Join the Alliance Française for an engaging discussion featuring French photographers Assia Labbas and Rebecca Topakian and American photographer Sasha Phyars-Burgess in conjunction with the French American exhibition Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, on view at the Chicago Cultural Center and three other venues across Chicago. During this conversation moderated by curators […]

Villa Albertine presents a gallery talk in the exhibition Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris at the Chicago Cultural Center. Curators Carl Fuldner and Pascal Beausse (Centre national des arts plastiques) host a conversation between photographers Jonathan Michael Castillo, Gilberto Güiza-Rojas, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Karim Kal, and Marion Poussier focused on documentary strategies […]

Join Center for Native Futures for a closing reception for their exhibition Native Futures and a talk with exhibiting artist John Hitchcock (Comanche, Kiowa). Artist talk: 1:00-2:00 pm. Reception: 2:00-5:00 pm. John Hitchcock was born in 1967 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He is a contemporary artist and musician. He earned his MFA in printmaking and photography […]

In her brief but impactful career, Chicago artist Christina Ramberg ruptured representations of gender. Whether in early work featuring the ahistorical, often abstracted female body or in her eventual depictions of a more disregulated, deconstructed body, willfully ungendered or regendered, Ramberg questioned and dissected the gender conventions that defined both her time and ours. In […]

Thanks to drum machines, sound systems, repurposed warehouses and basements, 1980s Chicago House Music opened up a future that was black, brown and queer. DJs invented new ways of keeping and marking time in community. In the years since, computation has made music-making more accessible. What kinds of collectivities are still to come? Presented by […]

The Bronzeville native and preeminent Black pop artist of his generation, Hebru Brantley, straddles the worlds of fine art, street art, and hip-hop—often name-dropped in rap songs and collected by Jay-Z and LeBron James. Brantley’s work restores innocence to depictions of Black youth, normalizes images of Black children at play, and suggests an entirely new […]

Christina Ramberg was a beloved and central figure in the history of contemporary art in Chicago. Her work was fueled by a diverse array of source material, including a variety of works in the collection of the Art Institute. Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective showcases not only much of her body of finished work, but many objects, like […]

Presented as part of Red Line Services’ Designing Belonging series, this Lunch & Learn program features a presentation by Mary Patillio, the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and Black Studies and Chair of the Black Studies Department at Northwestern University, on her landmark work on the intersection of houselessness and criminality. Her talk will explore the […]

Tune in to Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM for Sala: A Living Room of Ideas, a live radio broadcast presented by Silvia Inés Gonzalez, the administrator of POCAS (People of Color Artist Space). The program features Holly Cahill and Olly Costello in a conversation about what liberated and flourishing futures look like. They discuss the joys […]