Art
If They Won't Come to the Museum, Then the Museum Must Go to Them
With A Lion for Every House at the Art Institute of Chicago, Floating Museum riffs wildly on the art rental programs of some museums.
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Art
The Enchanted Afterlives of Thrift Store Finds
For artist Melissa Brown, thrifted items reflect human desires and associations, and take on fresh meanings in each new setting.
Art
A Film Asks: What Is Home?
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
The Afterlives of Art Scraps
Artists Selina Trepp, Leslie Baum, and Diane Christiansen repurpose their own and others’ creations into new artworks.
News
Non-Tenured Faculty at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute Push to Unionize
They cited “intolerable” working conditions, inadequate benefits, and low pay.
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Announcement
Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 Welcomes New 2022 Spring and Summer Exhibitions
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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School of the Art Institute of Chicago Launches 50+ Art and Design Summer Courses
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
A Removed Columbus Monument in Chicago Makes a Baffling Return
“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
An Artist's Palette Reflects Community and Adversity
Painter Jewel Ham's color choices critique a colorist interpretation of Blackness as being monolithic, lacking a multitude of colors therein.
Art
Four Chicago Galleries Explore the Art of Arranging
An ingenious arrangement can engender awareness of spatial relationships, provide a much-needed sense of order, or offer purely aesthetic mysteries.
Art
A Barbara Kruger Retrospective Mixes Capitalism and its Critique
Kruger never seemed to mind that the very world she critiqued co-opted her style and spit it back into advertising.
Art
Two Palestinian Artists Challenge Common Occupation Narratives
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme assert that the lived reality of occupation involves a multiplicity of factors that are erased or overlooked by their controlled representations.