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These programs will build on the basic surveys provided last year to focus on specific themes and ideas in Contemporary Art (Appropriation, Text-based Works, Land Art and Environmental Works, The Body, and Humor). Each session will include a 45-minute lecture about influential cultural events, pioneering artists, artistic trends, and critical theories. This will be followed by a 45-minute gallery tour to focus on examples in the Art Institute’s collection. A supplemental handout will be distributed for each session. 

These programs will build on the basic surveys provided last year to focus on specific themes and ideas in Contemporary Art (Appropriation, Text-based Works, Land Art and Environmental Works, The Body, and Humor). Each session will include a 45-minute lecture about influential cultural events, pioneering artists, artistic trends, and critical theories. This will be followed by a 45-minute gallery tour to focus on examples in the Art Institute’s collection. A supplemental handout will be distributed for each session. 

These programs will build on the basic surveys provided last year to focus on specific themes and ideas in Contemporary Art (Appropriation, Text-based Works, Land Art and Environmental Works, The Body, and Humor). Each session will include a 45-minute lecture about influential cultural events, pioneering artists, artistic trends, and critical theories. This will be followed by a 45-minute gallery tour to focus on examples in the Art Institute’s collection. A supplemental handout will be distributed for each session. 

These programs will build on the basic surveys provided last year to focus on specific themes and ideas in Contemporary Art (Appropriation, Text-based Works, Land Art and Environmental Works, The Body, and Humor). Each session will include a 45-minute lecture about influential cultural events, pioneering artists, artistic trends, and critical theories. This will be followed by a 45-minute gallery tour to focus on examples in the Art Institute’s collection. A supplemental handout will be distributed for each session. 

These programs will build on the basic surveys provided last year to focus on specific themes and ideas in Contemporary Art (Appropriation, Text-based Works, Land Art and Environmental Works, The Body, and Humor). Each session will include a 45-minute lecture about influential cultural events, pioneering artists, artistic trends, and critical theories. This will be followed by a 45-minute gallery tour to focus on examples in the Art Institute’s collection. A supplemental handout will be distributed for each session. 

The Acquisition Committee of the Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce the five acquisition finalists for 2013: a video installation by Lutz Bacher (American), 80 works on paper by Anna Boghiguian (Egyptian-Armenian, born 1946), 12 works on paper by Hans-Peter Feldmann (German, born 1941), a painting by Marcia Hafif (American, born 1929), and a photograph by Jiro Takamatsu (Japanese, 1936-1998).

Please join us for the Society for Contemporary Art’s annual event, which enables new members to meet the SCA board and discuss the activities of our group. James Rondeau, Dittmer Chair and Curator of Contemporary Art, and Lisa Dorin, Associate Curator, will lead a private tour of the Art Institute’s collection, including acquisitions by the Society for Contemporary Art.

Reception sponsored by the Society for Contemporary Art

Danh Vo explained, “All of my projects tend to deal with issues that are taking place right around me—my private sphere, my love life, my desires, other people’s projections on me and my identities.” When he was a child, Vo’s family left Vietnam in a boat built by his father. By chance, they were picked up by a Danish freighter and brought to Denmark, where they became citizens. Through performance-based works inspired by his life experiences and historically rich readymade objects, Vo reveals the construction of inherited cultural values, conflicts, and displacement....

The Society for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce an art-filled trip to Brazil, November 9-18, 2012. This will include: four days in São Paulo, one day in Belo Horizonte, and three days in Rio de Janeiro. The trip will start in São Paulo, where we will see the 30th São Paulo Biennial in addition to local artist studios, galleries, and private collections. The group will then fly to Belo Horizonte to tour the 5,000-acre art complex Inhotim. Created by collector Bernardo Paz, Inhotim is regarded as South America’s most spectacular private art collection.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles (American, born 1939) has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007, 1997); P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2007, 1988); Jewish Museum, New York (1986); and Whitney Museum, New York (1985, 1978, 1976). A 1998 solo exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT surveyed her work from 1969 to 1984. She has been included in group exhibitions such as c. 7,500 (1973), Guerilla Girls at the Palladium (1985), Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art (1995), and WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007). Ukeles has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1985–86), grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation (1992–93), and several awards from the National Endowment for the Arts....