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ICE plays Saariaho
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
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
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
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
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'
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 ...
