Stories
From experimental art to the Chicago creative community, MCA Stories offer insight to contemporary culture through the voices of artists, archivists, writers, and more.
Results
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Video
On Techno and Art: Robert Hood, Arthur Jafa, and DeForrest Brown Jr.
Video documentation of the conversation on December 7.
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Articles
Living, Breathing History in Anne Collod’s Moving alter-natives
In preparation for Anne Collod's MCA performance, Curator of Performance Laura Paige Kyber reflects on Collod's practice and the history of dance.
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Books
Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me
Paperback; 136 pages with 80 color illustrations. Copublished by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and DelMonico Books • D.A.P.
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Video
Object Lesson: Untitled Shadow from Rosângela Rennó's Red Series
Micah Shippa-Wildfong reflects on Rosângela Rennó's "Untitled Shadow."
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Articles
A Curator’s Walkthrough of Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons
Curator Iris Colburn provides an overview of "Shimmer on Horizons," describing Andrea Carlson’s unique approach to landscape.
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Articles
Elisa Harkins: Ancestral Knowledge as Radical Futurity
In preparation for Elisa Harkins's MCA performance, Curator of Performance Laura Paige Kyber highlights Harkins's practice and concurrent exhibition at Center for Native Futures.
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Articles
The MCA DNA Research Initiative
Announcing the MCA DNA Research Initiative, a multi-year curatorial program that invites early-career curators and writers to the museum for interdisciplinary research projects.
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Video
Talk: Lee Quiñones, Dao-Yi Chow, and Romi Crawford
Video documentation of the conversation between street art originator Lee Quiñones, streetwear designer Dao-Yi Chow, and Chicago art historian Romi Crawford.
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Video
Talk | The Living End Artist Roundtable
On the occasion of the opening of "The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020," featured artists Tishan Hsu and Tala Madani spoke with Senior Curator of the MCA and organizer of the exhibition, Jamillah James, about the past, present, and future of painting.
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Video
D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift: A Human Experience
Introducing the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift
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Books
The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020
Softcover; 96 pages. Published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
