Calendar of Events
All events take place at 820 N. Michigan Avenue, unless otherwise stated.
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Friday, February 10, 5:00 to 8:30 p.m. Join LUMA + Intuit as we celebrate the opening of HEAVEN+HELL with a free shuttle running between the two venues. Food and beverages will be provided, including beer generously donated by Half Acre Beer Company. | |
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Tuesday, February 14, 6:00 p.m. Karyn Macfarlane (violin), John Macfarlane (violin), Jennifer Haworth (soprano), and Rene Lecuona (piano) will perform music by Kevin Allen, César Franck, Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss, and Giuseppe Tartini. | |
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Thursday, February 16, 6:00 p.m. As an inauguration to the film series, join the guest film curator and independent filmmaker Dan Rybicky with other local film critics, professors and filmmakers in a panel discussion exploring excerpts from their favorite depictions of heaven and/or hell as seen in film or television. | |
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Thursday, February 23, 6:00 p.m. See how self-taught artists have interpreted the concept of hell during this tour at Intuit with the curators of HEAVEN+HELL, Molly Tarbell and Jan Petry. | |
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Tuesday, March 6, 6:00 p.m. See how self-taught artists have interpreted the concept of heaven during this tour at LUMA with the curators of HEAVEN+HELL, Molly Tarbell and Jan Petry. | |
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Thursday, March 8, 6:00 p.m. Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death) (1946), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Presburger | |
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Tea with the Jesuits Bob Stephan, S.J., will lead a discussion of the role that contemporary art can play in the spiritual life. He will draw on his experiences as a docent at several art museums, including LUMA, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. | |
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Tuesday, March 13, 6:00 p.m. This concert will include the music of Hildegard von Bingen, Ciconia, English Madrigalists, Marcello, and J. S. Bach. Musicians for the night will be Heather J. Carlasare, viola; William Cernota, violoncello; and Andrew Anderson, string bass. | |
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Thursday, March 15, 6:00 p.m. Join us for a lecture by HEAVEN+HELL catalogue essayist Jerry Bleem, Franciscan Friar, textile artist, and adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. | |
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Tuesday, March 20, 6:00 p.m. Using depictions of the sky as experienced from earth and from space, and noting the diverse ways cultures past and present have incorporated the heavens into earthly forms, Marv Bolt from the Alder Planetarium will explore our impressions of transcendence and responses to our leading question. | |
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Tuesday, April 3, 6:00 p.m. Collage artist and museum curator Doug Stapleton shares his perspective on his work in the exhibition The Grand Spectacle with a peek at the historic and modern influences on collage and a focus on what is happening now in Chicago among contemporary collage artists. | |
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Thursday, April 12, 6:00 p.m. Jigoku (“The Sinners of Hell”) (1960), directed by Nobuo Nakagawa | |
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Saturday, April 21, 2:00 p.m. This lecture will explore a Yoruba image equivalent to heaven—an underwater city, Ode Kobaye, where those who lived correctly and generously on earth are rewarded by being transformed into immortal stones in water. | |
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Tea with the Jesuits Michael Caruso, S.J., will discuss his book, When the Sisters Said Farewell, which tells an important story of the Catholic educational experience in the United States. It captures the stories and insights of the nuns who were the last members of their communities to serve in parish elementary schools and of those lay women and men who were the first to serve in those roles traditionally filled by the sisters. | |
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Tea with the Jesuits John Foley, S.J., will talk about the Cristo Rey educational model-what it is, how it got started, and how it is flourishing. He will discuss how this nation-wide program works for kids from the center-city. | |
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Saturday, May 5, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Graceland Cemetery is an ideal location for studying post-life from the aesthetic, historical, religious, and philosophical perspectives. Lunch will immediately follow the tour at Deleece Restaurant (4004 N. Southport), a block west of the cemetery. | |
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Thursday, May 10, 6:00 p.m. The Exterminating Angel (1962), directed by Luis Bunuel | |
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Tuesday, May 15, 6:00 p.m. The art of making perfumes began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Today, it is a multi-million dollar industry. Chicagoan Marilyn Miglin is renowned for her signature fragrance, Pheromone, one of the top-10 fragrances sold in luxury department stores nationwide. Ms. Miglin will take guests on a journey through the world of perfume and help us discover what heaven smells like. | |
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Tuesday, June 5, 6:00 p.m. Join us for an evening of food and scholarship as we investigate food in heaven and the afterlife in Judaism, Buddhism, and ancient Egypt. After talks by Rabbi David Levinsky (Chicago Sinai Congregation), Yarina Liston (Loyola), and Emily Teeter (Oriental Institute), we will sample heavenly foods discussed in the lectures. | |
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Thursday, June 14, 6:00 p.m. In a Dream (2009), directed by Jeremy Zagar | |
Loyola University Museum of Art · 820 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
312.915.7600 · luma@luc.edu
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