This year marked the MCA’s one-hundredth 12×12 exhibition, the museum’s showcase for emerging artists based in Chicago. These coveted shows grant artists exposure to a broad audience, which is why Ben Russell, who is well liked in experimental film circles and by visitors to his Pilsen apartment gallery, was this year’s best; he is deserving of greater exposure.
Today in the Culture, April 14, 2021 | Dawoud Bey's Whitney Solo | Denise Gardner's AIC Ascent | Turn out the Arclights ART Dawoud Bey Pictures Poetics Surveying his nearly half-century of work, Chicago photographer Dawoud Bey's retrospective, "An American Project" opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, including 35mm, Polaroid and large-format images. "We feel both the passion and contempt that he holds for his complicated country," Sasha Bonét writes at Vulture. "In a street corner…
