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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Audio
Talk: Teju Cole
Writer Teju Cole reads two separate texts that respond to and think with his friend Otobong Nkanga's work ahead of her first major survey.
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Video
In Progress: Angel Bat Dawid
Listen in as clarinetist and improviser Angel Bat Dawid presents some recent musical pieces and shares her thoughts about the practice of improvisation.
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Articles
Art Outdoors: Chicago's Keith Haring Mural
A WTTW special from 1989 follows the artist Keith Haring as he paints a 488-foot mural with schoolchildren from Chicago Public Schools.
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Audio
Soundtrack: Ariel Zetina
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Books
Duro Olowu: Seeing
Paperback; 416 pages with 353 illustrations with a 4-page cover and cloth dust jacket. Copublished by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and DelMonico Books•Prestel.
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Video
Open Dialogue: On Historical Trauma with Britt Julious and Frank Waln
Watch the opening conversation in the 2020 Dialogue series, which asks what inheritance means in the public sphere.
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Articles
Art at Home: Crankie Scrolls
Art at Home is a series of simple, fun activities created by Chicago artists that you can produce with whatever materials you’ve got on hand.
