PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO; ART: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND LEHMANN MAUPIN, NEW YORK AND HONG KONG
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week’s shows were picked by artist Hank Willis Thomas. Read more about this week’s Pictures here.
Today’s show: “The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now” is on view at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in Chicago until Sunday, November 22. This major exhibition explores the relationship between avant-garde jazz and experimental music and contemporary art by displaying historical materials and ephemera alongside works by leading contemporary artists, including Nick Cave, Nari Ward, and Renée Green.
Hank Willis Thomas writes:
Certain Shows are Revelations. I thought I knew what I was in for when I went to this exhibition. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Don’t bring your watch when you go to see this show. Bring your reading glasses and dancing shoes.
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Nari Ward, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, We The People, 2011.
PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO; ART: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND LEHMANN MAUPIN, NEW YORK AND HONG KONG
'The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now,' 2015, installation view, at MCA Chicago.
PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO
Rashid Johnson, Roscoe's Target, 2014.
PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO; ART: COURTESY THE ARTIST
Wadsworth Jarrell, New Orleans-style group photo in painter Wadsworth Jarrell's backyard, ca. 1968, printed 2015.
COURTESY GEORGE LEWIS
Nelson Stevens, an AfriCOBRA member known for creating inventively constructed, brilliantly hued portraits, died on July 22 at 84. Pictured: 'Towards Identity', 1970.
ATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO; ART: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, GIFT OF DR. JAMES AND JETTA JONES, 1999
Anthony Braxton, Falling River Music (363h), 2004–present.
COURTESY THE ARTIST
Robert Abbott Sengstacke, Wall of Respect, 1967.
©ROBERT ABBOTT SENGSTACKE/GETTY IMAGES/COURTESY THE ARTIST
Renée Green, Space Poem #3 (Media Bicho), 2012.
PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO; ART: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Nick Cave, Speak Louder, 2011.
PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO; ART: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK
Jamal Cyrus, The Dowling Street Martyr Brigade Towards a Walk in the Sun, Pride Catalog #2235, 2005.
RICK WELLS/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND INMAN GALLERY, HOUSTON
Douglas R. Ewart, George Lewis, and Douglas Repetto, Rio Negro II, 2007/2015.
PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO; ART: COURTESY THE ARTISTS
Jeff Donaldson, Jampact and Jelly Tite (For Jamila), 1988.
MARK GULEZIAN, QUICKSILVER PHOTOGRAPHERS
'The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now,' 2015, installation view, at MCA Chicago.
PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO
Wadsworth Jarrell, Revolutionary, 1972.
COURTESY THE ARTIST
Jae Jarrell, Brothers Surrounding Sis, 1970 (left) and Gent's Great Coat, 1973 (right).
PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO; ART: COURTESY THE ARTIST
Lisa Alvarado, Represencing, 2011.
PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY/©MCA CHICAGO; ART: COURTESY THE ARTIST