afterMAPH » Exhibitions http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph afterMAPH is written by the staff and alumni of the Master of Arts Program in Humanities at the University of Chicago as a service to alumni to provide alumni news and announcements, as well as a discussion forum for MAPH alumni. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:53:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Summertime is made for backyards at the Museum of Contemporary Photography http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/06/18/summertime-is-made-for-backyards/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/06/18/summertime-is-made-for-backyards/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:29:29 +0000 Linda http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/06/18/summertime-is-made-for-backyards/ Beginning on June 16th and running through August 23, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College downtown Chicago will be showing its newest exhibit entitled, Beyond the Backyard. This exhibit offers up the works of contemporary photographers and their different conceptions of the modern backyard. These pictures include both yard scenes of small town and urban settings, re-envisioning the traditional conception of the American backyard and looking at some of its deeper, ideological and cultural significances. This show calls in to question how one understands and thinks of the backyard and compares these ideas with popular media conceptions, analyzing how these two align, or don’t align.

Special MAPH kudos for this event go to MCoP collections research fellow and MAPH Alum Karsten Lund (’07) who has written the essay introducing and describing the collection (much more succinctly and poignantly than I have done here), as well as made many of the crucial decisions concerning the exhibit’s layout and design.

The show is open to the public beginning June 16th and there will be an opening reception for the exhibit at the MCoP on Thursday, June 26 from 5-7pm.

]]> http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/06/18/summertime-is-made-for-backyards/feed/ 0 Adaptation at the Smart Museum http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/02/07/adaptation-at-the-smart-museum/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/02/07/adaptation-at-the-smart-museum/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:50:30 +0000 cjlind http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/02/07/adaptation-at-the-smart-museum/ The Smart Museum’s exhibition Adaptation opened today, and it includes a new work by ARTV 24103, a collective that includes current MAPHers Laura Heldt and Natasha Long. The work grew out of a practicum taught by Catherine Sullivan — Natasha writes about the project over on the Adaptation blog-cum-catalogue.

The other works in Adaptation — by Guy Ben-Ner, Arturo Herrera, Catherine Sullivan, and Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation — re-envision classic literature, painting, film, ballet, and even e-mail for new video installations. You can check out clips of all the works on the online catalogue. Or, better yet, brave the snow tonight and come out for free food, refreshments, and art at the opening reception and panel discussion, from 5:30-7:30 pm.

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