From the New Museum’s website: “From February 17 to June 6, 2021, the New Museum will present “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. “Grief and Grievance” will be an intergenerational exhibition, bringing together thirty-seven artists working in a variety of mediums who have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by Black communities across America. The exhibition will further consider the intertwined phenomena of Black grief and a politically orchestrated white grievance, as each structures and defines contemporary American social and political life. “Grief and Grievance” will comprise works encompassing video, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, sound, and performance made in the last decade, along with several key historical works and a series of new commissions created in response to the concept of the exhibition.”
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“Schitt’s Creek” co-creator Dan Levy is spreading the word that the “Schitt’s Creek” pop-up at Replay Lincoln Park is unauthorized.
Joffrey Ballet dancers Edson Barbosa and Dara Holmes, performing in Chicago, are among forty-six dancers from leading companies dancing in their home cities featured in the short film (just over five minutes) “Match.” It’s part of films.dance, which is described as “one of the most ambitious international dance film projects ever undertaken, Films.Dance engages more than 150 artists from fifty-two cities in twenty-five countries, culminating in fifteen short films that have been shot during the course of the pandemic.” The free-to the-public series is funded in part by Chicago’s Harris Theater.
Does this mean we’ll see Grand Theft Auto: Second City?
Meanwhile, Huffington Post labor writer Dave Jamieson tweeted that ” ‘Comedy educators at famed Second City move to unionize.’ An ‘overwhelming majority’ have filed cards with the NLRB to join the Illinois Federation of Teachers.”
“‘I think we’ve seen, especially for larger institutions across the region, layoffs have been pretty common this year,’ says Charity Counts, executive director of the Association of Midwest Museums. Counts says large museums are actually in a unique bind: They have a specific revenue model that relies on keeping the doors open to sell tickets but also are too large to be eligible for certain PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) funding and other forms of coronavirus relief. In addition to ticket revenue, they often rely on memberships.”
Editor's Letter: February 2021 Taking as our premise "Mirror to the Future," we tasked our writers with looking to the past to help us understand where we are today and where we might go from here.
Today in the Culture: February 1, 2021 DESIGN Silver sounds Hyde Park's The Silver Room is expanding into media with the launch of podcast "Randomly Selected" and a weekly radio station, "Soundrotation." The podcast, hosted by Mario Smith, launches today with an interview with chef Erick Williams of Virtue. The radio station is hosted by Duane Powell, and is a reincarnation of his weekly gig at Funky…
Today in the Culture: February 3, 2021 ART Longtime Chicago and New York gallerist Richard Feigen, 1930-2021 Richard Feigen, born in Chicago, opened his first gallery here in 1957; he later expanded to New York, Los Angeles and London. He was known for Old Masters, but played a seminal role in modern art as well. (He was one of the first gallerists in Soho in New York.)…
