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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Drawing beyond the margins
Black cartoonists from Chicago are featured in a new book and included in a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
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The Smart Museum wants you to ‘Take Care’
The new exhibit explores caring in all forms and the emotional toll the act can take.
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The mix master
Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu curates one of the MCA’s largest shows ever filled with local treasures.
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Polymath Damon Locks honors a heritage of Black culture and resistance
In a 2016 interview for Lewis University’s online arts journal, Jet Fuel Review, Chicago polymath Damon Locks spoke about running into celebrated artist Kerry James Marshall in a local comic book store. Locks, a vocalist, musician, and visual and video artist, was gratified to discover that they share the habit of checking out the comics, […]
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Expo Chicago 2018: See it now
Kerry James Marshall, the Hairy Who, and more at Expo Chicago 2018, this weekend only, at Navy Pier.
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Charles White finally gets his due with a retrospective at the Art Institute
His work was a corrective to the rampant misrepresentation of African-Americans in art and history.
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A Kerry James Marshall painting sold for $5 million, but he didn’t see any of it
The U.S. is the only major market that freezes artists out of resale profits.
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David Leggett has the last laugh
A look at the rising local artist and his approachable, lively, and darkly humorous drawings and paintings
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The Reader’s Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Kerry James Marshall, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Laughs Unlocked, and more happenings from May 15-18.
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Twenty-five years later, filmmaker Julie Dash reflects on Daughters of the Dust
An apparent inspiration for Beyoncé’s Lemonade, Dash’s film (1991) has been restored and reintroduced to the mainstream through a theatrical rerelease.
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Illinois Democrats spend more than $3 million on new anti-Rauner ads, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago Park District shuts down 445 outdoor drinking fountains with high lead levels.
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“Playboy Architecture,” Mother’s Day movies, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Chicago Beer Classic, the Seldoms’ RockCitizen, and more happenings from May 6-8
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Kerry James Marshall reconstructs art history with black Americans at its center
A new retrospective at the MCA provides the most comprehensive introduction to the Chicago painter’s work to date.
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Pilsen: The Next Wave
32nd & Urban’s Lauren Pacheco and Peter Kepha forsake hot Bridgeport to start a new hub at 22nd and Halsted.