Must See Exhibits at Museum of Contemporary Art and Art Institute of Chicago

Over the last month I viewed a number of great exhibits in Chicago, at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Chicago Art Institute.

At the Art Institute is the exhibit: Windows on the War Soviet Tass Posters, through Oct. 23, 2011. At the opening they had a performance of wonderful Russian Folk Music, photos below:

Russian Folk Singing at: Windows on the War: Soviet Tass Posters at Home and Abroad.

Russian Folk Singing at Windows on the War: Soviet Tass Posters at home and Abroad..

At the Museum of Contemporary Art take a look at the Exhibit: Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, through Oct. 16. 2011. This features  both Joseph Cornell’s work and artists that were influenced by him, which runs the gamet from paintings to sculpture to an  interesting traveling bubble video called The Tenant, 2010 by Rivane Neuenschwander and Cao Guimaraes. Another outstanding exhibit was Mark Bradford, a contemporary artist dealing with racial profiling in his abstract multilayered, richly colored paintings, sculptures and installations. Also very interesting and mysterious at MCA are the Eiko & Koma , Japanese American dance artists. Hope you get to take in some of this rich culture!

Joseph Cornell from Pandora's Box exhibit.

 

03 Joseph Cornell from Pandora's Box exhibit.

 

04 Sculpture from Joseph Cornell's Pandora's Box exhibit

 

05 René Magritte Les merveilles de la nature (The wonders of nature), 1953, oil. Painting from Pandora's Box Exhibit.

 

06 Mark Bradford

 

07 Mark Bradford Detail

 

08. Mark Bradford Detail

 

09. Mark Bradford Record Album

 

11. Mark Bradford Series Record Album

 

 

 

 

12. Mark Bradford Installation