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Jessica Campbell and the Ghost of Emily Carr
Campbell implies that there has been one constant in the experiences of women across generations: the sexual aggression of men.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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Two Chicago Exhibitions Elaborate on Emptiness and Space
Though the two shows examine the void in distinctly different ways, only one gets it right.
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Howardena Pindell Gets Her First Major Museum Survey
A survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illustrates how the artist shifted from formalist painting to personal, political art.
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Artist Michael Rakowitz Reveals the Iraq War's Many Wounds
From war loot to Saddam Hussein's Star Wars obsession, an exhibition at MCA Chicago considers the costs of power and destruction.
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Pushing Back Against the Sensational Image of Chicago as "Chi-raq"
Amanda Williams, an architect turned artist, has shifted her practice from constructing buildings, to making work that understands and reveals the social implications of how and when they are destroyed.
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The Many Arms of Takashi Murakami’s Career
A retrospective at the MCA Chicago charts the many strands of Murakami's painting practice, from his early Nihonga style to recent Buddhist iconography.
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Two Projects Revisit Historical Images with a Calm and Critical Eye
Two video installations currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago place the viewer within images and their history, and demand we look at them differently.
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How Kerry James Marshall Rewrites Art History
CHICAGO — When he studied art history in the 1970s in Los Angeles, Kerry James Marshall was struck by the absence of black artists in the "canon."
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Reckoning with Pop Art's Irrepressible Popularity
CHICAGO — Three major exhibitions devoted to Pop art that opened last year broadened the purview of this movement as a primarily Western (American) phenomenon by unearthing lesser-known artists to provide a global view of art in the 1960s and ‘70s.
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Astronomical Art of Intimate Proportions
CHICAGO — Five digitally animated images of the sun twist, flare, and twitch within each of their screens.
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Art Museum Oddity Betrays the Bowie-Curious
CHICAGO — This is not really a review of the exhibition David Bowie Is.
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The Pitfalls of Art as Therapy
CHICAGO — Invented in 2011, Zachary Cahill’s USSA 2012 began as a one-off joke, a half-sketched theoretical future where America was reshaped as a socialist nation.