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ExhibitionHistory LessonNina Sanders's Apsáalooke Women and Warriors opens at the Field as the museum grapples with its legacy of Native erasure. The Field Museum approached Sanders, who is now based outside Phoenix, last March, when she began a fellowship at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago. Read more.
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ExhibitionA 3D-printed pot that talks? How an artist injects life into archaeologyTechnology helps replicate Field Museum artifact in haunting Logan Center exhibition. Read more.
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NewsUChicago writer’s post-apocalyptic novel earns her prestigious honor‘Severance’ author Ling Ma among winners of $50,000 Whiting Award for Fiction. Read more.
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ExhibitionHouse of HairWhile installing The Allure of Matter, a new exhibit of contemporary Chinese art, handlers at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art have to contend with some unusual objects. Among other things: 500,000 cigarettes, 8,000 black porcelain flames, and braided strands of hair that would stretch nearly 19,000 miles if laid end to end.Read more.
Events
Event
CANCELLED - Mikki Kendall - "Hood Feminism" - Erika L. Sánchez
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
6:00 PM
Event
Rashi Rohatgi - "Where the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow" - David Boyk
Sunday, March 22, 2020
3:00 PM
Event
CANCELLED - New Poetry by Aaron Smith, Tony Trigilio & David Trinidad
Monday, March 23, 2020
6:00 PM
Exhibitions
EXHIBITION
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
Friday, February 7, 2020 to Sunday, May 3, 2020
EXHIBITION
Harold Mendez: The years now
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 6:00 PM to Sunday, March 8, 2020 - 9:00 PM
EXHIBITION
Snow City Arts Exhibition
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 to Wednesday, February 26, 2020
EXHIBITION
S is for Soul Sister Exhibition
Friday, January 17, 2020 - 6:00 PM to Friday, March 20, 2020 - 5:00 PM
EXHIBITION
Edo: Memories Museum
Thursday, January 9, 2020 - 6:00 PM to Friday, March 13, 2020 - 12:00 PM
EXHIBITION
Temporarily Closed: Exhibit--Expanding Sources: Recent Additions to Special Collections
Monday, January 6, 2020 - 9:00 AM to Friday, April 24, 2020 - 4:45 PM
News
News
Revealing the Theatricality of Painting: A Review of Silke Otto-Knapp at the Renaissance Society
New City Art
Mar 11, 2020
News
Advisory council to manage curation, programming for $30 million Ebony/Jet photo archive
Chicago Sun-Times
Mar 11, 2020
News
At Cinema 53, 'Dawnland' explores the aftermath of child removal in Native American tribes
Hyde Park Herald
Mar 06, 2020
News
Newest Field Museum exhibition will highlight Native American women and warriors
Cherokee Phoenix
Mar 05, 2020
News
How tech has impacted archaeologists’ hunt for long-lost civilizations
Yahoo Finance
Mar 04, 2020
Around Chicago
News
Designer Duro Olowu Sees Chicago Through Art
“[Featured in the exhibition] are artists who made things in isolation, with love and integrity and passion, under so many circumstances. Even if the work is political, dealing with AIDS or oppression or subjugation, you feel the need and the passion of all these artists, the idea of leaving something behind, something meaningful and yet very familiar.”
News
Fifth Third to invest $20 million in South and West side opportunity zones
Such private investments are “critical to our mission of transforming our communities,” the mayor said at an event today to announce the Fifth Third funding.
Around Chicago
Where to Find Free Art in Chicago Every Day of the Week
The Smart Museum of Art is free and open to the public every day of the week, writes Urban Matter.
AROUND CHICAGO
The 5 Best Design Destinations for September 2019
September is a big month for Chicago as well. On September 19, the Chicago Architecture Biennial will return for its third edition, with free public exhibitions, full-scale installations, and other programming. Expo Chicago—the city’s most important art fair—will take place concurrently at Navy Pier. Architecture fans should plan to visit the Chicago Architecture Center at its new home in a Mies van der Rohe building overlooking the Chicago River. The CAC is offering discounted joint passes to the Architecture Biennial and Expo Chicago with the option to add one of its acclaimed walking tours. If you go, make time to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House and Unity Temple, which were just designated UNESCO World Heritage sites.
AROUND CHICAGO
Facing Mass Incarceration One Stitch at a Time
"Life Without the Possibility of Parole" depicts Alice Kim, the director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago, protesting the life-without-parole sentence of Renaldo Hudson, by Bronzeville artist Dorothy Burge, 64.
AROUND CHICAGO
Obama birthday party on South Side features thousands of paintings of former president
The exhibit — which includes a painting of former President Barack Obama for every day he was in office — graces the halls of the Stony Island Arts Bank, where a 58th birthday party was held Sunday in Obama’s honor.
AROUND CHICAGO
Chicago murals and mosaics: Where to find public art in city, suburbs
A Sun-Times series aims to capture, catalog and celebrate the beauty of our streets.
AROUND CHICAGO
Metaphysical Pop: A Review of Rob Pruitt’s “The Obama Paintings”
“The Obama Paintings” is on view at Stony Island Arts Bank, located one mile from the future Obama Presidential Center.