A conversation between Arts Club of Chicago Executive Director Janine Mileaf, exhibition curator Jennifer R. Gross, and Mina Loy’s editor and literary executor Roger Conover. March 19, 2024.

The work at The Arts Club of Chicago is a sweep of suspended, levitating entanglements– not defying gravity but caught up in the physics of our planet. Each piece is an individually hand-drawn contour line using molten glass as the drawing material. The drawing requires a quick action to articulate. Time, gravity, temperature, physicality, and physics are deployed to register a line which was, seconds before, a viscous molten mass–not unlike the molten mass at the core of our planet.

Now in its final season together, multi-GRAMMY nominee Spektral Quartet unveils the Chicago premieres of the light that blurred the stars by Eliza Brown (composer) and My River Runs to Thee by Evan Premo (composer, bass), featuring soprano Mary Bonhag and the poetry of Susan Stewart and Emily Dickinson. Complimented by Claude Debussy’s enchanting String Quartet in G minor, this community-spirited experience traces the cyclic nature of existence…and the stories we tell in an attempt to find our bearing. Come to celebrate this iconic ensemble in one of their final performances!