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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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Indulge Me: Wafaa Bilal’s First Museum Survey Opens at MCA Chicago
From surgical implants to satellite launches, Bilal’s artwork is anything but ordinary.
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The Anti-Monuments of Torkwase Dyson
The artist’s multi-disciplinary practice challenges colonial and anti-Black art distinctions between representation and abstraction.
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Artists Shine a Light on Chicago’s Complex Ecosystem
Given that the vast majority of the world’s lands have by now been modified by humans, urban gardens might be the best we can hope for.
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Theaster Gates’s House Museum Gone Wild
When Clouds Roll Away is an immersive viewing experience dedicated to the Johnson Publishing Company that prioritizes imaginative reuse over context.
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Chicago’s History of Radical Art Pedagogy
Two concurrent shows focused on the radical social and political possibilities of progressive art education in Chicago ask: Who is art really for?
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The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020
MCA Chicago’s new exhibition delves into the persistence of painting, challenging its longstanding traditions and mythologies to show a medium in constant reinvention.
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A Cry of Rage by Ukrainian Women Artists
In Women at War, art is a counterattack, a means by which a victimized populace fights back.
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12 Art Shows to See in Chicago This Fall
Usher in autumn with Leasho Johnson’s aqueous abstraction, iconic Windy City protest art, John Akomfrah’s elegy for the environment, stunning works on paper by Haegue Yang, and more.
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Riva Lehrer’s Portraits Bring Out the Beauty in Difference
The artist has long been fighting for people with disabilities or marginalized identities, with sincerity, courage, and fierce love for the monsters in us all.
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Art Institute of Chicago Gets "Transformative" $75M Gift
Collectors Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed’s donation will fund a new building to house the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art.
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First Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York Paintings Now on View in Chicago
Overlooked by NY institutions and the male art world, the artist’s experimental depictions of skyscrapers get their own exhibition a century later.