Art
Life-and-Death Paintings, From a Career Cut Short
“I’m strongly drawn to saintly artists. I mean people who believe that each brushstroke will save the world or will represent the suffering of humanity in the face of a sheep.”
Chicago
Art
A Contemporary Approach to Religious Symbols
A small yet mighty exhibition, Fragments of a Crucifixion highlights moments of mourning, as well as joyful moments of faith and collectivity that continue in the face of traumas.
Announcement
Wrightwood 659 Presents Tetsuya Ishida's First US Retrospective Self-Portrait of Other
This exhibition features a selection of approximately 70 paintings and works on paper by Ishida. On view every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from October 3 – December 14, 2019.
News
Research by Forensic Architecture Suggests Injustice in the Police Killing of Harith Augustus
Forensic Architecture has partnered with Chicago's Invisible Institute to mount a counter-investigation into the official police narrative surrounding the death of Augustus. Their findings could change the way city policing works.
Interview
Postcommodity Centers Optimism and Indigenous Philosophies in a New Site-Specific Installation
In their latest site-specific project, the collective probes histories of migration in a pan-American context.
Art
The South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid
The history of the Medu Art Ensemble reminds us of the role artists play in making the aims of revolutionary thinking tangible.
Art
A Refreshing Vision of the Future
Inka Essenhigh's futuristic Uchronia is a pastoral place where what was once work is now play.
In Brief
Maps of Gerrymandered Districts Are Turned Into a Typeface
The font "Gerry," created by two Chicago-based digital creatives, renders maps of gerrymandered districts into letters of the alphabet as a commentary on the "eroding of democracy."
Art
The Consequences of Social Hierarchies in Brazil
Jonathas de Andrade explores the inequities and societal pressures on marginalized Brazilian communities, but he also challenges his audience to consider solutions.
Comics
Artists Return to New Age Strategies for Empowerment
It makes sense that artists would return to New Age strategies in the age we live in. Still, I’m not sure these methods provide much more than temporary soothing.
Art
Imagining the Western Other in 19th-Century Japanese Prints
Images of Americans in these prints tell us a great deal about the local culture as it met the West. They tell us, specifically, about what many Japanese feared, and desired, from the encounter of cultures.
Performance
Anne Imhof's Sex Creates Drama but Not Desire
Imhof's performance Sex is dramatic, even melodramatic, yet its drama is not sensual; it removes bodily urges from the mix.