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Art Top 5: May 2025

by Brian Hieggelke | April 30, 2025

by Brian Hieggelke
April 30, 2025April 27, 2025Filed under:
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Herminio Rodríguez, “San Lorenzo, Escuela Gerardo Selles Sola”

1
Herminio Rodríguez: Osamenta

(Oliva Gallery)
The photographer captured the “erosion of infrastructure, ambition and memory across Puerto Rico” by documenting the “structural remnants” of all seventy-eight municipalities.
Opens May 2

2
Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom
(Museum of Contemporary Art)
An exploration of spectacle and mass culture through the lens of basketball, soccer and other sports.
Opens May 3

3
Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade
(Neubauer Collegium)
A new multimedia work by the Delhi-based group “will mine the productive friction between age-old Hindu mythology and Indian hyper-modernity.”
Opens May 8

4
Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Germinations
(Renaissance Society)
The Peruvian artist creates an installation “inspired by Andean cosmovision, the planting and harvesting of potatoes as ritual events, and a unit of measurement known as the papacancha, which unites space, time and climate.”
Opens May 17

5
Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography in Dialogue with the MoCP Collection
(Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Companion to a new book that reassesses “a range of photographs and projects that portray stories of humanity and social movements to decenter the photographer as the only author of the image.”
Opens May 30

Tagged:
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • Neubauer Collegium
  • Oliva Gallery
  • Renaissance Society

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