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Ininwwewi-gichigami, also known today as Lake Michigan, as seen from the lakefront near the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Ger Xiong, Becoming White, 2021; fabric, thread, and copper; 71 x 61 x 2 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Bill Moree. Photo courtesy of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
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Detail views of paintings by (left to right): Hisako Hibi, Study for a Self-Portrait, Topaz, Utah, ca. 1944. Japanese American National Museum; Miki Hayakawa, Untitled, ca. 1930s. Collection of Richard Sakai; and Miné Okubo, Portrait Study, ca. 1937. Trustees of the Miné Okubo Art Collection at the Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties, Riverside Community College District, California.
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Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago Types Project, featured work by calligrapher and artist Tubs, photo courtesy of Design Museum of Chicago, 2022.
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Visitors to Chicago Avant-Garde, 2021, The Newberry Library, photo by Anne Ryan.
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Chicago Avant-Garde: An Interview with Curator Liesl Olson
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Lucas Foglia, American (b. New York City, 1983), New Crop Varieties for Extreme Weather, Geneva Greenhouses, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, New York, 2013. From the series Human Nature. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2019.312. © Lucas Foglia; image courtesy of the artist.
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Devour the Land: An Interview with Curator Makeda Djata Best
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American artist Lynda Benglis works on a commissioned project for the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, 1969. The work involves poured latex paint for an installation at the university. © Adagp, Paris 2021 (Photo by Henry Groskinsky/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
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Women in Abstraction: An Interview with Curator Christine Macel
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Visitors to Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World’s Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era, National Museum of Mexican Art, 2018. Supported in part by Art Design Chicago.
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Chicago Partnerships: Supporting Arts and Culture in the City
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