Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The MCA is an innovative and compelling center of contemporary art where the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists.

[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago]

We are so proud to see our former Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Naomi Beckwith appointed to curate Documenta 16!

This honor follows a long line of achievements for Beckwith, including curating the MCA major exhibitions "Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen," and "Nick Cave: Forothermore." Please join us in congratulating her!

[ARTnews @artnews]

She is the second American-born curator ever to curate Documenta in the exhibition's 69-year history. https://t.co/BfFa9sadHx

[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago]

TFW you realize you share a birthday with one of your best friends!! 🥰
We opened "Pictures to Read, Poetry to be Seen" today in 1967.

[Guggenheim New York @Guggenheim]

Happy 65th birthday, Guggenheim! 🎉✨ On October 21, 1959, the museum opened its doors, with thousands flocking to Fifth Avenue. The film “Buildings & Crowd” captured the buzz as visitors experienced the iconic space and works by Arp, Brancusi, Chagall, Kandinsky, and more. 🌀🖼️ #Guggenheim65

[MAKE + Lit & Luz @MAKElit]

🇺🇸Lit & Luz Live Show Collaborators 🇲🇽

🗓Saturday, November 2⁠
🕰️Show: 7:00 PM⁠
📍Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago⁠ @mcachicago

🎟️Get your tickets today! #LinkinBio

⚡️ Faisal Mohyuddin @zxnicl + #FabiolaTorresAlzaga

[Kevin Soberanis🇵🇸 @videosky_txt]

You already know I had to pick up merch from this collab with the big homie @sentrock x @mcachicago. Everything came out looking real clean.

[😇 @sentrock]

There’s first time for everything

🤝🏽 @mcachicago

📸 @MrJesusJMontero

[AIGA @AIGAdesign]

🌟 Kick off your Monday with some #AIGA365: A Year in Design inspo 🤩! Let's congratulate our featured Environmental/Product/Service/Systems Design winners! 🎉 Base Design, @mcachicago @legionofhonor @EntroCom @yotam 👉 Visit the winners gallery at https://t.co/uVj36dfTPr

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Our DNA Research Initiative, a multi-year curatorial program supported by the @CHANEL Culture Fund and led by Yana Peel, CHANEL's global head of Arts and Culture, is mentioned in @wwd.

The MCA DNA Research Initiative, led by Jamillah James, MCA Senior Curator, and Nolan Jimbo, MCA Assistant Curator, focuses on the intersection of visual art and performance while surfacing overlooked art historical narratives within the organization’s history. This initiative foregrounds the cross-disciplinary ethos that has been integral to the museum since its founding.

#CHANELCultureFund
https://t.co/S7PnhhGSVf

[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago]

Our new Chief of Strategy and Board Relations Officer, Courtney Rowe was included on Crain's Chicago Business's "People on the Move" list!

Welcome aboard, Courtney!
https://t.co/LTf6j0igP1

[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago]

October is packed with art and performances at the MCA. Save this list for all your fall plans! 👇

10/1 - Store | Meet Chicago Street Artist, Sentrock at 6 pm CT.
Presented by All Star Press Chicago.
https://t.co/reldgUFutO

SOAR Farmers Market
Every Tuesday until October 29
From 7 am–2 pm
https://t.co/9dePUahKjU

10/5 - Learning Series | The Creative Classroom and Post-Quarantine Gaps, Part 1
https://t.co/dmsvJjgiLL

10/5 - Talk | Notes in the Margins: “Why I Don’t Talk About ‘The Body'”
https://t.co/ptWx7XVXAH

10/7 - 2024 Arts Philanthropy Awards | Visionary: Celebrating Leadership in the Arts
*Off-site
https://t.co/PIipEU2W4a

10/12 - Family Day | Patterns & Portals
https://t.co/qsMfIAsaQl

10/13 - Store | Meet and Greet with Chelsea B
https://t.co/8nyd1zxSz1

10/15 - Screening | “The D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift”
https://t.co/NK0mPLrFoH

10/17– 19 Performance | Edgar Arceneaux, "Until, Until, Until . . ."
https://t.co/tAybVACRpI

10/22 - Live Arts | Joseph Lefthand
https://t.co/kGMBTw6Amj

10/26 - Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Heid E. Erdrich and Andrea Carlson
11 am–12:30 pm
Tickets available soon! https://t.co/4EAnstIzh4
*Off-site

10/26 - Talk | Politics of Poetics: Heid E. Erdrich and Andrea Carlson
2– 3:30 pm
https://t.co/VqwZVTLD7R

Coming up in November:

11/2 - Live Arts | Lit & Luz Festival: Live Magazine Show
MAKE Literary Productions
https://t.co/mYPaeHNC2I

[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago]

Those lil guys look very familiar! 👀
We're so stoked to see Joi Fulton's work on the cover of @Chicago_Reader! Check out their work on our Family Day materials and join us on October 12! https://t.co/lWDsuq0TfY

[Chicago Reader @Chicago_Reader]

New issue drop!

On the cover: We’re 53 and still free! 🎈

Illustrations for the Reader by Joi Fulton

Get yours in print tomorrow!

https://t.co/guAeFkV316

[Chicago Reader @Chicago_Reader]

New issue drop!

On the cover: We’re 53 and still free! 🎈

Illustrations for the Reader by Joi Fulton

Get yours in print tomorrow!

https://t.co/guAeFkV316

[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago]

Don't miss the other artists in #ChicagoPerforms!
See all the performances here: https://t.co/aUxtiT7HB3

[dana bassett @WhatstheT_DB]

nice to hear some love for the favorites @evryhshsadr on @WBEZ 🥲 pretty sure the @mcachicago performance this weekend is already sold out!! grateful i was able to see it in 2022 in humboldt park even tho i nearly froze 🥶😌

[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago]

How do you transform an office space into an art exhibition?
Longtime friend of the MCA, Theaster Gates, has done just that with “When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration From the Johnson Archive.”
A prolific curator and institutional leader, Gates' exhibition blends his own works with pieces by acclaimed artists like Kerry James Marshall and others to honor the past and point to a future with groundbreaking exhibition models.
Read more in the @chicagotribune.
https://t.co/jwhPwfLnQJ

[😇 @sentrock]

Sentrock x @mcachicago

October 1st

Pull up

[Rebellious Magazine @RebelliousMag]

Designing Women: Exhibitions Display Work by Female Artists https://t.co/aIWQdOeFAn by #ArtsAndCulture Editor Janet Arvia, including:

@MCAChicago
Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

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@marxforcats 😻😻😻

[4Columns @4_columns]

“Nicole Eisenman’s monumental group portraits filled with artist cameos and predilection for art-historical bricolage brings a host of other guests to the party.”—Aruna D’Souza on @corncub’s “What Happened” show @mcachicago, from this week’s summer missive https://t.co/S518QT9qtf

[Chicago Reader @Chicago_Reader]

Virginia Jaramillo’s “Principle of Equivalence” vivifies the chalk-pale contours of the @mcachicago’s Bergman Family Gallery with a series of luminescent large-scale works that are crisp, curvy, aqueous, and billowing. | ✍️ Alan Pocaro https://t.co/fGxU67xsqZ

[4Columns @4_columns]

OUT NOW: This week, we share four new capsule reviews of our critics’ favorite summer art shows, featuring Margaret Sundell on Moyra Davey, Ania Szremski on Yto Barrada @ICPhotog, @johannafateman on Maja Ruznic, and Aruna D’Souza on @corncub @mcachicago https://t.co/S518QT9qtf

[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago]

@lirbrown @DemConvention @2024Chicago @LyricOpera @artinstitutechi 😍