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.
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Celebrate Art and Ecology at the Inaugural 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial
Taking a feminist, Indigenous approach, the new contemporary art festival developed by Franconia Sculpture Park is happening this summer at sites across the Upper Midwest of the US.
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Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art Presents A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence
This new exhibition in Evanston, Illinois considers how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence for more than a century.
Art
The Afterlives of Art Scraps
Artists Selina Trepp, Leslie Baum, and Diane Christiansen repurpose their own and others’ creations into new artworks.
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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.”
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Illinois Humanities Invites Viewers to Imagine a Future Without Mass Incarceration
Featuring new work by Illinois artists, writers, and humanists, the exhibition and activation kit Envisioning Justice RE:ACTION is online and open to the public.
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.