1 Farewell to Schneider Gallery (Schneider Gallery) A final sale and reception on March 8 marks the end of more than three decades of showing photography in River North.
2 Yinka Shonibare CBE (Driehaus Museum) Inaugurating a series of contemporary exhibitions, the Driehaus Museum brings the work of a famed British artist to an all-too-apt setting of a Gilded Age mansion.
3 Laurie Simmons (Museum of Contemporary Art) Do not miss this major retrospective of a pioneering feminist photographer.
4 Existing Work: Claire Ashley (Corner) A new series of window work kicks off with a colorful installation by a Chicago favorite.
5 Sub(Urban) (Hyde Park Art Center) HPAC’s eighty-year anniversary calls for a reflection on the changing role of the art center in the neighborhood.
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.
Art Top 5: March 2021 Artists continue to grapple with the pandemic in the spring spate of exhibitions.
Art Top 5: March 2020 From group exhibitions to solo shows, our March picks showcase a range of materiality and reflect on cultural themes from music to immigration.
