Guide
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Chicago art events this season, including the Chinese American Museum of Chicago’s Spotlight Series, Black life and lineage, female empowerment, and more.
Art
With A Lion for Every House at the Art Institute of Chicago, Floating Museum riffs wildly on the art rental programs of some museums.
Art
For artist Melissa Brown, thrifted items reflect human desires and associations, and take on fresh meanings in each new setting.
Art
In Nadav Assor and Tirtza Even’s film Chronicle of a Fall, on immigrant cultural workers in the US, there is no singular, stable view of anything.
Art
Artists Selina Trepp, Leslie Baum, and Diane Christiansen repurpose their own and others’ creations into new artworks.
News
They cited “intolerable” working conditions, inadequate benefits, and low pay.
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Shows on view at this unique art space include Rirkrit Tiravanija: (who’s afraid of red, yellow, and green), a reinstallation of the US architecture exhibition at the 2021 Venice Biennale, and more.
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Artists from around the world can join online and in-person courses at one of the most influential art and design schools in the United States.
Opinion
“When monuments mislead, they are taking space that could go to other, more accurate histories, or to artworks that pose questions instead of asserting answers.”
Art
Painter Jewel Ham's color choices critique a colorist interpretation of Blackness as being monolithic, lacking a multitude of colors therein.
Art
An ingenious arrangement can engender awareness of spatial relationships, provide a much-needed sense of order, or offer purely aesthetic mysteries.
Art
Kruger never seemed to mind that the very world she critiqued co-opted her style and spit it back into advertising.