Artists Pull Out of Chicago MCA Exhibition in Protest of Worker Layoffs
March 15, 2021 at 1:25pm Six artists and a collective comprising dozens more have withdrawn their works from an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago to show their solidarity with the institution’s forty-one staff members who were laid off in January owing to financial concerns sparked by the continuing Covid-19 crisis. The show, titled “The Long Dream” after Richard Wright’s 1958 novel detailing legally enforced segregation in the American South, features the work of more than seventy local artists, including Candida Alvarez, Dawoud Bey, and Nic...
Source: artforum.com