Photo: Iké Udé
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Iké Udé shows us the new face of Africa.
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Sadie Benning
Renaissance Society
Benning’s images haunt this immersive installation.
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Art Institute of Chicago
The South African artist’s first U.S. solo show is a rumination on post-apartheid life.
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Elliot J. Reichert is a Chicago-based curator, critic, and editor. He is a currently Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana Unversity, and Hatch Projects Curatorial Resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition. Formerly, he was Art Editor of Newcity and Assistant Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. His writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of Visual Culture, and Newcity.
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