Art Top 5: November 2018

Andrea Bowers, “Code Pink-Woman’s Building Flyer 1974,” 2006 /Photo: courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

1
West By Midwest
(MCA)
A deeply historical look at how the West Coast and the Midwest have cross-pollinated artistically.

2
Samira Yamin
(Patron Gallery)
Intricate arabesques camouflage the headlines and horrors of decades of American warfare in the Middle East.

3
Nelly Agassi and Iris Bernblum
(Aspect/Ratio Projects)
Two powerful women contemplate care and loss through painting and drawing.

4
Let me consider it from here
(The Renaissance Society)
Poetry and painting intermingle in a heady group show.

5
Todros Geller: Strange Worlds
(Spertus Institute)
The first comprehensive exhibition of the Chicago artist and Jewish activist and community leader.

Elliot Reichert

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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