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#nickcave #mcachicago
January 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Inhale

#photography #art #chicago #mcachicago
April 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
pdolby.bsky.social
Photo break
#fujixt4 #photography #contemporaryphotography #multipleimages #triptych #nickcage
#mcachicago
March 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
modernjake.bsky.social
Shadows of Calder. MCA Chicago (2022)

#alexandercalder #mobiles #kineticart #balance #shadows #mcachicago #sculptor
January 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
modernjake.bsky.social
More of #nickcave exhibit in black and white. Can’t help myself.

#mcachicago
January 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
pdolby.bsky.social
I’m going to start posting photography daily. Tbh I miss IG, but never going back

Multiple images combined in camera

#photography #artmuseum #contemporaryphotography #fujixt5 #fineartphotography #abstractphotography #mcachicago

Wandering
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
modernjake.bsky.social
Chicago artist Nick Cave’s “Spinner Forest” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, 2022. Great exhibit. Hypnotic.

#nickcave #yardspinners #chicagoartist #mcachicago #soundsuits #forothermore #kineticspinners

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January 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
pdolby.bsky.social
Multiple images combined in camera. #chicago #mcachicago #photography #photographer #photo #contemporaryphotography #contemporaryphotographer #fujixt5 #fujixseries #fujifilm

But are we really here?
December 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
pdolby.bsky.social
I’m going to start posting photography daily. Tbh I miss IG, but never going back

Multiple images combined in camera

#photography #artmuseum #contemporaryphotography #fujixt5 #fineartphotography #abstractphotography #mcachicago

Creating images from Nick Caves incredible show at MCA Chicago
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
Untitled (Painter) by Kerry James Marshall (American) - Acrylic on PVC panel / 2009 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Illinois) #WomenInArt #art #artwork #artText #MCAchicago #KerryJamesMarshall #ContemporaryArt #AfricanAmericanArt #AfricanAmericanArtist #Acrylic #MuseumofContemporaryArtChicago
American artist Kerry James Marshall is known for his paintings of Black figures that extend the grand traditions of painting and populist imagery. In this 2009 "Untitled (Painter)" acrylic painting on PVC, he's created a modern version of Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster's iconic c. 1630 "Self-portrait" in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Both women are classy, and highly overdressed for painting, but this time the woman is Black and her surroundings are incredibly colorful. Her (super fancy) smock has at least five different colors and her palette has even more. Her sustained, self-aware gaze demands that we engage actively with the work. The painting within a painting—or, more precisely, the painting about painting—is a time-honored motif taken up by many of the greatest artists in the Western tradition to which Marshall now contributes. But he has given this theme a twist as the only white that we see is what has not yet been filled in on a paint-by-numbers canvas. The numerical indications give each of us the means to participate and complete the painting. At first this might seem to belittle the "painter" as a hobbyist, but the paint-by-number system enables anyone to paint—even those who never thought they had the ability to make art. By not following the prescribed colors, these artists are also making the system their own. Paint by numbers was a cultural phenomenon that arose in the 1950s, alongside the stirrings of the civil rights movement. Attuned to this meaningful coincidence, Marshall conjured the presence of African American artists who are painting themselves into being. He intentionally makes his Black subjects "unequivocally black, emphatically black" as a color and a concept, asserting their presence and richness. His central theme is the inclusion and assertion of Black figures in the history of Western art, which he views as an expansion rather than a critique of the canon.
August 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
menasgallerychi.bsky.social
Laura-Caroline de Lara and Rodrigo Lara discuss Gregory Bae's 24-7, 365 (#5), 2017

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#objectlesson #gregorybae #mcachicago #LauraCarolinedeLara #rodrigolara #chicagoworks #menasgallerychicago #menasgallery #chicagoart #chicagoarthistory.
Object Lesson: Laura-Caroline de Lara and Rodrigo Lara on Gregory Bae
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May 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
pdolby.bsky.social
I’m going to start posting photography daily. Tbh I miss IG, but never going back

Multiple images combined in camera

#photography #artmuseum #contemporaryphotography #fujixt5 #fineartphotography #abstractphotography #mcachicago

Ghostly
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
cothrel.bsky.social
Looking forward to these folks at MCA this week. #mcachicago #stepney
July 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“The French Collection Part I, #4: The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles” by Faith Ringgold (American) - Acrylic on canvas with pieced fabric border / 1991 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Illinois) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #FaithRinggold #Ringgold #art #artText #BlackArt #MCAChicago
A large story quilt opens onto a glowing field of sunflowers beneath a pale blue sky and buildings of Arles, France. Across the center, eight Black women stand shoulder to shoulder behind a quilt patterned with “Van Gogh” sunflowers: Madam C. J. Walker, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Ella Baker. Their names are written on the edge before them, turning the picture into both portrait and record. At lower left is Willia Marie Simone, American artist Faith Ringgold’s fictional Black woman artist-traveler from her “The French Collection” series, looking upward into the scene. At far right, iconic artist Vincent van Gogh stands apart holding cut sunflowers, more observer than hero. Handwritten text runs along the border, so the quilt is image, story, and testimony at once. Ringgold transforms Arles from a site of European artistic myth into a gathering place for Black women’s intellect, labor, survival, and political imagination. Quilting is the key. It is communal rather than solitary, historically linked to women’s work, Black memory, and intergenerational making. These sitters are not random icons but builders of freedom like abolition, anti-lynching journalism, civil rights, education, economic self-determination, and grassroots organizing stitched into one shared surface. The sunflower carries layered meaning. It nods to van Gogh, but Ringgold reclaims that visual legacy, placing Black women at the center while the famous male painter stands respectfully at the edge. In Ringgold’s broader thinking, quilting can stand for piecing a broken world back together. This work imagines art as collective world-making. Born in Harlem, Ringgold had learned sewing and fabric traditions through her mother, Willi Posey, and by 1991 she was fully using the story quilt to collapse the old hierarchy between “fine art” and so-called craft. Here, the women author history, beauty, and change together.
March 25, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Choreography inspired by an essay by leading feminist philosopher and thought leader on race-- READ THE PREVIEW
#MCAChicago #ChicagoMuseums #ChicagoDance #MiguelGutierrez @axmed.bsky.social #BellHooks #Dance #PictureThisPostMuseums #PictureThisPostDance #ContemporaryDance #PerformancesinChicago
MCA Chicago Present Miguel Gutierrez' Super Nothing - Preview
WHEN: March 28–30, 2025 WHERE: Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 TICKETS: For
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March 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“American People Series #16: Woman Looking in a Mirror” by Faith Ringgold (American) - Oil on canvas / 1966 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Illinois) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #art #arttext #FaithRinggold #Ringgold #MCAChicago #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArt #BlackArtist #WomenArtists #1960sArt
American artist Faith Ringgold painted “Woman Looking in a Mirror” in 1966, during her groundbreaking “American People Series,” when she was using figuration to confront race, gender, beauty, and power in the United States. A mirror here is not a symbol of vanity. It becomes a tool of self-recognition in a culture that too often distorted or denied Black women’s personhood. A Black woman sits in a red chair in sharp left profile, raising a small oval hand mirror toward her face. Her skin is painted in rich reddish-brown tones, and Ringgold outlines her features with deep blue-black shadows that make the cheekbone, nose, neck, and shoulder feel sculptural and intense. She has short, softly waved dark hair, long lashes, and red lips that echo her pointed red fingernails. A thin bra strap curves over her shoulder, and behind her a grid of window panes opens onto dense, stylized leaves in blue, green, and black. The mirror reflects her face frontally, but not quite as a perfect double. Instead, the reflection feels simplified, quieter, almost withheld. The image turns a private act of looking into a charged moment of self-study, as though she is measuring how she appears and how she knows herself from within. Ringgold, born in Harlem, New York in 1930, was already forging the political vision that would define her career as an artist, activist, and storyteller. This painting asks who controls an image: the sitter, the viewer, or the society that frames both. The frontal reflection and side profile refuse to fully merge, suggesting the gap between public identity and inner selfhood. In that tension, Ringgold creates something both elegant and radical. The woman is composed, observant, and self-aware. She is not available for easy consumption; she is engaged in the serious work of seeing herself on her own terms.
April 22, 2026 at 1:50 PM
cothrel.bsky.social
Arthur Jafa: "If it happens once, it's accident. If it happens twice, it's coincidence. If it happens three times, it's culture." #mcachicago
Robert Hood, Arthur Jafa, and DeForrest Brown Jr. on stage in a panel discussion with a screen projection behind them.
December 8, 2024 at 1:27 AM
jasonhoelscher.bsky.social
w00t: Excited to dive into some new textuality via two recent acquisitions: "The Living End: Painting & Other Technologies, 1970-2020" from the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, & "Quantum Ecology: Why & How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies" from MIT Press
#mcachicago #mitpress
January 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
mellovestravels.bsky.social
☑️ Chicago, ville d'art ! Il y en a des musées et des institutions culturelles ! En voilà 4 que nous avons visité (avec ou sans @augoutdemma qui avait préparé une sélection). Testé et approuvé !
1 @artinstitutechi
2 @chicagoculturalcenter
3 @mcachicago
4 @driehausmuseum
June 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
doublebrightness.bsky.social
The Legend, Lee @mcachicago to discuss his 50 year trajectory in what has become the largest and most impactful art movement in history and his studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yards, late ‘90’s.
November 13, 2024 at 6:27 PM
chigeek.bsky.social
@mcachicago One of the highlights of Forest Park's Forest Home Cemetery is the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, which became a pilgrimage for socialists & union leaders across the world. Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, & Eugene Dennis are buried near the monument. It is called "the...
November 25, 2024 at 6:04 AM
chigeek.bsky.social
"Chicago, the town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down..."

Billy Sunday was one of the most influential evangelical preachers. More than a million people visited his Chicago Ave tabernacle (near the @mcachicago) over 10 weeks. He's buried in Forest Park's Forest Home Cemetery.
November 25, 2024 at 5:49 AM
chigeek.bsky.social
@mcachicago Another architect buried at Forest Home Cemetery is E.E. Roberts, Frank Lloyd Wright's enemy as Robert designed over 200 homes in Oak Park alone.

He got his start as S.S. Beman's superintendent when the historic town of Pullman was built. His son Elmer was also an...
November 25, 2024 at 7:42 AM
divinetailor.bsky.social
this morning at the MCAchicago i had a bit of a moment in the “living end: painting and other technologies 1970-2020” when i saw this amiga computer (hosting & displaying a few andy warhol projects)…
an amiga computer from the 1980s with its blue screen and graphics file icons visible on the monitor. a 3.5 inch floppy drive is visible in the front of the computer’s base below the (separate) monitor. the mouse cable is in-picture, though the mouse is out of frame. closeup of the window showing the file icons. at the top edge the banner label reads “amiga workbench. version 1.0.” in blue on white. a closeup of the amiga logo on the base of the monitor: the name “amiga” in black italic serif-font caps, with a rainbow-colored checkmark before the name.
December 22, 2024 at 7:26 PM
misterwells.bsky.social
More Eisenman to grok. (No, nobody uses that word anymore, which is probably all for the best.)

Also, read the alt text on my previous post for more about museum labels and the idea that paintings have one true meaning that the viewer needs to Get Right.

#MCAChicago #ContemporaryArt
A really goofy first person matzoh-eye view of a Passover Seder, with enough squiggly background brushwork and unexpectedly orange faces to suggest that family dynamics are, well.. dynamic. Also, the egg on the Seder plate on the middle of the table is luscious. Detail from a larger painting of a hastily rendered bartender scrubbing a glass. Things jump back and forth between being paintings of things, then just paint, then going back to thingness again. A particularly yellow dude in a white tank top sitting outside in a beer garden, phone in hand. The colors do a nice bounce off each other here. (Detail from a larger painting) Two guys at a table at a bar from the upper right corner of another painting. One guy is rendered in a very bright sky blue, which doesn’t seem to be bothering anyone. Photo is close enough that you can appreciate the brushwork.
January 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM