visual art
The sixties were a long time coming. The sixties keep coming back.
Treating the 1960s expansively as an era and idea, the Smart Museum of Art’s new exhibition not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s examines photography’s role in relation to a time of intense self-consciousness about change, celebration, stagnancy, struggle, and representation. The exhibition focuses on Ghana, Mali, and South Africa and features photographic prints, reprints, books, magazines, posters, and other material means through which photography’s relationships to real people and events were articulated, produced, and circulated.
The Other Art Fair will be at Artifact Events in Ravenswood from April 27 to 30.
Chicago-based artist Damiane Nickles uses his art to spark conversation and create space for other artists of color.
The expansive event brings the international art community to Chicago.
Escucha un recorrido por el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chicago (MCA Chicago) junto a Rocío Santos, quien en compañía de la curadora puertorriqueña de MCA Carla Acevedo-Yates.
Destination/el destino: a decade of GRAFT will be featured at HPAC’s April 22 Spring Center Day.
Want to get your art on The Salt Shed as a mural? Find out how!
Chi sounds like Tempestt Hazel, who co-founded Sixty Inches From Center to redefine who and what is conserved as art history.
Chance the Rapper drops his newest multidisciplinary single “YAH Know,” in collaboration with Chicago visual artist Mia Lee and Ghanaian singer King Promise.
Get to know Myron Laban, a Chicago-based muralist and musician who strives to combine his varied artistic disciplines.