MCA Chicago to Present “Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom” this Spring
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announces Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom, opening May
Read MoreThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announces Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom, opening May
Read MoreThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s 2025 On Stage performance series will continue with its second presentation featuring Anne Collod’s
Read MoreThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s upcoming exhibition Pipilotti Rist: Supersubjektiv opens on February 22 and runs through September 14,
Read MoreChicago’s acclaimed Trinity Irish Dance Company (TIDC), announced the launch of its 35th Anniversary season at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in May 2025. The milestone season will include other special local events and performances across the country yet to be announced.
Read MoreThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced the return of the On Stage performance series. Since 2022, the On Stage series has focused on a curatorial theme that rotates annually. This spring, On Stage takes Lineages as its guiding concept, featuring four separate artist works that explore notions of identity and shared history from both inside and outside of the art world.
Read MoreThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) will present a talk with street art luminary Lee Quinones and his recent collaborator, Creative Director of New Era and streetwear designer Dao-Yi Chow, for the Chicago launch of Quinones’s monograph, “Lee Quinones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond.”
Read MoreAsian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW) and Tsukasa Taiko, with director, multi-instrumentalist and media artist Tatsu Aoki, celebrate a decade of “Reduction” concerts with “Reduction 10” at the Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E. Chicago Ave. at 7 p.m., Saturday, December 14, 2024.
Read MoreCreative performance is often at its most impactful when it imparts a true message. When that message pays homage to a culture, it becomes even more poignant, and therefore impactful. Directed by multi-instrumentalist and media artist Tatsu Aoki, Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW).
Read MoreThis summer, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago will present Gary Simmons: Public Enemy, a survey of artist Gary Simmons’s work, organized by James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator René Morales and assistant curator Jadine Collingwood on view from June 10, 2023, through October 1, 2023. It will be presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art. The exhibition is the most comprehensive look at Simmons’s work to date, covering 30 years of Simmons’s career and featuring approximately 70 works.
Read MoreThe Joffrey Academy of Dance, School of The Joffrey Ballet, will present four world premieres in the culmination of Joffrey’s national call for ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab and Native American) artists to submit applications for their Winning Works Choreographic Competition. This year’s Competition winners—Natasha Adorlee, Christian D’Ariano, Kameron N. Saunders, and Mike Tyus (Recipient of the Zach Lazar Winning Works Fellowship)—each have choreographed an original work created for the Joffrey Academy Trainees and Studio Company to a commissioned score by a chosen composer collaborator. An additional performance has been added to the program this year due to popular demand.
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