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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues. The museum's collection is composed of thousands of objects of Post- World War II visual art.
the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Second City comedy troupe, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Near North Side; the Garfield Park Conservatory; and Pilsen's National Museum of Mexican Art; as well as the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago Botanic Gardens, Block Museum of Art, and Morton Arboretum in nearby suburbs.
In 2009, Grynsztejn co-organized the first U.S. retrospective of the work of renowned contemporary painter Luc Tuymans.She was the Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) for seven years, where she curated the critically acclaimed traveling exhibitions Take your time: Olafur Eliasson (2007) and The Art of Richard Tuttle (2005), which received ...
Chicago may be known for its architecture and food (it has how many Michelin-star restaurants?), but it also has a swinging art scene. (And considering that the city ranks fourth as among the most ...
The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m 2) building addition made the Art Institute the second-largest art museum in the United States. The building houses the museum's world-renowned collections of 20th and 21st century art, specifically modern European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, architecture and design, and photography.
James's early interest in music and film provided one way into the world of visual art. [3] James attended Columbia College Chicago, where she was in the first class to study art history. [4] She graduated in 2005. [1] [5] While in Chicago for college, James founded a DIY, live/work experimental music venue called Pink Section and later lived ...
Nick Cave (artist) Nick Cave (born February 4, 1959) is an American sculptor, dancer, performance artist, and professor. [ 1] He is best known for his Soundsuit series: wearable assemblage fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly, often made with found objects. He also trained as a dancer with Alvin Ailey and often ...
Elizabeth A. T. Smith (born 1958) is an American art historian, museum curator, writer, and presently the executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. She has formerly held positions as a curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), the chief curator and deputy director of programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the executive director, curatorial ...