MCA
Museum / Chicago
The MCA / Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is an artist-activated and audience-engaged art museum. We generate art, ideas, and conversation around the creative process. We are a cultural leader of local necessity and international distinction.
The MCA is an innovative and compelling center of contemporary art where the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists, and understand the historical, social and cultural context of the art of our time.
The museum boldly interweaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge, and illuminate our visitors and offer insight into the creative process.
The MCA engages diverse audiences and creates a sense of community by providing a place to contemplate and discuss contemporary art and culture and issues of our day.
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MCA
Museum / Chicago
The MCA / Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is an artist-activated and audience-engaged art museum. We generate art, ideas, and conversation around the creative process. We are a cultural leader of local necessity and international distinction.
The MCA is an innovative and compelling center of contemporary art where the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists, and understand the historical, social and cultural context of the art of our time.
The museum boldly interweaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge, and illuminate our visitors and offer insight into the creative process.
The MCA engages diverse audiences and creates a sense of community by providing a place to contemplate and discuss contemporary art and culture and issues of our day.
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Jimmie Durham / Humanity Is Not a Completed ProjectDec 23, 2022 – May 8, 2023Artist, poet, performer, essayist, activist: Jimmie Durham (1940–2021) is a unique figure in the international art history of the last half century. His work addresses the foundations of European and North American culture, deconstructing received ideas and accepted categories. (more…)
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Bayil – Behind The HillsBayil, BakuOn the horizon of the district between old, handmade fences and the sky, you can see the newly built glass skyscrapers in the bright light of the coastal center of the city, as if portending future innovations of Bayil. (more…)
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Allan SekulaPHOTOGRAPHER / FILMMAKERAllan Sekula was an American photographer, writer, critic and filmmaker. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1951, he lived most of his life in Los Angeles and the surrounding regions of southern California. (more…)
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Our 5th Year AnniversaryARTPIL / Prescription .132Here we are again, this time, rounding out our fifth year with over 3,000 Articles and Profiles in our growing archive and nearly 3 million visits strong. A very exciting journey it has been, indeed. With our fifth year anniversary Prescription, we continue to move forward. (more…)
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Mike Nelson: Extinction BeckonsFeb 22 – May 7, 2023Nelson’s installations take the viewer on enthralling journeys into fictive worlds that eerily echo our own. Constructed with materials scavenged from salvage yards, junk shops, auctions and flea markets, the immersive installations have a startling life-like quality. (more…)
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In The Next Door RoomPhotography of Lise SarfatiThe awakening of adolescence has been a recurring theme that has always fascinated a great many visual artists; conflicts of identity, physical metamorphosis, psychological instability (more…)
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Analivia Cordeiro. From Body to CodeJan 28 – Apr 23, 2023A pioneer of video and computer art, Analivia Cordeiro has been exploring the relationships between the body, movement, visual and audiovisual art, and media art since the early 1970s. (more…)
