A couple of couches and a video player have been set up in the little balcony lobby outside the fourth floor exhibition hall at the Chicago Cultural Center. If you plop down there for a few minutes before entering the galleries to see “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott,” a retrospective spanning […]
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A touring exhibit of work by Archibald Motley is a visual feast—and a revelation
The African-American painter is Chicago’s own Jazz Age modernist.
Posted inMusic
Jason Moran builds a bigger bandwagon
Theaster Gates and Ken Vandermark join pianist Jason Moran in an oral history of their evolving Chicago collaboration Looks of a Lot.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 3/5: Life-Size Cutouts, Behind the Kitchen Door, and Tuesday Funk
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Tuesday, March 5, 2013.
Posted inArts & Culture
Kara Walker’s war
In “Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!,” Kara Walker puts racism in sharp relief.