The Jane Addams Hull House Museum In recent years this historic house museum has activated and complicated their rich history with a performance by fluxus artist Alison Knowles, the unveiling of a new Louise Bourgeois sculpture maquette for “Helping Hands,” an outdoor photo exhibition depicting undocumented youth by Parisian street artist JR, the launch-party for the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials project, the nitration of an Art Lending Library to share contemporary art in the homes of Chicagoans who would not otherwise purchase art, and a new series of “interventions” into the museum organized by Theaster Gates dealing with the under-investigated subject of whiteness.
The Jane Addams Hull House Museum, 800 South Halsted, (312)413-5353, uic.edu/jaddams/hull
On Vacation: One Night in the Voodoo Museum The driving rain banged off the tin shelter. Putting my head back I realized I was alone with a group of strangers, inside the Voodoo Museum.
