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We are so proud to see our former Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Naomi Beckwith appointed to curate Documenta 16!
This honor follows a long line of achievements for Beckwith, including curating the MCA major exhibitions "Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen," and "Nick Cave: Forothermore." Please join us in congratulating her!
She is the second American-born curator ever to curate Documenta in the exhibition's 69-year history. artnews.com/art-news/news/na…
TFW you realize you share a birthday with one of your best friends!! 🥰
We opened "Pictures to Read, Poetry to be Seen" today in 1967.
Happy 65th birthday, Guggenheim! 🎉✨ On October 21, 1959, the museum opened its doors, with thousands flocking to Fifth Avenue. The film “Buildings & Crowd” captured the buzz as visitors experienced the iconic space and works by Arp, Brancusi, Chagall, Kandinsky, and more. 🌀🖼️ #Guggenheim65
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🇺🇸Lit & Luz Live Show Collaborators 🇲🇽
🗓Saturday, November 2
🕰️Show: 7:00 PM
📍Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago
🎟️Get your tickets today! #LinkinBio
⚡️ Faisal Mohyuddin @zxnicl + #FabiolaTorresAlzaga
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You already know I had to pick up merch from this collab with the big homie @sentrock x @mcachicago. Everything came out looking real clean.
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There’s first time for everything
🤝🏽 @mcachicago
📸 @MrJesusJMontero
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🌟 Kick off your Monday with some #AIGA365: A Year in Design inspo 🤩! Let's congratulate our featured Environmental/Product/Service/Systems Design winners! 🎉 Base Design, @mcachicago @legionofhonor @EntroCom @yotam 👉 Visit the winners gallery at aigadsgn.org/3XevQMh
ALT Interior of an art gallery with a bench centered in the room and a framed artwork displayed on the wall in a well-lit space.
ALT Entrance to a gallery displaying modern abstract artworks on green and blue walls, featuring multiple vibrant paintings.
ALT Interior of the Powerhouse Museum featuring a spacious corridor with exposed brick walls, wooden floors, and a series of staircases. A reception desk is visible at the left with two people nearby.
ALT A document with a blurred and unreadable body text, featuring some clear headings such as "Thursday, April 6," "What Might Jane Crawford," "Professor of English at University of Pennsylvania," and names like "Jonathan Gonzalez" and "Marielena Hemingway." The layout includes typical academic presentation details, dates, and mentions of response and conversation.
Our DNA Research Initiative, a multi-year curatorial program supported by the @CHANEL Culture Fund and led by Yana Peel, CHANEL's global head of Arts and Culture, is mentioned in @wwd.
The MCA DNA Research Initiative, led by Jamillah James, MCA Senior Curator, and Nolan Jimbo, MCA Assistant Curator, focuses on the intersection of visual art and performance while surfacing overlooked art historical narratives within the organization’s history. This initiative foregrounds the cross-disciplinary ethos that has been integral to the museum since its founding.
#CHANELCultureFund
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Our new Chief of Strategy and Board Relations Officer, Courtney Rowe was included on Crain's Chicago Business's "People on the Move" list!
Welcome aboard, Courtney!
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October is packed with art and performances at the MCA. Save this list for all your fall plans! 👇
10/1 - Store | Meet Chicago Street Artist, Sentrock at 6 pm CT.
Presented by All Star Press Chicago.
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SOAR Farmers Market
Every Tuesday until October 29
From 7 am–2 pm
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10/5 - Learning Series | The Creative Classroom and Post-Quarantine Gaps, Part 1
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10/5 - Talk | Notes in the Margins: “Why I Don’t Talk About ‘The Body'”
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10/7 - 2024 Arts Philanthropy Awards | Visionary: Celebrating Leadership in the Arts
*Off-site
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10/12 - Family Day | Patterns & Portals
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10/13 - Store | Meet and Greet with Chelsea B
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10/15 - Screening | “The D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift”
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10/17– 19 Performance | Edgar Arceneaux, "Until, Until, Until . . ."
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10/22 - Live Arts | Joseph Lefthand
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10/26 - Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Heid E. Erdrich and Andrea Carlson
11 am–12:30 pm
Tickets available soon! mca.social/3XZ0g6M
*Off-site
10/26 - Talk | Politics of Poetics: Heid E. Erdrich and Andrea Carlson
2– 3:30 pm
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Coming up in November:
11/2 - Live Arts | Lit & Luz Festival: Live Magazine Show
MAKE Literary Productions
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Those lil guys look very familiar! 👀
We're so stoked to see Joi Fulton's work on the cover of @Chicago_Reader! Check out their work on our Family Day materials and join us on October 12! visit.mcachicago.org/events/…
New issue drop!
On the cover: We’re 53 and still free! 🎈
Illustrations for the Reader by Joi Fulton
Get yours in print tomorrow!
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New issue drop!
On the cover: We’re 53 and still free! 🎈
Illustrations for the Reader by Joi Fulton
Get yours in print tomorrow!
chicagoreader.com/tag/vol-53…
Don't miss the other artists in #ChicagoPerforms!
See all the performances here: visit.mcachicago.org/chicago…
nice to hear some love for the favorites @evryhshsadr on @WBEZ 🥲 pretty sure the @mcachicago performance this weekend is already sold out!! grateful i was able to see it in 2022 in humboldt park even tho i nearly froze 🥶😌
How do you transform an office space into an art exhibition?
Longtime friend of the MCA, Theaster Gates, has done just that with “When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration From the Johnson Archive.”
A prolific curator and institutional leader, Gates' exhibition blends his own works with pieces by acclaimed artists like Kerry James Marshall and others to honor the past and point to a future with groundbreaking exhibition models.
Read more in the @chicagotribune.
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Designing Women: Exhibitions Display Work by Female Artists rebelliousmagazine.com/desig… by #ArtsAndCulture Editor Janet Arvia, including:
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Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened
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“Nicole Eisenman’s monumental group portraits filled with artist cameos and predilection for art-historical bricolage brings a host of other guests to the party.”—Aruna D’Souza on @corncub’s “What Happened” show @mcachicago, from this week’s summer missive 4columns.org/columns-4/our-s…
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Virginia Jaramillo’s “Principle of Equivalence” vivifies the chalk-pale contours of the @mcachicago’s Bergman Family Gallery with a series of luminescent large-scale works that are crisp, curvy, aqueous, and billowing. | ✍️ Alan Pocaro chicagoreader.com/arts-cultu…
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OUT NOW: This week, we share four new capsule reviews of our critics’ favorite summer art shows, featuring Margaret Sundell on Moyra Davey, Ania Szremski on Yto Barrada @ICPhotog, @johannafateman on Maja Ruznic, and Aruna D’Souza on @corncub @mcachicago 4columns.org/columns-4/our-s…
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Au musée d’art contemporain de Chicago, une exposition consacrée à Nicole Eisenman @mcachicago @corncub
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Arthur Jafa’s overdue solo exhibition at @mcachicago comes at the right time, when a good portion of the population seems to need some crash courses on history and media literacy. | ✍️ @mllecolettex chicagoreader.com/arts-cultu…
