Ethiopian women. 42 CANDIDA ALVAREZ which will recount the sometimes collaborative, photography, drawing and audio, focusing on Candida Alvarez’s paintings are sometimes ephemeral work he’s made over the relationships between humans and the natural captivating. Through a tactful yet past fifteen years. environment through issues of faith, freedom effervescent use of color and and surveillance, among others. The multi- form, her works straddle the line 41 award-winning artist is an associate professor between representation and ab- of film at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and straction. With the refinement DEBORAH STRATMAN has exhibited widely from the Museum of Mod- only a seasoned artist could em- ern Art in New York to the Witte de With Center ploy, she readily pulls references Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and for Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, the Ham- from art history, popular culture filmmaker who explores landscapes and sys- mer Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou and autobiography, seamlessly tems. Her body of work includes public sculpture, folding them into assured yet spontaneously fresh strokes on canvas. Perhaps most impressive is the sheer breadth and dedication of Alvarez’s career. Her 2017 retrospective at the Chicago Cultural Cen- ter presented over four decades of work, with no indication that she’s slowing down. Alvarez has been included in multiple recent reparative group exhibitions that are heeding women’s con- tributions to the field of abstraction, notably “Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstrac- tion” at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Logan CenterNewcity SEPTEMBER 2018 First Family Saturdays Saturday of the Explore your child’s Month artistic curiosity with hands-on art October 2018– workshops designed June 2019 to stimulate creativity and play. These FREE interdisciplinary workshops are exciting arts.uchicago.edu/familysaturdays for the entire family, 773.702.ARTS offering activities from music to arts LoganCenterFamilySaturdays and crafts. Come learn Logan Center something new! for the Arts 915 E 60th St Appropriate for families with children ages 2-12. Registration is encouraged. Free parking in lot at 60th and Drexel.52

Art and Chicago’s own “Out of ANNA KUNZ — 45Easy Reach.” Alvarez is a long-time professor in the depart-ment of painting and drawingat SAIC.43 46 black-and-white works in which he selectively erased and scratched out parts of dialogue asJOSÉ LERMA TONY LEWIS well all figures and settings, rendering poetic prose free-floating amongst haunting abstrac-Lerma’s journey to art moved The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. this tion. Lewis’ more colorful collages were shownthrough his birthplace of Spain year exhibited the entirety of Tony Lewis’ “An- at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles last year, whereto Puerto Rico, then to New Or- thology 2014-2016” series, collaged drawings the artist picked up more representation, alreadyleans for Tulane and Madison that appropriated hundreds of frames of the be- claimed by Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicagofor law school—all this before loved “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip series inheeding the call of the studio.His fantastical paintings and NIU Studio and Design Alumni Artistsdrawings hold the figurative Through October 19, 2018spirit of surrealism and imagism,with a finer attunement to tex-  ture and contrast than either.Lerma’s 2017 solo show at Kavi Perceiving layers of form and contentGupta Gallery featured whimsi- November 15, 2018–February 15, 2019cal paintings that imitated (closed for university holidays)crumpled Post-it pen doodles  at a large scale, as well as a massive collaredshirt twirling from the gallery ceiling. In PanamaCity this year, he showed drawings and paint-ings of contorted figures, à la early Picasso, withblue-neon light ropes scattered across the floor,another sculptural drawing.44ALEX CHITTYThe brilliant playfulness of Alex Chitty’ssculptures sits between their simultaneousfamiliarity and strangeness. Using a formallanguage which bounces off elegant furnituredesign, advertising displays, homey trinkets andthe natural world, she aptly questions howbeauty is schematized through combinations oftypically disparate objects. Her sculpturesbalance a diagrammatic, even scientificprecision, with the surprise of strange fits—aplaster acorn bends an otherwise uniform brassseries of poles; a smoothed and small chunk ofwalnut hovers just away from the gallery wall.An instructor of print media at SAIC, Chitty hashad recent solo exhibitions at Patron Gallery,Virginia Commonwealth University’s AndersonGallery, and the Elmhurst Art Museum.45 The impact, insights and interpretation SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcity of Big, Driven, Visualized DataANNA KUNZ March 28–May 17, 2019Anna Kunz’s whimsical hand-dyed-and-paint- NIU ART MUSEUMed thirty-foot color-blocked fabrics had a re-cent, larger-than-life solo exhibition, “Color First Floor, West End, Altgeld Hall, DeKalbCast” at the Hyde Park Art Center, which took niu.edu/artmuseumthree years of work and retrospection to com-plete. Her largest piece to date, Kunz soughtto create a full-circle experience, combiningher known practices in printmaking, paintingand color theory with installation work, all withthe viewer’s gaze in mind. Kunz then set off toupstate New York for a residency to focus atsmaller scale with works on paper, small paint-ings and sculptures. 53

NATE YOUNG — 49 and conceptual beauty. In the past few years, Nate Young’s work has been shown in New York, Chicago, Char- lotte, Michigan, Italy and Cleveland— the later being his participation in the FRONT International’s “Great Lakes Research” initiative developed by ar- tistic director Michelle Grabner. Mo- nique Meloche Gallery, which rep- resents Young, has shown him twice recently—in the fall of last year in Chi- cago and in the spring at their Lower East Side space in New York City. and Massimo De Carlo Gallery in Milan. All three as curating thoughtful pairings and solo shows 50 galleries showed his work last year in solo shows, of artists from near and far. His studio practice and he also exhibited at the Rose Art Museum at remains as quietly constructive as his work in LATHAM ZEARFOSS Brandeis University, where he recently complet- the artistic community; color and hard-edged ed a residency. This summer, a new show  opened forms bristle against gestural moves and partial Latham Zearfoss is an artist for our at Art Projects Ibiza, Spain. Lewis’ exposure con- structures. Recent shows have taken his work ugent times. Their work dismisses tinues to grow, seemingly without limits. to Germany and France. boundaries between media just as well as it unites human beings in a collective 47 49 struggle for love and the possibility for intimacy, both political and personal. At a screen- JENNY KENDLER NATE YOUNG ing of their shorts at New York City’s Union Docs this spring, they presented nearly a decade of In a world of changing climates, Jenny Kendler’s As Luke Fidler wrote in Newcity, Nate Young’s videos exploring concepts ranging from societal work depicting plants and animals manages to recent work shows “a confident, accomplished violence, liberal conceptions of whiteness, revo- convey the urgency of environmental activism foray into the subgenre of contemporary art lutionary grooves and the “heroic sodomite” Ty- without ceding an inch of beauty. Her “Bewilder that plots personal history onto the broader so- rone Gardner, whose 2003 “Lawrence v. Texas” (Deimatic Eyespot Camouflage)” poses muse- cial structures of race,” a challenge made more Supreme Court case overturned anti-sodomy um visitors with temporary tattoos mimicking formidable with each passing day of the Trump laws nationwide. In 2017, their solo exhibition at the spotted wing patterns of butterflies and presidency. His sculptural pieces combine fine Andrew Rafacz Gallery included paint-doused moths, covering them in a natural camouflage craftsmanship and draughtsmanship with per- flatscreen TVs and a fictional dialogue between that bewilders advanced facial recognition tech- sonal and political histories in unsettling formal Judith Butler, gender theorist, and Octavia Butler, nology, not to mention the naked eye. This the beloved science-fiction writer. This year, they year’s “Birds Watching,” a forty-foot sculpture co-organized the socially engaged art confer- installed at the Storm King Art Center in New ence Open Engagement in New York City. Since Windsor, New York, reflects the gazes of a 2005, Zearfoss has co-organized Chances hundred bird species threatened by climate Dances, a queer collective and monthly dance change. Next year, Kendler will install the party. In 2015, the collective celebrated ten years piece on the 606 trail to gaze at passersby with a retrospective and experimental exhibition toting disposable coffee cups and plastic at Gallery 400. water bottles. Kendler has served on the boards at threewalls and ACRE, and has a LATHAM ZEARFOSS — 50 long list of residencies past and forthcoming,Newcity SEPTEMBER 2018 including at the Banff Research in Culture and as the first resident artist of the Natural Re- sources Defense Council. Her 2018 Gallery 400 “Garden For A Changing Climate” exhi- bition mobilized a portable garden to explore the environment of a future Chicago through- out its diverse neighborhoods. 48 DAN DEVENING For nearly four decades, Dan Devening has made Chicago his artistic home—teaching painting at Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well54

Hairy Who? 1966-1969 at the Art Institute of Chicago rts & Culture September 26, 2018-January 6, 2019Art Green. \"Consider the Options, Examine theFacts, Apply the Logic (originally titled TheUndeniable Logician),\" 1965. Smart Museum ofArt, University of Chicago, Anonymous Gift.

ArtDarryl Cowherd, “The Time is Now,” 1966, courtesy of the artist, on view at \"South Side Stories: Collectivity As Form The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980\" \"The Time is Now!\" and the Legacy of South Side Art Worlds By Stephanie KochNewcity SEPTEMBER 2018 Until now, to think of art in Chicago Chicago in 1968 and dedicated to creating a South Side,\" Zorach says, \"artists who were during the 1960s and 1970s, its histories unified, positive black aesthetic is fairly thinking of themselves as activist artists, artists and legacies, one would look toward the Hairy well-known, these artists and their works have who were experimenting in a lot of different Who. A group of artists that held a series of risen in mainstream visibility. With their recent stylistic approaches, people who were creating exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center, the features in major exhibitions and museum spaces for art to exist and thrive, people who Hairy Who is associated with Hyde Park and acquisitions, AfriCOBRA achieved one of its were reimagining daily life.” Zorach’s newest the South Side at large. A Chicago art history aims: the inclusion of black artists into exhibition “South Side Stories: The Time Is from that period tends to be seen through the traditional art spaces. Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, lens of these artists and the larger Imagist 1960-1980” at the Smart Museum of Art will group. Yet this period is also the time of the One such exhibition was 2013's multi-site add to and complicate art history's under- Black Power and Black Arts Movements. A show “AFRICOBRA in Chicago.\" Rebecca standing of the arts in the 1960s and 1970s in closer look at activity on the South Side Zorach, professor of art history at Northwest- Chicago. Presented in partnership with the reveals an immense amount of energy ern University, curated one of the sites, DuSable Museum of African American History invested creating and maintaining black arts “AFRICOBRA: Philosophy” at the Reva and and concurrently with their exhibition “South institutions, alternative gallery spaces, artist David Logan Center for the Arts, to show how Side Stories: The Art and Influence of Dr. studios and spaces for gathering and the group collaboratively developed their Margaret T. Burroughs,” these institutions aim multidisciplinary collaboration.Although values. \"There was this desire to give a real to raise further awareness of how artists, and AfriCOBRA, a black artist collective started in sense to the full breadth of art practice on the mainly artists of color, worked in the 1960s56

Yasuhiro Ishimoto:Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Untitled, Chicago, 1950Someday, ChicagoCollection of DePaul Art MuseumSeptember 6 - December 16, 2018Also on view:Brendan Fernandes: The Living MaskWhitney Bradshaw: OutcryDePaul Art Museum935 W. Fullerton Avenuewww.depaul.edu/museumLIVE/WORK Through March 3, 2019jmkac.org Arts/Industry resident Joel Otterson, 2018. Photo: Kohler Co.SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcity Four exhibitions explore the artist’s studio as a place of work and a way of being. 57

ART TOP 5 Yaoundé Olu in front of her space, the Osun Art Center, 1977. Photographed by Jonas Dovydenas for the American Folklife Center. Chicago Ethnic Arts Collection, Library of Congress. 1 Hairy Who? 1966-1969.Newcity SEPTEMBER 2018 Art Institute of Chicago. and 1970s. The partner exhibitions of “South seemingly singular and negative feelings with With the Art Institute finally Side Stories” brings to the fore their legacy positive and collective artistic action. paying notice, will Chicago that remains currently in Chicago, national and finally surpass the long shadow even international aesthetics and art practices. As much as the show is dedicated to the of its most notable artistic fame? creative individuals who imagined worlds that “The Time is Now!” presents works by all of the were other than the time, space and history in 2 EXPO 2018. AfriCOBRA artists. (The Hairy Who, too.) But which they lived, the show is also dedicated to Navy Pier, September Zorach and the show's organizers wanted to another kind of art world: the exhibition spaces 27-30. The sixth iteration of the broaden the focus, and include artists who which hosted these works. In addition to revived Chicago art fair again were working on the South Side, those who sections focused on the Hyde Park Art Center brings the art world to Chicago were in dialogue with this arts community, but and the South Side Community Art Center (and vice versa). perhaps were not a part of these more visible (SSCAC), with those relationships represented groups or were political in other ways. Elliott in exhibited works and ephemera, “The Time 3 South Side Stories: Hunter’s lesser-known figurative painting, is Now!” also holds on view the alternative Rethinking Chicago Art, “Black Depression,” a work that charts a not gallery, Osun, founded in 1968 by Dr. Yaoundé 1960–1980. Smart Museum uncommon internal conflict through thick Olu in South Shore. The works of graphic artist and DuSable Museum. Two gashes of paint, stands in proximity to Barbara Olu are presented alongside flyers not only for South Side venues combine to Jones-Hogu's “Rise and Take Control,” a Olu’s exhibitions, such as “Black Art is Alive study the profound, as well as graphic screen-print iconic to that era which and Well” at the SSCAC, but also her profoundly overlooked histories gave a positive message of political action and community classes and gatherings, including a of the city's most prolific artistic direction. This contrast represents a thematic fashion auction and dance classes. A gallery communities. concern with internal and external conflict, as on 75th Street, Osun was one of many along well as gesturing toward a need viewed by that avenue then. Outside of showcasing the 4 The First Lions. many within that arts community to respond to works of African-American artists, artists and Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. An exhibition and documentary on the founding of the UIMA, in time for the cultural re-gentrification of the neighborhood. 5 Kavi Gupta. AfriCOBRA 50. Gerald Williams guest-curates a retrospective to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the Chicago artists collective. 58

THEThrough December 30, 2018 Logan Center Gallery • Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts • 915 E 60th St Chicago IL 60637 Candice Lin September 14 TIME — ART WORLDS of A HARDTHE TIME is NOW! CHICAGO’s SOUTH SIDE WHITE BODY1960-1980 arts.uchicago.edu/logan/gallery September 13–December 30 ART WORLDS of A POROUS SLIP smartmuseum.uchicago.edu CHICAGO’s SOUTH SIDE 1960-1980 October 28 Jason Dodge The Figure and the SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcity Chicago Imagists THE BROAD Selections from the Elmhurst CHURCH College Art Collection of N I G H T Curated by Suellen Rocca, one of the original Imagists September 25–December 21 SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 - JANUARY 13, 2019 The Figure and the Chicago Imagists is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy with presenting partner, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. Image: Gladys Nilsson, In Vertical Shade, 1984, Elmhurst College Art Collection. 59

creatives in these neighborhoods founded galleries to encourage the histories of visual artists and designers such as fiber artist Robert Paige,community to organize and to strengthen the community with the Sylvia Abernathy (who was responsible for the layout of the Wall ofpresence of art. Respect, a monumental mural painted on the side of a Bronzeville building that has returned to visibility in recent years), photographer BillyThe show not only features the works of artists and designers making Abernathy, sculptor Edmonia Lewis and ceramicist Marva Leeon the South Side from the 1960s through the 1980s, but also presents Pitchford-Jolly.their world-making, community bonds, and collective action. ForZorach, \"Collectivity is form,” and this collectivity extended beyond built Dressed to be highly visible in bright, rainbow-colored garments designed and fabricated by Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments, artsenvironments to include informal spaces in-between: alleys, streets,and the broadsides of buildings, which served as the homes for group educators move through the streets and public spaces of their South Side neighborhoods. “Art Moves” encourage interactions that Crawfordmural projects. With these works on public view, residents of theseneighborhoods became active participants in the making process. As describes as on the “human-scale.” Recurring throughout the week- ends of summer and early fall, the program is intended to engageartists created collaboratively and publicly, residents and artists curious passersby into one-on-one, spontaneous educational lessonsengaged in spontaneous conversations. Everyday neighbors learnedabout art-making processes and were inspired to found other forms of on these lesser-known artists supported by small, take-away art projects. The educators employ conversational language to allow forcultural productivity and coalition. At the same time, these residentsgave feedback and offered knowledge they had on the work’s content access into the histories and ideas of artists that these communityto the artists, to eventually become incorporated into the final project. residents may not know influenced the cultural and architectural fabricSuch a project was the Wall of Respect, conceived by the Organization of their own lives. More often than not, these small audiences learn something new, but every once in a while, the community residentsof Black American Culture (OBAC). In response to a fractured black share what history and knowledge they know about the artists and theircommunity, both locally and nationally, the artists of the OBAC neighborhoods, which the educators fold into their curricula andconceived of the Wall of Respect to unite their neighborhood’smembers through the depiction of black heroes. These artists affirmed presentations, and continue to share.a black identity and instilled pride in the community’s residents bycreating a positive self-image. The mural is no longer, but “The Time is \"South Side Stories: The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980\" opens at the Smart Museum of Art on September 13.Now!” offers its visitors a historical remnant with Jeff Donaldson’s The Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge’s \"Art Moves\" contin-\"Study for the Wall of Respect (Miles Davis),\" which the muralists later ues with programs throughout September and October. Both will beincorporated into the work. participating in Art Design Chicago’s \"Celebrating South Side Stories,\"The works and the art spaces that these artists created were significant an all-day arts festival, free and open to the public across various artswith regard to scale and new in terms of organization. As participatory institutions on Chicago’s South Side, on September 15. Stephanie Koch is the managing director for the Museum of Vernacular Arts andprojects they anticipated, and in some cases are directly linked to, Knowledge.many of the practices of later and current artists working in “socialpractice” and other modes of community organization, though theirinformal nature seems to be lost today. In that particular time and place,connections and conversations happened in ways that were unstruc-Newcity SEPTEMBER 2018tured, and the process of collaborative making resembled the David Huffman, Hoop Dreams, 2007, color softground and spitbiteimprovisation of jazz. What does it mean to exhibit within a university aquatint etching; Courtesy of Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, CAinstitution the objects and works of artists who worked in impromptuways with the aim to form and engage the community throughaesthetics and methods independent of western values? When planning “The Time is Now!,” its organizers wanted the exhibition PERSONAL TO POLITICAL: to come alive, for audiences to experience the works in multi-sensory ways and to imagine the informal settings for gatherings which naturally CELEBRATING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN took place in that period. As part of this effort, there will be a casual ARTISTS OF PAULSON FONTAINE PRESS listening area where visitors can play historically relevant records curated by the graduates of the Sojourner Scholars, a summer arts and SEPT 1 - NOV 25 Organized by: humanities institute for Chicago's South Side high-school students. Free & Open to the Public These students also included LPs of interviews about the Alley, a community space which hosted the Sunday Afternoon Jazz Set for over IN THE artlab: ten years in the 1960s and 1970s. Every Sunday afternoon, musicians and DJs gathered in an alley between St. Lawrence and Champlain ALLISON SVOBODA Avenues where anyone was welcome to listen, dance and be with their neighbors. The positive energy and spirit experienced and generated by musicians and neighbors alike are documented by Kevin Harris with his black-and-white photographic series “The Alley,” also on view. Among other curatorial efforts to revisit this era is the arts education program, \"Art Moves: Chicago’s Innovative Structure of Address,\" developed by the Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge, or MOVAK. Directed by Romi Crawford, associate professor in visual and critical studies and liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MOVAK is a museum without a physical space. Similar in aim to the Chicago collectives and organizations of the sixties and seventies, the museum develops and hosts projects that highlight those not supported by art museums and galleries because they do not fall within those spaces’ formal, aesthetic and institutional values. “Art Moves” is inspired by the grass-roots models for circulating information about black art on the South Side of Chicago such as the Wall of Respect. Meant to embody these informal and conversational methods, the “Art Moves” arts educators deliver curricula on the methods, works and60

Presented in partnership with Art Design Chicago VIDVUDS ZVIEDRIS S E P T E M B E R 18 – D EC E M B E R 9, 2018 McCormick Gallery FREE AND OPEN TO ALL 9/15 - 10/27 blockmuseum.northwestern.eduUp is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, The Richard H. DriehausFoundation, and The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment. Image: Millie Goldsholl, Morton Goldsholl, Wayne Boyer, Larry Janiak, and Dick Marx, Still from Kimberly-ClarkCorporation “ Faces and Fortunes” 1959. Mort & Millie Goldsholl Collection, 1942–1980, Chicago Film Archives.Torkwase Dyson New City.indd 1 7/27/18 10:59:52 AMJames Samuel MadisonSEPTEMBER 14–OCTOBER 27, 2018 SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcity1711 WEST CHICAGO AVENUECHICAGO ILLINOIS 60622WWW. R HOF F MAN G A L L E RY.C O M 61

EXHIBITIONSANDREW BAE GALLERY DEPAUL ART MUSEUM300 W. Superior Street At DePaul University312 335 8601 935 W. Fullerton [email protected] / www.andrewbaegallery.com 773 325 7506Tues–Sat 10-6 [email protected] / museums.depaul.eduPlease contact gallery for information. Mon–Tues closed, Wed–Thurs 11-7, Fri–Sun 11-5 September 6–December 16 Brendan Fernandes: The Living MaskTHE ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO September 6–December 16 Whitney Bradshaw: Outcry September 6–December 16 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago201 East Ontario Street312 787 3997 ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST [email protected] / www.artsclubchicago.org & EDUCATION CENTERTues–Fri 11-6, Sat 11-3September 20–December 21 Gaylen Gerber 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, ILGarden Project: Jenny Kendler and Brian Kirkbride – 847 967 4800 [email protected] / www.ilholocaustmuseum.org The Playhead of Dawn Mon–Wed 10-5, Thurs 10-8, Fri–Sun 10-5 July 19–January 13, 2019 STORIES OF SURVIVAL:THE BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART Object.Image.MemoryAt Northwestern University January 21–September 23 The 75th Anniversary of the40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL847 491 4000 Warsaw Ghetto [email protected] / www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu March 15–September 16 Where the Children Sleep:Tues, Sat–Sun 10-5, Wed–Fri 10-8, Mon closedSeptember 18–December 9 Up is Down: Mid-Century Experiments Photos by Magnus Wennman in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl studio LINDA WARREN PROJECTSSeptember 18–December 9 Break A Rule: Ed Paschke’s Art and TeachingJuly 17–November 4 Paul Chan: Happiness (finally) after 35,000 years 327 N. Aberdeen, Ste. 151 312 432 9500 of civilization [email protected] / www.lindawarrenprojects.com Tues–Sat 11-5 or by private appointmentCARL HAMMER GALLERY September 7–October 27 Michiko Itatani - Gallery Y -740 N. Wells Street Shadows of the Mind312 266 8512 September 7–October 27 Paula Henderson - Gallery X [email protected] / www.carlhammergallery.comTues–Fri 11-6, Sat 11-5 Groundwork(s) & Gallery O - RegardSeptember 7–October 27 Vanessa German - Things Are Not Always LOGAN CENTER EXHIBITIONS What They Seem: A Phenomenology of Black Girlhood At the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 773 702 2787 [email protected] / arts.uchicago.edu/logan-center Tues–Sat 9-9, Sun 11-9, Mon closed September 14–October 28 Candice Lin: A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip

MONIQUE MELOCHE GALLERY THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY451 N. Paulina Street At the University of Chicago312 243 2129 5811 S. Ellis Ave., Cobb Hall, 4th [email protected] / www.moniquemeloche.com 773 702 8670Tues–Sat 11-6 [email protected] / www.renaissancesociety.orgSeptember 15–October 27 Sanford Biggers Tues–Wed, Fri 10-5, Thurs 10-8, Sat–Sun 12-5September 27–30 EXPO CHICAGO: Sanford Biggers, Brendan Fernandes, September 15–November 4 Shadi Habib Allah: Put to Rights Sheree Hovsepian, Ebony G. Patterson, RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY Jeff Sonhouse, Nate Young 1711 W. Chicago AvenueTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY 312 455 1990PHOTOGRAPHY [email protected] / www.rhoffmangallery.com Tues–Fri 10-5:30, Sat 11-5:30At Columbia College Chicago September 14–October 27 Torkwase Dyson: James Samuel Madison600 S. Michigan Avenue312 663 5554 RICHARD GRAY [email protected] / www.mocp.orgMon–Wed 10-5, Thurs 10-8, Fri–Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5 Richard Gray Gallery, Hancock: 875 N. Michigan Avenue, 38th FloorThrough September 30 Lucas Foglia: Human Nature Mon–Fri 10-5:30Through September 30 View Finder: Landscape and Leisure Gray Warehouse: 2044 W. Carroll Avenue Wed–Sat 11-5 in the Collection 312 642 8877 [email protected] / www.richardgraygallery.comTHE NEUBAUER COLLEGIUM September 13–November 21 David Hockney: Time and More,FOR CULTURE AND SOCIETY Space and More…At the University of Chicago5701 South Woodlawn Avenue SMART MUSEUM OF ART773 795 [email protected] / www.neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu At the University of ChicagoMon–Fri 10-5 5550 S. Greenwood AvenueThrough September 14 Anna Daučíková and Assaf Evron: FOR 773 702 0200September 25–December 21 Jason Dodge: The Broad Church of Night [email protected] / www.smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Tues–Wed 10-5, Thurs 10-8, Fri–Sun 10-5POETRY FOUNDATION Through December 16 Expanding Narratives: The Figure61 W. Superior Street and the Ground312 787 7070 September 13– December 30 The Time Is Now! Art [email protected] / www.poetryfoundation.orgMon–Fri 11-4 of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980June 21–September 14 On Visiting the Franklin Park Conservatory & Botanical Gardens: An Interactive Poetry InstallationSeptember 27–December 21 Krista Franklin: “…to take root among the stars.”

Dance Nomi Dance Company Transformation I was going through an ancient Persian poem, From Within “The Conference of the Birds,” rewritten by two French translators. The birds of the worldNewcity SEPTEMBER 2018 Nejla Yatkin’s “Conference of the Birds” Experiences gather because they feel there’s no leadership the Lakefront with Fresh Senses and they need some clarity about life—it fits our current situation as well—so they decide By Sharon Hoyer they need to find the bird of transformation, similar to the phoenix. They venture to find a Nejla Yatkin, a German-born, ethnically performances entitled “The Conference of the bird that can give them wisdom, and on the Turkish independent choreographer, dancer Birds,” as part of the Park District’s Night Out journey they gain wisdom through life lessons and teacher, has called Chicago home since in the Parks series. Yatkin spoke with me of beauty, greed, jealousy, harmony. I’m not 2010. Yatkin makes dances for companies about the inspiration behind the piece and basing the piece on the poem but the idea of here and across the country, many of which the power of unexpected encounters with art the poem, which is transformation. I’m making take place in public spaces. Yatkin, with the to awaken the senses. it more playful, but I am taking the audience help of a dozen community dancers, will lead on a journey. It will be interactive. There will be audiences through the Burnham Wildlife What is the inspiration behind the title of simple tasks for them to do. I’m creating a Corridor September 1-16 in a series of free the piece? dance that plays with the senses; some portions will be performed, some will be participatory, some will be more focusing on experiencing their bodies in nature.64

How do the community dancers walking this path for the last eight years but DANCE TOP 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcitycome in? had never really seen it until we stopped herThe community will be a sort of chorus, out of her gaze. She said she would never 1Hubbard Street Dance.helping, guiding, performing. It will be forget this place because we took her out of Harris Theater. Ingeniousstructured, but there will be room for improvi- her daydream. Others were happy because street dance duo Jon Boogzsations and accidents to happen. Like in life, their kids were entertained, others were and Lil Buck join creativeyou’ll move through a space—it might be hot, angry because they were interrupted from forces with viral videoit might be windy, it might be rainy, there might getting where they were headed. In some choreographer Emma Portnerbe a race going on—you have to be flexible cases it awakens people, in some cases and Third Coast Percussion inenough to make decisions in the moment. disrupts them, in other cases moves them, a commission inspired by the but it creates an emotion. I like that about relationship of socialYou’ve made a lot of dance in public art—it awakens passion or anger they held movements and the naturalplaces in your career. What draws you to within or brings them alive. world, informed by mushroomputting dance in site-specific locations? scientist Paul Stamet’s bookI think my background growing up in Berlin; In 2009 I did “Wall Stories.” Part of the piece “Mycelium Running.” Yes, allwe were surrounded by the Wall. There was was on the wall in Berlin, one portion was those things. September 27-30a lot of attention paid to West Berlin’s culture; traveling, was filmed, and one part was thethey wanted to show how exceptional and fifty-minute concert dance. Then I was 2 Reboot. Dovetail Studios.radical and free and cultured the West was, hooked and felt I couldn’t limit myself to Margi Cole’s Danceso there was a lot of music and dancing in exclusively creating for the theater. Dance COLEctive returns after athe streets, performances in different spaces. can exist in the theater, in the streets, in the hiatus with new short piecesWhen I was a dancer in Berlin, I worked with lake, on the moon. It’s the most basic human reflecting on politics and thepeople who choreographed in warehouses, I art form; you can put it anywhere and body by Cole, Peter Carpenterworked with jazz musicians in clubs, and everywhere. and Colleen Halloran.national theaters and opera houses. There September 14-16was no concept of dance belonging only on In 2010 I had a performance in Tegucigalpa,the concert stage, but that dance belonged Honduras. They just had a coup d’état, the 3 Conference of the Birds.everywhere. When I came here to dance with president fled the country and the govern- Burnham Wildlife Corridor.a company we mostly performed for the ment was shut down for a year. I performed Nejla Yatkin takes the audiencestage. In 2000 I went to D.C., doing my own at the reopening of the theater. I collaborated on a participatory dancework and teaching at the University of with photographers, musicians, dancers and journey along the lakefront asMaryland. When you’re at the university you created a site-specific piece in which people part of the Park District’s Nighthave the leisure to think out of the box, so in had to move from place to place. At this time, Out in the Parks series.2006 when I was touring and teaching and there were many places people didn’t go September 1-16students would complain that they didn’t because it was unsafe. After this, people felthave enough teachers or enough spaces, I transformed; they were so happy they could 4 The Long Arc. Links Hall.asked why don’t they teach each other and move in their own city. They said they had Emily Navarra, Anjaldance anywhere? Don’t hold yourselves been so afraid they didn’t see the beauty of Chande and Maya Odim shareback! I wondered why people expected their own city. Now there are a lot of rotating programs featuringdance to already be existing in the theater. performances happening in public places. new works on themes ofWhen you look at the history of dance, it Returning to see that was an affirming single motherhood,came from the people and was part of life. moment for me. introspection and ritual.You danced to celebrate life, you danced to September 20-23celebrate nature, you danced to mourn death, How do you hope attendees will see theyou danced because someone was born. Burnham Wildlife Corridor in this 5 Vice and Virtue.Later on, when cities were developed and performance? Links Hall. Yin He Danceroyalties wanted to show how magnificent I hope they will sort of start seeing them- Company presents a seriestheir courts were, they started royal ballets to selves a different way, by opening up their of performances inspired byentertain their guests from other royal senses. It has to start from within, transfor- female experiences fromcountries. We still have this idea of dance mation. So I’m focusing the work on opening seventeenth-century Chinesebeing in theaters but why not take it out? I up the audience’s senses in different ways— literature to contemporarystarted to experiment with dance in public how to smell something or hear something. social media. Septemberspaces. It was amazing in D.C., because it’s How to see yourself or move yourself in a 28-30such a formal place—everyone is so polite different way in space. I hope it will triggerand correct and in business attire—we changes to how you see things outside. 65started dancing in Dupont Circle. Peoplewould stop, they were so curious. One At the Caracol Gathering Space at thewoman started crying when I interviewed her Burnham Wildlife Corridor, September 1-16.about her reaction. She said she’d been Free.

DesignPhoto: Installation view of Everywhere and Nowhere by Wen Liu DESIGN TOP 5 Immigrant Artists 1 Living Architecture. 6018 North. The multimedia Living Architecture Breathes New Life into the Histories of Chicago exhibition highlights the impact of immigrant artists in the Chicago By Manisha AR creative scene with public programming. ThroughNewcity SEPTEMBER 2018 Immigrants have always shaped the rich The first off-site programming kicked off on July December 23, Saturday-Sunday history of Chicago through their art. Celebrating 28 with Dr. Sharon Grimes, director and curator their contributions today and of the past, 6018 at the Richard Bock Museum in Greenville, 2 Renegade Craft Fair. North, a nonprofit for experimental arts and Illinois, giving a tour of historic Tree Studios. The Division between Damen culture, partners with Art Design Chicago to downtown Chicago space, originally built in and Ashland, Wicker Park. curate a multidisciplinary, citywide show by 1894 by Judge Lambert Tree and his wife Anne Renegade returns home for a inviting more than fifty Chicago contemporary Tree to house artists, currently hosts design weekend, bringing a wide immigrant artists. Co-curated by Tricia Van Eck studios and businesses. Grimes explained that assortment of artists, designers, and Teresa Silva, \"Living Architecture,\" features the ornamentation on the Ontario complex of makers and entrepreneurs. on- and off-site installations as well as the studios—Greek bas-reliefs on the main September 8-9 programming throughout the summer that structure, the heads under the large windows precedes the exhibition’s official opening on and the motto on top of the windows—is 3 Serious Play: Design Labor Day. believed to be the sculptural work of Richard in Midcentury America. Milwaukee Art Museum.66 The Milwaukee Art Museum brings together more than forty designers to explore the notion of \"playful design” in midcentury America. September 28, 2018– Jan 6, 2019 4 Bristol Renaissance Faire. Off I-94 at the IL/WI border. One of the biggest Renaissance festivals in the nation features knights sword fighting, piles of turkey legs, an artisan marketplace, medieval games and rides and more. Through September 3. 5 Vintage Garage. 5051 N. Broadway. This month’s theme is “Vintage Chicago” and the garage-based market features “anything made in Chicago, has a Chicago vibe to it, is about Chicago, or says Chicago on it!”. September 16

Bock—his name doesn’t come up often enough in the architectural history CHICAGOof Chicago, but this first generation German-American contributed a ARCHITECTUREsignificant amount of sculptural designs to buildings associated with Frank FINALLY GETSLloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and Dwight Perkins as well as other architects. CENTERED.The house on 6018 North Kenmore, a Chicago landmark that todayhouses the 6018 North gallery, originally belonged to Max Eberhardt, a DISCOVER THE CHICAGOGerman immigrant lawyer who advocated for immigrant rights. In the spirit ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION’Sof bringing these histories to life, the basement of the gallery holds a AWE-INSPIRING NEW HOME ATdisplay of pickling jars (symbolic to his remains), an original document hesigned and a picture of the lawyer himself. Eberhardt commissioned Arthur 111 E. WACKER.Woltersdorf to design the building, who in turn collaborated with Bock,thus coming full circle with the immigrant origins of this exhibition. J. Keener PhotographyFollowing the Grimes tour, Tom Burtonwood, an English artist based in SEPTEMBER 2018 NewcityChicago, built a performance-maker space on the pavement beside theTree Studio building in response to the text \"Art is Long, Time is Fleeting\"that appears on the structure. Inviting the audience to participate in hisexploration of the texts, he asked them to trace over stencils of the textrearranged and embossed on wood using crayons on paper. Burton-wood’s individual practice deals with perception and, in this case, he isinterested in the different ways that Bock employs to communicate withhis audience using Greek mythology, photographs of the Tree family andart to give the building character.Deriving its name from the book “Living Architecture,” by Arthur Wolters-dorf, a first generation German-American, the show breathes life intoarchitecture around the city while paying tribute to the immigrant labor thatwent into it. Some of the other off-site venues include the Jane AddamsHull House and At Home in Chicago house museum. Back at theEdgewater space, Van Eck has invited more than thirty artists to host abiweekly “Working Studios” series.Each two-hour session invites thepublic to engage with artists while they make their work and opens thefloor for conversation about their practice. The show is both a showcaseof diverse talent as well as an exercise in trying to untangle this idea thatimmigrant labor is a threat to the American economy. By excavatingsections of history that overlooked immigrant involvement in the making ofAmerican cities, their role in various industry and their consequent impacton the political and social make-up of the United States, \"Living Architec-ture\" takes an interactive approach tothe issue.The off-site performance series concluded with Venezuelan artist CarlosSalazar Lermont wrapping himself in foil, then placing a portable stove andcast-iron skillet on the pavement. He invited the audience to make arepas,a bread made in Venezuela and Colombia, with him. He created a pocketout of the foil on his body, filled it with flour and salt, then poured waterover himself, which flowed into the dry mixture and kneaded intodough—a collaborative effort between artist and participants. A sense ofcommunity was quickly established as everyone participated in the making.Responding to the immigrant in Bock, Lermont wove his personalexperiences of migrating from the troubled regions of Venezuela—which isundergoing a food crisis—to a political complex like the United States.Each artist at the show uses their practice, personal stories and identity tonavigate the prompt for this massive exhibition. Celebrating art history fromthe past, building connections to the present and finally engaging citizens,who have to live through today’s political reality, Van Eck and Silva havetaken on the task of not only entering new footnotes in history but alsoexpanding the narrative to make room for new, more inclusive forms of art. 67

&DiDnirningking crying kid might be a neighbor. If this kind of thing bothers you, Merichka’s is not the right place for you. The families that have been going to Merichka’s for years have an unabashed fondness for the place. Here are the first three customer testimonials on the Merich- ka’s website: Merichka’s…is similar to being part of the family. We all loved the poorboy. Been eating “poorboys” at Merichka’s since the early 1950s. It seems like I took every homecoming, prom or dinner date to Merichka’s while I was in high school. “Poorboys” were great. This place doesn’t change, which is what makes it great. The unchanging nature of the place is, indeed, what keeps customers boomeranging back. “Do you want onions and croutons on your salad?” asks our server, Emily, sweetly. “Sure.” I say, though I couldn’t resist asking “But do people ever really have a problem with onions? I mean, I get that croutons are not for the gluten-intolerant, but onions…?” I ask incredulously, remembering Julia Child’s observation that “it’s hard to imagine civilization without onions.” Merichka’s/Photo: David Hammond “Oh, yes, quite a few people ask to have them left off,” Emily explains “A few years ago, we Merichka’s, Unironically started adding the onions, and some people just didn’t like it.” It’s Their Thing in Crest Hill “I can see how adding onions to a salad could By David Hammond really turn somebody’s world upside down,” I add, ironically.Newcity SEPTEMBER 2018 Merichka’s is in Crest Hill, near Romeoville, It’s a roadhouse restaurant, and in the smaller along a leg of old US 66, down the road from room near the windows where we were “Oh, yeah, the onions really did,” says Emily, White Fence Farms, another old-timey seated, there were six or so tables, half unironically. Southwest Side dining institution. occupied by grandparents, parents and their children. At those tables, two contingents of Emily has worked at Merichka’s since she Merichka’s is the type of place where on any grandchildren each included one very loud graduated from high school over fifteen years day, multiple generations will be sitting little boy and one frazzled mother hushing her ago. She has other relatives who have around the table together. It’s like dinner at child. Hushing was unnecessary because this worked at the restaurant over the years, and home. You can keep your baseball cap in is a family place and all families, at one point she met her husband there. The restaurant is place throughout the meal. Feel free to burp. or another, have had a screeching kid at the still family owned, and “Little Joe,” as the Get comfortable. table. Others with families understand. That current head honcho is known around the restaurant, is the grandson of the founder. This is a family place, and families come here to be together and eat food that’s solid and unsurprising, priced economically, which is especially nice for big families. Merichka’s has been around since 1933, and the menu has changed little over the years.68

DINING & DRINKING TOP 5Steak poorboy with butterine, twice-baked potato/Photo: David Hammond 1 Taste of Polonia. Copernicus Center.“We added chicken poorboys a few years dish that’s been enjoyed by locals for many Poland’s culinary and musical SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcity ago,” says Emily, “because people think it’s years, it acquires a Teflon-like crust that contributions are showcased at going to be less calories (which it probably makes it bulletproof to outsider criticism, like the largest Polish fest in the isn’t), but our big seller has always been the mine, and that’s just fine. country. Through September 3 steak poorboy.” Despite the sentimental draw of Merichka’s 2 Fiestas Patrias. 26th &The steak poorboy is a long, slender and food, the food is secondary to the experience Kostner. Celebrate barely seasoned cube steak served on a of being in a place that’s been around since Mexican Independence Day French-type roll smeared on the inside with before most of Merichka’s current customers (not the same as Cinco de butterine, which makes this sandwich were born. Children grow up and bring their Mayo) with costumes, music special. Butterine is, technically, imitation own children, and they eat the same as and food. September 7-9 butter, a mix of margarine and butter, with they’ve always eaten, and they’ve always more of the former, aged for a few weeks. eaten the steak poorboy. And they love it. It’s 3 Chicago Food Truck Fest.The meat is butchered and the onions for the same flavor they’ve enjoyed for years, LaBagh Woods. Up to the rings are cut and battered onsite. The and it’d be a big problem if it changed even a thirty food trucks will convene relish tray is constructed of food-service little. You want giardiniera on top, a sweep of in the woods, making it easy to items (beets, cottage cheese, and other Dijon mustard? Fine. But do that at home, picnic. September 23 traditional bites), and the twice-baked okay? potato is notoriously dry. 4 Chicago Gourmet. As we finished our Sunday supper, one of the Millennium Park. Still, people love it. They love this food not multigenerational tables got up to leave. The ultimate Chicago food because it’s a sterling example of kitchen art When they paused near our table for a event, with miles and miles of but because this is their place, and this is moment, we heard one grandmother say to goodies to eat and drink, as their food. This sense of possession explains another, “Too many onions. Too many well as chef demos and  the popularity of much regional cuisine: St. onions.” music-inspired culinary events. Louis pizza, livermush in South Carolina, September 26-30 Spam musubi on Oahu and deep-dish pizza Clearly, those onions that went on the salads in Chicago, a misbegotten over-the-top around a decade ago are going to take some 5 Oktoberfest.“casserole” (yes, Jon Stewart was right). getting used to. Still, for thousands of people St. Alphonsus. Regional food may puzzle out-of-towners, on the Southwest Side, Merichka’s is where From wurst to better with craft but locals love it because it’s their own. you go for the simple food you grew up with, beer, authentic German food, the food you know, the food you love, Kinderfest for the kids, and When a city, state or region has a signature because it’s your food. bands like Libido Funk Circus, Polkaholics and Ed Wagner’s Lustige Blaskapelle. September 28-30 69

Film Days of Wander the music scene, such as Daryl Duke’s great, unforgiving 1972 “Payday” with Rip Torn—but The Seductive Slipstream of “Blaze” the time scheme, the daze of Blaze himself, confides in the songs, convincing them to By Ray Pride divine the flow of what we witness as different, differing memories. Hawke carries this Ethan Hawke doesn’t come right out and song sundered; a song, a song as subterra- shaggy-teddy-bear tale as a weave, a wooze, say what he’s up to in “Blaze,” but it’s snaky nean river, sometimes a trickle, sometimes a a brimming lapful and brainful of fracture, as a truculent rivulet, and often, so often, a waterfall bountifully bearded movie, a toppling-tipsy film. goodness: time and space, all in mind and out of eager, needful romantic yearning. But it is also a bountifully barefoot movie, a barefoot celebration, barefoot in the bathtub, of whack. barefoot across several rooms, and even more hippy-to-the-hippiest, a joyous extremeNewcity SEPTEMBER 2018 Splinters assemble and disassemble Movies attempt to depict altered states of slow-motion group leap into the air at a perspectives on a now-gone Austin, Texas consciousness. Single scenes sometimes celebration in the woods. The moment feels songwriter, bright but lost, frustrated at the fall sing: drug trips and such. Some filmmakers, like it goes on forever, and of course, in the of each note, each sung syllable. Hard to live many from the house of editing, specialize in memory of those there under those trees, and with; harder to ignore. Hawke calls “Blaze” a fracturing time, such as the French master now us, it will go. While the palette tends to country-western opera, and the singer-song- Alain Resnais (“Last Year at Marienbad”). And nicotine monochrome, images of furnishings writer at the center, Blaze Foley, “the Snuffle- there’s always the set-to-fail tries at capturing and roadside matters recall the great William upagus of the outlaw country music scene,” in two dimensions the real-life Dionysian Eggleston and Saul Leiter. Glass and light and whom he discovered via John Prine’s cover of aspect of the musical performer up on stage atmosphere intersect to picturesque but the song “Clay Pigeons,” “one of the best for momentary worship under the heat of precise effect. country songs I’d ever heard.” (Townes Van lights and gaze. “Blaze” is after something Zandt, also a factionalized character, wrote else: the speed and slur of thought as In “Blaze,” songs are time: played, underlaid, and played with Foley.) Not only did Hawke distilled into sounds that soar above the souls performed, sung asunder. Time is depicted as discover Foley’s music, but also “Living in the that created them. memory caught in the tender underbrush of Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley,” music and words. Songs straddle, barrooms the memoir of his partner, Sybil Rosen. The At first, “Blaze” is buzzy, Robert Altman stoned, bicker back, we are caught in the weft of form of the film is the form of a song: a song not like an Altman movie per se, but stoned Blaze’s slipstream mind: Hawke’s nonlinear sung, yes, but also a song struck; a song like the bear papafamilias himself. We’ve seen approach perturbs, then seduces, a solipsistic, moaned; a song performed; a song sold; a portraits of charismatic shambling fuckups on fractured impressionistic biography of the mind70

making the songs. Hawke speaks a lot of guff feature film form doesn’t hallucinate often FILM TOP 5and guffaw about his artistic intentions, and enough: lucid, rational lasting consistent 1 True Stories. Siskel, September 14, 18. Davidthere are always some small diamonds. awareness isn’t the stuff of anyone’s sum of Byrne’s one-of-a-kind Chautauqua-comedy musical of“There’s a great mystery around human perception. Movies are most indelible in small-town America may be one of cinema’s most tender WTFscreativity: what it means to us, where it comes instants where they short-circuit, where the ever. Byrne calls it “A project with songs based on true stories fromfrom, where it goes,” he reflects on his braided story or more likely, the actor indicated some tabloid newspapers. It's like ‘60 Minutes’ on acid.\" (35mm)narrative. “I’ve never been interested in ‘what’ kind of surrealist synaptic freak-out: fragrant, 2 Bergman 100.happens in a story, I’ve always been interested absurdly authentic instants sometimes Siskel, through October 3. The epic centenary retrospectivein ‘how’ it happens.” passed in a single facial expression or even a continues, highlighted by “Fanny and Alexander; the 320-minute turn of wrist. No room here to catalog movies television version on September 15 and the 188-minute theatricalIn her memoir, his partner, Sybil Rosen, wrote, that are freak-outs from start to finish, gonzo, version, in 35mm, on September 19. The long reviled, English-“What is the legend? It’s the homeless nutso, lyrical, like the body of Nathan Silver’s language Elliott Gould-starring “The Touch” arrives Septembertroubadour refusing to bend to the demands work, like Andrew Bujalski’s “Computer 22 and 26 for reevaluations both wooly and wise.of success. It’s the champion of the downtrod- Chess” and certainly, now, Decker’s third film. 3 The Last Movie.den, the bellicose drunk, the gentle giant “Madeline’s Madeline” is driven by the Siskel, September 28, 30, October 3, 4. A 4K restorationchildren adored. But mostly it’s the music—so ineffaceable, expressionist central perfor- of Dennis Hopper’s legendary South American freak-out provesdirect and authentic it feels as if he is singing mance by twenty-year-old Helena Howard as bold stuff decades after its 1971 depth-charge release.about you personally, wrapping your life in a young actress cast in a New York City 4 Madeline’s Madeline.melodies that can heal.” Ben Dickey sounds immersive, improvisational theater troupe’s Music Box, opens Friday, August 31. Jacqueline Deckerevery literal and figurative note and his experimental piece by an intent director arrives: lurid, lucid, lovely.habitation lingers for days, just as Foley’s (Molly Parker) who will draw on the life of the 5 The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company.songs do. Mumbling but magnetic, an girl as well as her mother (Miranda July), to Siskel, opens Friday, September 28. A “lost” ninety-minuteeyes-down big guy lashed with wounds of bold result. Art about making art is made and television movie from 1986, restored, with Jean-Pierre Léaudregret and relentless self-remonstration, Blaze unmade. (Think a kaleidoscopic, bite-sized and a fistful of romantic flare-ups.is a shy man. A shy man that mumbles. A shy variation on the acreage of theater-company 71man that drinks. A shy man that emits sounds, rehearsals in Jacques Rivette’s “Out 1.”) Thelovely sounds, with words that match with high hall of mirrors refracts; the world turns, theromance, best intentions, memories of world burns, and the results are obtuse,disappointment, largely from the self. Blaze open-faced, freeing, thrilling, so damnablybursts with prompts: “Do you believe people lovely. Is this life? Yes, it is. Is this a master-can live forever?”; “I mean… we can’t be piece? Yes, I think so. 94m. (Ray Pride)squirrels”; and “’Cos you wouldn’t like me onThorazine!” “Madeline’s Madeline” opens Friday, August 31 at the Music Box.And Blaze’s refrain of refrains: “There are no The Rise and Fall of a Smallgoodbyes, just see-ya-laters.” Film Company SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcity“Blaze” opens Friday, September 28. With everyone from international distributors to archives to purveyors of deluxe video-edi-Reviews tion archives serving as pack rats on Jean-Luc Godard’s behalf, it’s a surprise that a finished feature-length film, even if aMadeline’s Madeline television series episode from 1986, was leftEcstasy is present. Writer-director Josephine unexplored and unexploited, and broadcast only once.Godard’s rights holders areDecker’s “Madeline’s Madeline” features an assiduous and dedicated. Even withoutactor, an actor acting out, an actor Decker pawing through the gloom-cave, he depictsdiscovered and then created a hothouse his digs across the years in “Histoire(s) dusetting and rollicking role for. The narrative

164 North State Street • Between Lake & Randolph cinéma,” someone outside lonely Rolle, Switzerland had to have known that “The MINDING Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company” (Série THE noire: Grandeur et décadence d’un petit GAP commerce de cinéma) was under the floorboards in a lab or vault. Akin to his own AUG 31 - SEPT 13 sketched-in version of François Truffaut’s “Day for Night,” it’s a dense, diverting relic, a NEW FROM KARTEMQUIN FILMS! behind-the-scenes, tres Godardian fable of FILMMAKERS IN PERSON AT SELECTED SCREENINGS the director Gaspard Bazin (Jean-Pierre CHECK WEBSITE FOR DETAILS Léaud) casting and hoping to finance a new film with the help of failing producer Jean TAHREEA Almereyda (Jean-Pierre Mocky), who must cast his wife Eurydice (Marie Valera), who SEPT 14 - 27 wants only to be a movie star. LAND GRAB IN Genteel as a follow-up to his believer-besieged ENGLEWOOD! 1985 “Hail Mary,” “Rise and Fall” has sturdy termite integrity in its depiction of a low-budget BUY TICKETS NOW at world with widescreen dreams, and Léaud www.siskelfilmcenter.org amazes with a pitch-perfect performance about a creative man who moves forward only by gusts of mania. Godard also has a pungent, small role as Jean-Luc Godard (“Mais c’est Godard!”). The score is drawn from Arvo Pärt, Bela Bartok, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and a couple of clever, small variations on Georges Delerue’s score for “Contempt.” 94m. (Ray Pride) “The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company” opens Friday, September 28 at SiskelNewcity SEPTEMBER 201872

Lit LIT TOP 5 1\"The Caregiver\". Women and Children First. Samuel Park, author of “This Burns My Heart” and “Shakespeare’s Sonnets” died last year aged forty-one. Literary friends Curtis Sittenfeld, Rebecca Makkai, Nami Mun and Shauna Seliy celebrate Park and his new novel “The Caregiver.” September 27 2 StoryStudio Writers Festival. StoryStudio. The first two-day conference on the craft of creative writing and on connecting writers with agents, small-press and journal editors. September 29-30Crafting Pain 3 Nnedi Okorafor.into Poetry American Writers Museum). An evening with the internationalEmily Jungmin Yoon discusses “A Cruelty Special to Our Species” award-winning and national bestselling author of \"Who FearsBy Negesti Kaudo Death\" (2011 World Fantasy Award winner) and \"Black Panther: Long Live the King.\" September 11In her debut collection, “A Cruelty Special present-day aggressions, the complexities of 4 Julian Randall.to Our Species,” Emily Jungmin Yoon fuses art language, nature and relationships. For Yoon, Seminary Co-op. Winner poetry is the space to explore the history and of the 2017 Cave Canemhistory and craft to explore the unresolved Poetry prize, Queer Blackcontroversies of the Korean “comfort women” impact of these narratives, as well as her own Chicago poet Julian Randall conflicts with language, identity and place. In discusses  his debut collectionduring the country’s colonial era under the “Refuse” with poet Tara Betts. her introduction she writes, “Poetry is not just September 21.Japanese Empire and the impact of violent relief; poetry is tension. Poetry is departure.histories on the minds and bodies of the Poetry is return. Poetry is memory.” Newcitypresent. Throughout the collection, Yoon is interviewed Yoon via telephone.positioned as an anthropologist—poet andhistorian—blending poetry and research to retell SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcityand amplify the narratives of these women who How did you begin writing about thelived and survived during Japanese imperial rule. “comfort women?” 5 The Frederick Douglass A lot of the poems that I wrote about the Mixtape Workshop. American Writers Museum.The collection asks questions more than it comfort women came about when I was in Responding to AWM’s exhibit “Frederick Douglass: Agitator,”demands answers. Yoon’s poems explore the New York, during the last semester of my Young Chicago Author’s Tim MFA program. I had already been in a lot of “Toaster” Henderson hosts ainherent violence of humanity, juxtaposed workshop and open mic. discussions with my poets-of-color peers September 20against the world’s natural beauty. Her most about how to narrate art history and useurgent question: how do we live and move poetry as a site through which to expand onforward with the pain of these stories? Shefocuses on the pain of the women who survived the current discourse. I was doing research on Korean history in general and I focusedand later testified to their treatment, but ties more on the comfort women issue becausetheir stories into narrative poems about 73

it’s still a hot potato in Korea, obviously a controversy that hasn’t been around the globe, which naturally led me to think about what we’re resolved. I wanted to give a voice to this issue because I felt that it was doing not only to each other, but also to the other live beings—animals, so immediate, and of course as a woman and as a Korean woman nature of course—and all the things that happen in the natural world. whose grandmother and ancestors lived through the colonial period of These poems suggest that my views on humanity and this planet are the Japanese Empire, all the history that surrounds it felt very close to becoming more glum. It’s not untrue, but I also want these poems to me as well. work as channels that activate hope. Because we can always find beauty when we turn to non-human creatures, just looking outward What is your relationship with language, as both a poet and as a after looking inward at such a violent history. speaker of English as a second language? When I first started writing poems seriously, I was in high school and I Is there a specific feeling or thought you’d like readers to have gravitated toward poetry. I had experiences in which I would say some after reading your collection? words or phrases incorrectly and my ESL status was made very clear to I wanted the last section of poems (“The After”) to not only be connected me by some native speakers. They made it very clear to me that I was an to the rest of the book, but to also gesture toward my next project. I don’t alien, that my language and my existence were delegitimized. I picked really have a concrete arc or vision of what my next collection will be poetry because it was a space that doesn’t really care about those because I’m very much concentrated on this first book, but I want it to linguistic boundaries and rules of grammar and syntax. I was very gesture toward more tenderness at the end. I want to leave behind that, attracted to that form. Nowadays, I’m thinking more about my relation- yes, we should be cognizant of these histories and we should talk about ship to Korean because I find myself incorporating more Korean into my and educate ourselves on them. We could also turn to ourselves to find poetry. I am looking at that gap between English and Korean and trying some tenderness in our lives. It’s important to also keep these stories to put them together in one space like a poem and how language going, to find some strength and intimacy in our lives that gives us the functions as a bridge between two identities or two cultures or two lives, force to move forward and expand on these stories. even. Because poetry is such an intimate vulnerable space and I have felt vulnerable about my language abilities in English before that, poetry will “A Cruelty Special to Our Species” be an answer or a solution to a lot of those anxieties. By Emily Jungmin Yoon Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 80 pages, $25.99 The final section, “The After,” focuses more on your experiences, current violence in the world and your relationships with other Emily Jungmin Yoon reads with Kimiko Hahn on October 4 at the Poetry people, the natural world, language and religion. How do these Foundation, 61 West Superior, (312)787-7070 and with Tim Kinsella poems connect back to the previous sections focusing on and José Olivarez at 7pm on October 21 at Danny’s Sunday Series, “comfort women” and narratives of colonized Koreans? Danny’s Tavern, 1951 West Dickens, (773)489 6457. She appears at I find myself writing about nature and other non-human creatures more 12:30pm on November 2 at the Poetry Foundation Library Book Club, these days—I think  that's because I have been so focused on these 61 West Superior, (312)787-7070. histories and their pain. It’s led to the thought that it’s not just the comfort women or the Korean women or Korea in general, but it hurts Review Live at The Book Cellar Safe With You: A Review of \"The Wildlands\" by Abby Geni A tornado, family drama and eco-terrorism in Abby Geni’s new thrillerNewcity SEPTEMBER 2018 Storytime! Local Author Night “The Wildlands” suck you in from the novel’s devastating opening until you featuring Kathleen Rooney, are deposited in an entirely different mental place at the end. Geni is a September 7, 11am Keith O’Brien, Rebecca Harwell masterful storyteller who teaches at StoryStudio Chicago. Her widely and Frances de Pontes Peebles lauded “The Lightkeepers” displayed her calm artistry; in \"The Wildlands\" Heather McCutcheon she plays with atmosphere and psychology as if they are touchable. “Connecting the Dots” September 19, 7pm Oklahoma’s severe weather is as much a character in this story as the nine-year-old protagonist. Deprived of her mother at birth and her father September 8, 6pm Abby Geni in the prologue, Cora is a keen and quiet observer of the Bible-belted, “The Wildlands” trailer-park poverty in which her teenage sisters and brother are left to Rebecca Makkai raise her and themselves. They are poster children for tragedy. Cora “The Great Believers” September 20, 7pm bonds with her charismatic brother Tucker as he spins Peter Pan-like origin stories so she can learn who she is—until he disappears. Three September 12, 7pm Leonora Miano years after the tornado that orphaned them, a local cosmetics factory is “Season of the Shadow” bombed, its lab animals released. Tucker reappears needing Cora’s help Linda Gartz to heal from the blast and copilot a crusade to right the wrongs done to “Redlined” September 21, 7pm animals and the poor by corporate America. She thinks they’re going on an adventure together, but he takes advantage of her innocence, upping September 13, 7pm Poetry Pentathalon the eco-terrorist ante at each stop. Tucker cuts Cora’s hair and reinvents her as his brother Corey, which her malleable heart accepts like a naive Storytime with Ruth Spiro! September 22, 6:30pm cult follower. Tucker blurs reality and fantasy, rescue and crime, opening each reframed, justifying chapter in their tale of two heroes with “Once September 14, 11am Beth Kander upon a time,” and ending with, “This is all true, you know, this really “Original Syn” happened.” Geni captures the frightening inner struggle of a child caught Mikkel Rosengaard, “The Invention up in dangers beyond her control when Corey recalls, “The full measure of Ana” and Maxim Loskutoff, September 25, 6pm of my wrongdoing was a tangle I could not unravel.” Near the end, as I “Come West and See” marveled at the incredulity of Tucker’s piece de resistance, I found myself Kevin Henkes reveling in Geni’s remarkable talent for leading me there. (Kate Burns) September 14, 7pm “A Parade of Elephants” “The Wildlands” by Abby Geni, Counterpoint Press, 288 pages, $26 Tell Me A French Story September 27, 4pm at Sulzer Library Abby Geni’s book launch party is at 7pm, September 4 at Women and Storytime in French and English Children First Bookstore, 5233 North Clark (773)769-9299. Geni also Hank Green (with John Green) reads at 7pm, September 20 at The Book Cellar, 4736-38 North Lincoln, September 15, 10:30am “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing” (773)293-2665. Keir Graff September 28, 8pm “The Phantom Tower” at Revel Fulton Market September 15, 4pm The Kates!! Standup Comedy Essay Fiesta! September 29, 7pm September 17, 7pm Go to our website for event details, book clubs and more! Your Independent Book Store in Lincoln Square! 4736-38 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago 773.293.2665 • bookcellarinc.com 74

MusicPhoto: Skinny Puppy Factory Showcase The Cold Waves Festival Returns for More Industrial Music By Craig Bechtel I’m listening to industrial music so you Shiny Black Bloody Steel Knives Stabbing Inside” philosophy espoused on Ministry’s SEPTEMBER 2018 Newcity don’t have to, to get ready for the seventh Confessions Leading Into Gold Pretty Hate “Every Day Is Halloween,” and the aggro-inno- iteration of Cold Waves. The festival is this Machines. vation of “Stigmata” from their classic “The month at Metro (3730 North Clark), with a Land Of Rape And Honey.” Al Jourgensen of launch party at The Empty Bottle (1035 North The best known examples of the influence of Ministry once called Chicago home, but has Western) kicking things off before three nights industrial music can be found in what today long since decamped to Austin, Texas of mayhem. While I’m no authority on the could be considered “legacy alternative rock” followed by Los Angeles. Ministry’s latest is genre—there are minds more immersed in the acts like Depeche Mode, Ministry and Nine “AmeriKKKant,” featuring a single that sings the milieu than I, and likely many in Chicago—it’s a Inch Nails, although hardcore fans would and praises of “Antifa” and artwork with the Statue sound I enjoy on an occasional basis and it should take umbrage at such an attempt to of Liberty raising a middle finger, just in case deserves consideration. lump these “pop” acts into the genre. you’d forgotten Al’s perspective on the New World Order. For the uninitiated, industrial music sounds like Yet if you disregard their electropop music made in factories by machines. The speak-and-spell or slowed-down “hits” and When Nine Inch Nails’ single “Down In It” genre adopts mechanical rhythms originally listen to the rhythms backing the early debuted, my roommate would play the inspired by the automation of the Industrial Depeche Mode single “People Are People,” thirty-three-and-a-third twelve-inch at 45 rpm Revolution. And it may be these inorganic you can hear that factory-inspired percus- on our college radio station just to get a inspirations that prompt those that use the sion… and the video, partially set on a satisfactory beats-per-minute count. Trent form to communicate their bleak worldview. submarine, reinforces the theme. Reznor may have done more than anyone to Industrial musicians may be shiny happy popularize industrial music, but he would be people (unlikely, though possible), but their Also consider the “I Wear Black On The the first to admit that what he’s really done is music and lyrics definitely aren’t. It’s more like Outside Because Black Is How I Feel On The to create pop music using industrial tropes. 75

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Naturally gifted with a bleak worldview, and most recent record was released in 2013. MUSIC TOP 5able to convey that with lyrics so dark theyalmost can’t bring themselves to be sung Aside from Skinny Puppy’s nightmarish sound, 1 Childish Gambino.(example: “head like a hole / black as your the group’s lyrics address all the hallmarks of United Center. Donald Gloversoul / I’d rather die / than give you control), non-hit-making topics, such as animal rights hits town on the wave of his viralReznor also has a gift for earworm melodies and vivisection, AIDS, environmental music video “This Is America,” aand compelling intervals. Just listen to the degradation, war, the right to privacy and drug commentary on race and gunnotes that bring “Hurt” to a close, to cite but addiction, and many of these themes are politics, touring his final CGone of many moments from his discography. graphically featured in their music videos and album. September 8Richard Patrick of Filter (known for “Hey Man live concerts, which frequently include OgreNice Shot” and “Take A Picture”), who was a being coated in fake blood by the end of the 2 Modest Mouse. Geneseemember of Nine Inch Nails’ touring band from night. One infamous scene featured Ogre’s Theater, Waukegan. One of1989 to 1993, put it this way in a 2016 simulated decapitation at the hands of then the most famous indie bands tointerview for Reverb: President George W. Bush and Vice President reach mainstream success, Dick Cheney (who were also simulated, it Modest Mouse is known for Trent’s not the first industrial artist; he’s just should be noted). guitar riffs, introspective lyrics the biggest. When people ask me about and its devoted fan base. what I think of Nine Inch Nails being in the ohGr is part of Cold Waves this year, and September 22 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I say that’s cool. although I’m less familiar with their discogra- I get it. He’s the most famous, but what phy, judging by their latest, the terrifying 3 BØRNS. Aragon Ballroom. about Skinny Puppy? What happened to “Tricks,” one should anticipate some similar On the heels of his Lolla the guys who actually created it? They tricks from Ogre and Walk. They’re not Skinny appearance, BØRNS returns for literally were the first guys to take synthesiz- Puppy, but they’re closer to the real thing than those who missed his captivating ers and go really hard to make them sound Nine Inch Nails. vocals and electropop melodies. scary and mean. I think that was an insane September 30 idea and it was completely original. Cold Waves VII has expanded this year to include New York and Los Angeles, but the 4 Dispatch. Northerly Island. SEPTEMBER 2018 NewcityIndeed, Patrick says that he and Reznor were hometown version begins September 21 at This folk, rock andlistening to Skinny Puppy and Ministry during The Empty Bottle with Lesley Rankine (of funk-infused band rose to famethose early years of Nine Inch Nails, and it’s Pigface, Silverfish and most recently, Ruby in the nineties; after a hiatus innot hard to hear their influence. fame) and punk trio Crash Course In Science, the 2000s, it’s still producingSkinny Puppy was conceived in 1982 as a who formed in 1979 and released “Situational music with a new album,side project by Vancouver musician Kevin Awareness” last year.  The rest of the “Location 13,” dropping this fall.Crompton, who was bored with the pop weekend’s black celebration will be at Metro September 15.direction of Images In Vogue, the new wave (and Smart Bar), with September 21 featuringband he was in. Kevin Ogilvie joined as a ohGr, Chemlab (performing debut “Burnout at 5 The Flat Five. FitzGerald’s.vocalist and became Nivek Ogre, and the Hydrogen Bar”), Paul Barker and Chris The Chicago-based bandCrompton rechristened himself cEvin Key (sim- Connelly projects Lead Into Gold and used to play only once a year;ilar to the predicament of Band Of Susans or Cocksure, Hide (following their intriguing and but its members keep busyMostly Dave, perhaps they were concerned troubling Dais release “Castration Anxiety”) performing with a host of otherabout being Too Heavy In Kevins). After and Omniflux. September 22’s line-up includes artists including Andrew Bird,self-releasing a cassette, Skinny Puppy Meat Beat Manifesto, C-Tec (Jean-Luc NRBQ and The Decemberists.became an early member of the Nettwerk DeMeyer of Front 242 and Marc Heal of September 1label stable, whose artists would later include Cubanate performing live together for the firstthe musical kin Manufacture, Single Gun time in twenty years), Hellbent, Author &Theory and Consolidated, as well as bigger Punisher, Wire Spine and New York’s Anatomy.hitmakers like Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, The long, dark and beat-heavy weekend willDido and Barenaked Ladies. Bill Leeb conclude on September 23 with Frontlinerenamed himself Wilhelm Schroeder and Assembly (Bill Leeb’s band since 1986), Dieplayed with the group from 1985 to 1986, and Krupps, The Black Queen, Vancouver’s Actors,when he left to form Frontline Assembly, Continues (the latest project from Babyland’sDwayne Goettell joined Skinny Puppy and Dan Gatto) and local up-and-comers Ganser.continued as a full-fledged member (as well ascollaborating with Key in Doubting Thomas, Legendary Chicago label Wax Trax! will have aCyberaktif, The Tear Garden and Hilt) until his pop-up shop at Metro, and there will also bedeath from a heroin overdose in 1995, two booths for Electronic Saviors and Music tomonths after Ogre had officially quit the band. Cure Cancer, food trucks, raffles and silentDrug addiction, fires, floods and an earth- auctions.quake combined to derail a three-record dealwith Rick Rubin’s American Recordings and Cold Waves began in 2012 as a memorialmade what was thought to become Skinny concert for fallen Chicago musician and soundPuppy’s final album, aptly named “The man Jamie Duffy and a portion of theProcess,” a long and involved one. proceeds will benefit Darkest Before Dawn, an organization that offers counseling, support,What Ogre recorded as a side project, called community and resources to the late-nightW.E.L.T., with Mark Walk of the band Ruby, service-industry staff and live-music engineerswould eventually be released as “Welt” by the who keep clubs and bars humming.duo renamed ohGr. Skinny Puppy with Keyand Ogre would reform off and on beginning in For the full Cold Waves VII schedule, visit the2000 (and include Walk since 2003), and their festival’s website. 77

Stage Charlotte Drover, Airos Sung-En Medill and Dani Wieder will helm Haven Theatre’s Directors Haven 2018 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Seeing Seventy (Steppenwolf for Young Adults) Jonathan Berry directs Simon Stephens' A Select Slice of This Fall's Theater Season Tony Award-winning play about a young boy with an extraordinary brain and an exception- By Kevin Greene al talent for mathematics, based on the critically acclaimed book by Mark Haddon.Newcity SEPTEMBER 2018 At no other point during each year is the Destinos: 2nd Chicago International Featuring ensemble member Caroline Neff. abundance of our city's theater community Latino Theater Festival October 5-27 more evident than between Labor Day and (various locations) New Year's. With more than seventy Produced by the Chicago Latino Theater An Oak Tree productions, to say nothing of innumerable Alliance (CLATA), the festival returns to (Red Theater Chicago) readings and workshops, opening on stages Chicago to assemble top Latino theater artists Two Actors. One has rehearsed the play. informal, opulent and everywhere in between, and companies from Chicago, the United The second hasn't even read it. Performed by the prospect of cataloging or covering this States and around Latin America for seven a different person each night, the second wealth and variety in any meaningful way is weeks of shows, panels and student actor will discover the play and their role at daunting, to say the least. This is a select performances held throughout the city. the same time as the audience. Featuring sliver of all that is on offer, but within this September 20-November 4 RTC company member Gage Wallace. selection is that for which Chicago theater is October 6-November 11 rightly known: generosity, brilliance and Witch originality. (Writers Theatre) Crumbs from the Table of Joy Mischief is afoot in the sleepy village of (Raven Theatre) So go see a show. Or seventy. (For even more Edmonton and the fate of the world is at stake Tyrone Phillips directs this sharp and openings, see the sidebar in our Artist Profile, in this smart modern fable written by Jen boisterous drama about family, faith and as well as the Stage Top 5: September 2018.) Silverman and directed by Marti Lyons. revolution from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner October 3-December 16 Lynn Nottage. October 8-November 18 Monger (Her Story Theater) Fun Harmless Warmachine Flyin' West The fourth play in a cycle of dramas exposing (The New Colony) (American Blues Theater) sex trafficking practices in Chicago uncovers a Inspired by Gamergate and online hate Set in 1898, Pearl Cleage's play follows nationwide anonymous brotherhood of men movements, this world premiere by co-artistic African-American female pioneers who who use the Internet to find and compare director Fin Coe serves as a cautionary tale of settled, together, in the all-black town of notes on women and underage girls they pay the power of fear and the seductive pull of the Nicodemus, Kansas in the wake of the Civil for sex. September 7-30 alt right. October 3-November 4 War. Directed by ABT artistic affiliate Chuck Smith. October 11-November 378

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Newcity SEPTEMBER 2018 STAGE TOP 5 Director's Haven Neverland (Haven Theatre) (Prop Thtr) 1 Radio Golf. Court Theatre. Charlotte Drover, Airos Sung-En Me- Written and directed by Prop Thtr's new The final installment of August dill and Dani Weider will headline the fourth artistic director, Olivia Lilley, and devised by the Wilson's \"Pittsburgh Cycle\" annual showcase of rising directors sharing ensemble, this spin on the classic tale depicts returns to Chicago featuring an their artistic point of view with the Chicago the final days of Neverland, seen from the enviable ensemble led by director community. October 15-October 31 divergent perspectives of Peter, Wendy and Ron OJ Parson. Opens Hook. October 29-November 25 September 8 The Scientific Method (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble) The Steadfast Tin Solider: A Christmas 2 Borealis. The House When a handsome young grad student Pantomime Theatre of Chicago. Fresh off upsets the balance in one of the country’s top (Lookingglass Theatre Company) the success of The Gift's research labs, he throws everything a young Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story, production of \"Hamlet,\" director scientist thought she knew about her field— ensemble member Mary Zimmerman fashions Monty Cole takes on this darkly and herself—into question. an extravagant and exhilarating spectacle with comic adventure about family October 18-December 2 dazzling storytelling told through image and obligation, career aspiration and movement and accompanied by live musicians. what we leave behind to make Lady in Denmark November 7-January 13 our way to the top. Opens (Goodman Theatre) September 8 From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Dael Orlandersmith This Bitter Earth arrives a soulful, music-infused tribute to (About Face Theatre) 3 White Rabbit Red Rabbit. legendary torch singer Billie Holiday’s power In a poetic romance, deep love is challenged Interrobang Theatre Project. to heal and inspire. Directed by Victory by divisive political realities when an introspec- Iranian playwright Nassim Gardens artistic director Chay Yew. tive black playwright finds his choices called Soleimanpour's wildly entertaining October 19-November 18 into question by his boyfriend, a white Black and thought-provoking theatrical Lives Matter activist, who calls him out for piece—where no audience can Plainclothes political apathy. November 8-December 8 see the same show twice— (Broken Nose Theatre) blends drama, comedy and social After an incident with a shoplifter ends with Familiar experiment. Opens September 24 half their team either fired or in the hospital, (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) the loss-prevention department of a Fiercely funny, fast-paced and filled with love, 4 Caroline, Or Change. downtown Chicago retail store comes under accomplished actor-playwright Danai Gurira Firebrand Theatre & harsh investigation from corporate higher-ups presents a brilliant portrayal of a tight-knit TimeLine Theatre Company. in a world premiere written and directed by family searching to preserve their past while With music by Jeanine Tesori, BNT company member Spenser Davis. building a new future. Featuring ensemble book and lyrics by Tony Kushner, October 20-November 17 members Celeste M. Cooper and Ora Jones. and music direction by Andra November 15-January 6 Velis Simon, this Lili-Anne Brown The Adventures of Robin Hood directed co-production reflects (Adventure Stage Chicago) The Revolutionists the change so many want to see A modern twist on the medieval legend with a (Strawdog Theatre Company) in the theater world and beyond. cast of three at the center of the story, this When playwright Lauren Gunderson puts four Opens September 25 adaptation kicks off ASC's fifteenth sea- women who made history during the French son, which explores the challenges of hunger, Revolution in the same room questions arise 5 Indecent. both literal and metaphorical. about art's ability to make meaningful change, Victory Gardens Theater. October 20-November 24 whether violence is ever the right course of Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner action, and what a woman's role can be in the Paula Vogel and directed by VG Small Mouth Sounds midst of the madness. November 26- mainstay Gary Griffin, this local (A Red Orchid Theatre) December 29 premiere about an explosive Six urbanites take their troubles to the moment in theatrical history and woods and attempt to work them out at a La Ruta the artists who risked their secluded spiritual retreat where they may not (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) careers and lives to perform it is speak for the entire week. The isolating Inspired by testimonies from workers in sure to resonate broadly and silence collides with the human ache to U.S.-owned factories in Ciudad Juárez, deeply. Opens September 28 connect begging the question: How do we Mexico, Isaac Gomez's new play is a visceral address life’s biggest questions when words unearthing of secrets buried in the desert and 80 fail us? Written by Bess Wohl and directed a celebration of the Mexican women who by ARO ensemble member Shade Murray. stand resiliently in the wake of loss. Directed October 27-December 9 by ensemble member Sandra Marquez. December 13-January 27 Cosmologies (The Gift Theatre Company) Women of Soul Put the whimsical humor of the Keystone (Black Ensemble Theater) Cops and Bugs Bunny into a particle collid- Women like Chaka Khan, Sade, Tina Turner, er with the philosophy of Søren Kierkeg- Diana Ross, Tina Marie and the incomparable aard and George Berkeley and you're getting Whitney Houston made a huge impact on the close to the style of this existential absurd- music industry. This new work takes a look at ist comedy from David Rabe. Directed by The the struggles and the triumphs these women Gift artistic director Michael Patrick Thornton. went through to reach the pinnacle of success. October 28-December 9 December 16-January 27

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ON STAGE THIS FALLIN THE UPSTAIRS THEATRE SEPTEMBER 20 – NOVEMBER 11DOWNSTATE What are the limits of compassion? A fiery and provocative new play by Bruce Norris, on its way toBy ensemble member Bruce Norris the National Theatre in spring 2019Directed by Pam MacKinnonIN THE DOWNSTAIRS THEATRE NOVEMBER 15 - JANUARY 13 FAMILIAR By Danai Gurira Directed by Danya Taymor A fiercely funny comedy-drama by award-winning playwright and actor Danai Gurira2018/19 Grand Benefactors Find yourself here. Memberships start at just $100 steppenwolf.org/membership | 312-335-1650 2018/19 Benefactors

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