Weekly Events Calendar: 01.02.08

Art & Design Events...

Welcome to '08 from Apartment Therapy!
- The January Jumpstart project gets underway this month.
The Other Side of Light: Shadows from the Photography Collection
- "This exhibition draws over 60 works entirely from the Art Institute’s permanent collection, including works by Manuel Alvarez-Bravo, Lee Friedlander, André Kertész, Nathan Lerner, and Paul Strand, among others."
- The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
- Through Feb. 24

Jasper Johns: Gray

"This exhibition emerges from broader studies of Johns's approach to form, examining for the first time the artist's use of gray in his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings from 1955 to the present."
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Through Jan. 6

WISH LIST

Recent works by Advanced Sculpture Practices Studio students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Koscielak Gallery, 1646 N. Bosworth Ave.
Through Jan. 12

18th Annual Small Print Show and Holiday Open House

"The exhibition highlights a variety of print media, including etching, lithography, woodcut and monotype. Traditional as well as experimental approaches to printmaking will be featured by approximately 40 artists."
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
Through Feb. 2

The New Authentics:
Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation

This inaugural exhibition "explores contemporary notions of Jewish identity through the work of 16 artists living in the United States."
610 S. Michigan Ave.
Through April 13

Figuration in Contemporary Design

Featuring: Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Jürgen Mayer H., UNStudio, Foreign Office Architects, Kuth/Raneri, ROY, Joel Sanders with Balmori Associates, KOL/MAC, Greg Lynn/FORM, R&Sie, Klein Dytham, Gage/Clemenceau, MoD, Aranda/Lasch, Kivi Sotamaa, PATTERNS, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Marcel Wanders, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Hella Jongerius, Patricia Urquiola, Tord Boontje, Petra Blaisse, Abbott Miller, An Te Liu, Demakersvan, and 2x4.
The Art Institute, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Just opened; runs through June 8