Archived - Shows And Events

June 19 - August 21, 2016 - The exhibition presents more than 300 exquisitely crafted works, highlights from this expansive, diverse, and thoughtfully assembled collection that offer a panoramic view of the fast-disappearing nomadic and tribal cultures of Asia. The exhibition flows through five geographical areas—from mountaintop monasteries in the Himalayas to oasis settlements of the Central Asi...

June 5 - September 18, 2016 - This exhibition brings together 50 works by some of the foremost artists of the era, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Grant Wood, to examine the landscape of the United States during the Great Depression and the many avenues artists explored as they sought to forge a new national art and identity. Bringing these diverse works of art together, America aft...

June 4 - November 13, 2016 - The Propeller Group’s exhibition at the MCA is the first in the Ascendant Artist series to feature both a collective and artists working in Asia. The show presents a number of multi-part projects from the past five years, comprised of videos and related objects. Fade In tracks the fake antiques trade in Vietnam. The exhibition is accompanied by a new monograph that fea...

May 21 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibition reunites for the first time the surviving photographs and texts intended for the two projects, including never-before-seen photographs by Parks from the collections of the Art Institute and the Gordon Parks Foundation and unpublished manuscripts by Ellison. Revealed in these frank depictions of Harlem is Ellison and Parks’s symbiotic insistence on making ...

May 13-14, 2016 - The Hyde Park Garden Fair will help fulfill your garden needs and plans. If you are dreaming of a lush, beautiful garden, you will find hundreds of flats of annuals in every color and form, 1,000 pots of perennials, large numbers and varieties of beautiful hanging baskets and geraniums, and unique vines, trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Event held at Hyde Park Shopping Center.

The 2016 annual meeting and convention will be held in Chicago, Illinois at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel and Conference Center.​ The annual convention is held over a four day weekend every Spring in different locations around the United States making it easily accessible to all members. It is a fun and relaxing time for avid scale collectors to get together to share their hobby. The progr...

May 7, 2016 - June 18, 2017 - Selected from the MCA’s collection, the works rarely exhibited together were created over the span of more than 60 years in response to diverse historical and social contexts. Collectively, however, these pieces prompt a larger conversation that asks viewers to consider that art objects often achieve their fullest value when viewers approach them from multiple angles....

May 4 - November 4, 2016 - This new corridor installation examines the life, death, and sartorial swagger of the famously dissolute and fabulously attired Landsknechte of Renaissance Europe. These German mercenary foot soldiers behaved badly and wore whatever they wanted because their life expectancy was brief at best. While much of the arms and armor collection is off view in preparation for the ...

April 28 - October 6, 2016 - By entering the installation space, one is surrounded by laughing figures seated on bleacher-like structures. From this vantage point, it quickly becomes clear that Muñoz is not merely granting the viewer unusual access to the artwork but also shifting the role of the observer to that of an unwitting subject, and potentially even an object of ridicule as the sculptural...

April 23 - September 25, 2016 - The exhibition focuses primarily on Marshall’s paintings made over the last 35 years, from his seminal inaugural statement Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self (1980) to his most recent explorations of African American history.