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The Empty Bottle Presents concerts at Rockefeller Chapel have featured contemporary acts such as Tegan and Sara, Low, and more.

MusicLogan CenterSeptember 11, 2019Rockefeller Chapel, Empty Bottle Presents

Watch: 2018-19 Arts, Science + Culture Initiative Graduate Collaboration Projects

Get a look at videos of five different projects from the 2018-2019 cohort.

Video, Student ArtsLogan CenterSeptember 4, 2019Arts Science Culture Initiative

Playlist: Jazz at the Logan Center, 2019 Edition

Preview selections from the 2019 season with this playlist, and then join in for performances throughout the year.

Music, Made at LoganLogan CenterAugust 28, 2019Jazz

5 Questions with Hack Arts Lab’s Kent Lambert

Kent Lambert, Assistant Director of Hack Arts Lab, talks about the lab’s new home in MADD, its impact on the UChicago community, and more.

Visual ArtsLogan CenterAugust 21, 2019MAAD Center, Technology

Watch Joey Brink Perform on Rockefeller Chapel's Carillon

Ahead of Brink’s August 25 performance for the Bells of Summer, watch him play PPROM (2018), which premiered at last year’s Rockefeller Carillon New Music Festival.

MusicLogan CenterAugust 14, 2019Rockefeller Chapel, Car

A Conversation with Edra Soto’s GRAFT (Cuba)

Local poet and actor Spencer Diaz Tootle responds with a poem to Cross Currents / Intercambio Cultural at the Smart Museum.

Creative Writing, Visual ArtsLogan CenterAugust 7, 2019Smart Museum, Cuba

Meet the Digital Storytelling Initiative's Production Institute Class of 2019

Find out why each participant decided to apply, and learn about the project they’ll pursue this summer.

“I'm fascinated by the neuroscience of visual perception"

Second-year neuroscience PhD student Yuqing Zhu on how the way she makes art and the science she studies are interrelated.

Student Arts, Visual ArtsLogan CenterJuly 24, 2019Neuroscience

Take a Tour: Frederick C. Robie House

The Robie House, along with eight other Frank Lloyd Wright works, was just added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Architecture and DesignLogan CenterJuly 17, 2019Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, UNESCO

It’s Not What It Is, It’s Where It Is: Welcoming a New Richard Serra Installation to Campus

What the sculpture means for public art and interdisciplinary discourse at UChicago.

Alumni, Visual ArtsLogan CenterJuly 10, 2019Richard Serra, Smart Museum

Take a Tour: Logan Center Community Garden

Summer is finally here - watch a video tour of the Logan Center Community Garden.

Made at Logan, VideoLogan CenterJune 26, 2019Community, Gardening, Staff

Review: Severance by Ling Ma

Fourth year English student Danielle Shi reviews faculty member Ling Ma’s award-winning book, Severance.

Creative Writing, FacultyLogan CenterJune 19, 2019book review

Augie March’s Chicago

Like many of his novels, Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March plays out across Chicago. Read about five significant city locations for both Bellow and March, and plan your own literary pilgrimage.

Theatre, PerformingLogan CenterJune 12, 2019Saul Bellow, Augie March, Court Theatre

Radical World Domination, On Stage and Off

Alumni stages second annual festival that centers trans and non-binary theater artists.

Alumni, Performing, TheatreLogan CenterJune 5, 2019The Syndicate, First Read

Charting Reality with Atlas Unlimited

Throughout the run of the exhibition at the Logan Center Gallery, “Builders” activated the show every Thursday through a hybrid of personal testimony and fiction.

Exhibitions, Performing, Visual ArtsLogan CenterMay 29, 2019Logan Center Exhibitions

Pioneering artist Jenny Holzer to receive Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal

Zachary Cahill, director of programs and fellowships at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, reflects on his appreciation for Holzer’s work and collaborating with her on the Logan Center exhibition Wall Text.

Visual ArtsLogan CenterMay 21, 2019Rosenberger Medal, University News