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Event: The Don Powell Distinguished Architect Series

Event Date: May 23
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: The Arts Club of Chicago

We are honored to announce a series of conversations with prominent architects about the state of design of cultural, moderated by New York Magazine critic Justin Davidson. In tribute and thanks to the bequest of Don Powell, esteemed interior architect and dear member of The Arts Club, this series delves into knotty questions about the opportunities and challenges created by a post-pandemic, climate-challenged, and socially -conscious environment.

Free and open to all.

All talks are from 6:00 – 7:15pm

 

Elizabeth Diller – February 28

The inaugural discussion welcomes Elizabeth Diller, Princeton University professor and founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, who designed New York’s High Line, The Shed, the renovation and expansion of MoMA, and the award-winning Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago.

 

Anupama Kundoo – March 30

Second in the series, we welcome Anupama Kundoo. Her rigorous research and experimentation in new materiality for architecture is the result of questioning basic assumptions and construction habits that humanity has adopted during the long process of industrialization. Rather than focusing on shortage, she sought abundance through investing in human resources and human resourcefulness, such as ingenuity, time, skills, care and sense of community. The act of building produces knowledge just as the resulting knowledge produces buildings. Her acclaimed projects include the Wall House, Urban Eco-Community and the Townhall complex in Auroville, and Volontariat Homes for Homeless Children in Pondicherry

 

Annabelle Selldorf – April 18

Third in the Don Powell Distinguished Architect Series, we welcome Annabelle Selldorf. Principal and design lead of Selldorf Architects, Ms. Selldorf has overseen museum projects such as the expansion and enhancement of The Frick Collection in New York, the redesign of the Sainsbury Wing and public realm of the National Gallery London, the expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the revitalization of the Hirshhorn Museum with SOM, among others. With New York Magazine critic Justin Davidson, she delves into questions about the state of design of cultural spaces.

 

Joshua Ramus – May 23

For the final conversation in the Don Powell Distinguished Architect Series, we welcome Joshua Ramus. He is founding principal of REX, a New York-based architecture and design firm whose current projects include the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center and The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University (both nearing completion). Joshua was a founding partner of OMA New York in 2001 and remained its principal until he re-branded the firm as REX in 2006. In that time, he was partner-in-charge of all the firm’s projects, including the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas and the Seattle Central Library. Ramus talks with New York Magazine critic Justin Davidson about the opportunities and challenges created by a post-pandemic, climate-challenged, and socially conscious environment.

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Posted February 24, 2023

Architect Anupama Kundoo in conversation with Justin Davidson

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Thursday March 30
Public Program: Architecture
Don Powell Distinguished Architect Series
Architect Anupama Kundoo in conversation with Justin Davidson
6:00 pm Program

Please join us for a series of conversations with prominent architects, moderated by New York Magazine critic Justin Davidson. In tribute and thanks to the bequest of Don Powell, esteemed interior architect and dear member of The Arts Club, this series delves into knotty questions about the opportunities and challenges created by a post-pandemic, climate-challenged, and socially-conscious environment.

Second in the series, we welcome Anupama Kundoo. Her rigorous research and experimentation in new materiality for architecture is the result of questioning basic assumptions and construction habits that humanity has adopted during the long process of industrialization. Rather than focusing on shortage, she sought abundance through investing in human resources and human resourcefulness, such as ingenuity, time, skills, care and sense of community. The act of building produces knowledge just as the resulting knowledge produces buildings. Her acclaimed projects include the Wall House, Urban Eco-Community and the Townhall complex in Auroville, and Volontariat Homes for Homeless Children in Pondicherry.

Free and Open to all
Posted February 1, 2023

Architect Elizabeth Diller in conversation with Justin Davidson

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Tuesday February 28
Public Program: Architecture
Don Powell Distinguished Architect Series
Architect Elizabeth Diller in conversation with Justin Davidson
6:00 pm Program

We are thrilled to announce a series of four conversations with prominent architects about the state of design of cultural spaces, moderated by New York Magazine critic Justin Davidson. In honor of and thanks to the bequest of Don Powell, notable architect and dear member of The Arts Club, this series delves into knotty questions about the opportunities and challenges created by a post-pandemic, climate-challenged, and socially-conscious environment. The inaugural discussion welcomes Elizabeth Diller, Princeton University professor and a founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, who designed New York’s High Line, The Shed, the renovation and expansion of MoMA, and the award-winning Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago.

Free and Open to all
Posted January 11, 2023

Exhibition Opening: Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelled

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Thursday February 16

Exhibition Opening

Jessi Reaves: all possessive lusts dispelled

In-person opening 

Public Opening 6:00 – 8:30 pm

 

Jessi Reaves: all possessive lusts dispelled combines iconic modernist design with an irreverent aesthetic in sculpture that toys with functionality. Reaves often begins with found furniture, which she dismantles, converts, remakes, enhances, pads, and embellishes in ways that still allow the suggestion of physical contact or use. By breaking things open, she proposes that they be examined visually and in terms of their purpose in life.

Opening gallery reception is free and open to all.

Posted December 22, 2022

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

Thursday February 2

Evening Public Program: Music

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

In-person Program

Performance in the Gallery 6:00 pm

Assaf Evron’s Collage for the Arts Club of Chicago is the fourth chapter in the Collages for Mies van der Rohe project, following the McCormick House, The Esplanade Apartment, and S.R. Crown Hall, This is the first interior installation in the series. The Image of a semi-transparent Conch Shell installed on the glass windows in the gallery corresponds to the form of the enclosed Mies staircase and echoes the ancient past of its geological veneer. In response, Michigan-based Percussionist Ian Antonio and Chicago multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay engage with the geology of the Club’s gallery, exploiting the reverberant nature of the terrazzo and travertine. In this performance, they deconstruct musical materials and re-combine them to make something new, a metaphor for the process of breaking down shells to make travertine.

Free and open to all

Register for in-person event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musicians-ian-antonio-and-ben-lamar-gay-respond-to-work-by-assaf-evron-tickets-487968355487

Ian Antonio is a percussionist whose breadth of experience – concertizing across four continents with a wide variety of chamber ensembles, orchestras, experimental rock bands, avant-garde theatre companies, and as a soloist, conductor, and educator – has led him to develop a unique sound and approach to both performing and teaching. Ian is a co-director and core member of the Wet Ink Ensemble and Talujon. His playing is frequently featured at prestigious venues across the globe and his recorded performances can be heard on over 50 albums released by the Nonesuch, Carrier, Kairos, Warp, Tzadik, and Unseen Worlds record labels, among many others.
Ben LaMar Gay is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, poet, and patently eclectic polymath who Afropunk has called “strikingly original,” Pitchfork has called “uncategorizable,” and Jeff Parker has called “hands down, one of my favorite musicians on the planet today.” He channels a radical array of sound, color, and space through the universal language of folklore; but despite the widely attributed genius of his work, his artistic approach and general demeanor are characterized by an endearing humbleness and warm humanity
Posted November 15, 2022