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Blues in Chicago with Dave Katzman and an interview with vocalist Petra Van Nuis and guitarist Andy Brown.   About Andy Brown   Andy Brown is a guitarist based in Chicago. Born in New York in 1975, he has played professionally for over twenty five years. He has had a varied performing career that has included stints in Cincinnati and New York City. Since coming to Chicago in 2003, Andy has been fortunate to work at many of the area's finest jazz venues with his own bands, as well as playing his unique brand of solo jazz guitar. He has backed visiting jazz names at places including The Jazz Showcase, Ravinia and the Harris Theater. Currently he plays solo guitar every Thursday at The Green Mill, leads his quartet every Wednesday at Andy's Jazz Club and performs with his trio bi-weekly at Winter’s Jazz Club. As a sideman he has performed with internationally know jazz musicians including Scott Hamilton, Howard Alden, Harry Allen, Warren Vaché, Ken Peplowski, Hod O’Brien, Rebecca Kilgore, Judy Carmichael, John Pisano, Michael Feinstein, Anat Cohen, Kurt Elling and many others. He has also worked with many names on the Chicago jazz scene including Russ Phillips, Don Stiernberg, Chris Foreman, Eric Schneider, Bobby Lewis and Judy Roberts. His love of great tunes, as well as accompanying skills have made him a favorite with vocalists. Married to frequent partner vocalist Petra van Nuis, Andy has worked with many of Chicago's finest singers. Andy also had the good fortune to accompany Barbra Streisand when she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009. Andy has made many festival and club appearances around the world. Highlights include Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Chautauqua Jazz Party, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Cleveland Classic Jazz Party, as well as festivals in Rio de Janeiro, the Netherlands, Germany and throughout the United States. Andy has provided the music for a wide variety of parties and private events. In 2012, his trio was invited by the Chicago Mayor's office to perform for the Nobel Peace Prize dinner in Chicago where invited guests included U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, as well as the Dalai Lama and Mikhail Gorbachev. Also in 2012, Andy's trio was hired by the U.S. State Department to provide music for the opening night gala at the NATO summit held in Chicago. Andy enjoys being a member of several bands besides his own. He works often with vocalist Petra van Nuis, either in duo or larger groups, including Petra's Recession Seven. They have worked together all over Chicago and in venues throughout the country, as well as tours of Europe and Canada. Since 2009, Andy has co-led a two-guitar quartet with renowned guitarist Howard Alden. In 2013, Delmark Records released a CD of the group entitled "Heavy Artillery" which received four stars in Downbeat magazine and was featured in their annual Albums Of The Year issue. Andy plays regularly with jazz mandolinist Don Stiernberg's trio. They have worked at festivals in Germany and Brazil, as well as throughout the United States. He is also a member of trombonist Russ Phillips' group, both with Russ' Quartet and his Windy City All-Stars. Andy has been featured on a wide array of recordings. As a leader, his latest is the 2016 Delmark Records release “Direct Call” which received four stars in Downbeat magazine. His previous Delmark release “Soloist” was his first solo jazz guitar recording and received warm reviews from critics and fans alike. 2015 marked the release of organist Chris Foreman's debut recording "Now Is The Time” which featured Andy on several cuts. In 2016, mandolinist Don Stiernberg released a CD titled “Good Numbers” featuring Andy on acoustic archtop guitar. Andy has collaborated on four CDs with Petra van Nuis, the most recent being their 2017 duet release “Lessons Lyrical." Andy had the good fortune to learn directly from several guitar masters, including Cal Collins, Ted Greene, and Howard Alden. His most important mentor was the late Kenny Poole, who called Andy his protégé.   About Petra   Petra van Nuis (pronounced Pay-tra van Nouse) is a Chicago-based jazz vocalist who has been described in Downbeat Magazine as having "a light, gorgeous, and fairly delicate voice...a gift for melody and plenty of rhythmic confidence." A Chicagoan since 2003, Petra sings at all the finest jazz venues in town including the Jazz Showcase, the Green Mill, Andy's Jazz Club, Winter's, Fitzgerald's, the City Winery, and the Old Town School of Folk Music. Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs has presented Petra's groups at the Chicago Cultural Center and Chicago Summer Dance. The Jazz Institute of Chicago has featured Petra's Recession Seven band at the Chicago Jazz Festival and Jazz City. Petra has been interviewed and her music featured on Chicago's WGN for Rick Kogan's "After Hours" show and on WBEZ's "Morning Shift" with Tony Sarabia. Outside of Chicago, Petra plays at jazz festivals such as the Cleveland Classic Jazz Party, the Roswell Jazz Festival and Joe Boughton's Chautauqua Jazz Party with such renowned musicians as Dan Barrett, Nicki Parrott, Ken Peplowski, John Di Martino, Dan Block, Scott Robinson, Frank Tate, Hal Smith, Rossano Sportiello, and Duke Heitger. Petra's latest project, Because We're Night People, is a live recording of night-themed standards which was awarded 4 stars by DownBeat Magazine and included in their "Top Rated Albums of 2019" listing. Revered Chicago pianist Dennis Luxion blends his signature impressionistic harmony with Petra's lush vocals. This CD was re-issued in Japan on the Japanese label Muzak in October 2018 and was used as in-flight music on All Nippon Airways (Japan's largest airline) in January/February 2019. Germany's Jazzpodium Magazine hails Petra's seventeen year musical collaboration with her husband, guitarist Andy Brown, as "a magical musical dialogue, which can only partially be described as blind understanding." Petra and Andy's romantic style has been enjoyed in intimate club settings around the country including Shanghai Jazz (Madison, NJ), the Kerrytown Concert House (Ann Arbor, MI), Night Town (Cleveland,OH), the Saugatuck Center for the Arts (Saugatuck, MI), and the Blue Wisp Jazz Club (Cincinnati, OH). Several European tours have brought the duo to Germany (Traditional Jazz Hall Stuttgart, Jazzhaus Heidelberg, Mampf Frankfurt, Le Pirate, Jazz Club Neustadt, Jazz Club 77, Musikhaus Birlkehof) to the Netherland's (Gorinchem Jazz Festival, Culuurschip Thor, Jazz Hall 72, Stichting Jazz Zevenbergen) and to Belgium (Jazz Cafe Hopper). With the re-release of the duo's 2017 CD Lessons Lyrical and their 2009 CD Far Away Places on Japan's Muzak label, Petra and Andy continue to spread their swinging sounds far and wide. Petra and Andy often augment their duo with bass and drums forming the Petra van Nuis/ Andy Brown Quartet. In addition to Chicago performances, the quartet frequently tours the Midwest having played for the West Michigan Jazz Society (Grand Rapids, MI), Polyrhytms (Davenport,IA), the Firefly Jazz Club (Ann Arbor, MI), the Wilson Center for the Arts (Milwaukee, WI), the Detroit Institute for the Arts (Detroit, MI), and headlined the 32nd Michelob Women In Jazz Festival (Dayton, OH). At the start of the Great Recession in September 2008, Petra's Recession Seven, a Chicago-style early swing/trad jazz band was born at Chicago's legendary Green Mill. This seven piece ensemble features an all-star line up of internationally known Chicago veterans including trombonist Russ Phillips, reed man Eric Schneider, and trumpeter Bob Ojeda. Festival appearances include the 32nd Elkhart Jazz Festival, 33rd annual Chicago Jazz Festival, the 34th, 35th, 37th, 40th and 42nd annual Cedar Basin Jazz Festival, Fitzgerald's 29th annual American Music Festival, the Juvae Jazz Society's 25th anniversary Festival, and the Illiana Club of Traditional Jazz's 40th anniversary Jazz Festival. The band regularly travels to regional jazz societies such as the Madison Jazz Society, the Starr-Gennett Foundation, the "Masters of Swing" series at Cincinnati's Xavier University, the Lafayette Jazz Club, and the Indianapolis Jazz Club. The American Rag, in a review of the band's 2011 on location recording Live In Chicago praises "a killer of a band that grabs your attention and doesn't give it back until they are finished playing." You may have heard selections from Petra's 2006 debut CD A Sweet Refrain on digital cable's Music Choice, where it regularly rotates on the "Singers & Swing" channel. In a review, Los Angeles Jazz Scene critic Scott Yanow notes "a sweet voice, a straightforward delivery....one hears touches of Billie Holiday, Blossom Dearie, and Mildred Bailey in her phrasing, but not in the sound of her voice which is distinctive." This CD is a throwback to the classic vocal recordings of the 50's with a blend of duo, quartet, quintet, and tight two-horn sextet arrangements by bassist/arranger Joe Policastro. In 2012, these arrangements were recreated with the teaming of Petra and Andy with four Canadian musicians at Edmonton's famed Yardbird Suite. In 2015, two songs from this CD were selected by famed Japanese jazz writer/historian/record producer Yasukuni Terashima to be included in the compilation CD For Jazz Vocal Fans Only on the Japanese label Disk Union. Petra continues to play with Chicago's finest instrumentalists including Bobby Lewis, Art Davis, Kim Cusack, Larry Harris, Greg Fishman, Chris White, Joe Adamik, Joe Policastro, Bob Rummage, Andy Schumm, Jeremy Kahn, Judy Roberts, Phil Gratteau, Don Stille, Dan Delorenzo, Tom Bartlett, Mike Schlick, Bill Overton, Bradley Williams, Ron Dewar, John Otto, Stewart Miller, and Don Stiernberg.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Visual Arts and Web development clash together. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Susan Friel shares about the artwork that surrounds her life. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Solo Realle, hip hop artist gets interviewed by a very special person. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

Marcela share interesting facts about Child labor including the life of young activist Iqbal Masih. Literature denouncing Child labor here: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/child-labor Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

If you want to learn more about Regin's work please visit https://www.reginigloria.net/ Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

A challenging art form for sure. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

A neurologist describes in detail his experience working with human's brain. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

A software engineer and an accountant share how art inspire their daily routines. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

A conversation among friends, growing up, Chicago and all about random things that come to mind, including college, birthdays and art. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events DCASE.

In this episode, we sit down with Annie Coakley. Annie is the executive director of Downtown Evanston, which was created in 1987, and provides marketing and management services to the downtown Evanston, Illinois district and is a 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation for business. Annie Coakley previously worked for the City of Chicago's Department of Planning and Development for over 14 years, managing and coordinating a wide range of programs to attract, retain and support the growth of businesses throughout Chicago. The episode walks us through what the Downtown Organization is, what it does, and why it exists, and why it is so important. She talks about the additional services it provides like advertising, landscaping and a multitude of events throughout the year. Annie talks about the new projects that are being talked about in Downtown Evanston, and what is currently being constructed. For more information you can click here. She also talks about all of the new coffee shops coming to town like Philz and Newport Coffee House. We also talk about many of the current coffee shops in Downtown Evanston like Unicorn Cafe, Other Brother, and Starbucks, Annie talk about her wishes for Evanston like an entertainment venue like Northlight Theatre; more money for public art like the Art Encounter EMAP program. More information can be found here: a pie in the sky wish for a bike route along the Metra line all the way from Evanston down to Elston similar to the 606. Reach out to Alderman Don Wilson for more information on this idea; and more landscaping similar to Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Downtown Evanston and all of their events like the Hygge Fest, which is a Danish based social winter festival which starts on February 16th at Bookends and Beginnings can be found at http://downtownevanston.org/, on Facebook at @downtownevanston, Instagram at @downtownevanston, and on Twitter at @DowntwnEvanston. I’d like to thank several people for help with today’s show. This includes my real estate brokerage, Dreamtown Realty in Evanston for helping me with my graphics for the show. I’d like to thank Industrious in Evanston for use of their space to record follow them on Instagram at @industriousevanston. And if listening to this podcast gave you the bug to buy or sell real estate, give me call or go to my real estate website at http://www.aaronmasliansky.com And don’t forget to subscribe! Thank you.

In this episode of City ExperimentA, we talk with John Levy (Chief Programmer and Analyst at Chicago's Department for Innovation and Technology) and Gene Leynes (Data Scientist for the City of Chicago) about their work with Chicago's Open Data Platform. We discuss the importance of open data and how the development of their open data platform has changed the City of Chicago for the better. City ExperimentA: Stories with people making Things shaping Cities. A podcast for Future City enthusiasts and creators alike! Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 BY. Intro music is 'Perception' by Bensound.

Theaster Gates, a social practice installation artist, and David Reifman, head of Chicago's Department of Planning and Development, discuss the city's approach to Reimagining the Civic Commons, a three-year five-city effort to reinvest in civic assets to create inclusive, attractive communities.

Che "Rhymefest" Smith, Ginger Evans and Mary Catherine Curran are panelists. The rapper/political organizer, the commissioner of Chicago's Department of Aviation and the comedian join us in the City of Big Shoulders for a show on transitions — from here to there, from low to high and from fish to humans. Jesse Dukes is fact-checker.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A nearly life-size red dinosaur looms over Millennium Park a toy-like, yet ominous, figure with Made in China stamped prominently on its belly. A summer breeze blows through the open-grid construction of Windy City Dinosaur, which serves as a visual riff on Chicago's nickname.In its shadow stands Wu Hung, a giant in the world of contemporary Chinese art, who inspired longtime friend Sui Jianguo China's most prominent sculptor to create the piece for an exhibit of Chinese sculpture in Millennium Park.A Beijing native who has deep roots in the city's artistic avant-garde, Wu, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, has known many of his country's most important artists for decades. He visited them in China and was crucial in bringing four monumental pieces by the country's most famous sculptors to Chicago.One of the foremost champions of Chinese modern art since the 1980s and a curator who has introduced China's bold aesthetic to the West, Wu was the obvious choice when the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs needed an exhibit co-curator for a new downtown exhibit called A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculptures from China.He is the star curator of contemporary Chinese art, says co-curator Lucas Cowan, Millennium Park's visual arts coordinator. It would have been shameful if I didn't have him do this.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A nearly life-size red dinosaur looms over Millennium Park a toy-like, yet ominous, figure with Made in China stamped prominently on its belly. A summer breeze blows through the open-grid construction of Windy City Dinosaur, which serves as a visual riff on Chicago's nickname.In its shadow stands Wu Hung, a giant in the world of contemporary Chinese art, who inspired longtime friend Sui Jianguo China's most prominent sculptor to create the piece for an exhibit of Chinese sculpture in Millennium Park.A Beijing native who has deep roots in the city's artistic avant-garde, Wu, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, has known many of his country's most important artists for decades. He visited them in China and was crucial in bringing four monumental pieces by the country's most famous sculptors to Chicago.One of the foremost champions of Chinese modern art since the 1980s and a curator who has introduced China's bold aesthetic to the West, Wu was the obvious choice when the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs needed an exhibit co-curator for a new downtown exhibit called A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculptures from China.He is the star curator of contemporary Chinese art, says co-curator Lucas Cowan, Millennium Park's visual arts coordinator. It would have been shameful if I didn't have him do this.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A nearly life-size red dinosaur looms over Millennium Park a toy-like, yet ominous, figure with Made in China stamped prominently on its belly. A summer breeze blows through the open-grid construction of Windy City Dinosaur, which serves as a visual riff on Chicago's nickname.In its shadow stands Wu Hung, a giant in the world of contemporary Chinese art, who inspired longtime friend Sui Jianguo China's most prominent sculptor to create the piece for an exhibit of Chinese sculpture in Millennium Park.A Beijing native who has deep roots in the city's artistic avant-garde, Wu, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, has known many of his country's most important artists for decades. He visited them in China and was crucial in bringing four monumental pieces by the country's most famous sculptors to Chicago.One of the foremost champions of Chinese modern art since the 1980s and a curator who has introduced China's bold aesthetic to the West, Wu was the obvious choice when the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs needed an exhibit co-curator for a new downtown exhibit called A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculptures from China.He is the star curator of contemporary Chinese art, says co-curator Lucas Cowan, Millennium Park's visual arts coordinator. It would have been shameful if I didn't have him do this.