Bridging the historic roots of American modernism with the critical practices of contemporary artists and architects, the Learning Modern lecture series focuses on the presence of the Modern today and its vital role in education in the mid-20th century. Presented in conjunction with the Learning Modern exhibition at SAIC's Sullivan Galleries, these timely reappraisals of the Modern coincide with Chicago's Burnham Plan Centennial, the opening of the Art Institute's Renzo Piano Modern Wing, and the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus in Germany—with its dream of artists, architects, designers, working together to make a better world. This series also springs from recognition of artist-educator László Moholy-Nagy's emigration to Chicago in 1937, followed by architect Mies van der Rohe one year later, transplanting Bauhaus ideologies expunged from wartime Germany. Learning Modern speakers will bring this living legacy into our own time.
This series is part of the Living Modern Chicago program, a collaboration of SAIC and the Mies van der Rohe Society/Illinois Institute of Technology, in partnership with other cultural institutions in Chicago and is sponsored in part by the SAIC Department of Exhibitions, the Mies van der Rohe Society at IIT, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Getty Images, Alicia Rosauer and Robert Segal, and the Illinois Art Council, a state agency.
| The Learning Modern exhibition will be on view at SAIC's Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State, 7th Floor from September 26, 2009 — January 9, 2010. For more information and details on related programming, please visit www.livingmodernchicago.org. |  |
