Audio
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Our ever-expanding archive of audio recordings—including concerts, readings, talks, interviews, and tours—tell dynamic stories about what’s happening in the museum.
All audio
2018
2017
2016
- MCA Talk:
Basim Magdy00:54:53 - MCA Talk:
The Rational Dress Society presents A History of Counter-Fashion00:19:45 - MCA Talk:
Andrew Yang00:49:36 - MCA Talk:
Hamilton Morris, This Is Your Brain on Drugs01:08:51 - MCA Talk:
Diana Thater00:53:02 - MCA Talk:
Art and Life, A Panel Discussion01:13:09 - MCA Talk:
Wolf Vostell’s Concrete Traffic00:36:22 - MCA Talk:
On Painting, Michelle Grabner + Angel Otero01:10:09 - MCA Talk:
On Painting, Jacqueline Stewart + Tony Lewis00:54:09 - MCA Talk:
On Painting, Judy Ledgerwood + Matthew Jesse Jackson00:56:57 - MCA Talk:
The Propeller Group00:48:34 - MCA Talk:
Kerry James Marshall01:16:28 - Architecture is Art . . . Is Architecture Art? Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects ǀ Partners01:12:07
- MCA Talk:
Photoconceptualism01:10:56 - MCA Talk:
The City Between Image and Fact01:34:31
2015
- MCA Talk:
Carrie Brownstein01:02:13 - Architecture is Art . . . Is Architecture Art? Atelier Bow-Wow01:20:08
- MCA Talk:
William Forsythe01:23:30 - MCA Talk:
LaShana Jackson and Faheem Majeed01:09:32 - MCA Talk:
Jeff Tweedy01:04:03 - MCA Talk:
Doris Salcedo Panel02:42:30 - MCA Talk:
Doris Salcedo00:49:22 - MCA Talk:
Zackary Drucker, The Skew01:21:33 - MCA Talk:
Neil Gaiman01:10:03 - MCA Talk:
St. Vincent01:26:37
2014
- MCA Talk:
Curating Bowie01:15:01 - MCA Talk:
Todd Haynes and Sandy Powell01:23:39 - MCA Talk:
Design Dialogue, Diller and Kroloff01:35:57 - MCA Talk:
So You Think You Know Frida Kahlo00:52:49 - MCA Screen:
Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists00:40:45 - MCA Talk:
Anne Pasternak01:39:45 - MCA Talk:
Out There Symposium00:59:56 - MCA Talk:
William Pope.L01:38:14 - Audio Tour:
Isa Genzken: Retrospective00:24:22 - Audio Tour:
William J. O’Brien00:20:48
2013
- Talk and Screening:
Sarah Morris00:36:47 - Talk:
Jaume Plensa01:26:06 - Audio Tour:
The Way of the Shovel01:01:23 - Plaza Talk:
Amanda Ross-Ho in conversation with Julie Rodrigues Widholm00:50:52 - Talk:
Daniel Clowes and Susan Miller01:05:04 - Audio Tour:
MCA Chicago Plaza Project: Amanda Ross-Ho00:03:06 - Audio Tour:
Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes00:26:39 - Audio Tour:
Amalia Pica00:00:40 - Talk:
“Cadaver” with Tavi Gevinson and Jonah Ansell00:55:44 - Educator Salon:
Showcasing Creative Practice: Curriculum Slam!01:30:09 - Culture Catalysts:
Cultivating Talent00:57:01 - Talk:
Jason Lazarus01:27:10 - Urban Documentaries and Social Change:
Where Are We?00:36:55 - Internet Superheroes:
Tom McCormack: The Rise of the Supercut01:01:59 - Talk:
Paul Schimmel01:19:45 - Culture Catalysts:
Lasting Local Venues00:56:30 - Culture Catalysts:
Michael Williams and Richard Cahan01:11:05 - Educator Salon:
Teacher as Conceptual Artist01:18:43 - Talk:
What Do You See? The Science of Color in Art01:29:21
2012
- Gallery Talk:
Goshka Macuga00:52:57 - Culture Catalysts:
Paul Cowan00:55:09 - Educator Salon:
Curriculum as Creative Practice - Audio Tour:
Goshka Macuga:
Exhibit, A00:13:07 - Culture Catalysts:
John Edel00:58:23 - Audio Tour:
Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White00:10:29 - Educator Salon:
Research as Creative Practice - Culture Catalysts:
J.C. Gabel00:50:10 - Audio Tour:
Jimmy Robert Vis-à-vis00:10:41 - Culture Catalysts:
Heidi Norton01:00:01 - Color Jam:
Jessica Stockholder and Michael Darling in Conversation00:59:10 - Audio Tour:
Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity00:31:19 - Audio Tour:
Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today00:14:40 - Audio Tour:
Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks00:13:59 - Culture Catalysts:
Judith Russi Kirshner00:49:05 - 1980s Gallery Talk:
Amy Mooney00:55:27 - Lorraine O’Grady Talk01:09:07
- Chicago Sounds in the 80s:
Underground Incubator01:03:53 - 1980s Gallery Talk:
Gregg Bordowitz00:31:42 - Screening and Talk:
Scott Reeder’s Moon Dust00:59:39 - Culture Catalysts:
Stephanie Izard01:26:58 - Culture Catalysts:
Laura Letinsky01:02:31 - Audio Tour:
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s00:43:31 - Audio Tour:
Martin Creed Plays Chicago00:20:20
2011
- Audio Tour:
Ron Terada: Being There00:19:30 - Audio Tour:
IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–201100:26:33 - Culture Catalysts:
Hamza Walker01:05:43 - David Hartt and Linda Johnson Rice in Conversation00:58:27
- CHF:
Art by Telephone and Other Adventures in Conceptualism01:06:39 - Audio Tour:
The Language of Less (Then and Now)00:12:01 - The Dialogue 201101:46:35
- Audio Tour:
Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection00:13:37 - Audio Tour:
Seeing is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion00:16:14 - Audio Tour:
Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character00:19:09 - Lorna Simpson01:02:32
- Sarah Thornton:
Artists at Work01:06:29 - Elizabeth Francis:
Architecture and the Environment01:04:53 - Susan Philipsz01:20:49
2010
- Audio Tour:
Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience00:22:12 - Home Base:
Michael Darling, Michelle Grabner, and Lane Relyea in Conversation01:22:07 - CHF:
The Subversive Artist00:50:04 - Helen Molesworth on Luc Tuymans01:12:17
- Calder and Contemporary Art II:
Sculpting with Air01:15:49 - History, Violence, Disquiet
- Audio Tour:
Luc Tuymans00:24:31 - The Dialogue:
MCA Chicago’s annual conversation on museums, diversity, and inclusion01:45:10 - Audio Tour:
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy00:52:25 - Calder and Contemporary Art:
Using the Familiar01:20:47 - Kerry James Marshall:
The Artist in the Studio01:38:57 - Andrea Zittel:
Studio as Testing Ground01:11:40 - American Theater:
Writing for Change01:30:47 - Art as Event01:32:56
- Caroline Jones:
Trajectories of the Studio after the Factory01:04:04 - Studio Myths Artists Panel:
Nikhil Chopra, John Neff, and Amanda Ross-Ho01:38:51
2009
- Guerrilla Girls:
Feminist Masked Avengers01:14:52 - Conversation:
Liam Gillick and Jeremy Deller with Dominic Molon01:07:15 - Micro-Symposium:
Art / Science / Spectacle02:10:09 - Diversity and Contemporary Art01:27:11
- Teacher dispositions:
The process and practice of teacher leadership00:02:25 - The 21st Century Learning Environment:
Fresh Ideas, New Contexts00:02:22 - Deconstructing Media:
Toward a New Age of Democratic Media Activism00:01:46 - Deciphering Otherness:
A Celebration of Contemporary Identity00:01:18 - Audio Tour:
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe01:17:16 - Kate Stohr on Architecture for Humanity01:13:54
- MCA Stage Roundtable:
Carmen: New Renderings00:51:29 - People Who Shape Our World:
Olafur Eliasson01:11:35 - Growing Up:
Buckminster Fuller: Allegra Fuller Snyder reflects on her father’s formative years01:29:53 - The Baroque Is Now:
Brian Dickie and Claudio Valdés Kuri in Conversation01:13:18 - New America:
Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Jeff Chang in conversation01:36:27 - Audio Tour:
Artists in Depth: William Kentridge00:22:23 - People Who Shape Our World:
Sarah Sze01:05:08 - Audio Tour:
Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT00:30:38
2008
- Joseph Grigely Blah-blah-blah01:08:20
- Robert Storr on Jenny Holzer’s Paintings01:08:18
- Disruptions:
the political in art now05:25:19 - Audio Tour:
Everything’s Here: Jeff Koons and his experience of Chicago00:16:14 - Thelma Golden and Madeleine Grynsztejn in conversation01:19:49
- Audio Tour:
Karen Kilimnik00:25:08 - Audio Tour:
Collection Highlights00:16:06 - Gordon Matta-Clark00:12:06
- Gordon Matta-Clark’s Legacy01:22:13