{"id":"11","title":"Winging It: A Brief History of Humanity's Relationship with Birds","starts_at":"2025-06-20 00:00:00","ends_at":"2025-09-27 17:00:00","body":"<p>The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood that has been free and open to all since 1887. The Newberry fosters a deeper understanding of our world by inspiring research and learning in the humanities and encouraging conversations about ideas that matter to diverse audiences. Our mission is rooted in a growing and accessible collection of rare and historical materials that spans more than six centuries of human experience.</p><p><br></p><p>Image: View of the Newberry Library. Credit: Anne Ryan</p>","type":"EventCategory","state":"published","slug":"exhibitions","created_at":"2018-10-22 18:54:41.176231","updated_at":"2018-10-22 18:54:41.176231","excerpt":"","is_timeless":true,"organization_id":120,"highlighted":false,"opening_starts_at":null,"opening_ends_at":null,"searchable":"'20':24B '2025':27B '27':26B 'across':93B 'air':133B 'better':79B 'bird':11A,22B,38B,74B,84B,110B,120B 'bob':135B 'brief':4A,15B,103B 'centuri':30B 'classifi':73B 'collect':117B 'communic':139B 'complex':35B 'cosmos':82B 'cultur':96B 'curat':134B 'depict':71B 'detail':28B 'director':137B 'dolgan':136B 'effort':68B 'encroach':127B 'enlighten':64B 'era':94B 'exampl':112B 'exhibit':99B 'exploit':50B 'great':67B 'histori':5A,16B,104B 'human':7A,18B,31B,106B 'impedi':51B 'inspir':90B 'june':23B 'land':130B 'librari':141B 'made':66B 'mean':77B,92B 'newberri':115B,140B 'often':41B 'oftentim':123B 'persist':121B 'pest':45B 'progress':53B 'relationship':9A,20B,36B,108B 'resourc':47B 'seen':43B 'septemb':25B 'share':111B 'sourc':88B 'spite':125B 'studi':70B 'thinker':65B 'threat':55B 'time':63B 'today':122B 'toward':78B 'understand':80B 'upcom':98B 'water':131B 'well':58B 'well-b':57B 'wing':1A,12B,100B","thumbnail":"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1762991671/i9ghsaoc7rmi8gdfhfdg.jpg","calendar":null,"carousel":false,"event_body":"<p><em>Winging It: A Brief History of Humanity's Relationship with Birds</em></p><p><br></p><p>June 20 - September 27, 2025</p><p><br></p><p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://www.newberry.org/calendar/winging-it-a-brief-history-of-humanitys-relationship-with-birds\" target=\"_blank\">Details</a></p><p><br></p><p>For centuries, humanity has had a complex relationship with birds, which have often been seen as pests or resources to be exploited, impediments to progress and threats to well-being. At the same time, Enlightenment thinkers made great efforts to study, depict, and classify birds as a means toward better understanding the cosmos. And birds have been a source of inspiration and meaning across eras and cultures. Our upcoming exhibition,&nbsp;<em>Winging It: A Brief History of Humanity’s Relationship with Birds</em>, shares examples from the Newberry's collection and how birds persist today oftentimes in spite of encroachment on their land, water, and air.</p><p><br></p><p>Curator: Bob&nbsp;Dolgan, Director of Communications, Newberry Library</p>","name":"Exhibitions","organization_type_id":"5","district_id":"4","telephone":"+13129439090","website":"http://www.newberry.org","email":"info@newberry.org","hours":"Tu–Th 10–7; F–Sa 10– 5","location":"60 W. Walton Chicago, IL 60610","display_location":"60 W. Walton, Chicago, IL 60610","latitude":"41.900005","longitude":"-87.630129","contact":"","sub_district_id":"19","promoted_at":"2022-11-09T06:51:37.448Z","optional_sort_name":"","paid":true,"position":2,"category_name":"Exhibitions","orgname":"Newberry Library","orgslug":"newberry-library","image":"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1756941310/dci2wkugq4j3w6tnxaon.jpg"}