POETRY FOUNDATION SCHINGOETHE CENTER 61 W. Superior Street of Aurora University 312 787 7070 1315 Prairie Street, Aurora, IL [email protected] / www.poetryfoundation.org 630 844 7843 Mon–Fri 11-4 [email protected] / www.aurora.edu/museum Through August 22 Yoko Ono: Poetry, Painting, Music, Mon, Wed–Fri 10-4, Tues 10-7 The Museum is Closed May 1–September 23, 2019 Objects, Events, and Wish Trees September 24–December 13 Fall Exhibit THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY SMART MUSEUM OF ART At the University of Chicago At the University of Chicago 5811 S. Ellis Ave., Cobb Hall, 4th Floor 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue 773 702 8670 773 702 0200 [email protected] / www.renaissancesociety.org [email protected] / www.smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Tues–Wed, Fri 10-5, Thurs 10-8, Sat–Sun 12-5 Tues–Wed 10-5, Thurs 10-8, Fri–Sun 10-5 Through June 23 Liz Magor: BLOWOUT June 14–September 22 Tara Donovan: Fieldwork July 11–August 18 Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY ZHOU B ART CENTER 1711 W. Chicago Avenue 312 455 1990 1029 W. 35th Street [email protected] / www.rhoffmangallery.com 773 523 0200 Tues–Fri 10-5:30, Sat 11-5:30 [email protected] / www.zhoubartcenter.com May 31–July 6 Derrick Adams: The Ins and Outs: New Figures Mon–Sat 10-5 May 17–July 12 Secondary Meanings: Figural Diptychs in the Urban Landscape RICHARD GRAY GALLERY Richard Gray Gallery, Hancock: 875 N. Michigan Avenue, 38th Floor Mon–Fri 10-5:30, Sat by appointment Gray Warehouse: 2044 W. Carroll Avenue Tues–Sat 11-5 312 642 8877 [email protected] / www.richardgraygallery.com Through June 29 Theaster Gates: Every Square Needs a Circle (Gray Warehouse)
Dance Erin Kilmurray’s “Search Party.” Photo: Matthew Gregory Hollis. Innovative, Entertaining DANCE TOP 5 Pivot Arts Festival Seeks to Bring Genre-Defying 1Pivot Arts Festival. Work Center Stage Various Venues. Features collaborations between Chicago By Sharon Hoyer Fringe Opera and street dance group BraveSoul Movement and This 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre is, like I spoke with Pivot Arts director Julieanne Ehre a raucous new piece by The about the history of Pivot Arts and what’s on Fly Honey Show founder Erin pretty much every year in Chicago, an Kilmurray. May 31-June 9 abundant one for theater in every flavor. And if the menu this year. 2 Hubbard Street Dance you’re a regular performance-goer like me, you Chicago. Harris Theater. have a tendency to freeze up in the face of too Could you talk a little on the history of The Summer Series highlights many options and order the same one or two Pivot Arts? favorite repertory pieces by flavors pretty much every time. So to celebrate We started talking about Pivot Arts in 2012, former resident choreographer Newcity JUNE 2019 the YoCT, I’m getting out to stuff I wish I saw but were founded in 2013. Pivot Arts began as Alejandro Cerrudo, Crystal an incubator program at Loyola and the first Pite and a reworking of Harris more of but never seem to have the time: Theater choreographer-in- festival was in May of 2013. The purpose of residence Brian Brooks’ plays, opera, comedy. If you have similar “Terrain.” June 6, 8-9 aspirations, the Pivot Arts Festival, which Pivot is to celebrate artists creating contempo- 3 Flamenco Passion: A Tribute to Dame Libby occupies venues across the far North Side rary, innovative works as well as works that are Komaiko. North Shore Center for the Performing Arts. from May 31 through June 9, offers a selection widely accessible and entertaining to Ensemble Español Spanish audiences. So when we use words like Dance Theatre commemorates of dance, theater, music and performances the company’s influential founder. blurring the boundaries to suit your preferenc- “cutting-edge” and “contemporary,” I wanted to June 14-16 bring those artists to larger audiences in es and stretch your perceptions. 4 Physical Theater Festival Chicago. Stage 773. Clowns, acrobats, circus artists, puppeteers and physical performers from around the globe convene to make you laugh, cry and be moved beyond (and without) words. May 31-June 8 5 NOOK. The Charnel House. Dropshift Dance’s evening-length show at funeral chapel-come-arts center Charnel House features dance performances, dance film and guided movement for attendees. June 21-23 52
Chicago and not have it be performance for country. I want to be sure that here audiences Seth Bockley is working with two artists who audiences who are already pretty aware of and artists alike are seeing work being reside in Canada to create an original what’s happening. And also to provide created by diverse artists and work you’re not adaptation of the Gilgamesh myth. One is opportunities for Chicago artists. There are going to see on traditional stages. Ahmed Moneka, who played a gay character organizations doing innovative, hybrid, in a film in his native Iraq and, as a result, multidisciplinary performances. We wanted to Would you point to some highlights at received death threats and had to seek be a part of that and widen opportunities. this year’s Pivot Festival? refugee status in Canada. He, Jesse The festival is intentionally a little smaller this LaVercombe and Seth created a story that Now we’re a year-round organization, with year. The first year it was three weeks, and it speaks to personal circumstances of having a focus on site-specific work and incubation, was like we ran a marathon twice. Reducing to flee your homeland. It’s their first time and the festival is our year-end celebration. the scale allowed us to give more resources performing in the United States. I’m really Last year we brought in Rude Mechs from to artists involved. During Fusebox, it seemed excited to see what this trio has created Austin, Texas, in their Chicago premiere. like the entire city of Austin shut down and it together. This year is super-exciting in that we’re was a real bonding experience. In New York doing all world premieres and bringing in you can have multiple events and festivals We also have an exciting evening dedicated international artists. happening at once. But I don’t feel like here to Latinx artists, hosted by Isaac Gomez and in Chicago we needed a three-week festival; Nancy Garcia Loza. You mentioned wanting to both present ten days felt right. I feel super-proud of the cutting-edge work and be sure audienc- work everyone is doing this year. Things I’ll Is there anything else you’d like to es are entertained. How does Pivot Arts point your attention to are “The Rosina mention? approach this? Project,” which was developed in our I always want people to see everything, and Without pointing to any one organization, you incubator and is a collaboration between not out of an economic need to sell tickets. can look around at certain performances and BraveSoul Movement and Chicago Fringe Instead of having a pass this year, we’ve find everyone in the room works in the arts. Opera. There’s hip-hop, MCs; it’s innovative, made tickets affordable and offer package It’s important to me to open the door and unique, not like anything I’ve seen before, deals. I recommend people treat this as a make sure Chicago audiences are seeing exciting for audiences and it’s just $15. festival and not just see one show; every year works that aren’t traditional realistic plays or I see the festival as a body of work and it’s traditional, classical ballet. Not that those Erin Kilmurray is the creator of the popular really exciting to get a sense of the work as a things don’t have merit, but there’s lots of “Fly Honey Show.” I saw a workshop version whole and not just a piece of it. That’s my exciting art being performed across the of her “Search Party” and loved it. It’s curator recommendation. country. I’ve been out to the National amazing; really diverse artists, empowering, Performance Network Conference, to pushing the envelope, joyous, exuberant. Pivot Arts Festival runs May 31-June 9 at Fusebox Festival in Austin and my eyes have She’s great at engaging audiences in work venues across the North Side. For more been opened to what’s happening around the that feels celebratory. information, visit www.pivotarts.org. April 27 – July 6 JUNE 2019 Newcity Free tours of the exhibition Fridays and Saturdays at 2 pm 60 W. Walton St. 53
Design DESIGN TOP 5 Photo: Matthew Rachman gallery, Mies van der Rohe: Chicago Blues and Beyond, Installation Image 1 Mies van der Rohe: Chicago Blues and In It With Mies Beyond. Matthew Rachman Gallery. A collection of original Original Blueprints and Artifacts at Matthew Rachman Gallery blueprints, artifacts and furniture by legendary modernist By Tanner Woodford architecture pioneer Mies van der Rohe. Through July 21 Newcity JUNE 2019 There is probably only one person living in He went on to direct the Bauhaus for two America who knew Ludwig Mies van der Rohe years until it was shut down by the Nazi 2 The Three Escapes of before he moved to Chicago and ultimately regime in 1932, then became head of Hannah Arendt. Spertus became one of the most influential figures in architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technolo- Institute. Last chance: New York Modernism. Dirk Lohan was born the year his gy. “He lived in Berlin and Chicago for exactly cartoonist Ken Krimstein grandfather Mies emigrated, meaning even he thirty years each, and it is so interesting to illustrates Hannah Arendt's did not know Mies before he was Mies. compare what he did in the two cities. It encounters with the artists, shows that he was ahead of his time.” Most of writers and thinkers of pre-WW II Dirk and I met at Matthew Rachman Gallery for his built work was made after he moved to Europe. Through June 23 a conversation set in a collection of his Chicago, including S. R. Crown Hall, the grandfather’s original blueprints, artifacts and Kluczynski Federal Building and the Farn- 3 CAKE: Chicago furniture. “Mies became famous for his ideas,” sworth House. Alternative Comics Expo. Dirk tells me. In Berlin, his work that had the Center on Halsted. A weekend most impact was a series of drawings and The best place to get to know Mies is in the of workshops, exhibitions, panel models for buildings that were never built. His process. The \"Mies van der Rohe: Chicago discussions and more celebrating concept work for the Friedrichstrasse Blues and Beyond\" exhibition presents his independent artists. June 1-2, Skyscraper Project suggests a supporting process carefully. Each object focuses and 11am-6pm steel skeleton, which frees the building’s articulates his work in a way I had not seen exterior walls from a load-bearing function. previously. In this way, his work is quite literally 4 Do Division Street Fest. This allows for centralized access and control exposed, celebrated and unfurled—well, Division Street between points, which opens space and offers except for one particular corner. One highlight Damen and Leavitt. The annual floor-to-ceiling windows. Although common of many is an original, well-worn prototype street festival has live music and today, these ideas were revolutionary in 1921. chair made for the lobby of 860-880 Lake performances, food and drink vendors from around the city and small-business shopping. May 31-June 2 5 Chicago Pride Fest and Parade 2019. Starts at Montrose Avenue and Broadway in Uptown. A celebration of freedom, diversity and culture starts with the Pride Fest on the third weekend of June only to set the tone for the parade one week later. Pride Fest: June 22-23, Parade: June 30 54
Photo: Matthew Rachman gallery, Mies van der Rohe: Chicago Blues and Beyond, Music. Illinois Institute of Technology Dance. Movies. Theater. Festivals. Family Fun. Free events, in the parks, all summer. Night Out in the Parks brings world-class performances to Chicago’s neighborhood parks! Shore Drive. It has developed a heavy and rich patina over the years, 2,000 140 77 and rests below a blueprint of its cushions that was referenced in the model’s production process through 1953. The series of blueprints on EVENTS ARTISTS COMMUNITY display in the gallery does a good job of highlighting the intense and AREAS intricate planning that went into a Mies project. His ability to design holistically, and consider every detail with technical rigor, is obvious in View our upcoming Night Out events at his complete drawings for buildings. It is much more powerful when put www.NightOutInTheParks.com or access in context. His furniture blends into its surroundings, reveals an them in the free My Chi Parks™mobile app. emphasis on form and line, and nods toward his minimalist and rationalist architecture. Lori Lightfoot, Mayor STAY CONNECTED. @ChicagoParks #InTheParks As a child, Dirk would receive 8×10 black-and-white photographs in the mail from his grandfather. He grew up with pictures of buildings like JUNE 2019 Newcity 860-880 hanging in his bedroom, captured by the incomparable architectural photography firm Hedrich-Blessing. “I’m sure that subconsciously added to my wanting to be an architect,” he recognizes. A nearby set of plans made for 111 East Wacker Drive in 1968 features handmade notations from the construction process. It makes me feel feelings, so I ask Dirk how he sees the work. “Well, it brings back memories—particularly the blueprints.” In 1957, Mies invited Dirk to Chicago to study architecture under his tutelage. Eventually, Dirk, too, emigrated, working closely with his grandfather on several important projects. Looking back makes me want to look forward. I ask Dirk to speculate on what his grandfather might think walking through Chicago today. “I think he would notice all the changes, new developments, and the scheme of the next generation of buildings,\" he says. \"I don’t think he would be surprised. He had also experienced the strength and industrious ability of the city of Chicago in his time.” It feels clear that a gallery show like this is not possible without the strength of its city. Many of the historic objects are on temporary loan from T. Paul Young at the Bauhaus Chicago Foundation. In addition, a portion of proceeds from sales will benefit the Farnsworth House. The home needs about $5 million in restoration. Beyond affecting the way we live our lives, Mies’ work begets greater significance and beauty among its residents and viewers. Yet, he always finds a way to bring me back to the details. While inspecting the MR Chaise lounge chair, reupholstered in Brazilian cowhide, Dirk recalls that Mies didn’t have much leather furniture in his apartment. Minutes later, we find a matching example of his preferred textile in a collection of samples from the design process of the Arts Club of Chicago. These materials sit beside a sample of original drapery from the Farnsworth House and a statement of its construction costs. The stories and connections here are palpable. Through July 21 at Matthew Rachman Gallery, 1659 West Chicago 55
D&iDnirningking Photo: Garn:t and Justin Arnett Staging a Creative DINING & DRINKING Culinary Space TOP 5 Alex Von Holdt and Justin Arnett Reinvent the Event with Garn:t 1 Taste of Mexico. 26thand California. The By Kaycie Surrell Midwest’s largest Mexican- American community offers Newcity JUNE 2019 When it was one of only two Chicago hospitality. Their paths crossed again in 2016, twenty restaurants, craft restaurants to boast the coveted three-star and they embarked on a journey to help chefs merchants and artisans showing Michelin rating in 2010, L2O closed its doors cultivate their unique visions. their best. May 31-June 2 in 2014, but not before leaving a lasting impression on chef Alex von Holdt. At L2O, “I was working at the Peninsula Hotel,” says 2 Edible Plant Tour. Lincoln von Holdt perfected the art of pastry-making von Holdt, “when Justin approached me with Park Conservatory. Edible and worked alongside Matthew Kirkley, the the concept of Garn:t. It would be a truly banana flowers, coffee bean restaurant’s executive chef and the current collaborative dining series, a vehicle for cherries, and lots of other stuff United States 2019 representative at the multidisciplinary artists and creatives, a unique you’d never think to eat. June 1 prestigious Bocuse d’Or competition. Alex experience and environment for themselves remembers being pushed by Kirkley harder and their guests. I said ‘yes’ before Justin 3 Ravenswood on Tap. than he’d ever been pushed before. could even finish his sentence.” Ravenswood, between Berteau and Belle Plaine. Beer Von Holdt remembers meeting Justin Arnett Committed to culinary distinction and elevated and spirits from local producers during a busy moment in the kitchen. The two by hospitality that’s not packaged but rather along Malt Row; music from grew together as co-workers, von Holdt, a presented, Garn:t is an ever-evolving concept Pixel Grip, White Mystery and pastry chef and Arnett, a food runner. Time put that emphasizes that success is a dish best others. Of course, there will be a pin in their partnership as von Holdt served at a community table, by and for your axe-throwing. $5 donation; maneuvered the culinary scenes in Portland friends. Their inaugural engagement came cash for food and drink. June and Chicago, and Arnett navigated media and together on April 9 at Blind Barber (948 West 22-23 4 Sushi Rolling Class. Sunda. Personalized instruction in rolling fish and rice from an award-winning team. ($45/person) June 24 5 Unplugged and Uncorked. Chicago Winery. Winemaker Fred Scherrer and master sommelier Michael Jordan play acoustic pairings to a wine tasting. ($35/person). June 27 56
Fulton Market), an honest cut-and-a-shave shop that moonlights as a C O N T E M P O R A RY, C L A S S I C I TA L I A N C U I S I N E JUNE 2019 Newcity seventies-themed speakeasy specializing in gourmet grilled cheese, bar Located in Printers Row at 616 S. Dearborn Street bites and ingredient-driven twists on classic cocktails. 57 Justin Arnett, the driving force behind full-service creative house B | E | Co and Garn:t, says they’re not anti-event, but rather pro-series. Accentuating an array of interests and a variety of talent allows Garn:t to underline not just one but many aspects of an engagement. “The highlight was being able to work alongside a friend and colleague through a multitude of disciplines,” says Arnett. “From Dayson E. Roa capturing the energy of the evening, to Felton Kizer of Kizer [Journal] documenting the unexpected moments, while Zazaza Disco (Bridget Marie) was spinning vinyl, it was a beautiful complement to the culinary ambition of Alex von Holdt in the kitchen. With Garn:t, we’re always conscious of how others are represented, and all elements contributed to the diversity of the ecosystem.” From concept to completion, von Holdt and Arnett consider all aspects of the engagement, and the menu is no different. Guests were met at the entrance to the barbershop with a glass of whiskey, neat, and told to wait for the doors to the speakeasy to open. Once inside, Arnett made quick work of pairing old friends with new and replenishing empty drinks, making introductions and offering menu suggestions. The cocktails came first, courtesy of the Blind Barber bartenders and crafted to coordinate with von Holdt’s menu. The first dish, crucifer ash marbled fluke dressed in oaked almond and preserved citrus, was meant to capture tones of seasonal changes as the snow was beginning to melt and give way to the greenery of spring. The delicate earthiness of the fish, complemented by charred crucifers matched flavors reminiscent of the hopefulness associated with the long wait for winter’s end. Next came a gorgeous piece of barely warmed Ora salmon with fava bean and red wheat. The salmon was prepared and served half- cooked. Salt and heat worked together to permeate the flesh of the fish, unraveling proteins and muscle fibers to cure it, resulting in a creamy, decadent texture garnished expertly with two preparations of fava beans with a smoky aroma. The pièce de résistance, a blueberry saba-lacquered dry-aged duck asado with sour blackened alliums and agricole pears, rounded out the menu nicely. The dish didn’t feel exaggerated; it was well placed in the dimly lit space punctuated by a gorgeous neon sign that read “pretty please” hanging above the DJ booth. A sentiment shared by the guests who may have entered as strangers but later exchanged bites from one another’s plates and exchanged phone numbers. For dessert, there was winter-scented, heavenly anise yogurt, served with crystallized figs macerated in chartreuse. A startling throwback to winter flavors perhaps pushed to the backs of our minds post-holidays, but somehow suited to the chilly spring wind of the city. Conscious collaboration was a consideration from the beginning, and ingredients were sourced as locally as possible. Naming Green City Market as a key resource, especially in late spring and summer months, von Holdt also gave shout-outs to Fortune Fish Co., Tensuke Market in Elk Grove Village, The Spice House and Terra Spice. What do future engagements hold for the mobility of Garn:t? Blind Barber remains their public venue, but a brick-and-mortar space isn’t necessarily just a twinkle in von Holdt’s eye. Maybe a progressive patisserie somewhere down the line? With a growth plan rooted in organic structure and an emphasis on thriving in the present, the possibilities are endless. “We want to be part of the venues we align with, providing pathways of opportunity to creative culinary spaces while remaining conscious of the unknown,” says Arnett. “The idea of Garn:t is rooted in multitiered possibility.”
Film Power to the Pixel What’s A Cinematic Memory? By Ray Pride Newcity JUNE 2019Years ago, I asked Joe Swanberg, whose seen the movie mid-afternoon at River East’s “Game of Thrones” was on eleven flatscreens third and final season of “Easy” began on premium “Dolby Cinema” auditorium, or at around the room. Dark and artefacting— Netflix Originals Animation/iPhoneNetflix in mid-May, what proportions, whatthe Navy Pier IMAX theater, or at a forty-nine-that night’s image was nearly black, nearly photo from iPad: Ray Pridescale, he envisioned or planned a frame in.seat private screening room near the top ofindiscernible, but the score by Ramin Djawadi After years of reviewing movies, I like to think a building in the Loop, or via Vimeo links, or filled the divey room with volume, scale, my brain/imagination/consciousness scales DVD, or Blu-ray, or on a dedicated streaming presence. The man down the bar who’s whatever format I see to the larger, airier frame link that translucent-overlays my name and always watching his phone with his earbuds of at least a modest movie screen or wall a email throughout the stream? How does in was looking down at the bar and smiling good distance away. the trained brain discern the essence of and laughing while Djawadi’s richly melancholic all these forms of kino, cinema, movies, music crested and swelled. A quick reconnoi- Swanberg, born in 1981, a child of the internet mayhem, calm? (Movies are big: it’s the ter: the man down the bar, boilermaker in front and small, personal video cameras, had made pixels that got small.) of him, was watching an Adam Sandler movie. a few features and a web series largely shot (It looked like one made for Netflix.) Djawadi in the confines of his own apartment and was Where is the ecstatic experience that was thundered. This entire scenario of a shared, developing an appreciation of the range of promised, often provided, across a centu- public moment: an ecstatic experience. visual expression in areas of cinema history ry-plus of cinema behind us, versus the he didn’t yet know. efficient “delivery” or “content”? In the Setting aside the movie-television-“con- Cannes edition of Variety, sixty-nine-year-old tent”-shared experience moment, I remem- His answer came down to “the viewfinder,” filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar held the purist bered I was soaking in a soup of data points: the digital screen a couple inches across— line: “Films are conceived to be shown on everyone watching, rapt, or watching, probably about the same size as an actual a screen to people who are strangers, who distractedly, while also checking texts and scrap of a frame of thirty-five millimeter don’t know each other, in the dark.” emails and Facebook and other applications, film—with tight, simple geometry and bold was providing a steady stream of information colors. (Swanberg’s work is airier now; “Easy” Sitting at a neighborhood bar a recent to the data purveyors. Pixels, not people, as is looser visually, letting characters breathe Sunday night, I got an email from a streaming the ultimate product. Netflix keeps its data or hyperventilate in locations instead of service with a password for a movie that close, but it’s known at least, like every other pinching or pushing in on them.) would—Drop? Open? Start streaming? form of social media that crosses the wall into Exist?—in a few days. Sitting there, then, your internet-linked devices, including Amazon The idea of the frame and the perceived, I could click on my phone a few times, type and Hulu or even a newspaper that drops remembered frame arises all the time, in 6-6-6-1 and watch the movie-product- a hundred tiny trackers into your browser looking at movies and other narrative material content-object at that very moment. (And after you click the link, your microseconds on screens of all kinds. If I’m previewing a in almost the same proportions the younger of attention can be measured and parsed movie for review that is meant to convey Swanberg told me he envisioned his charac- and crunched as closely, as surgically as a what you see at a theater on a large screen ters alive and moving and framed and micro-targeted Trump-PAC Facebook ad. for ten-to-fifteen dollars, does it matter if I’ve caught and kept.) (How do you do, fellow products?) 58
The other overarching perceptual wallow is to His “Next Cinema”-resembling formula? debate a definition of movies versus television. “neuroscience x technology x collected FILM TOP 5 audience member’s algorithms = desired An often-battered canard asserts that “The response (fleecing you of your money)” Sopranos” was a ninety-two-hour movie. And to follow that same rough logic, could we The veteran filmmaker goes big, seeing our 1 Faces. Chicago Film Society, NEIU. define the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” not John Cassavetes’ 1968 as twenty-two movies, but as a 2,481-minute modern moment of movies and viewing and masterpiece in scarring, consumption as a wider frame, yes, but also scumbled 35mm. television series blown up real good with as a frame that is increasingly tight, tighter, Wednesday, June 5 intermittent panoramas of zap-pow, punchy tightening still; scrolling, ever scrolling: “The pixels? And mega-producers/showrunners Age of Enlightenment held the modern world stand behind both: “The Sopranos”‘ David to a belief in ‘free will’ and ‘human agency.’ Chase and the MCU’s Kevin Feige. As they Civilization forged ahead accordingly. What say online: “Discuss.” Meanwhile, I’ve got a happens to the species when AI knows us pile of moving pictures I’m behind on. better than we know ourselves?” Of ongoing conversations this year with friends Review 2 Trust. Chicago Film Society, Music Box. and filmmakers, as well as eavesdropping Hal Hartley’s 1990 absurdist online, director-producer Bob Gosse dropped romance blooms in CFS’ new 35mm print. Monday a few thoughts on Facebook in early May. June 10 “Cinema, as we have always understood it, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom has been so fundamentally changed by the Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò, or The 120 Days digital and technological revolution over the of Sodom” is stately horror, brute and luxe. past twenty years that it no longer resembles There’s a legend of the movie’s Chicago debut, what we were referring to in the first place. at the Three Penny Cinema (now Lincoln Hall), By this I mean the intention of the writers when the theater’s owner whipped out the and filmmaking team being delivered to their shears under dark of night and scissored out intended audiences,” he posted, taking a tight, every scene he found distasteful, losing a good 3 The Dead Don’t Die. Jim Jarmusch hard line versus my half-hearted musing. twenty minutes. The radical director’s film was sets zombies upon his own upstate New York a radically different thing, a jumpy, sputtery hash. chomping grounds. “Increasingly in the movie and TV space it is (At the end of the run, the owner pasted the Opens Friday, June 14 the artists who are deferring more and more print back together before shipping it back.) to the code-writing engineers to create the Although the film has been on Criterion for images,” Gosse asserts, “who decide what years, with serious supplements, surely some folks are watching as well as where they can of “Salò”’s unsavory reputation comes from watch it. The engineers and being driven by reviewers who seethe at surfaces and not the hardly subterranean political text. “Game of Thrones” (It’s taken more picture mirror 4 Transgressions than mere picture in these cases.) in 35mm. Siskel. Two of the most troubling “Leonard Maltin’s Movie & Video intimate testimonies of social fall and body horror from Guide” called Pasolini’s final film great directors, in 35mm: David Cronenberg’s “Crash,” a “BOMB… Fascists brutalize and June 22, 25; and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final outcry, “Salò, degrade adolescents. Sadism, or the 120 Days of Sodom,” June 21-22, 26. June 21-26 scatology and debauchery galore: Pasolini… wallows in his own sensationalism.” That makes for a particularly nasty critique by the unsigned reviewer, as Pasolini was murdered shortly after, as the story goes, by a young man whom he hoped to pick up, who bashed in “Avengers: Endgame” his head, stole his convertible and then ran it over Pasolini’s broken body. Novelist Gary Indiana, who wrote an indispensable analysis for the BFI’s Modern Classic series (essentially superb, extended liner notes), dismisses the connection. 5 Chicago Under- ground Film Festival. “The problem is that Pasolini’s Logan. “The longest-running underground film festival in murder and this particular film the world” turns twenty-six, with its range of coolly were so readily linked, and eclipsed curated political and formal groundbreakers, both in the rest of Pasolini’s work, in a short and feature form. certain journalistic kind of discus- June 5-9 sion. ‘Salò’ is a satire of consumer JUNE 2019 Newcity society and perfectly consistent market forces to create machines to do this with Pasolini’s other films and his polemical better/faster/cheaper. Historically, this means writings. What he saw as an extreme spiritual the reduction of human labor.” crisis in modern society demanded this particular form, and these extremely unnerving Gosse even ventured a formula for the march of images.” 145m. (Ray Pride) artificial intelligence to shape what we consume and how we are delivered back as an even “Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom” plays in more invaluable product: “n x t x cma = dr.” 35mm June 21-22, 26 at Siskel. 59
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Lit Complicating Things Rachel DeWoskin lightens up with “Banshee” By Ruth Lopez Rachel DeWoskin/Photo: Anne Li Rachel DeWoskin’s new novel, “Banshee” coped by working on multiple projects. “You for the Blind where she learned Braille. In (Dottir Press), about a poetry professor whose have to back up from your book occasionally “Someday,” her novel set in China, DeWoskin and come back to to it,” she says. “You’ll be was moved by an image of Holocaust cancer diagnosis makes her want to “crack open my own cage of bones and run straight a better writer.” refugees who were wearing T-shirts embla- out of myself,” was written as an escape from zoned with the name of their table tennis sport the demands of her previous novel, “Someday DeWoskin wanted to get a first draft of team. DeWoskin marveled at their resilience, We Will Fly” (Viking), published in January, and “Banshee” done before going on the “Someday” how they managed not only to build a school and build the tables and create teams, but set in a Jewish refugee camp in Shanghai book tour that would require her to be in public all the time, and “make it difficult to go also to then make T-shirts. How did they during World War II. back into the ‘bat cave’ to write. For that final manage to move on with their lives? “I feel like I was cheating on my Holocaust push, she went to the MacDowell Colony, the novel with ‘Banshee’,” says DeWoskin over famed artist retreat in New Hampshire, for a “I’ve come to think more and more over the coffee in a South Loop café not far from her month. “I won’t do that again until my kids years that the domain of creative writers is home. In order to write “Someday,” DeWoskin are older,” she says, referring to the pampered to ask and complicate questions, rather than JUNE 2019 Newcity isolation that kept her away from her two to try to answer or simplify them,” she says, had to live in her head in Shanghai in 1939 young daughters. “I missed them too much.” adding that simplification can be left to the and sometimes it was pleasant—like getting propagandists. It’s an approach that also lost researching such details as rickshaw laws. makes her a dynamic teacher. DeWoskin is Yet the book also required her to think about All of DeWoskin’s work, six books to date, what it means to close our borders, put people begins with a set of questions that propel the on the faculty of the creative writing program at the University of Chicago, which launched away and separate families. When she started stories. In the novel “Blind” (Viking, 2014), its major in 2017. “I cherish my community,” “Someday,” the issue of immigration was not as for instance, it was about learning how one acute as it is now: “It became more and more manages in the world with the loss of sight. she says. One of the benefits of being in painful.” DeWoskin says she struggled and Research led her to the Chicago Lighthouse on the ground floor of the new program has 61
been helping it develop and DeWoskin remembers the poet bringing in writers that she Claudia Rankine’s keynote address admires to campus. Guests at the AWP (Association of Writers have included Marlon James & Writing Programs) a few years LIT TOP 5 and alumnus and radio journalis ago, where she made the point that 1 Printers Row Lit Fest. South Dearborn Sarah Koenig, who produces by not putting people of color in Street from Polk Street to Ida B. Wells Drive. The Midwest’s biggest literary event the popular podcast Serial. novels, writers are erasing entire returns to its founders and its all-free-events origins. An outdoor bookselling bazaar swathes of human experience. augmented with high-profile authors like Valerie Jarrett doing events, it’s Chicago’s A book about a self-destructive “We have a responsibility as writers summer books highlight. June 8-9 poet with breast cancer might not to tell stories that are inclusive, 2 1919. Harold Washington Library seem like light fare, but “Banshee” representative and thoughtful, and and American Writers Museum. is funny. DeWoskin did not want to to do so with complexity and care,” Chicago is marking one of its most inglorious judge her protagonist’s behavior as she says. “It’s worth saying here years on the centennial of the 1919 race riots. bad or good. “I was curious writing that while publishing, like most On June 6 at 6pm, Simon Balto will discuss that book to see a woman behave industries, is still not a mecca of his new history of that event and its long social justice, making and putting aftermath, “Occupied Territory: Policing Black that way. What does it look like Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power,” when we stop answering the rules books into the world is also not a at the Harold Washington Library. On June 10 zero-sum game.” at 6pm at the American Writers Museum, of polite life?” Not judging Eve L. Ewing will launch her new poetry collection, “1919” with the help of Fatimah characters can be a useful tactic While DeWoskin has expanded Asghar, Safia Elhillo and Nate Marshall. for writers, one that can allow a on her own lived experience in her 3 Aleksandar Hemon. Women & Children First. Book launch party story to gain traction. work, readers will detect a trail of for Bosnian and now Chicago expat Aleksandar Hemon’s dual memoir, “My “There’s a beautiful moment in an breadcrumbs that lead to China; it Parents (An Introduction) / This Does Not Belong to You.” June 27, 7pm old interview with James Baldwin in is where she spent a large part of The Paris Review, in which Baldwin, her life. DeWoskin, who was born 4 Alison Rollins. Seminary Coop. in Kyoto in 1972, spent summers The Chicago librarian discusses her talking about the difference debut poetry collection, “Library of Small in China throughout her childhood Catastrophes,” which “interrogates the body between preaching and writing, and nation as storehouses of countless says, ‘When you are standing in the where her father, an Asian cultures tragedies.” June 22, 3pm pulpit, you must sound as though professor at the University of you know what you’re talking about. Michigan, was doing research. 5 Michael Moreci. The Book Table. When you’re writing, you’re trying After college in 1994, she went to Michael Moreci discusses the second China to work for a public relations installment of his Black Star Renegades to find out something which you series, “We Are Mayhem.” June 3, 7pm don’t know. The whole language of firm for what she thought would be a year and ended up staying 62 writing for me is finding out what six-and-a-half years. In that time, you don’t want to know, what she starred in a soap opera, then you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.’” worked for the Ford Foundation DeWoskin says she keeps this idea writing case studies largely about women’s reproductive health. of Baldwin’s close and shares it Her first book, “Foreign Babes in with her students. “I try to use Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a wonder as my central engine.” New China” published in 2005, One of the dusty adages about was based on that experience writing is to stick to what you know, as well as an exploration of but DeWoskin believes in pushing culture and identity. Her first novel, “Repeat After Me,” published in past that notion. “Of course this kind of thinking—that we write not 2009, tells the story of a Chinese what we know but what we want dissident in Manhattan. or feel we have to learn—leads to When she returned to the United some part of the contemporary States, it was to study poetry under conversation about what writers are ‘allowed’ to write, whether we Robert Pinsky at Boston University. should stay within the boundaries Among the multiple writing projects that DeWoskin is always juggling of our own lived experiences.” For DeWoskin, such a practice is are the poems. Her first collection impossible for any kind of writing. will be published by the University “Even the idea that you could write of Chicago Press in March of 2020. only from your own narrow band of perspective misses and contra- Currently, DeWoskin is working with her husband, playwright Zayd dicts the point of art, which is to Dohrn, on developing “Foreign transcend your own experience and to imagine—deeply, intellectu- Babes” into a television series. ally, emotionally, and in every way “I love working with him. He’s a Newcity JUNE 2019 very dignified and generous writer possible—the experiences of and thinker. If we disagree, I’ll take people who are not you.” his word over mine in a pinch.” For DeWoskin, writers have a It’s their first collaboration, but responsibility to kick the doors they have always been each open for people who have been other’s first readers. “It was in excluded or exploited. “We have our wedding vows,” DeWoskin to amplify voices we’ve shushed says. “We promised to read each or ignored or talked over.” other’s manuscripts.”
Music Yo La Tengo Octfecta is At first glance it seems like the Space talent bookers scored a Now a Thing quadfecta with this June’s “Out Of Space” lineup at Temperance Beer Co. (2000 Dempster, Evanston), but really it’s an octfecta, a tribute Out Of Space’s Lineup to stellar musical taste (and booking ability). I seriously doubt anyone of Musical Wonderfulness has ever correctly bet on the first eight horses to finish a race in the correct order, leading me to make up that word. By Craig Bechtel Out Of Space begins on June 20 with Digable Planets, a group that made its name with a debut album called “Reachin’ (A New Refutation JUNE 2019 Newcity of Time and Space)” in 1993. The album’s impact on the brand new alternative hip-hop genre was akin to the groundbreaking level of De La Soul’s “Three Feet High and Rising” in 1989, and A Tribe Called Quest’s “The Low End Theory” in 1991. These records relied heavily on laid-back jazz grooves and psychedelic philosophies and imagery, which charted a new path for hip-hop that didn’t rely on misogynist attitudes, invocations of violence or braggadocio. Not only that, but the position of Mariana “Ladybug Mecca” Vieira as an equal to fellow rappers Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler and Craig “Doodlebug” Irving was in its own way revolutionary and would foreshadow the later importance of Lauryn Hill in The Fugees. But “Reachin’” stands on its own as a classic moment in hip-hop’s 63
evolution, although the trio’s in the half-full Lounge Ax back in sophomore album, “Blowout the day have become rapt disciples Comb,” despite critical raves, failed today. Opener Juliana Hatfield released the album “Weird” last year to perform. The trio broke up in If you were like me and had a huge 1995, but reformed in 2005 and crush on her in your early college MUSIC TOP 5 have toured occasionally since then. Evanston’s most well-known years, you won’t want to miss her, 1 Rosanne Cash & Ry Cooder. hip-hop artist, and a local treasure so you’ll… get there early. Old Town School. The two alt-country stalwarts unite in tribute to Cash’s father in his own right, Kweku Collins My favorite part of writing about this Johnny, whose body of work is seminal to the American experience. June 18 opens, so get there early. weekend’s festivities is getting to 2 Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah. I’ve always felt about reggae the listen to and write about Yo La City Winery. The audaciously visionary jazz trumpeter comes to town same way critic and drummer Tengo, Out of Space’s marquee in support of his bold new album, “Ancestral Recall.” June 29 Jim DeRogatis feels about jazz: name for June 23. But what is 3 Finn Andrews. Old Town School. I’m saving it for my retirement. there to say about the pride of The Veils’ frontman arrives in town on the heels of his newly released, But that was before I came across Hoboken, New Jersey that hasn’t emotionally intense solo album, “One Toots & The Maytals (Out of Space’s already been said? They summed Piece At a Time.” June 15 themselves up perfectly by naming headliners on June 21), and 4 A.A. Bondy. Sleeping Village. their early Matador compilation The singer-songwriter tours his discovered that their leader pretty first album in eight years, “Enderness,” much created the genre and even “Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo.” as relentlessly melancholic as it is The trio of recovering rock critic irresistibly melodic. June 22 invented the term reggae. We’re talking about the same Toots who Ira Kaplan (vocals, guitar), Georgia 5 Toronzo Cannon. SPACE. Hubley (vocals, percussion) and The blisteringly gifted Chicago was born in 1942 in Jamaica and native plays Blues Fest on June 9; but formed The Maytals in 1962, who James McNew (bass, vocals), who if you prefer a more intimate setting, later signed to Island and released would really prefer first names, if it’s here it is. June 29 not too much trouble, have been such legendary reggae singles as 64 penning and recording divine pop “Pressure Drop”(later covered by confections for over thirty years. The Clash), “Monkey Man” (later Although midway through their covered by The Specials) and “Funky Kingston,” and who opened performing career the threesome for the likes of The Who, The Eagles, were notoriously hit-or-miss on the Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt live stage, so much so that buying in the mid-1970s. It’s true that The tickets would be tantamount to Maytals have reconstituted in many buying Morrissey tickets today, every time I’ve seen them they’ve forms over the years, but Toots is been solidly entertaining. While I will going strong at age seventy-six, always see their apex as 1997’s and it would be a shame to miss a man who (along with Bob Marley) “I Can Hear The Heart Beating As could be called the father of reggae. One,” with 1993’s “Painful” and 1995’s “Electr-O-Pura” combining The acid-jazz infused funk of to create a masterful three-album Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs arc of mid-1990s rock, you can pick opens; Allen is an extraordinary pretty much any Yo La Tengo record trumpeter and preaches passion- ately about his hometown on their out of their substantial discography and discover a masterful work of art. latest record, “True Orleans,” so again, get there early. After leaving Evanston, Yo La On June 22, former Chicagoan Liz Tengo will perform in South Korea, Mongolia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Phair returns to the town that she sail from Barcelona on Belle & made infamous and from which Sebastian’s The Boaty Weekender, she became famous, and her set will undoubtedly include flashbacks and then tour the United Kingdom on what the band calls “The to both her original Girly-Sound cassettes and the debut album that Freewheeling Yo La Tengo,” for which there will be “No set list; would follow, “Exile In Guyville,” instead the audience is encouraged framed as a satirical comment on her Wicker Park stomping grounds. (if not required) to interact with the Audiences were originally impressed, band, leading we’re never quite if not intimidated, by the at-the-time sure where.” That sums up how aggressive takes on female sexuality I feel listening to Yo La Tengo: and power, along with her gift with that “we’re never quite sure where” place always seems to be the melody, hooks and phrasing, all delivered in her unaffected alto. Her perfect musical destination. Newcity JUNE 2019 discography since has not risen to equal the overall quality of her earlier Minus 5 opens, led by Scott McCaughey. I’m not sure who music. Just as Digable Planets could not deliver the “shock of the will be touring with him, artists on his latest album, “Stroke Manor” new” past their debut, the same syndrome befell Phair. But it would include R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Jeff Tweedy, Corin Tucker, Steve Wynn, be cool to be there to see her, as Linda Pitmon, Dave Depper and Alia the learning curve has come full circle and those curious onlookers Farah. So if I were you… you know.
Michael and Mona Heath Stage /Photo: Joe Mazza, Brave Lux Art Should Be First [and] is kind of amazing. But it’s not just quantity for the sake of quantity. It’s quality. Meet Michael and Mona Heath, Patron Saints [Chicago theater] tackles really interesting of Chicago Storefront Theater and challenging pieces that challenge artists and the audiences they serve. That commit- By Amanda Finn ment is another thing. If you attend your fair share of storefront storefront community is better off because of The bottom line is we just enjoy theater. We JUNE 2019 Newcity theater in Chicago, you may have noticed their generous spirits. enjoy attending and participating and we felt a handful of sponsors’ names listed over like we should do something to give back, and over again on walls and in programs. The Heaths are significant donors in the theater to pay back, and to help perpetuate the great If you look around at The Den on Milwaukee community as well as fierce advocates for the theatrical community. Avenue, you will notice a theater that shares craft itself. They weren’t bitten by the acting a name with one of those familiar sponsors: bug at an early age. Nor are they retired from a Mona: One other thing about Chicago the Heath Mainstage, named for Michael career in the arts. They are simply professional specifically is the theater community is so and Mona Heath, patron saints of Chicago audience members and humble benefactors incredibly welcoming. Not all that many years storefront theater. of this ephemeral art form. ago we were just in awe of the people on stage and behind the scenes and we happened to go To say the Heaths enjoy theater would be a Why give to theater in Chicago? to The Hypocrites’ production of “Desire Under gross understatement. They’ve probably set the Elms” and we sat next to Brenda Barrie. a record for the number of shows attended Michael: I would say both the quantity and We were really excited but didn’t know if we in greater Chicago in a given year. And the quality. The quantity is extremely unusual should say “hi.” We’d never talked to an actor in Chicago before. We didn’t know if we’d be bothering her. We said “hi,” and said we saw her in [something] and she was just beyond gracious and incredibly kind and now we’re 65
Newcity JUNE 2019 STAGE TOP 5 friends. That’s kind of how we got our Michael: We don’t get tired of actually toes wet with interacting with people experiencing theater. Sometimes we 1 Ms. Blakk For President. who make theater in Chicago. It’s the get a little physically run down on a Steppenwolf Theatre Company. most wonderful set of human beings two-show day or three. Inspired by the true story of America’s first on the planet. black drag queen presidential candidate, Mona: We had a four-show day! a new play from Tarell Alvin McCraney and Michael: We often express it by Tina Landau takes us into the heart and saying that we have no children and Michael: You need a children’s show mind of one of Chicago’s most radical no relatives we trust with money, so at 10am for four shows. and influential citizens. Opens June 3 at a certain age, with approaching retirement, we were thinking about Mona: It’s always so different and it’s 2 We Are Pussy Riot (or) what [our] legacy is and our bequest such a unique experience. Everything is P.R. Red Tape to the future. Theatre. An anarchic play from Barbara Michael: We are retired now. We don’t Hammond weaves trial transcripts, We thought philanthropy was obvious have day jobs sapping our energy. letters, interviews, media coverage and the thing we’re most passionate So we recover during the day. and statements from celebrities and about is theater. So let’s establish a public officials into the story of Russia’s fund. We went online and it turns out Mona: We still miss things we want anonymous activists and punk-rock Chicago Community Trust has been to see. icons Pussy Riot. Opens June 7 around for over a hundred years. They care about Chicago and regional Michael: You can’t work everything 3 Grace, or the Art of Climbing. philanthropy and they support the arts in, it’s too much. There’s an obsessive- Brown Paper Box Co. Midwest and social and educational programs, ness that theater induces. If you miss premiere of the Kilroys List honorable you name it. We talked to them and a show, it’s gone. You’ve got to take mention follows a young woman it seemed like a natural fit, so we it as it comes. It’s not [like] books or suspended between love and loss, established a donor-advised fund. music or movies where you can strength and fear, fathers and always tell yourself to queue it up and daughters, and the ardor and grace It’s worked out great. It’s like a see it later. It’s now or never. We try of being human. Opens June 9 foundation without the overhead. to be pretty comprehensive and we’re Our entire estate will go into that. It’s afraid we’ll miss something and we’ll 4 If I Forget. Victory Gardens an endowment that will support theater regret it. Theater. As destructive secrets in perpetuity. Now we are practicing and long-held resentments bubble to for when the thing takes over under Do you have any words of wisdom the surface, three siblings negotiate its own momentum. We establish a or advice to give about sustaining how much of the past they’re willing record now for what we fund and why the theater community? to sacrifice for a chance at a new we fund it. Our website is for when we beginning. Opens June 14 aren’t around anymore to do donor Mona: We believe pretty strongly that advising. A committee will decide it comes down to the quality of the art 5 Something Clean. Rivendell how to spend the money. and inclusiveness. For example, we’ve Theatre Ensemble & Sideshow been season sponsors for Jackalope Theatre Company. Inspired by today’s Mona: We aren’t practicing simply to for four years and recently made headlines, playwright Selina Fillinger’s provide a track record but to figure out arrangements for [a fifth]. We obviously breathtaking new drama follows one what’s most effective and likely to have love Jackalope and the things they do woman’s struggle to make sense of impact. We don’t have inherited money. and the work. They’re good people. her own grief, intimacy, culpability and We just earned money and saved. One thing that stands out to us is consent. Opens June 16 Every dollar means something to us. that when we sit in the audience We want to put the money where it there, the average age of people in 66 will have discernible impact. Over the the theater is literally a few decades course of the few years we’ve been younger than [at] the average theater. practicing, we’ve had good experienc- They’re doing that with quality, es in terms of what can make a inclusiveness and being connected difference for a small theater company to the people in their community. and what doesn’t make a ripple. Michael: I think it’s probably not Michael: We can see the difference good to think too much about the that we make. If we give to a huge future for any theater company. They theater, it just disappears into the maw. need to focus on the art they’re doing We don’t see the effect it has. But now. If that’s done well, it will become with a small theater, we can do a a vital part of the community and production sponsorship that makes survive or even thrive. Focusing too a huge difference in the quality of the early on being an institution is probably costumes and the set, the diversity a mistake. People think you need to of the cast, et cetera. We see a be an institution to last. I don’t know much more discernible effect from if that’s true. Even if it is true, I don’t our donations to small theaters than know if it’s important. We’ve had a much larger ones. number of discussions recently with foundation people who seem to be Do you get tired of seeing shows concerned with institutionalizing all the time? [The couple saw 335 midsize theaters. They have strong shows in 2018] boards and a large staff and focus on growth above everything else. Mona: We don’t. We’re very big on: art should be first.
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