Recent Posts Tagged With 'museum of contemporary art'

• ICE plays Saariaho

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 19:33 in ice, kaija saariaho, museum of contemporary art, international contemporary ensemble

  International Contemporary Ensemble — or ICE for short — played four pieces by Finnish avant-garde composer Kaija Saariaho Thursday (Nov. 19) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.Based in both Chicago and New York, ICE champions new music...

• Frankenstein by the Hypocrites

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 09:12 in Frankenstein, museum of contemporary art, the hypocrites

  When I heard that the audience would be onstage during Hypocrites theater company's new staging of Frankenstein at the Museum of Contemporary Art, I wondered if we would be given pitchforks and torches. That didn't happen. I suppose it would violate ...

• Califone goes to the movies

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 19:41 in music, califone, museum of contemporary art

  The Chicago band Califone's music has always been cinematic, with lots of atmospheric touches, so it was not all that surprising to learn that Califone leader Tim Rutili was making a movie. On Saturday and Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in ...

• The Books at the MCA

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 16:32 in music, the books, museum of contemporary art

  Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art was an ideal location for the concerts Sunday night (May 3) by the Books. This was not so much a concert as it was a multimedia presentation — a live musical performance in synch with short films. And for a show...

• Rocking to Warhol films

  Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 16:34 in music, Film, andy warhol, museum of contemporary art, dean and britta

  Andy Warhol's films raise the question of what exactly you're supposed to do with them. Are they regular "films" meant to be seen in a movie theater? Or some other sort of art? In today's art world, they'd probably be seen more in line with the video...

• The great 'Gatz'

  Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 17:41 in chicago, theater, stage, mca, f. scott fitzgerald, museum of contemporary art, the great gatsby, gatz, elevator repair service

  When a book is adapted for the stage or screen, one of the hardest things to capture is the author's voice. Without a lot of narration, the way the author tells the story tends to disappear. So why not include the actual words on the page? How about ...