Yinka Shonibare’s A Tale of Today @ the Driehaus

Yinka ShonibareA Tale of TodayMarch 2, 2019 through September 29, 2019The Richard H. Driehaus Museum40 East Erie StreetChicago, Illinois, USA, 606011 Though a bit foggy, I'm certain my initial encounter with the work of Yinka Shonibare was at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City a couple decades ago. I ...
March 7, 2019
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Hairy Who? 1966–1969 at AIC: a Reflection

Hairy Who? 1966–1969 September 26, 2018 through January 6, 2019 The Art Institute of Chicago 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60603 Galleries 124–27 and 268–73 Late to the show, this writing has been difficult to find fruition. The Hairy Who? 1966–1969 at the Art Institute of Chicago felt a bit dated, possibly due to ...
January 2, 2019
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Aleksandr Zhitomirsky – 20th c. Humanist Critic

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky Humanism + Dynamite = The Soviet Photomontages of Aleksandr Zhitomirsky Through January 10, 2017 Photography Galleries 1-4 The Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois, 60603 Having endured one of the most polarizing and vitriolic Presidential elections this country has seen in recent history, the current exhibition, Humanism + Dynamite = ...
November 10, 2016
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MoCP at 40

MoCP at 40 January 28 – April 10, 2016 Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia College Chicago 600 South Michigan Chicago, Illinois 60605 I experienced a slight state of Stendhal syndrome upon viewing the MoCP's exhibition inaugurating its fortieth anniversary. Having worked at the museum while studying at Columbia College Chicago in the mid-1990s, I was ...
February 16, 2016
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Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997–2014

Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997–2014 The Art Institute of Chicago Through October 4, 2015 Galleries 291–299 In his first major exhibition since 1998, Chicago-born sculptor Charles Ray has been given 18,000 square feet of the museum's Modern Wing 2nd floor gallery. Throughout his career, Ray has largely focused upon illusion and reality. The works ...
June 5, 2015
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