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Mabel Kwan and Chris Wild perform Isang Yun

Latham Zearfoss Garden Project Opening/Tree Giveaway

Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti in conversation with Justin Davidson

Artist Talk: Teresa Baker with Janine Mileaf

Every house has a door performs a new work *at The Arts Club*

Panel Discussion on Mina Loy

Pencil portrait of a young woman wearing a wide brim hat and gazing directly at the viewer
Pencil portrait of a young woman wearing a wide brim hat and gazing directly at the viewer

Dawoud Bey and Antawan I. Byrd on Elegy *Sold out for in-person attendance*

Exhibition Discussion on Mina Loy

A Painterly Gifting: days of distribution (CLOSED)

Rachel Haidu and Helen Molesworth in Conversation

Covers of two books: Open Questions by Helen Molesworth (depicting a painting of a coffee cup next to a glass of orange juice), and Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art by Rachel Haidu (depicting a multi-colored, semi-figurative painting by Amy Sillman
Covers of two books: Open Questions by Helen Molesworth (depicting a painting of a coffee cup next to a glass of orange juice), and Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art by Rachel Haidu (depicting a multi-colored, semi-figurative painting by Amy Sillman

Rathin Barmin in conversation with Prateek Raja

Rebar of a building embedded in a rock-like object.
Rathin Barman, One, and the Other (Site Il), 2016. Coated mild steel, brass and concrete. Courtesy of the Artist and Experimenter. Photo: Nepal Bhadra

Big Fluxus Show (Name tbd)

Dr. Esther da Costa Meyer on the Architecture of Refugee Housing

Aerial view of a large settlement in a arid land.
A close-up view of the Za’atri camp in Jordan for Syrian refugees as seen on July 18, 2013, from a helicopter carrying U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. State Department photo/ Public Domain.

Yasmin Spiro with Danielle Roper

Detail of an intricate rope weaving on a black garden fence
Detail, Yasmin Spiro: Groundation , 2023.
Detail of an intricate rope weaving on a black garden fence
Detail, Yasmin Spiro: Groundation , 2023.

Sound Meditation in the gallery with GongLab

Table Reading of Max & Ziney by Kimberly McMillan

Tour en español de “Drink from the river” de Brenda Draney

Installation view, Brenda Draney: Drink from the river, Arts Club of Chicago, 2023. Photo: Michael Tropea.

Artist Talk: Brenda Draney and Janine Mileaf

Architect Joshua Ramus in conversation with Justin Davidson

Lime & Weaving with Yasmin Spiro

A tree and a fence are encased in rope weavings.
Installation view, Yasmin Spiro: Groundation, 2023. Photo: Michael Tropea.

D-Composed String Quartet

Architect Annabelle Selldorf in conversation with Justin Davidson

Jessi Reaves and Diane Simpson in Conversation with Historian Kate Nesin

Two cut-out hearts within a colorfield of orange and yellow zebra-like stripes.
Detail of Jessi Reeves, Personal Heat, 2021. In Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelled, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2023. Photo: Clare Britt.
Two cut-out hearts within a colorfield of orange and yellow zebra-like stripes.
Detail of Jessi Reeves, Personal Heat, 2021. In Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelled, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2023. Photo: Clare Britt.

Architect Anupama Kundoo in conversation with Justin Davidson

Architect Elizabeth Diller in conversation with Justin Davidson

Jessi Reaves: all possessive lusts dispelled

The Arts Club of Chicago east gallery installation view prominently featuring exhibition booth furniture, a sculptural chair, and wall works, Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelled.
East gallery installation view, Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelled, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2023. Photo: Michael Tropea.
The Arts Club of Chicago east gallery installation view prominently featuring exhibition booth furniture, a sculptural chair, and wall works, Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelled.
East gallery installation view, Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelled, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2023. Photo: Michael Tropea.

Musicians Ian Antonio and Ben LaMar Gay interact with Assaf Evron’s Collage for The Arts Club of Chicago⁠

Black Abstraction Panel Discussion

Choreographers Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo in conversation with Vershawn Sanders-Ward

Open House Chicago

The Path Toward Racial Equity

Artist Tonika Lewis Johnson in Conversation with Janine Mileaf

Suzanne Jackson in Conversation with Janine Mileaf

A woman stands looking at a gallery exhibition of colorful multimedia wall installations
A woman stands looking at a gallery exhibition of colorful multimedia wall installations

Suzanne Jackson: Listen’ N Home

A large white gallery in which six colorful, mixed media artworks hang from the ceiling.
Installation view, Suzanne Jackson: Listen' N Home, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2022. Photo: Michael Tropea.
A colorful mobile made of fabric scraps and a transparent material hangs in front of a white wall.
Installation view, Suzanne Jackson: Listen' N Home, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2022. Photo: Michael Tropea.

Clown Performance with Jean Carlos Claudio

A large egg-shaped sculpture with a clown-like face in an outdoor garden.
Detail, Pabo the Clown, Adrian Wong: Oogenesis, The Arts Club of Chicago garden, 2022.
A large egg-shaped sculpture with a clown-like face in an outdoor garden.
Detail, Pabo the Clown, Adrian Wong: Oogenesis, The Arts Club of Chicago garden, 2022.

Dance Scholar Lizzie Leopold and Artist Brendan Fernandes on the Arabesque in Dance

Historian Marina Warner on the Arabesque in Art & Design History

Ayana Contreras on Energy Never Dies

Rue Shaw Lecture with Architectural Historian Beatriz Colomina

Not Your Ordinary Clown Parade

Two Shriners wearing a red clown nose and clown shoes walk past a series of ancient sculptures.
Performance view, Not Your Ordinary Clown Parade, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2022.
Two Shriners wearing a red clown nose and clown shoes walk past a series of ancient sculptures.
Performance view, Not Your Ordinary Clown Parade, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2022.

Spektral Quartet

Exhibition Walkthrough with Kamrooz Aram

A sculpture of a head sits on a brown pedestal in front of a gallery wall painted pea green. In front of the statue is a transparent white mesh curtain that spans the length of the gallery.
Installation view, Kamrooz Aram: Privacy, An Exhibition. Photo: Michael Tropea.
A sculpture of a human head on a brown pedestal. Behind the sculpture, one gallery wall is painted pea green.
Installation view, Phantom Architect , 2022. Kamrooz Aram: Privacy, An Exhibition. Photo: Michael Tropea.

Kamrooz Aram: Privacy, An Exhibition

The Path Toward Racial Equity: Museums are Not Neutral

Andrea Carlson in Conversation with Clarence Morgan

Courtney Mackedanz performs with Hannah Levy’s Surplus Tension

Artist Hannah Levy with Janine Mileaf

Flutronix Premieres Black Being

Chicago Mobile Makers on Design for Community Wellbeing

Soundwalk with JeeYeun Lee

JeeYeun Lee and Kyle Malott on Language and Place

Closing Tour of Hurvin Anderson: Anywhere but Nowhere

Two white gallery walls on which two large unframed landscape paintings hang. In the middle of the walls and through an opening, a third unframed painting of two barbershop chairs with an abstract geometric background is visible.
Installation view, Hurvin Anderson: Anywhere but Nowhere, The Arts Club of Chicago. Photo: Michael Tropea.

Jo Livingstone and Alex Shephard on Corporate Consolidation in the Arts

The Path Toward Racial Equity: A Conversation about Land Acknowledgments

Hurvin Anderson in Conversation with Michael Prokopow

Hurvin Anderson. Photo: Sebastian Nevols.
Hurvin Anderson. Photo: Sebastian Nevols.

Closing Tour of Upkeep: Everyday Strategies of Care

Three photographs on a pale pink wall on the left side. Two large mostly black photographs on the left and one smaller photograph of the back of a man's head wearing a bright yellow knit hat to the right. To the right of the pink wall is a pastel yellow wall displaying green text in bubble letters.
Installation view, Upkeep: Everyday Strategies of Care, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2020.
Three photographs on a pale pink wall on the left side. Two large mostly black photographs on the left and one smaller photograph of the back of a man's head wearing a bright yellow knit hat to the right. To the right of the pink wall is a pastel yellow wall displaying green text in bubble letters.
Installation view, Upkeep: Everyday Strategies of Care, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2020.

Filmmaker Stanya Kahn in Conversation with Amy Beste

Tiny Performances in Empty Rooms

Collage of six headshots in two rows of three.
Collage of six headshots in two rows of three.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. in Conversation with Aliza Nisenbaum

Paola Cabal in Conversation with Janine Mileaf

Close up of a square column with a faux brick print.
Installation view, Paola Cabal: What Means Light, Arts Club of Chicago, 2020. Photo: Michael Tropea.
Installation of seven square columns with the backlit image of a bookshelf on one side.
Installation view, Paola Cabal: What Means Light, Arts Club of Chicago, 2020. Photo: Michael Tropea.

Bronwyn Katz and Kapwani Kiwanga in Conversation

Stacked portraits of two people.
Top: Bronwyn Katz in her Johannesburg studio. Photo: Elijah Ndoumbe; Bottom: Kapwani Kiwanga. Image courtesy of the artist.
Stacked portraits of two people.
Top: Bronwyn Katz in her Johannesburg studio. Photo: Elijah Ndoumbe; Bottom: Kapwani Kiwanga. Image courtesy of the artist.

Closing Tour of Jennie C. Jones: Constant Structure

Installation view of a gallery with abstract red and gray artworks on the white walls. On the floor in the foreground is a series of 3 black sculptures with bright red bases that resemble ramps.
Installation view, Jennie C. Jones: Constant Structure, Arts Club of Chicago, 2020. Photo: Lori Wolan.
Installation view of a gallery with abstract red and gray artworks on the white walls. On the floor in the foreground is a series of 3 black sculptures with bright red bases that resemble ramps.
Installation view, Jennie C. Jones: Constant Structure, Arts Club of Chicago, 2020. Photo: Lori Wolan.

Virtual Panel: REPOSE Artists Discuss their Garden Project

Four wood slabs resembling walls of a crate viewed from the side installed on a wood pallet on the concrete patio of a garden. To their left, the brick exterior of The Arts Club of Chicago is visible.
Installation view, Repose, Arts Club of Chicago, 2020. Photo: Michael Tropea.
Four wood slabs resembling walls of a crate viewed from the side installed on a wood pallet on the concrete patio of a garden. To their left, the brick exterior of The Arts Club of Chicago is visible.
Installation view, Repose, Arts Club of Chicago, 2020. Photo: Michael Tropea.

Industry of the Ordinary & Katinka Kleijn: If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it

Permanent Collection Tour

A long room filled with lush furniture and a grand piano at the end
The Arts Club of Chicago's Salon. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers.
A long room filled with lush furniture and a grand piano at the end
The Arts Club of Chicago's Salon. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers.

Industry of the Ordinary “invites you to eat history”

Opening Reception: 89th Exhibition of Visual Artist Members

People look at art in a space divided in the middle by a wall.
89th Exhibition of Visual Artist Members opening, Jan 16, 2020. Photo: On the Real Film.

Permanent Collection Tour

Photo: Eric Allix Rogers.

Exhibition Tour: The Ballad of Etc.

Installation view, Abraham Cruzvillegas; The Ballad of Etc., Arts Club of Chicago, 2019.

Bernard Williams & Damon Locks

A woman walks by a black tractor in front of a large building.
Installation view, Bernard Williams: The Black Tractor Project, Arts Club of Chicago, 2020.

Tie Up: Poetry & Prose in the Garden

Olivier Tarpaga: “I Guess You Solved the Question”

Archival photo of performers seemingly leaning their heads against long sticks.

Tie Up: Block Party in the Garden with DJ Major Taylor

Ekene Ijeoma’s Deconstructed Anthems

Tie Up: Eliza Myrie & Yasmin Spiro in Conversation

Exhibition Walk-through of Amy Sillman: The Nervous System

Installation view of The Arts Club's east gallery, where one large blue painting and four mid-sized drawings are installed. A painting down the hall in another room can also be seen.
Installation view, Amy Sillman: The Nervous System, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2019. Photo: Michael Tropea.
Installation view of The Arts Club's east gallery, where one large blue painting and four mid-sized drawings are installed. A painting down the hall in another room can also be seen.
Installation view, Amy Sillman: The Nervous System, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2019. Photo: Michael Tropea.

In Conversation: Artist Amy Sillman on The Nervous System

A mostly teal abstract painting with some shapes resembling the back of a person's head and a park bench.
Amy Sillman, Blues for Omar (Film Strip II), 2018. Oil on canvas; 81 x 75 in. Courtesy of the artist and Campoli Presti, London/Paris.
A mostly teal abstract painting with some shapes resembling the back of a person's head and a park bench.
Amy Sillman, Blues for Omar (Film Strip II), 2018. Oil on canvas; 81 x 75 in. Courtesy of the artist and Campoli Presti, London/Paris.

Artist Talk & Activation: Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford

The Unsounders: Closing Performance

Exhibition Walk-through: Toward the Unsound

To the left, a series of off white disks of various sizes suspended from the ceiling with a white rope. To the right, a series of off white disks of various sizes strung together with a white rope and placed on the gallery floor.
Installation view, Installation view, , 2007. Thessia Machado: Toward the Unsound, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2019. Photo: Michael Tropea.
To the left, a series of off white disks of various sizes suspended from the ceiling with a white rope. To the right, a series of off white disks of various sizes strung together with a white rope and placed on the gallery floor.
Installation view, Installation view, , 2007. Thessia Machado: Toward the Unsound, The Arts Club of Chicago, 2019. Photo: Michael Tropea.