Learning Modern: Bauhaus Legacy in Downtown ChicagoThe legacy of the Bauhaus informs a wide-ranging exhibition of installation, design, video, and digital works co-organized and presented by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the Mies van der Rohe Society at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) this fall.
Learning Modern is now on view through January 9, 2010 in the SAIC Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State Street, a vast exhibition space carved out of an architectural landmark, Louis Sullivan's former Carson Pirie Scott department store.
As well as recent and site-specific works by such emerging and established artists and designers as Angela Ferreira, Andrea Fraser, Walter Hood, Narelle Jubelin, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Kay Rosen, Staffan Schmidt, and Catherine Yass, the exhibition features such architectural experiments as Thom Faulders's The Ames Room Project (2009) based an optical demonstration from 1946, and Ken Isaacs's Knowledge Box (1962/2009, pictured), seen here for the first time since the early 1960s, when the cover of Life magazine heralded it as a revolutionary new multi-media environment for learning.
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