Art Review
Wafaa Bilal Asks What it Means to be Arab in America
The Iraqi artist's Chicago survey show uses technology and performance to address the experience of his identity in the post-9/11 era.
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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 Fury and Failings of a Nicole Eisenman Survey
En masse, Eisenman's paintings feel weighty and overwrought, as if too many ideas had become tangled and sucked up all the air, like a one-way conversation.
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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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Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022 Is Now on View at MCA Chicago
This major survey presents 27 paintings that showcase Morris's rigorous commitment to abstraction and experimentation over a 21-year period.
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Mona Hatoum’s Videos Make a Presence From Absence
Hatoum’s early videos confront viewers with the body of the artist as a synecdoche for the collective trauma experienced by the dispossessed
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Three Shows Celebrate Chicago’s Latine Art Heritage
What better way to celebrate the centennial of Chicago artist and community organizer Carlos Cortéz than with a trio of exhibitions dedicated to the intersections between Latine printmaking and politics?
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The Tides and Currents of Art From the Caribbean Diaspora
A survey at the MCA Chicago uses the metaphor of weather and wields movement as a critical, mercurial strategy
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The Art of Not Communicating
Caroline Kent’s installation practically vibrates with the energy of near-connection and near-signification.
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MCA Chicago Lays Off 41 Workers, Prompting Backlash
Citing a revenue drop due to the pandemic, the museum has cut 11% of its workforce.
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MCA Chicago Converts Part-time Positions to Full-time, Resulting in Loss of 20 Jobs
“This isn’t really what we asked for,” one MCA employee told Hyperallergic. “A lot of the part-time staff don’t necessarily want to be full-time, they have other commitments. What they were asking for was more support."
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Agrees to Halt Contracts With City Police
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.