Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art February 16–June 10, 2012 Opening: Wednesday, February 15, 7:30–9 pm Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 smartmuseum.uchicago.edu From the 1930 “Manifesto of Futurist Cooking” to a new food truck serving Iraqi cuisine on the streets of Chicago, the University of [...]
February 15 to April 13, 2012 The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus Farmington Hills, Metro Detroit, Michigan Synagogues are built by Communities with hope and prayers for the future, and yet, as places of Tradition, they embody the echoes of past generations. History brings changes to Communities. They move, they migrate by choice or [...]
Woman Made Gallery presents thought-provoking and environmentally conscious work of multi-media artist Claudia Kleefeld in the exhibition “Patterns of Nature: The Spiral and Interconnectedness”. 2 March-26 April, 2012. Venue: Woman Made Gallery, 685 North Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, Illinois.
MINNEAPOLIS – Leeson’s new film !Women Art Revolution (!W.A.R.) is a documentary that combines interviews, artwork, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, collected over the past 40 years, to detail the evolution of the feminist art movement in the United States from 1968 to the present.
DETROIT – Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is thrilled to announce its presentation of French artist Stéphanie Nava’s first solo exhibition in the United States; on view concurrently with barely there (part two), a group exhibition in two parts that explores issues of immateriality, presence, absence, performance and the performative.
CHICAGO — Judy A Saslow Gallery is presenting “Soviet Slander: Propaganda Posters from the Soviet Union” an exhibition of 22 rare and historic framed propaganda posters that poignantly showcase each artists’ hatred and scorn of Americans and Jews, opening Friday, Sept. 9.
07.21.11 – FERNDALE, MI – Can you light your water on fire? This is a real concern for residents across the country whose water has been contaminated by horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a dangerous method of natural gas extraction. Companies are already fracking in Pennsylvania and are rapidly buying up mineral rights in Michigan [...]
Sofia Szamosi describes her art process for creating photo booth collages: “The photo booth becomes a microcosm for the boxes I experience daily… This is a public art—photo booths sit in commercial spaces. There is an inherent performance and exhibition involved in the process, and this is one more boundary. The flimsy curtain between me and the proprietor is another boundary and the risk of exposure and exile becomes one more thrill.”
OSAKA, JAPAN. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART. Suzanne Kamata reviews Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s current exhibition Eternity of Eternal Eternity, now traveling around Japan.
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