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Three Aces Executive Chef, Matt Troost

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Shy Three Aces Executive Chef, Matt Troost, opened up his kitchen and showed us his simple and delicious ways for making golden beat gnocchi and ribollita on the March 26 Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party.   Both audience members and on-stage dinner guests were both thrilled and stuffed!

“…Got ART?”

Sunday, April 1st, 2012
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April is here, along with some unseasonably warm and beautiful weather, and that means it’s time for our “…Got Art?” blog to encourage you to get out and enjoy a fresh collection of shows and events this month. Of course, this is just a small sampling of the many amazing things going on here in Read more…

MCA Curator, Naomi Beckwith

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced  today that Naomi Beckwith has been appointed the new Curator at the MCA.  Beckwith is currently the Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she has focused on themes of identity and conceptual practices in contemporary art, artists of African descent, and Read more…

Billy Branch

Thursday, March 15th, 2012
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Billy Branch has followed a very non-traditional path to the blues. Unlike many blues artists, he isn’t from the South. Billy was born in Chicago in 1951 and was raised in Los Angeles. He first picked up a harmonica at the age of ten and immediately began to play simple tunes. Billy returned to Chicago Read more…

The Dinner Party, February 27th

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

If you missed the February 27th Dinner Party, you missed a good one! Second City Director and Lead Guitarist of the Uptown Sound, Billy Bungeroth, talked about creative highs and lows, choreographer and artistic Director of Luna Negra, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano talked about dance taking over when words fall short and JC Brooks talked about Read more…

Theaster Gates

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

In part one of this two-part interview, artist and cultural planner, Theaster Gates, discusses transformation and re-imagining possibilities through his art. Theaster Gates is an artist and cultural planner. In his performances, installations, and urban interventions, Gates transforms spaces, institutions, traditions, and perceptions. From witnessing so many torn down buildings in his neighborhood as a Read more…

Soul Singer JC Brooks

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

JC Brooks joins host Elysabeth Alfano for the February 27th Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party at Chicago’s Mayne Stage

Second City Director Billy Bungeroth

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Billy Bungeroth is proud to have had the opportunity to direct such a superlative group of actors. He also extends his love and thanks to The Second City, Eric Dolphy, Powell-Peralta Skateboards, TJ, The Anarchist Cookbook, Matt Hovde, Marrs Blackmon, Alison Mf”n Riley, Butter, A. Rimbaud, Lupe Fiasco, Dr. Mick Napier, JC Brooks & the Read more…

Stellar Award Nominee Marco the Poet

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Listen to Marco The Poet on WBEZ. Click here. http://www.marcothepoet.com/

Last Week at The Feb. 27 Dinner Party

Monday, March 5th, 2012

Chicago soul singer JC Brooks and guitarist/Second City director Billy Bungeroth brought down the house Monday night with their exclusive performance for The Dinner Party audience (watch below). And that wasn’t all, performers from Luna Negra Dance Theater stunned the live audience, sweeping the stage with a raucous romantic ballad. The dancers wore patchwork suits Read more…