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CALENDAR OF RELATED EVENTS

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Audio tours in English and Mandarin Chinese may be rented at the exhibition entrance. The tours cost $4 for members; $5 for the public. An enlarged-type transcript of the tour is free and available upon request to visually or hearing impaired visitors.

Visiting the exhibition with children? Pick up the free Family Self-Guide at the exhibition entrance or download (1.6 Mb) it as a .pdf file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print the document. You can also call (312) 443-3600 for a weekly update on the many exhibition-related events.

Many events are located in the Tao Studio, a gathering space incorporated into the center of the exhibition. The Tao Studio is located in Regenstein Hall in the Rice Building. After attending a program in the studio, please feel free to enjoy the exhibition.


Calendar of Related Events



All events listed below are free with museum admission unless marked with an asterisk*.


November 2: Member Preview Day

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "Sacred Brush Writing"
Kristopher Schipper, University of Paris
Tao Studio

1:00  Member Orientation: Taoism and the Arts of China
Stephen Little, exhibition curator
Rubloff Auditorium

Top


November 3: Member Preview Day

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Member Orientation: Taoism and the Arts of China
Stephen Little, exhibition curator
Rubloff Auditorium

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November 4

10:30  Lecture: "Taoism and the Arts of China"*
Stephen Little, exhibition curator
Rubloff Auditorium
For more information, call (312) 661-1028, ext. 12.
*For tickets, call (312) 663-0339.

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

2:00  Demonstration: "Sacred Brush Writing"
Kristofer Schipper, University of Paris
Tao Studio

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November 5

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "Sacred Brush Writing" (repeated at 12:15)
Kristofer Schipper, University of Paris
Tao Studio

1:30  Concert: "Cranes of Many Blessings" (repeated at 2:30)
Wei Yang on pipa and Betty Xiang on erhu
Tao Studio

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November 6

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:15  Demonstration: "Sacred Brush Writing"
Kristofer Schipper, University of Paris
Tao Studio

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November 7

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "Sacred Brush Writing" (repeated at 5:00)
Kristofer Schipper, University of Paris
Tao Studio

6:00  Lecture: "What is Taoism?"
Kristofer Schipper, University of Paris
Rubloff Auditorium

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November 8

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "Sacred Brush Writing" (repeated at 2:00)
Kristofer Schipper, University of Paris
Tao Studio

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November 9

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:15   Performance: "Voices: The Eight Immortals"
Tao Studio

2:00  Demonstration: "Sacred Brush Writing"
Kristofer Schipper, University of Paris
Tao Studio

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November 10

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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November 11

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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November 12

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

1:30  Concert: "Pleasure of Fishes"
(repeated at 2:30)
Wei Yang on pipa and Betty Xiang on erhu
Tao Studio

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November 13

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

1:00  Lecture Series: "The Sacred Landscape"*
Stephen Little, exhibition curator
Franciscus Verellen, Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Tao Studio
For more information, call (312) 443-3680.
*For tickets call (312) 575-8000.

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November 14

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

1:00  Lecture Series: "The Sacred Landscape"*
Stephen Little, exhibition curator
Franciscus Verellen, Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Tao Studio
For more information, call (312) 443-3680.
*For tickets call (312) 575-8000.

6:00  Lecture: "Everyday Use of Art:
From Calligraphy to Conceptual Art in China"
Johnson Chang, art critic and historian, Hong Kong
Rubloff Auditorium

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November 15

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:15  Gallery Talk: "Exhibition Overview"
Gallery 150

1:00  Lecture Series: "The Sacred Landscape"*
Stephen Little, exhibition curator
Franciscus Verellen, Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Tao Studio
For more information, call (312) 443-3680.
*For tickets call (312) 575-8000.

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November 16

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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November 17

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy"
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

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November 18

9:00  Symposium: "Clothed to Rule the Universe" (until 3:30)
Rubloff Auditorium. Please enter at Columbus Drive.

10:00  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

1:00  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy"
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

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November 19

10:00  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy"
(repeated at 12:00 and 1:00)
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

2:00  Concert: "Sages in the Mountains"
Wei Yang on pipa and Betty Xiang on erhu
Tao Studio

3:00  Lecture: "After the Catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago's Chinese Textile Collection in the Context of North American Museum Collections"
John Vollmer, author of Museum Studies, vol, 26, no. 2, Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago
Tao Studio

Community Associates Research and Lecture Series

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November 20

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:30  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy"
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

Top


November 21

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

1:00  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy" (repeated at 5:00)
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

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November 22

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


November 23

Thanksgiving Day
Museum closed

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November 24

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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November 25

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


November 26

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


November 27

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy"
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

Top


November 28

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:15  Gallery Talk: "From Here to Eternity:
Taoism, Zen, and the Abstract Expressionists"
Gallery 201

6:00  Lecture: "Taoism and the Arts of China"
Stephen Little, exhibition curator
Tao Studio

Top


November 29

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:15  Gallery Talk: Curator's Walk through Clothed to Rule the Universe
Christa C. Thurman, exhibition curator
Gallery 57

1:00  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy"
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

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November 30

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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November 31

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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December 1

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy"
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

1:00  Lecture: "The Tao of the Tao of the Sword"
Richard Pegg, Columbia University
Tao Studio

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December 2

9:00  Symposium: Taoism and the Arts of China (until 4:30)
Rubloff Auditorium. Please enter at Columbus Drive.

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy" (repeated at 12:00)
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

1:30  Concert: "In the Garden of the Immortals"
Wei Yang on pipa and Betty Xiang on erhu
Tao Studio

Top


December 3

9:00  Symposium: Taoism and the Arts of China (until 4:30)
Rubloff Auditorium. Please enter at Columbus Drive.

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Demonstration: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy" (repeated at 12:00)
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Tao Studio

1:30  Concert: "In the Garden of the Immortals"
Wei Yang on pipa and Betty Xiang on erhu
Tao Studio

Top


December 4

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Workshop: "Hour of the Horse"
John Hindman presents the Yang style of Taijiquan
from Cheng Man-Ching as taught by William C. C. Chen.
Wear flat-bottomed shoes. Age 18 and up.
Tao Studio

Top


December 5

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Workshop: "Hour of the Horse" (repeated at 5:00)
John Hindman presents the Yang style of Taijiquan
from Cheng Man-Ching as taught by William C. C. Chen.
Wear flat-bottomed shoes. Age 18 and up.
Tao Studio

6:00  Lecture: "Goddesses and Female Saints of the Taoist Pantheon"
Susan Naquin, Princeton University
Rubloff Auditorium

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December 6

10:45 Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Workshop: "Hour of the Horse" (repeated at 5:00)
John Hindman presents the Yang style of Taijiquan
from Cheng Man-Ching as taught by William C. C. Chen.
Wear flat-bottomed shoes. Age 18 and up.
Tao Studio

Top


December 7

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Workshop: "Hour of the Horse"
John Hindman presents the Yang style of Taijiquan
from Cheng Man-Ching as taught by William C. C. Chen.
Wear flat-bottomed shoes. Age 18 and up.
Tao Studio

12:15  Performance: "Voices: The Eight Immortals"
Tao Studio

Top


December 8

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Workshop: "Hour of the Horse"
John Hindman presents the Yang style of Taijiquan
from Cheng Man-Ching as taught by William C. C. Chen.
Wear flat-bottomed shoes. Age 18 and up.
Tao Studio

Top


December 9

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:30  Performance: "Voices: The Eight Immortals" (repeated at 12:30)
Tao Studio

Top


December 10

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

2:00  Concert: "Sages in the Mountains"
Wei Yang on pipa and Betty Xiang on erhu
Tao Studio

Top


December 11

9:30  Study Day: "Bixia Yuanjun Day: Sovereign of the Clouds of Dawn"* (until 4:00)
Meet in Columbus Drive lobby.
For more information, call (312) 443-3680.
*For tickets call (312) 575-8000.

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


December 12

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Reading: "Thinking on the Cinnabar Field" (repeated at 5:00)
Tao Studio

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December 13

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:15  Gallery Talk: "Exhibition Overview"
Gallery 150

Top


December 14

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


December 15

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

11:00  Reading: "Thinking on the Cinnabar Field"
Tao Studio

12:15  Gallery Talk: "From Here to Eternity:
Taoism, Zen, and the Abstract Expressionists"
Gallery 201

Top


December 16

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


December 17

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:00  Demonstration: "Landscape Painting" (until 2:00)
Hui Tang Yang, brush painter
Tao Studio

Top


December 18

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:00  Demonstration: "Landscape Painting" (until 2:00)
Hui Tang Yang, brush painter
Tao Studio

Top


December 19

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:00  Demonstration: "Landscape Painting" (until 2:00)
Hui Tang Yang, brush painter
Tao Studio

Top


December 20

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:00  Demonstration: "Landscape Painting" (until 2:00)
Hui Tang Yang, brush painter
Tao Studio

Top


December 21

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:00  Demonstration: "Landscape Painting" (until 2:00)
Hui Tang Yang, brush painter
Tao Studio

Top


December 22

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:00  Demonstration: "Landscape Painting" (until 2:00)
Hui Tang Yang, brush painter
Tao Studio

Top


December 23

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


December 24

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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December 25

Christmas Day
Museum closed

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December 26

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


December 27

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:15  Gallery Talk: "Exhibition Overview"
Gallery 150

Top


December 28

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


December 29

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


December 30

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

Top


December 31

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

2:00  Concert: "Cranes of Many Blessings"
Wei Yang on pipa and Betty Xiang on erhu
Tao Studio

Top


January 1

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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January 2

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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January 3

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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January 4

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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January 5

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

12:00  Gallery Talk: "Exhibition Overview"
Gallery 150

Top


January 6

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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January 7

10:45  Reading: Daode jing and Zhuangzi
Tao Studio

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Family Programs



All family programs take place in the Kraft Education Center unless otherwise noted. We cannot accept groups at drop-in programs. Questions? Call (312) 857-7161.


November 4

10:30  Workshop: "The Tiger and the Dragon: The Story of Yin and Yang"
Ages 4–6

2:00  Workshop: "Gods, Immortals, and Mythical Beasts: The Art of Taoism"
Ages 7–12

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November 18

10:30  Workshop: "From the Tip of the Brush:
Calligraphy with Ed Young (Tzu Chang)"
Ages 4–6

2:00  Workshop: "Chinese Calligraphy with Ed Young (Tzu Chang)"
Ages 7–12

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November 24

10:30  Drop-in Activity: "Celebrate the Arts of China: Scroll Painting" (until 3:30)
All ages

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November 25

10:30 Drop-in Activity: "Celebrate the Arts of China: Scroll Painting" (until 3:30)
All ages

11:00  Tao Special: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy with Ed Young (Tzu Chang)" (repeated at 12:00 and 1:00)
Age 6 and older
Tao Studio
Meet at exhibition entrance 15 minutes before the hour. Space is limited.

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November 26

10:30  Drop-in Activity: "Celebrate the Arts of China: Scroll Painting" (until 3:30)
All ages

11:00  Tao Special: "T'ai chi and Calligraphy with Ed Young (Tzu Chang)" repeated at 12:00 and 1:00)
Age 6 and older
Tao Studio
Meet at exhibition entrance 15 minutes before the hour. Space is limited.

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December 2

12:30  Drop-in Activity: "The Artist's Studio: Chinese Fans" (until 3:30)
All ages

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December 3

12:30  Drop-in Activity: "The Artist's Studio: Chinese Fans" (until 3:30)
All ages

1:30  Gallery Walk: Taoism and the Arts of China
Age 6 and older

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December 9

12:30  Drop-in Activity: "The Artist's Studio: Chinese Fans" (until 3:30)
All ages

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December 16

12:30  Drop-in Activity: "The Artist's Studio: Chinese Fans" (until 3:30)
All ages

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December 17

12:30  Drop-in Activity: "The Artist's Studio: Chinese Fans" (until 3:30)
All ages

1:30  Gallery Walk: Taoism and the Arts of China
Age 6 and older

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Teacher Program




November 28

4:30  Program: "Ink, Art, and the Internet: Legacies of Taoism"*
Ed Young (Tzu Chang), artist-in-residence
Price Auditorium
*Course fee is $15. Pre-registration is required.
Call (312) 443-3575 for more information.




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