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.- The New Museum is proud to present Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. On view from February 17 to June 6, 2021, Grief and Grievance is an intergenerational exhibition bringing together thirty seven artists working in a variety of mediums who have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by Black communities across America. The exhibition further considers the intertwined phenomena of Black grief and a politically orchestrated white grievance, as each structures and defines contemporary American social and political life. Included in Grief and Grievance are works encompassing video, painting, sculpture, installat
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Vibrant Van Gogh
For those craving a unique art experience, the
“Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit” is just the thing to sate that desire. Taking place at Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago, the digital art event utilizes the venue’s 35-foot-walls and multiple levels to present this vibrant immersion, which uses state-of-the-art technology, theatrical storytelling and animation to surround viewers on all sides with the work of the great Dutch painter. The Toronto Sun called the 60-minute, walk-through exhibit “intense and emotional, cathartic and liberating.” “Immersive Van Gogh” runs Feb. 11-Sept. 6 at Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago, 108 W. Germania. Timed tickets are $39.99-$99.99 ($24.99 for children 16 and under). All the usual COVID-19 safety protocols will be adhered to. Visit vangoghchicago.com.
Tickets: $39.99-$99.99, plus a $6 service fee
Info: (844) 307-4644 or vangoghchicago.com
“It’s something completely different,” said co-producer Corey Ross. “It’s film-meets-exhibition-meets-experiential in the sense that is a trend now in the arts from ‘Sleep No More’ to the Museum of Ice Cream to the ‘Friends’ exhibit in Chicago.”
The exhibition was originally supposed to run through May 2, but ticket sales since November have been so strong that a second block of tickets has been released, extending visits through Sept. 6.
“Immersive Van Gogh” incorporates 400 licensed van Gogh works from around the world, but it is not simply a parade of images. “What’s important about the show is the way [artistic creator] Massimiliano [Siccardi] deconstructs and reconstructs and animates the pieces,” Ross said. “So, if you’re coming expecting to see one piece in isolation like you might at a museum, that’s not what this experience is.”
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