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
Eighth Blackbird: The Music of Less/More
Lisa Kaplan, eighth blackbird's vice president and pianist, discusses the inspiration for their concert series on minimalism in music.
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Editorial
In Memoriam: William J. Hokin
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Video
Lucky Plush Productions: The Better Half
Hear from Julia Rhoads and Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, the writers and directors of Lucky Plush's newest work, commissioned for MCA Stage.
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Curious Theatre Branch: Still in Play
Preview the performance in this video interview with Jenny Magnus, a founding co-artistic director of the Curious Theater Branch.
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Motor Cocktail: Aluminum Piano concerts
Learn more about François and Bernard Baschet’s Aluminum Piano (1962), one of the works included in Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s.
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The Mark Bradford Project
Learn about Mark Bradford's artist residency in this video created for The Mark Bradford Project.
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The Mark Bradford Project: Mark on TMBP
Mark Bradford discusses his yearlong residency with Chicago students as part of his MCA artist-in-residence program.
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Jim Nutt: On Nutt
Artists Paul Nudd, Diane Simpson, Gladys Nilsson, and Karl Wirsum discuss Jim Nutt's contributions and influences on their own work.
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Jim Nutt: How Nutt Paints
Curator Lynne Warren and Jim Nutt discuss the artist's painting processes.
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Luc Tuymans: MCA Mural
Watch as Belgian artist Luc Tuymans creates his first wall mural in the United States, Inspired by the soaring, light-filled, vaulted ceiling of the MCA’s atrium.
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