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Over the hill, MCA reaches deep into collection for retrospective
06 May 2008
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is throwing itself a birthday party of sorts...
Exhibit not the last hurrah for art grads
29 Apr 2008
The scene at the School of the Art Institute’s Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)...
Weekend festival turns city into art destination for all tastes
24 Apr 2008
For many Chicagoans, warm weather is synonymous with the Cubs, not Chagall. Others associate springtime in the city with the Sox, but not Seurat...
HPAC busts a move for 24-hour bash
24 Apr 2008
Look out for pyromaniacs, rollerblading painters, and everything New Age in a van this weekend, when the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) hosts its much-anticipated Creative Move: Moving Mountains...
Black is a lot more than a color at the Ren Society
21 Apr 2008
Black Is, Black Ain’t is an apt name for the most recent Renaissance Society exhibition, which explicates the issue of race in modern American culture. ...
Chicano art up close—Con Safos
18 Apr 2008
Name not withstanding, the National Museum of Mexican Art is a rather unprepossessing place: a smallish stucco–brick building in a suburb 20 minutes away from campus. ...
Humor left black and blue at HPAC exhibit
15 Apr 2008
Between the late ’60s and mid-’80s, a number of black comics rose to national prominence by way of their ribald humor, which served as a vehicle for strident social criticism. Ri...
Kitsch mistaken for counterculture
15 Apr 2008
My trip to see the new exhibition at South Union Arts started out like a horror movie...
Exhibit puts the “art” back in artifacts
10 Apr 2008
The most exciting thing about Idol Anxiety at the Smart Museum is that it is at the Smart Museum...
Haacke’s history promises more than a circus act
04 Apr 2008
More than 30 years ago, he became an art-world renegade when he refused to placate one of the most esteemed contemporary art museums in the world...
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