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A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center
With works by Idris Khan, Maya Lin, and more, the $850M campus will be a public art destination for Chicago’s South Side, if it can live up to its community.
Jen Torwudzo-Stroh
Jen Torwudzo-Stroh is a Chicago-based freelance writer and arts administrator. Using personal essays and art criticism her writing focuses on the works of artists of color, specifically those across the African diaspora.
Art Review
UChicago MFA Students’ Offbeat Aesthetics
Highlights are Eleonore Zurawski’s delicate and brutal sculptures and Rebekka Federle-McCabe’s explicit but tender dog sculptures.
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Cosmo Whyte’s Whispering Portals
By blurring the line between individual and collective memory, the works demonstrate the Panafrican ideal that our experiences are part of a shared narrative.
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The Problem With b. Robert Moore’s All-Encompassing Afro-Pessimism
The experience of being Black in America transcends the addiction, police brutality, lynchings, loss of family, and misogynoir that the artist depicts.
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The Black Girlhood Altar Implores Us to Remember
Lighthearted at some points, soul-crushingly poignant at others, the exhibition, organized by A Long Walk Home, embodies the wistful nostalgia of time past.