Friday 3
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The 67 objects in the Art Institute’s exhibit “The Human Figure in Early Greek Art” show one major change that occurred in Greek art, between 1000 and 500 BC–a shift from abstract to naturalistic portrayals of the human figure. Seven scholars will discuss this development in a two-day symposium, The World of Early Greek Art. The symposium begins at 5:30 today with a lecture by Dr. Diana Buiton-Oliver, a curator at the National Gallery of Art, which organized the show. Today’s talk will be in the Rubloff Auditorium in the museum, Michigan Avenue at Adams Street; tomorrow’s sessions run from 10 to 12:30 and from 2 to 4:30 in the museum’s Fullerton Hall. Admission to the Art Institute is a suggested donation of $5; there is no extra charge for the symposium. You must register; call 443-3697.
Saturday 4
The silky ballad style of the Ink Spots (“If I Didn’t Care”) is a classic hybrid of black gospel and white pop music. The group will be singing with the Four Aces (“Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing”) and the Four Lads (“Moments to Remember”) as part of the “Fabulous Fours” show at 8 PM at Centre East, 7701 Lincoln in Skokie. Tickets are $14 and $16. Call 673-6300.
When Dr. Reinhold Aman gets hot under the collar, he’s never at a loss for words. The editor of Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression, Aman can swear in about 200 languages. He discusses a variety of negative and offensive words and expressions in a presentation at 12:15 today called Baaad Wooords!!! Slangs, Slurs and *?@#!*s. The free program is in the theater of the Public Library Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington. Call 269-2880 for details.
There are still three guys out there ready to sell their mothers in order to be Da Mare of Chicago. Mayors, Wanna-Be’s and the Media is the topic of a discussion of the most recent chapter in the local soap opera, and features Channel Five’s Renee Ferguson, Channel Two’s Mike Flannery, the Sun-Times’s Steve Neal, and the Tribune’s Thomas Hardy. The free forum begins at noon at Columbia College’s Ferguson Memorial Theater, 600 S. Michigan. Call 663-1600 for details.
