Art & Museums, Museum, Painting & sculpture

Mika Horibuchi Plays with Reality and Illusion in MCA Exhibit

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The latest installment of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Chicago Series presents the work of Chicago-based artist Mika Horibuchi. In this exhibition, Horibuchi’s paintings blur the lines between reality and […]

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Art & Museums, Photography

Disruptive Photos at the MCA in Picture Fiction

Seeming eons ago, before the heyday of the selfie, photos captured moments in squares, often outside of and pointed away from the creator. Chicago-trained and -based photographer Kenneth Josephson and […]

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Art & Museums, Installation, Museum, Music, Painting & sculpture, Reviews

Get It On, Bang Some Gongs with Mind Over Mirror’s Bellowing Sun

Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art co-commissioned Bellowing Sun, the sixth album from Jaime Fennelly’s Mind Over Mirrors, once a solo project and now a quartet including Jim Becker, violinist from […]

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Art & Museums, Museum, Painting & sculpture

Paul Heyer Blurs Lines Between Reality and Fantasy @ MCA

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The latest exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Chicago Works series presents the work of Chicago-based artist Paul Heyer. Heyer creates a dream-like realm in his multisensory approach with his […]

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Music, Reviews

Colleen and Sam Prekop Treat MCA with Intricate Electronic Mosaics

[soliloquy id=”20656″] There is something immensely interesting about artist that takes distinct shifts in their craft. This past weekend the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago welcomed two such artists: […]

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Features, Music, Reviews

Vince Staples Spoke at the MCA … And the Conversation Isn’t Over

On the ground floor auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art, people shuffled into seats at 6:06pm—the result of a sold-out show and respective waitlist. At 6:09 Vince Staples slouched […]

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Music, Reviews

Solange Shares her Artistic Visions at the MCA, 9/13

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Seeing Solange Knowles speak, I knew, would be a dream come true. With insightful questions posed by writer and essayist Britt Julious, Solange’s talk at the Museum of Contemporary Art on […]

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Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 2/9 – 2/12

Next week is Valentine’s Day, either an excuse to do something nice for a loved one or a commercial holiday whose sole purpose is to sell cards/flowers/assorted chocolates to couples. […]

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Art & Museums, Music

Reach Higher with MCA Prime Time: Ascend

Over the past year, Museum of Contemporary Art has been making their after-hours series MCA Prime Time one of their best offerings. Occurring three times a year, the event has […]

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Your Curated Chicago Weekend, 1/28-1/31

I’d like to start this off with a glimpse of perhaps the stupidest idea Uber has ever concocted. You may have heard about a couple of recent high-profile assaults carried […]

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