6 p.m. Wednesday, April 24. Their films appeared in an era that became culturally and politically constricted by the Great Depression and the Cold War. Kleinhans, working with video clips, will address how the films reflected the deep cultural anxieties of the period. Thomas Willis, associate professor, musicology, will lecture on the musical performances by great orchestras in Austria that are represented in some of the works in the exhibition. Willis moves away from the sources for the paintings and looks at the resonances these artists and musicians left on the culture in which they found themselves.
Admission is free.
Many migr s who arrived between 1914 and 1955 entered a nation rocked by labor struggles, social unrest and international pressures. Join singer, songwriter, local recording artist and former professor of history Bucky Halker at the Block Gallery as he presents folk songs from the First World War through the Cold War. Halker is on the staff at the Illinois Humanities Council. Northwestern students are free with identification. Join us as four Chicago writers read excerpts from their books detailing conditions for their exile and how it affected their lives during weekly two-hour sessions.