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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. Can't find what you’re looking for? Reach out to the MCA’s Library and Archives.
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