A collaborative, multi-site exhibition marking #Fellows40, the 40th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program throughout 2021. Organized by @SmartUChicago.
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The story of feminist artist Ida Applebroog’s MONALISA, along with photos of this emblematic work at @UChiCollegium were featured in @MousseMagazine: bit.ly/3qhGOkM
MONALISA closes Sunday, so please don’t forget to visit our website to book your appointment soon.
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Toward Common Cause at @SmartUChicago closes this Sunday. Don't miss this exhibition celebrating 40 years of @MacFound Fellowships!
Installation view, @TowardCommCause at the Smart Museum of Art, 2021, showing Nicole Eisenman’s painting The Triumph of Poverty.
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This is your last week to see "Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams" at @LoganUChicago, a part of @TowardCommCause.
Visit now → ms.spr.ly/6014k2z80
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Currently on view in our gallery: "Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams." Catch the exhibition before it closes Dec 12! ms.spr.ly/6011kIS3V
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In this review, Bridgette Redman focuses on @TowardCommCause exhibition at @HPAC_chicago which featured works by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Mel Chin, & Fazal Sheikh. All artists dealt with issues of pollution, displacement, & environmental racism. buff.ly/3x87bez
ALT Full installation view of Fazal Sheikh’s piece, Desert Bloom, on display at Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 at Hyde Park Art Center. The piece contains 48 inkjet prints of aerial photographs that were taken in 2011. Image courtesy of Hyde Park Art Center.
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"The orange flames emanate a warm glow that extends to the edge of the lacquered hearth and then...nothing." Julian Stern reflects on awareness, detachment, and Toba Khedoori's "Untitled (Black Fireplace)," on display in @TowardCommCause: chicagomaroon.com/article/20…
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“This is Toba Khedoori’s ‘Untitled (Black Fireplace),’ currently on view at the Smart Museum, and it moves me to a sensorial awareness of the detachment of one object from another, of myself from the world.”
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Made during Dawoud Bey's residency at the Smart Museum, these are portraits of South Side students whom Bey led through workshops investigating how identity is expressed in contemporary culture. Discover this work by visiting Toward Common Cause at the Bank Sundays from 12-6 PM.
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Tonight—check out the talk “Healing the Divide: Visualizing a Lead-Free Environment” featuring @TowardCommCause artist Mel Chin
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Tonight! @TowardCommCause artists Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu in a virtual conversation. Join us and @saic_news at 6:30 pm: towardcommoncause.org/calend…
ALT Headshots of Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu
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The premiere screening of DESYNCHRONIZED will take place in Chicago! As part of a public program of @TowardCommCause. Thank you to @eriklpeterson & the team at @SmartUChicago @UChicago for bringing this together. #filmmaking #documentary #womeninfilm #climatecrisis
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Today from 2PM-5PM, Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra will take over Hull-House with a fully immersive and performative activation of the Casa Museo exhibition. This performance may not be appropriate for all audiences. Reserve your time here! hullhousemuseum.org/reserve
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Join us for a virtual conversation anchored by the @TowardCommCause project Black Wall Street Journey and the centennial observation of the historic Black Wall Street in Tulsa, featuring artist Rick Lowe and business leader John W. Rogers, Jr. towardcommoncause.org/calend…
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Toward Common Cause closes October 23!. This exhibition focuses on environmental racism and its disproportionate impact on communities of color, in rural & urban environments. These realities are highlighted in the work of Mel Chin, LaToya Ruby Frazier, & Fazal Sheikh. Visit us!
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"Relational Futures" symposium continues with the panel "Water Security and Relationality," presented in conjunction with @TowardCommCause.
Tune in to the livestream: lumpen.tv
ALT Digital poster reads Relational Futures - Panel III, Water Security and Relationality, Grace Bulltail, Rochelle Diver, Janene Yazzie, Kyle Whyte (moderator), Friday, October 8, 3–4:30 pm
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Tonight at 6: tune in for the opening event in the "Relational Futures" series co-hosted by @for_indigenous, @TowardCommCause, + @SmartUChicago. Register for FREE: reg.learningstream.com/reg/e…
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‘Toward Common Cause’ exhibit brings together UChicago’s Smart Museum, MacArthur Foundation geniuses and young Chicago Housing Authority residents trib.al/5IZsUnZ
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This Thurs. tune in for "Storytelling, Climate Justice, & Self-Determined Indigenous Futures" w/ Deborah McGregor + @tmontoya22. Register for FREE: reg.learningstream.com/reg/e…
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"Haunting, yet seductive, [Kara] Walker has made a career out of formally oscillating between the genres of realism, Afrosurrealism, and African American abstraction [...]" buff.ly/3ocMRGx
ALT Black silhouettes of figures act out a series of scenes on the white walls of a circular room. Kara Walker, "Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored". Photo by Martin Giese/DuSable Museum of African American History.