5700 S Lake Shore Dr
Chicago, IL 60637
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The Silver Room houses tasteful collections of eclectic jewelry, fashion, art and music. Founded in 1997 by owner Eric Williams, The Silver Room embodies what Wicker Park has best to offer by pushing the boundaries of traditional retail operation and consistently focusing on building community through social exchange.
Why Come to Clark's Hyde Park? Stated best by one of our frequent guests, Mollie McFee, "It is good and reliable food you can trust."
For the Love of Perception is a positive energy, inspirational coffee-staining art class featuring an art exhibit with a focus of creativity, self-awareness, and social consciousness. What we do For the Love of Perception nurtures individuality and compassion through art. This step-by-step class teaches various coffee staining art techniques to individuals of any skill level. During class, participants create a one-of-a-kind personalized art, gift, or keepsake.
Join us in the Promontory's beautiful second floor music venue (behind the Akira) for a gathering of the neighborhood's best artisans and some of the South Side's best farmers. Meet dozens of amazing vendors at our indoor crafts and farmers market while listening to Hyde Park's finest deejays spinning jazzy, soulful soundtracks to your shopping. Admission is free, the bar is open, and brunch is being served downstairs, so make a day of it! Interested in becoming a vendor? Sign up for our mailing list under our "Join our mailing list" tab above.
The Isidore H. Heller House is a house located at 5132 South Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The house was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The design is credited as one of the turning points in Wright's shift to geometric, Prairie School architecture, which is defined by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, and an integration with the landscape, which is meant to evoke native Prairie surroundings.The work demonstrates Wright's shift away from emulating the style of his mentor, Louis Sullivan. Richard Bock, a Wright collaborator and sculptor, provided some of the ornamentation, including a plaster frieze. The ownership history of this building demonstrates the property's evolution and development in the framework of surrounding Hyde Park buildings, and the building's location in the current community—near other Prairie School architecture—includes this building into the overall body of Lloyd Wright's work. The Heller House was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 15, 1971, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972. On August 18, 2004, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated the house a National Historic Landmark.
Hutchinson Commons at the University of Chicago is modeled, nearly identically, on the hall of Christ Church, one of Oxford University's constituent colleges. The great room measures 115 feet by 40 feet, and was for many years the principal site of convocations of the university. It is located in Chicago's Hyde Park community and is currently used as a dining hall and lounge for university students and professors. The Harry Potter film series has used the original hall at Christ Church in each of its films, imparting a tourist interest in its American replicate.. The building was donated to the University by the banker, philanthropist and university trustee and treasurer Charles L. Hutchinson thru a donation of $60,000 for the purpose.
The Oriental Institute Museum is a world-renowned showcase for the history, art, and archaeology of the ancient Near East. The museum displays objects recovered by Oriental Institute excavations in permanent galleries devoted to ancient Egypt, Nubia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, and the ancient site of Megiddo, as well as rotating special exhibits.
Fourth Ward Project Space is an artist-run exhibition space that honors the artistic direction of individual artists without regard to commercial interests. 4WPS seeks to exhibit underexposed artists and cultivate an inclusive audience. Fourth Ward Project Space is founded and directed by Mika Horibuchi, James Kao, and Valentina Zamfirescu.
As the fine arts museum of the University of Chicago, the Smart is home to thought-provoking exhibitions and an exquisite collection of more than 14,000 objects, including modern masterpieces, millennia-old Chinese ritual objects, rich examples of Renaissance painting, and provocative works of contemporary art. Admission is always free. Mission The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago opens the world through art and ideas.
The Renaissance Society is an independent, non-collecting museum of contemporary art located on the campus of the University of Chicago. Founded in 1915 to encourage a greater understanding of culture, we are committed to supporting ambitious artistic experimentation, primarily through the commissioning of new works, and to fostering a rigorous and interdisciplinary discourse around it. In addition to our exhibition program, we host an eclectic range of concerts, performances, lectures, screenings, and readings. Admission to the gallery and events is always free.