1 Prisoner of Love (Museum of Contemporary Art) Human experience in all its glory and evil is probed in a major collection show.
2 Bouguereau & America (Milwaukee Art Museum) Indulge in the guilty pleasure of one of America’s favorite French painters.
3 2.7° (Carrie Secrist Gallery) A group show revolving around the earth’s thermal limits.
4 Thessia Machado (Arts Club of Chicago) An immersive sound installation fills the Arts Club’s unique architectural footprint.
5 Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection (Smart Museum of Art) The history of African-American abstraction from the midcentury to the present, including three new commissions by 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.
