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Location. 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611-2643 United States. Coordinates. 41°53′50″N87°37′16″W / 41.8972°N 87.6212°W. Director. Madeleine Grynsztejn. Website. mcachicago.org. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in the Near North Side of Chicago ...
In September 2010, the MCA and Chicago-based Redmoon Theater co-produced the project The Astronaut’s Birthday, a multimedia public art spectacle inspired by science fiction and comic books that was projected onto the MCA façade as audience members watched from the MCA plaza. The production used new technologies, live performers, and hand ...
Lynne Warren an American curator and writer who worked from 1977 to 2020 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago. [1] She is a scholar of the Chicago Imagists, conceptual photography, Alexander Calder, and Chicago art from the mid-twenty-first century to the present. Sixty Inches from Center called her a "true pioneer in the field of ...
Michael Darling. Occupation. James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Michael Darling (born 1967) was the James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA). Darling joined the MCA staff in July 2010 [1] and left in 2021.
Imagist. Don Baum (1922 – October 28, 2008) was an American curator, artist and educator, most known as a key impresario and promoter of the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists that had an enduring impact on American art in the later twentieth century. [1][2] Described by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA) as "an indispensable ...
In 2009, Grynsztejn co-organized the first U.S. retrospective of the work of renowned contemporary painter Luc Tuymans.She was the Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) for seven years, where she curated the critically acclaimed traveling exhibitions Take your time: Olafur Eliasson (2007) and The Art of Richard Tuttle (2005), which received ...
Nick Cave (artist) Nick Cave (born February 4, 1959) is an American sculptor, dancer, performance artist, and professor. [1] He is best known for his Soundsuit series: wearable assemblage fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly, often made with found objects. He also trained as a dancer with Alvin Ailey and often ...
James attended Columbia College Chicago, where she was in the first class to study art history. [4] She graduated in 2005. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] While in Chicago for college, James founded a DIY, live/work experimental music venue called Pink Section and later lived at the exhibition space Archer Ballroom, where she organized live music performances.