Artists Nick Cave’s Maximalist Art That Speaks to Today’s Most Pressing Issues Takes Center Stage at the Artist’s First Career Retrospective Organized by curator Naomi Beckwith, the exhibition is now on view at the MCA Chicago. By Sarah Belmont May 16, 2022 9:00 am
Artists Firelei Báez Brings an Afrofuturist Empire in the Atlantic to the MCA Chicago The New York-based artist's monumental mural 'Untitled (Drexciya)' fills the museum's atrium. By Tessa Solomon Apr 7, 2022 8:00 am
News MCA Chicago Hires New Museum Triennial Curator Jamillah James The institution has also named René Morales as chief curator. By Maximilíano Durón Nov 17, 2021 2:02 pm
News MCA Chicago Makes Round of Layoffs, Intensifying Divisions Between Staff and Leadership Around 10 percent of full-time employees and around half of the museum's part-time employees were cut. By Claire Voon Jan 25, 2021 4:15 pm
News Naomi Beckwith Named Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Guggenheim Museum She is currently the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's senior curator. By Alex Greenberger Jan 14, 2021 4:43 pm
News MCA Chicago Staff and Administration Eye Each Other Warily in Response to Job Restructurings The new structure comes amid an open letter from staff and a sit-in protest. By Claire Voon Aug 17, 2020 2:43 pm
News Calls for Museums to Divest from Police Intensify as Protests Sweep United States The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is the latest museum to say it will alter its relationship with local police. By Claire Voon Jun 5, 2020 4:05 pm
News Kevin Consey, Former Museum Director Who Grew Important Institutions, Is Dead at 68 Among the institutions he oversaw were the MCA Chicago and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. By Claire Selvin Feb 27, 2020 5:10 pm
Reviews At MCA Chicago, Captivating Collection Show Celebrates Blackness Through American History Over the course of three different installations, 'Prisoner of Love' has offered key works by Arthur Jafa, Deana Lawson, Kerry James Marshall, and more. By Amarie Gipson Oct 15, 2019 3:07 pm
News Omar Kholeif Named Sharjah Art Foundation’s Director of Collections and Senior Curator He resigned from his position at the MCA Chicago in 2018. By Annie Armstrong Jun 6, 2019 1:04 pm