Museum of Contemporary Art

Heartland: Smart Art

Paul Klein | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago

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For any museum to mount two original, innovative and relevant shows in a row is rare. The Smart Museum has done precisely that.

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The Opening of the Fall Art Season; Chicago Art is Kicking

Paul Klein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

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It's going to be fun watching the MCA, the runt of Chicago's 'big' museums, come from behind to become a trendsetting, innovative role model for the 21st Century museum.

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Profundity at the MCA?

Paul Klein | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago

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What we're seeing here is theoretically major. Chicago art holds its own against art of globally acknowledged stature. Is this the opening salvo in the War to End Cookie-Cutter Museums?

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Rocking to Warhol films

Robert Loerzel | Posted 04.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dean and Britta, Warhol Screen Tests, 13 Most Beautiful, Dean Wareham, Chicago News

Andy Warhol's films raise the question of what exactly you're supposed to do with them. Are they regular "films" meant to be seen in a movie theater? Or some other sort of art?

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At the Crossroads of Politics and Art, Jenny Holzer is Waiting

Victoria Lautman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago

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