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Two concurrent shows focused on the radical social and political possibilities of progressive art education in Chicago ask: Who is art really for?

鈥淭he Mask of Prosperity鈥� at Gallery 400 presents the work of several artists exploring inheritance. 

The foundation of today鈥檚 long-held tradition of Mexican votive painting began on the battlefield, where Aztec-slaughtering evangelists introduced a fierce Catholicism that would soon be fused with native religious practices.

I visited the exhibition days before Halloween. It was seventy-eight degrees out, and I walked from the cafe across the street where the a/c still blew cold air at the students buried in their books and computers.

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The following syllabus is intended to introduce central topics and methods from transgender studies to art history. It proposes some ways that art and art history鈥檚 key themes might be reimagined.

Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago has reopened with 鈥淵oung, Gifted, and Black,鈥� an exhibition of work from the private collection of Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi, curated by Antwaun Sargent and Matt Wycoff.

Racial equity consultants are helping to roll out strategies and training for museum staff and executives

The Joyce Foundation in Chicago has revealed the 2019 winners of its Joyce Awards, which are given to collaborations between artists of color and arts institutions based in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

Six complementary but little-known artists who came together for an exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1966 went on to become the most important such group in the city鈥檚 history.

In late 2017, the queer media outlet them. released its inaugural video for Sister, Cister, featuring the writer, curator, and activist Kimberly Drew and the scholar, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline Gossett.

Though Out of Easy Reach has a unifying theme, it presents a variety of tastes and approaches in a way that feels like ungainly curation which ultimately does not clarify how these women artists now steer the conversation about abstraction.

The legacy of abstraction carries codes that have historically delimited whose work is the right brand of formalism.

Do immigrants really find a better life in the U.S., or is it just a fantasia of prosperity full of barely concealed threats?

One of the original aims of Gallery 400's ongoing "Standard of Living" series was to create exhibitions and events based on key issues relating to labor and economics.