Max Guy Built a Yellow Brick Road from Chicago to the Land of Oz
Inspired by the Wizard of Oz, Guy's show is a prism of pop cultural, art historical, geographical, and political references.
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Blind Spot: Sophie Calle at the Art Institute of Chicago
The French conceptualist's 1986 project about blindness doesn't hold up well in today's disability culture, and its pairing with a new series only brings out the self-amplifying qualities of both.
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An Eclectic Archive of Cultural Currents: “The First Homosexuals” at Wrightwood 659
Curators attempt to trace how a nascent word for a queer identity influenced the following decades of visual art.
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Pleasure in Perversion: Austin Osman Spare at Iceberg Projects
Illustrating a cornucopia of perversions, Austin Osman Spare's drawings highlight the skills that made him a celebrated artist, and the wide-ranging interests that dimmed his career.
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One Work: Bob Thompson’s “The Carriage”
In his take on a well-known Nicolas Poussin painting, Bob Thompson presents a more eerie scene with darker implications.
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Turn Up the Volume: Barbara Kruger at the Art Institute of Chicago
The flexibility of Kruger's type means her work can adapt to any context, taking on different inflections as it does.
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The World on a Single Plane: Joseph E. Yoakum at the Art Institute of Chicago
An exhibition of more than one hundred works by Joseph Yoakum illuminates the pleasures and difficulties of the visionary artist's immense oeuvre.
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When Hardware Store Met Gallery: Theaster Gates at Gray
In Theaster Gates's latest work with readymades, hardware store goods stand out not as art themselves, but disguised as other works of contemporary art.
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One Work: Yannis Tsarouchis’s “Dancing in Real Life and in Theatre”
Distinct from much of his oeuvre, Yannis Tsarouchis's panoramic oil painting of male couples still exemplifies the Greek artist's erotic and sometimes fantastical scenes.
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Boiled Coca-Cola, Human Fat, Cigarette Ash: The Materially Driven Art of Contemporary China
By turns spectacular and taciturn, "The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China" presented viewers with an inordinate number of substances.
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