Chicago Festival of Maps

Spertus Institute Closes Controversial Show
Imaginary Coordinates, a controversial exhibition that juxtaposed contemporary Israeli and Palestinian art with antique maps of the region, has been closed prematurely by the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, which had been putting on the show as part of Chicago’s… »
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Categories: Art, Censorship & Security, Chicago Festival of Maps
Blogging the Festival of Maps
Hugh Yeman writes, “I recently caught the cartography bug, and I’ve spent the last several weeks writing almost exclusively about two visits to the Chicago Festival of Maps. As I’ve researched the exhibit items I’ve been quite surprised to find… »
Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Categories: Blogs, Chicago Festival of Maps
‘Mapping the Universe’ at the Adler Planetarium
The Festival of Maps continues to ripple through the media: yesterday’s New York Times carried a review of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, focusing on the remarkable Atwood sphere, which predated more modern planetarium projectors, and the Mapping the Universe… »
Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 6:39 AM
Categories: Astronomy, Chicago Festival of Maps
Festival of Maps: WSJ Review, Newberry Exhibits
The Wall Street Journal reviews two exhibits from Chicago’s Festival of Maps: the flagship Field Museum exhibit (of course), along with one of two exhibits at the Newberry Library, Ptolemy’s Geography and Renaissance Mapmakers. (Actually, the Newberry claims three exhibits,… »
Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8:18 PM
Categories: Books, Chicago Festival of Maps
Washington Post on the Festival of Maps
Today’s edition of the Washington Post reviews the Festival of Maps in Chicago, and in the process mentions that the vaunted Field Museum exhibit will be on display in a Baltimore museum come March. Hold the phone: this sucker’s going… »
Posted on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Categories: Chicago Festival of Maps
CSM on the Festival of Maps, Map Art and Books
A piece in last Friday’s Christian Science Monitor looks at the Festival of Maps through the lens of map art, referencing our friend Nikolas Schiller, the special map art issue of Cartographic Perspectives, the book accompanying the Field Museum exhibition,… »
Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 7:34 PM
Categories: Art, Chicago Festival of Maps
Festival of Maps Reviews
Brendan Crain writes, “I have seen a few posts on The Map Room about the Festival of Maps here in Chicago. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been attending and reviewing the shows around town. Here’s a… »
Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 5:45 AM
Categories: Blogs, Chicago Festival of Maps
Festival of Maps: Field Museum Roundup
More about the Field Museum’s exhibit, Maps: Finding Our Place in the World: Antiques and the Arts Online has a rundown (via Map the Universe); Chicago Public Radio has audio from the first of a series of lectures taking place… »
Posted on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 8:37 PM
Categories: Chicago Festival of Maps, Podcasts & Audio
Festival of Maps: Field Museum Exhibit Virtual Gallery
Can’t get to Chicago for the Festival of Maps? (No. Dammit.) Fortunately, says Navteq’s Kevin Lenane, there’s an online version of the vaunted Field Museum exhibit. “This is the virtual gallery we did for the Field Museum Maps Exhibit,”… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 8:01 PM
Categories: Chicago Festival of Maps
Festival of Maps Update: Book, KML
“The University of Chicago Press has a special web feature to celebrate the publication of Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, the book that accompanies the exhibit currently at the Field Museum in Chicago,” writes Dean Blobaum. “The… »
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 5:26 AM
Categories: Books, Chicago, Chicago Festival of Maps
Festival of Maps Now Open
Chicago’s Festival of Maps officially opened on Friday; in addition to its new website, which went live in September, there is also a Festival of Maps blog to help us keep track of the proceedings. And there’s a lot to… »
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 5:02 PM
Categories: Blogs, Chicago Festival of Maps
Major Field Museum Exhibition Announced (Again)
For a map exhibition that doesn’t even open until November, the Field Museum’s Maps: Finding Our Place in the World is sure getting a lot of advance publicity — I first reported on it last September. But organizers believe the… »
Posted on Friday, April 20, 2007 at 10:09 AM
Categories: Chicago Festival of Maps
Chicago’s Festival of Maps
I must find a way to get to Chicago this November; the Festival of Maps sounds huge: Opening November 2, 2007 and continuing into 2008, the Festival of Maps Chicago is a citywide celebration of humanity’s greatest discoveries and the… »
Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 at 6:56 PM
Categories: Chicago Festival of Maps

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