Historian of architecture, engineering, and the urban history of Chicago, Thomas Leslie, guest co-curator with Carol Willis for the Museum’s exhibition The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, will summarize the new avenues of research that grew from research on the exhibition. This in-person program traces the history of concrete skyscraper construction in Chicago, highlighting how the material […]
Daniel Wortel-London will discuss his new book, The Menace of Prosperity: Economic Development and its Discontents in New York City, 1870–1981, which explores how generations of New Yorkers have struggled with the promises and perils of economic development. Spanning New York City’s post–Civil War boom to the 1970s fiscal crisis, Wortel-London will reveal how NYC’s […]
Join fellow readers for lively discussion and thoughtful socializing. Today's book is James by Percival Everett
Join a dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up with neighbors. Sets, cards, and games provided, or bring your own.
Chicago’s tallest skyscraper when it opened in 1921, the Wrigley Building could be called the Midwest’s Woolworth Building. The gleaming white terra-cotta tower at the head of Michigan Avenue marked a move that opened the northward extension of the commercial concentration of the Loop. To celebrate the publication of the handsome new monograph The Wrigley […]
Book reading and signing by Jonathan Payne, author of Hotel Melikov.
Just in time for the fall holidays! Learn how to make a savory holiday appetizer from Lead Chef Samantha Landwehr from the Institute of Culinary Education. She’ll demonstrate how to stretch and form mozzarella. You will be able to try a sample and get a few tips and tricks for making your own at home.
From underground soldiers to intrepid spies, Women of War unearths the hidden history of the brave women who risked their lives to overthrow the Nazi occupation and liberate Italy. Using primary sources and brand new scholarship, historian Suzanne Cope illuminates the roles played by women – working as couriers, taking up arms as combattants, helping […]
Krithika Varagur, Rob Franklin, Sloane Crosley, and Zain Khalid in conversation about Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume III. On the publication day of the highly-anticipated third installment of Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume, four writers discuss their love for the Danish literary sensation and speculate on what might come next.
Global bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann’s new book The Director is “powerful and timely” (Jonathan Lemire for MSNBC’S Morning Joe) and “nothing short of brilliant” (Wall Street Journal). G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and […]
Book reading and signing by Michael Mayo, author of The Spies in Jimmy's Place.
Kick off the holiday season with an evening of creativity, community, light refreshments, and cheer at the Seaport Museum’s annual Wayzgoose—a 500-year-old printers’ tradition marking the change of seasons. This year’s celebration expands across even more of the Museum’s spaces to include the Bowne & Co. Printing Office, Stationers shop, and the Museum’s newly restored […]
Reading of a new play, with music. A response to the policy of Holocaust denial pursued by Alexander Lukashenko’s dictatorial regime in Belarus, The Empty Shell of War follows the journey of a young Jewish girl from a Belarusian shtetl, through the horrors of World War II, to her life as a wife and mother […]