News
Following a petition by the MCA Chicago's Teen Creative Agency, the museum has pledged to stop contracting CPD's services until the department makes reforms. But the group believes much more work remains to be done.
Art
For Julia Fish, the ordinary is not banal, as it was for Andy Warhol and his followers, who seek out the sensational rather than stop to examine the small sensation.
Art
Tony Tasset’s use of inexpensive graph paper suggests that drawing is a way to remain open to ideas, whims, passing thoughts, even dreams.
News
The masks are meant to encourage Chicagoans to wear face coverings when out in public.
Art
A museum educator, who generally works with medical students in the galleries, considers the healing potential of art.
Interview
“I don’t come from art history, and even though I’m involved in the mainstream art world, I didn’t come from this.”
Art
Duro Olowu has curated a dazzling show of Chicago art that is as varied and colorful as the patterns in his clothing.
Art
For the Allure of Matter exhibition the curators propose "Material Art" as a useful, retroactive designation of art that has existed in China since the 1980s and continues today.
Art
Started as a way for digital and new media artists to circumvent the elitist infrastructure of art fairs, the Wrong hosts work online, for free. This year they've added a physical exhibition in Chicago.
Art
In the medical field, "empathy fatigue" is used to describe a state of exhaustion when compassion towards patients becomes tiring. Applying this term to its latest exhibition, Andrew Rafacz has brought together seven artists whose works investigate empathy on a global scale.
Interview
Jarmusch and Logan's SQÜRL — which they describe as an “enthusiastically marginal rock band” — weaves a trippy musical accompaniment to four silent films by Man Ray.
Announcement
The Chicago institutions have collaborated to present The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, on view at both venues through May 3, 2020.