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Duro Olowu
Fashion world leader Duro Olowu applies his creative process and cosmopolitan eye to a major exhibition drawn from Chicago's great art collections. Nigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu is internationally renowned for his womenswear label launched in 2004 that speaks to a cosmopolitan sensibility informed by his international background and a confident eye for visual disciplines from art to film to popular culture. Olowu's global viewpoint has translated into wildly popular platforms and projects from Instagram postings to revelatory curatorial projects in London and New York that position him at the transcultural crossroads of art, culture, and fashion. Now Olowu turns his gimle...
Jimmy Robert Vis-à-vis
This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Jimmy Robert Vis-a-vis, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, curated by Naomi Beckwith, and presented in the Bergman Family Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, August 25-November 25, 2012.
Sanford Biggers
In fall 2018 CAM presented the first museum exhibition to focus on Sanford Biggers's BAM series. The catalog includes a foreword by CAM executive director Lisa Melandri and text by prominent critics and art historians Naomi Beckwith, Christa Clarke, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Exhibition: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA (07.09.-30.12.2018), Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, USA (28.06.?22.09.2019) and Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, USA (08.10.-15.12.2019).
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a figurative painter whose oil paintings focus on fictional figures that exist outside of a specific time and place.Typically, her works are completed in one day, a methodical approach that allows her to maintain neutral narratives and lends her paintings an indeterminate feel.At the heart of her work is an exploration of the mechanics of painting where she reconstructs the meaning that contemporary painting could hold, in all its unexpected beauty and idiosyncratic details.Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born 1977 in London and now lives and works in London. She was a Turner Prize 2013 nominee.Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, London, 2 June - 13 September 2015.
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What We Made
In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields, including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media. Issues discussed include the experiences of working in public and of working with museums and libraries, opportunities for social change, the lines between education and art, spiri...
The Freedom Principle
Exhibited artists: Muhal Richard Abrams, Terry Adkins, Lisa Alvarado, Aye Aton, Sanford Biggers, Anthony Braxton, Nick Cave, Emilio Cruz, Jamal Cyrus, Lauren Deutsch, Jeff Donaldson, Stan Douglas, Douglas R. Ewart, Charles Gains, Renée Green, sean griffin, The Otolith Group, David Hammons, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Leonard E. Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, William Pope. L, George Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Matthew Metzger, Roscoe Mitchell, Douglas Repetto, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Matana Roberts, Anri Sala, Robert Abbott Sengstacke, Cauleen Smith, Wadada Leo Smith, Nelson Stevens, Catherine Sullivan, Nari Ward, Gerald Williams, Jose Williams.
Grief and Grievance
A timely and urgent exploration into the ways artists have grappled with race and grief in modern America, conceived by the great curator Okwui Enwezor Featuring works by more than 30 artists and writings by leading scholars and art historians, this book - and its accompanying exhibition, both conceived by the late, legendary curator Okwui Enwezor - gives voice to artists addressing concepts of mourning, commemoration, and loss and considers their engagement with the social movements, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter, that black grief has galvanized. Artists included: Terry Adkins, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kevin Beasley, Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Garrett Bradley, Melvin Edwards, LaToya ...
Nick Cave: Forothermore
With a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive art The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave: Forothermore highlights the way Cave's practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power. Addressing topics ranging from art history to social justice, Nick Cave: Forothermore includes essays from Naomi Beckwith, Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson and Meida Teresa McNeal. Punctuating these contr...
Lorna Simpson
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