Museums & Attractions
- The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), in Madison, Wis., will present George Segal: Street Scenes from Sept. 13 to Dec. 28. The exhibition will showcase the work of Segal, who is widely recognized as one of the great American sculptors. He used plaster, found objects and an innovative working process to make his large-scale sculptures. Focusing on human interactions and everyday events in the urban setting, the exhibition includes works from the 1960s, when Segal first began using plaster, to the 1980s and 1990s, as he documented the effects of economic change on urban environments. This exhibition is organized by the MMoCA and will be installed in its main galleries. For more information, call 608.257.0158 or visit www.mmoca.org.
- The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Neb., is presenting Diego Rivera from Oct. 25 to Jan. 18, 2009, an exclusive, one-venue exhibition that will include approximately 35 paintings, drawings and watercolors by the famed Mexican muralist. Drawn from the collection of the Museum of Art of the State of Veracruz in Orizaba, Mexico, these works survey Rivera’s entire career, including his earliest work in Mexico and his period of study in Paris, where his paintings took on the influence of Impressionism, and later, as a colleague of Picasso, Cubism. The exhibition culminates with examples of Rivera’s paintings of Mexican rural subjects, for which he is most well known. The exhibition is part of an art and cultural exchange between Omaha and its Mexican sister city, Xalapa, the capital of the state of Veracruz. For more information, call 402.342.3300 or visit www.joslyn.org.
Programs & Packages
- Chicago’s two Four Seasons Hotels, the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Chicago (A Four Seasons Hotel) are offering meeting planners Escape the Ordinary and Suite Meeting packages. The Four Seasons Hotel Chicago’s Suite Meeting package includes a $50 credit, per night, to the master account or guest room folio; 10 percent savings on audiovisual equipment; newly renovated executive suite accommodations at the deluxe room rate; complimentary high-speed Internet access in guest rooms; and complimentary fitness facilities with an indoor pool, whirlpool and sauna. The Ritz-Carlton Chicago’s Escape the Ordinary meeting package includes a $50 credit per night to the master account or guest room folio; 10 percent savings on audiovisual equipment; one upgrade to a Four Seasons executive suite for every 20 deluxe rooms utilized per night; complimentary high-speed Internet access in guest rooms; and complimentary fitness facilities with an indoor pool, whirlpool and sauna. Both packages are available for meetings held through March 31, 2009, and are available only to groups of 20 or more guest rooms per night. For more information, call the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago at 312.280.8800 or visit www.fourseasons.com; call the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Chicago at 312.266.1000 or visit www.fourseasons.com.