In spite of the Zoom fatigue at the end of the day, Humanities Day 2020 offered a compelling series of lectures, performances, and readings of contemporary creative work.
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October 26, 2020
At the Smart Museum’s biggest exhibition to date, histories are rewritten and new theoretical possibilities opened.
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March 3, 2020
At the MCA, Assaf Evron conceals colonial narratives by erasing the sociopolitical and material significance encoded in Jerusalem stone.
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February 14, 2020
In “Females,” Andrea Long Chu offers a universalizing framework for understanding gender, sexuality, and desire.
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January 12, 2020
The Art Institute of Chicago recently acquired works by Bisa Butler, Amanda Williams, and Tschabalala Self.
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October 27, 2019
In "Bread, Butter, and Power", Meleko Mokgosi adapts a historically exclusionary European genre painting tradition for a postcolonial, southern African context.
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October 21, 2019
Florence and the Machine mix their mystical, magical, medieval sound with world-weariness at the Huntington Bank Pavilion, speaking out against recent abortion bans in America and scolding toxic masculinity.
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May 28, 2019