Chicago Sounds in the 80s: Underground Incubator

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 @ 2:00pm
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Aug. 31, 2011
Sound Opinions hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot – two of the finest and best-recognized pop music writers in the nation – sit down with living legends from all three of Chicago's musical movements of the 1980s including Chris Connelly (Revo

Lorna Simpson

Saturday, April 2, 2011 @ 10:00am
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Apr. 1, 2011
Renowned for photographs, videos, and text-works that challenge narrow, conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory, Lorna Simpson discusses her process and her most recent work, placing it in the context of the history of her practice.

Susan Philipsz

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 @ 12:00pm
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Jan. 28, 2011
Scottish artist Susan Philipsz, winner of the 2010 Turner Prize, shares the ideas and processes that generated We Shall Be All, a new sound installation that draws from Chicago's political and labor history.

Symposium: Reconstructing Utopia: Cinema, Performance, and Ex-Yugoslavia

Saturday, February 12, 2011 @ 7:00am
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Jan. 28, 2011
This afternoon symposium offers insight into the creative process of Chicago's Every House Has a Door, which is performing the piece "Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never." at the MCA Chicago.

Elizabeth Francis: Architecture and the Environment

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 @ 12:00pm
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Jan. 2, 2011
How does where we live affect our understanding of our environment? Elizabeth Francis, an architect keenly interested in architectural research and sustainability, takes us on a journey to explore this question.

Home Base: Michael Darling, Michelle Grabner, and Lane Relyea in conversation

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 @ 12:00pm
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Nov. 3, 2010
What does it mean to characterize an artist by where they live and work?

Artist Talk: Nandipha Mntambo in conversation with Lawrence Weschler

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 @ 12:00pm
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Nov. 2, 2010
The MCA is proud to partner with the Chicago Humanities Festival during its 21st season focusing on the body.

Helen Molesworth on Luc Tuymans

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 @ 1:00pm
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Oct. 20, 2010
Helen Molesworth, cocurator of the exhibition Luc Tuymans, discusses Tuymans’s work. She helps us contextualize it and consider how the mechanisms he uses intentionally establish a psychically charged relationship between us viewers, his subjects, and the paintings themselves. 

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