A New Exhibition Explores the Competing Visions at the Center of Africa’s Tumultuous 1960s
Photography was central to upheavals across the continent at the time.
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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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Nina Simone and Bob Thompson’s Spirits Are Invoked in a Night of Music at Chicago’s Smart Museum
Simone has been a touchstone for a number of artists, but perhaps none more so than Thompson, whom she called a close friend.
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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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Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art Makes Five Curatorial Appointments
Among the new appointments: Issa Lampe has been named deputy director for academic and curatorial affairs.
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Feitler Family Gives $5 M. to University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art
The gift will go toward the creation of the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.
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Wolf Vostell
To understand the accomplishments of Fluxus and video art pioneer Wolf Vostell (1932-1998), a good place to start is with Concrete Traffic, a 1970 piece in which a 1957 Cadillac is encased in concrete…
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“Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago”
The first work displayed in the landmark “Monster Roster” exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art is Leon Golub’s four-foot-square lacquer-on-masonite Siamese Sphinx II (1955)…
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Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art
Welcoming visitors near the entryway to the University of Chicago's Smart Museum, Ana Prvacki's The Greeting Committee (2011-ongoing) consists of shelves of canning jars filled with slatko, a…
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