“NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING”: A NATIONAL SHUTDOWN UNFOLDS IN PROTEST OF ICE As of Friday morning, January 30, daily life across the United States is being deliberately interrupted. Students are walking out of classrooms. Workers are staying home. Cafes, galleries, bookstores, and small businesses are closing their doors. From major cities to smaller…
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The historic Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, is one of the most spoken about organizations of the civil rights movements, remembered even decades after its founding in 1966. Speaker, writer, educator, and former leader of the party Ericka Huggins dedicated much of her life to the party and continues…
Promise, Witness, Remembrance The Speed Art Museum From April 7 – June 6, 2021 Promise, Witness, Remembrance is currently exhibiting at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, honoring the life of Breonna Taylor from April 7 to June 6, 2021, just over one year after her life was wrongfully taken merely a few months ahead…
Artist Meg Lionel Murphy is constantly thinking about bodies: how they heal, how they’re affected by their environment, how they present themselves, how they become sites for violence and pain, how they assert power. Her paintings, which often revolve around giant female-presenting bodies, stand as colorful, maximalist tributes to embodiment and empowerment. Surrounded by flowers…
MEG LIONEL MURPHY An Online Solo Exhibition Presented by The Untitled Space EXHIBITION ON VIEW July 30, 2020 – October 31, 2020 ARTSY EXCLUSIVE Artist Meg Lionel Murphy’s paintings are directly influenced by her own personal experiences, as she copes with debilitating PTSD from severe domestic violence. She works out of a little blue shack…
Chicago Invitational: Presented by NADA September 18–21, 2019 Chicago Athletic Association Hotel 12 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL The first edition of the Chicago Invitational by NADA will take place from Wednesday, September 18 through Saturday, September 21, coinciding with EXPO Chicago. The fair will take place throughout three floors of the iconic Chicago Athletic…
“Public art has become an important and beautiful attraction in cities around the world. Mercedes’ actions could scare artists into not wanting to make any artwork outdoors for fear that big companies will use and exploit their work without permission, and we must never let that happen. We are dedicated to fighting against this type…
On July 17th, outside the Republican National Convention ( RNC) in Cleveland, Ohio there was more than just your usual protesting going on. This time it included 100 naked women having a photo shoot the day before the convention began. Photographer Spencer Tunick recruited 100 women out of the 1800 that applied to be featured…
DETROIT: BRUCE WEBER June 20 – September 7, 2014 Detroit Institute of Arts 5200 Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48202 The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has partnered with Condé Nast to present an exhibition of photographs by celebrated fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber, on view at the DIA from June 20 to Sept.…
Eight, Eighteen Linda Pace Foundation 112 W. Rische San Antonio, Texas 78204 October 12 – March 29 The Linda Pace Foundation is presenting the exhibition, Eight, Eighteen by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler. The exhibition will include two video installations, including the world premiere of Eighteen and a selection of other recent video and photographic work. The Linda Pace…
Timothy Yarger Fine Art Art Aspen 233 W. Hyman Ave. Aspen, CO 81611 AUGUST 1-4 Timothy Yarger Fine Art: Art Aspen. Artworks included by, Andy Warhol, Louise Nevelson, Udo Noger, Linda Touby, Ching Ching Cheng, Cecil Touchon, and Seth Casteel. Art Aspen: Limited in size to just 30 dealers, this intimate and impeccably designed setting…
Expo Chicago Festival Hall 600 E. Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 September 19- 22 July 16, 2013 – CHICAGO – Northern Trust, Presenting Sponsor of EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, will donate a work of art selected from one gallery participating in EXPO CHICAGO to the Department of Prints and…
Mike Wong: The Dramatics of Living Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery 215 N. Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60607 June 7 – June 28 Kasia Kay Art Projects will be presenting Mike Wong’s The Dramatics of Living, his first solo exhibition with the Gallery. The show, curated by Stefania Carrozzini, is composed of several mixed media works. The…
Tomoaki Suzuki The Art Institute of Chicago Bluhm Family Terrace 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60603 May 23 – October 27 Japanese artist Tomoaki Suzuki’s diminutive sculptures put a decidedly contemporary twist on the millennia-long tradition of Japanese woodcarving. Drawing on his life in London, Suzuki creates painstakingly detailed portraits of diverse urban youths…
(in)Habitation – Jason J. Ferguson, Matt Kenyon and Osman Khan The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit 4454 Woodward Ave Detroit, MI 48201 June 7 – July 28 The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) will be presenting (in)Habitation on Friday, June 7, 2013. The exhibition runs through July 28, 2013. (in)Habitation is a (re)consideration of…
Katharina Gross – Wunderblock Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas, TX June 1 – September 1 This summer visitors can experience two new works created for the Nasher by Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse. For more than two decades, Grosse has been making large installations consisting of brightly colored acrylic paints sprayed onto walls, ceilings, piles of dirt, and…
A permanent art installation for the façade of the Seattle Art Museum that will become a new landmark in downtown Seattle MIRROR is an urban earthwork, a downtown museum that changes in real time in response to the movements and life around it. Like a living kaleidoscope, it will be a dynamic representation of the…
NY Tales by LUKE DRATWA Kasia Kay Gallery 215 N. Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60607 Luc Dratwa is best known for his “Window” series of photographs taken from the 65th floor of Rockefeller Center with a view of the Empire State Building, as well as the “Subway” series, both taken at the New York City…
KAREN KILIMNIK Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre March 2 – June 2, 2013 MCA Denver 1485 Delgany St Denver, CO 80202 Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre is dedicated to internationally acclaimed American artist Karen Kilimnik’s longstanding engagement with historical theatre, in particular, the Classical and Romantic story…
PAINTER PAINTER FEBRUARY 2 – OCTOBER 27 BURNET GALLERY, THE WALKER ART CENTER 1750 HENNEPIN AVE MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55403 At a time when artists may work without obligation to medium, why choose the materials of painting? What does it mean for an artist to assume the role of painter today? And just what is at…