Aria Dean Guides Us to the Killing Floor in Chicago Exhibition
Her latest work focuses on a slaughterhouse—without any explicit death imagery.
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Ending a Trilogy, Artist Meriem Bennani Contemplates What Liberation Means for an Imagined Place
The artist is currently showing her latest video in her acclaimed CAPS series at the Renaissance Society in Chicago.
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‘No One Was Going to Pay Attention’: As GM Auto Workers Strike in Ohio, LaToya Ruby Frazier Debuts Photos of Union Laborers in Chicago
Current events have made the artist's Renaissance Society show one of her most timely efforts to date.
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Solveig Øvstebø Steps Down as Executive Director and Chief Curator of Chicago’s Renaissance Society
She was hired to lead the institution in 2012.
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Jennifer Packer
How does one simultaneously confront these oppressive forces without allowing the nefarious visual order of surveillance to dictate the ways in which those most oppressed by it are seen?
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Best of Chicago, 2015
Jessica Stockholder is a Chicago-based artist and chair of the art department at the University of Chicago. She recently spoke with A.i.A. about the best institutional exhibitions in the Windy City…
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Nora Schultz
Nora Schultz works in a loose, intuitive way. One set of ideas flows into another, past projects blur into new ones, scavenged objects are decontextualized then recontextualized, and words both inte…
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Susanne Ghez Hired as Adjunct Curator, Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago has hired Susanne Ghez, former executive director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, as adjunct curator in the department of…
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Renaissance Woman: An Interview with Solveig Øvstebø
When the much-respected Susanne Ghez announced she was stepping down as executive director of Chicago's Renaissance Society after nearly 40 years in the post, the contemporary art space's board vent…
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Renaissance Society Names Solveig Ovstebo Executive Director
Øvstebø has been director at Bergen Kunsthall since 2003, curating or co-curating exhibitions of artists including Richard Tuttle (2012), Christopher Williams (2011), Sergej Jensen (2008), and Elmgr…
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