Ai Weiwei, “Study of Perspective (White House, Washington, DC, USA),” 1995.
1 Ai Weiwei Museum of Contemporary Photography Love him or hate him, Weiwei’s politicized provocations hit a strong nerve.
2 Huong Ngo DePaul Art Museum Ngo brilliantly weaves archival research with material precision to explore the many identities of Vietnamese anticolonial resistance.
3 Deana Lawson Rhona Hoffman Gallery Lawson’s piercingly intimate portraits defy all expectations of identity politics and everyday life.
4 Eugene “Eda” Wade Chicago Cultural Center Commissioned for the doors of Malcolm X College’s recently demolished structure, Eda’s paintings are a lynchpin of Chicago’s black art history.
5 Memoria Presente National Museum of Mexican Art America’s premier museum of art from both sides of the US-Mexican border commemorates thirty years with a show of living Chicago artists.
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert is a curator, critic and editor. She is the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University. She was formerly Curatorial Fellow at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Art Editor of Newcity and Assistant Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.
