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promote contemporary
photography, the Museum
of Contemporary Photography
is the only museum in the
Midwest devoted exclusively
to this medium. Housed in
the college’s historic 1907
building, the wide-ranging
provocative and innovative
exhibitions change regularly,
as do selections from the
collection of more than 5,000
American photographs
produced since 1945.
Interior of the Museum of Contemporary Photography Temporary exhibitions
explore photography’s
6 Spertus Museum and a tenth-floor sky garden many and varied roles:
offer sweeping views. The as artistic expression, as
610 S Michigan Ave. Map 4 D3.
Tel (312) 322-1700. q Harrison. second-floor Wolfgang Puck documentary chronicler,
Open 10am–5pm Sun–Wed (to 6pm café is the only kosher café in as commercial industry,
Thu, to 3pm Fri). Closed Sat, major downtown Chicago. On the and as a powerful scientific
public and Jewish hols. & (free first floor a gift- and bookshop and technological tool.
10am–noon Tue, 3–7pm Thu). 7 8 offers items created by some The Midwest Photographers
= Concerts, lectures, films. of Israel’s hottest designers. Project, which contains work
∑ spertus.edu The Feinberg Theater provides by regional photographers,
programs of performance, rotates annually.
Spertus Museum, Chicago’s film, comedy, as well as
Jewish museum, is in the lectures by today’s leading
superb Spertus Institute of thinkers, writers, and scholars. 8 Grant Park
Jewish Studies building. From Randolph St. to Roosevelt Rd.,
Designed by Chicago 7 Museum of between Michigan Ave. & Lake
architects Krueck and Sexton, Contemporary Michigan. Map 4 E2–E4. Tel (312) 742-
it opened in 2007. This 7648. q Randolph; Madison; Adams.
innovative facility features a Photography _ See Through the Year: pp34–7.
10-story faceted window wall 600 S Michigan Ave. Map 4 D3.
that stands out among the Tel (312) 663-5554. q Harrison. Grant Park is the splendid
masonry-faced buildings @ 1, 2, 3, 3L, 4, 6, 10, 14, 29, 127, centerpiece of the 23-mile-
surrounding it. The building 130, 146. Open 10am–5pm Mon–Sat; (37-km-) long band of green
contains interlocking interior 10am–8pm Thu; noon–5pm Sun. stretching along the Lake
spaces and offers spectacular Closed major hols, Dec 25– Michigan shoreline from the
views of Chicago’s skyline, Jan 1. 7 1st, 2nd floors only. city’s south end to its northern
Grant Park, and Lake Michigan. Lectures, films. ∑ mocp.org suburbs. Although bisected
Highlights of the museum by busy streets, the park
include a unique visible Founded by Columbia offers a tranquil retreat from
storage depot that showcases College Chicago in 1984 noisy downtown, serving
its world-class collection of to collect, exhibit, and as Chicago’s playground,
art and artifacts, including
ritual objects, textiles, and
jewelry; changing special
exhibitions that explore
identity and contemporary
culture; site-specific
installations of work
commissioned from inter-
national artists; an innovative
Children’s Center designed
with Redmoon Theater’s
artistic director Jim Lasko;
and a resource center for
parents and teachers.
The institute also contains
the research facilities of the
Asher Library and Chicago
Jewish archives. A green roof The main entrance to Grant Park, Ivan Mestrovic’s Bowman to the right

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