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 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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