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Wrightwood 659 Hosts Chryssa & New York
Chryssa’s long unseen neon sculptures shine again in a new groundbreaking exhibition. On view now through July 27 in Chicago.
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A Rock and a Fry Pan Walked Into a Gallery
In addition to being some combination of formally delectable, politically astute, and historically poignant, five solo shows currently in Chicago are hilarious.
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The Productive Messiness of Expo Chicago 2024
The art felt as if it was trying to find the language to merge emotion with content, to harness the energies of the search within the courage of experimentation.
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Nicole Eisenman’s First Major Survey Comes to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
What Happened showcases Eisenman’s ability to take on contemporary events with a style, vision, and anarchic sense of humor entirely her own.
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Selva Aparicio’s Memorials to Loss and Renewal
Aparicio treats unwanted things with extreme sensitivity, personally gathering and storing them over many years, renewing them with remarkable vision.
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Miranda Forrester’s Soft Portraits of Black Queer Women
Faceless women and interiors on transparent plastic highlight the nuanced identity politics of Black female and queer spaces.
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The Black Girlhood Altar Implores Us to Remember
Lighthearted at some points, soul-crushingly poignant at others, the exhibition, organized by A Long Walk Home, embodies the wistful nostalgia of time past.
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Two Chicago Artists Free Themselves From the Demands of Function
Artists Maryam Taghavi and Travis Morehead push their subjects to the utmost edge of transformation, with humor and grace.
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Chicago Rat Hole Spurs a Plethora of Artistic Interventions
From tattoo art to nail art to a new flag design, the Windy City’s new ephemeral landmark is inspiring creators in a-mice-zing ways.
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Chicago’s Field Museum Covers Up Native Display
New regulations require museums to obtain informed consent from tribal or lineal descendants before exhibiting Native artifacts or human remains.
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago Launches Art and Design Courses for Winter and Spring
Choose from over 50 Adult Continuing Education courses at one of the top art schools in the US, available online and on-campus.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed Embraces the Unknowable
Her multidisciplinary practice takes text as a point of departure, stripping away layers of meaning until only the marks remain.