@MoCP_Chicago

The Museum of Contemporary Photography is dedicated to a greater understanding of the cultural and political implication of the image in our world today.

 Chicago, IL
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Joined June 2012
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'LOVE: Still Not the Lesser' brings together 12 international artists, uniting across communities to share the ways they encounter and understand love. @MoCP_Chicago until 22 December: bit.ly/3r521Sg Image: Mous Lamrabat
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The Archive of Contemporary Music presents "From Her To Eternity" 🖼️  A brand new photo installation shot entirely by women photographers at the corner of S. Wabash Avenue & E. Eighth Street Dedicated to all women who photograph music. See it today: fromhertoeternity.org
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Fantastic coverage of the 2023 Joyce Awards and Chicago-area recipients. #JoyceAwards #2023JoyceAwards
Darcel@DarcelTribune7 Jun 2023
By this time next year, three artistic projects that examine civic spaces and meld the iconic musical traditions of gospel music with Qawwali will reach fruition — thanks to $75K @JoyceFdn Joyce Awards. chicagotribune.com/entertain…

3 Chicago artists awarded $75,000 each from the Joyce Foundation to create large-scale artworks

By this time next year, artistic projects that re-envision a basketball court space, take a look at the Black community in Lake Michigan towns, and meld the iconic musical traditions of gospel music...

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The Candid Frame #584 - Asha Iman Veal & Farah Salem ibarionex.net/thecandidframe… – at Los Angeles, CA
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field trip days are my favorite days. 🤍 @AftrSchoolMttrs Photography visited the @MoCP_Chicago to view “Beautiful Diaspora/You Are Not The Lesser Part”
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The "Beautiful Diaspora/You Are Not the Lesser Part" exhibition features images of scattered but connected communities of color, gender identities and religions around the world, reports @robin_sluzas. columbiachronicle.com/columb…
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CENTER’s Development Grant Juror, Karen Irvine, is from the @MoCP_Chicago. In line with their mission to cultivate a deeper understanding of photography’s artistic, cultural, & political roles in our world today, she is looking for work with a rigorous conceptual underpinning.
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Kristin Taylor, Curator of Academic Programs and Collections at @MoCP_Chicago, will present on various approaches to landscape photography from the late 19th century to the present. Get your FREE ticket: bit.ly/3qSszSl 🧡
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MoCP celebrates milestone with new exhibit audacy.com/wbbm780/news/loca… via @WBBMNewsradio @MoCP_Chicago
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James Newberry, who documented life on Maxwell Street and started photography department at Columbia College, dies at 84 trib.al/1iUIj6B
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The Museum of Contemporary Photography examines America’s obsession with guns in a new exhibit. | @DeannaIsaacs chicagoreader.com/columns-op…
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Now on view in NYC, CHI, BOS: #MartineGutierrez #ANTI_ICON. The photographer and performance artist transforms herself into ten radical historical and mythological figures for a three-city photography exhibition on 300 @jcdecauxusa bus shelters. ow.ly/SvDg50FXLur
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“It Remains to Be Seen” curator Abigail Winograd’s new essay, a meditation on Walt Whitman, monuments, road trips, and political possibilities in art is live on our website #Fellows40 #TowardCommonCause ms.spr.ly/6011nMeet
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.@MoCP_Chicago held a preview event of their annual benefit gala DARKROOM (July 10) at the Student Center tonight. Executive Director Natasha Egan and Bill Wolf are pictured here with some of the art. (Masks were optional at this fully-vaccinated event.)
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Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago hosts the DARKROOM online benefit auction, June 4–11, 2021. A gala will be held online Thursday, June 10, 2021, 5:45–8pm. @MoCP_Chicago l8r.it/16Jx
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Soon @MoCP_Chicago Much Unseen is Also Here: An-My Lê & Shahzia Sikander Jun3 -Aug29 an initiative of @TowardCommCause brings together the works of two major artists who both consider the theater of the landscape, monumentality,cultural history & representation #AAPI #macfellows
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We're not the only ones opening cool new exhibits this spring. Make sure to check out Dawoud Bey at @artspubliclife and An-My Lê + Shahzia Sikander at @MoCP_Chicago. towardcommoncause.org/ – at Chicago, IL
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"Toward Common Cause" opens this spring with 3 projects across Chicago: Dawoud Bey @artspubliclife, Jeffrey Gibson @newberrylibrary, and An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander @MoCP_Chicago. Learn more: mailchi.mp/uchicago/opening-…
Dawoud Bey, Muhammad, 2001, Chromogenic print. Courtesy of Dawoud Bey and the DePaul Art Museum.

ALT Dawoud Bey, Muhammad, 2001, Chromogenic print. Courtesy of Dawoud Bey and the DePaul Art Museum.

Jeffrey Gibson, Chief Pretty Eagle, 2021, Cotton Rag Paper, Inkjet Print, Vintage Beaded Eyeglass Case (Glass Beads, Polyester, Thread, Suede), Vintage Beaded Barrette (Glass Beads, Polyester, Thread), Vintage Papers, Found Pin, Glass Beads, Glitter, Urethane, AcrylicPaint. Courtesy of the ar]st and Kavi Gupta, Chicago. Photography by John Lusis.

ALT Jeffrey Gibson, Chief Pretty Eagle, 2021, Cotton Rag Paper, Inkjet Print, Vintage Beaded Eyeglass Case (Glass Beads, Polyester, Thread, Suede), Vintage Beaded Barrette (Glass Beads, Polyester, Thread), Vintage Papers, Found Pin, Glass Beads, Glitter, Urethane, AcrylicPaint. Courtesy of the ar]st and Kavi Gupta, Chicago. Photography by John Lusis.

An-My Lê, Fragment VI: General Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard Monuments, Homeland Security Storage, New Orleans, Louisiana, from Silent General, 2017 Pigment print. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.

ALT An-My Lê, Fragment VI: General Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard Monuments, Homeland Security Storage, New Orleans, Louisiana, from Silent General, 2017 Pigment print. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.

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A new crop of exhibitions grows as spring comes into full swing. @MoCP_Chicago @flxstco @TroutMuseum @ContemporarySTL #NewcityArt #Newcity art.newcity.com/2021/04/28/a…
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