Thursday February 15 Public Program: Visual Art 6:00 pm Program The publications Open Questions and Each One Another attack two core questions: how does one find “oneself” in art? And what do museums, universities, and art history have in common as tools and obstacles in that search? Celebrated curator Helen Molesworth joins esteemed art historian Rachel Haidu in a conversation that will unfold some of the ways that art presents new questions about pleasure, identity, and the reactions of the observer. Free and Open to the Public Registration: In-person Virtual ..read more

Friday October 20th Evening Public Program: Performance 6:00 pm Performance Celebrating 30 years since the Fluxus Festival at The Arts Club of Chicago and 60 (+1) years of the Fluxus movement, The Arts Club teams up with Chicago’s contemporary Fluxus practitioners to interpret historical scores. Curated by Chris Reeves, Hannah Higgins, and Simon Anderson, this evening of performance will feature works by Ben Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Alison Knowles, Charlotte Moorman, Dick Higgins, and George Brecht–interpreted by Alberto Aguilar, Dorothy Carlos, Jesse Malmed, Josh Rios, Lauren Sudbink, and Sus ..read more

Thursday October 5 Evening Program: Alsdorf-Freehling Lecture/On the Exhibition Dr. Esther da Costa Meyer on the Architecture of Refugee Housing In-person program with option to view remotely Program 6:00 pm   Artist Rathin Barman’s work, currently on view at The Arts Club, evokes the palatial colonial villas in Kolkata, many now inhabited by migrants fleeing violence. This correlation between colonialism and asylum seekers is crucial, as most refugees trying to reach Europe hail from former colonies. Esther da Costa Meyer, Visiting Professor at the Yale University School of Architec ..read more

Tuesday September 19 Exhibition Opening Gallery Talk Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures 6:00- 7:00 pm Including concrete and brass wall reliefs and a newly commissioned room-scaled installation, Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures considers the creative reuse by migrant populations of abandoned colonial mansions in the artist’s home city of Kolkata, India. Barman will be in conversation with Priyanka Raja of Experimenter in Kolkata. Artist talk and opening gallery reception are free and open to all. IN-PERSON REGISTRATION VIRTUAL REGISTRATION   Image: Rathin Barman, One, and the Other (S ..read more

Thursday August 10 Evening Program: Film/Theater Table Reading of Max & Ziney by Kimberly McMillan In-person program Wine and Hors D’oeuvre Reception 6:00 pm | Program 6:30 pm Kimberly McMillan’s Max & Ziney is a screenplay for a television pilot featuring a lonely, middle-aged divorcee, at the end of her dating rope, who must keep her world from falling apart, while at the same time, battling her illusory inner critic, who follows her everywhere. A collection of actors joins McMillan for a staged reading of her hilarious, pithy, and searingly candid episode in The Arts Club’s salon. S ..read more

Saturday September 30 Public Program: Arts Club Garden Projects Yasmin Spiro with Danielle Roper In-person program with option to view remotely Program 1:00 pm in The Drawing Room (refreshments provided) Yasmin Spiro’s (b. Kingston, Jamaica 1974) installation and semi-transparent weaving, Groundation, currently on view in The Arts Club’s Garden, is an homage to Jamaican wicker weaver Sylvester Ivy, and explores the creation of sacred spaces, vernacular architecture, and craft. In conjunction with EXPO Chicago Exhibition Weekend, Spiro is joined by Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Latin A ..read more

Lunes 31 de julio Programa público: Sobre la exposición Tour en español de Drink from the river de Brenda Draney Visita a la exposición 6:00 – 6:45 pm Refrescos en The Drawing Room 6:45 – 8:00 pm En su primera exhibición en los Estados Unidos, Brenda Draney (miembro de la Primera Nación de Sawridge, Tratado 8) comparte pinturas narrativas realizadas desde 2009, junto con obras encargadas recientemente, que ofrecen destellos de su experiencia personal y comunitaria. Brenda Draney: Drink from the river explora la noción de movimiento que sugiere el incesante flujo de un río. Inspirada ..read more

Sound Meditation in the gallery with GongLab In-person program Doors 5:30pm | Program 6:00 | Tea in The Drawing room 7:30 Artist Brenda Draney’s exhibition Drink from the river, currently in The Arts Club’s galleries, represents her own life experience, drawing upon memories both joyful and difficult. Striking in her paintings is the intentional presence of white space, requiring the collaboration of the viewer. To give our audience an opportunity to collaborate with and activate that space, we invite the practitioners of GongLab to lead a sound meditation, guiding participants on a flow throu ..read more

To sit or not to sit: Jessi Reaves shows her furniture sculptures in ‘All possessive lusts dispelled’ at the Arts Club Read the full article by Lori Waxman HERE ..read more

Saturday May 20 Public Program: Arts Club Garden Projects In-person program Program 12:00 – 2:00 pm If you’ve never heard of liming, come to the garden to find out more. Groundation, by Chicago-based, Jamaican artist Yasmin Spiro, utilizes the fence at the Arts Club of Chicago as a structure to build a semi-transparent weaving. The installation serves as an homage to Jamaican wicker weaver and Rastafarian, Sylvester, who created an immersive woven wicker environment in his home in St. Ann, Jamaica that also functioned as a community gathering space. For this program, Spiro is joined by weaver ..read more