Best Chicago art exhibitions of 2022
Best Chicago art exhibitions of 2022: ‘Tea, Torture & Reparations’ at DePaul, an outdoor ‘Flourish’ and a big year for the Cultural...
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- Dec 23, 2022
- 2 min
A Review: What does freedom look like?
Chicago Reader Review: A Review: What does freedom look like?
- Oct 23, 2022
- 5 min
AIC Blog: An Exercise in Empathy and Trust: Collaborating with Lions
AIC Blog: Kirsten Leenaars and Joan Podkul: An Exercise in Empathy and Trust: Collaborating with Lions
- Sep 9, 2022
- 7 min
Review Newcity Art: A Lion for Every House
Review Newcity Art: A Lion for Every House
- Jun 24, 2022
- 4 min
Boulevard Dreamers on WBEZ: A weird, wonderful variety show pays tribute to Chicago culture
You’ll find a little bit of everything in Water Music on the Beach: Boulevard Dreamers, where every performer gets equal pay and stage...
- Jul 19, 2021
- 5 min
MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions
MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions
- Jul 19, 2021
- 1 min
Artist Talk: The Politics of Imagination
Join us for the screening of Kirsten Leenaars’ work (Re)Housing the American Dream: Freedom Principles (2018) followed by an artist’s talk.
- Jul 19, 2021
- 2 min
Interviews with the Artists, Round One
in this interview we talk with Leenaars and Craig and revisit their amazing, collaborative video created for last fall's Lit & Luz Festival.
- Jul 19, 2021
- 4 min
Five Artists Rewarded Artist Response Grant
Artist Response Program is going to five individual artists and artist teams in project-related grants
- Jul 19, 2021
- 5 min
Five Chicago artists and artistic teams have been awarded $100,000 grants from DCASE.
Five Chicago artists and artistic teams have been awarded $100,000 grants from DCASE.
- Mar 5, 2021
- 10 min
‘The Long Dream’ and a labor nightmare
The MCA's latest exhibit preaches equity, but behind the scenes artists and former museum employees are demanding real change.
- Oct 9, 2020
- 3 min
Newcity Film 50, 2020: Chicago's Screen Gems
Film 50 2020: Chicago’s Screen Gems
- Sep 19, 2020
- 1 min
60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC Review: The Broadcast
The Broadcast proposes that the youth of this country have voices that badly need to be heard amidst the noise and chaos of our media landsc
- May 28, 2020
- 1 min
Watch the recording of the MCA Virtual Studio Visit: in conversation with Kirsten Leenaars
Chicago artist Kirsten Leenaars uses collaborative techniques to create artworks that investigate our media landscape and encourage critical
- May 28, 2020
- 1 min
Cleve Carney Museum of Art: Stuck in the Studio: Kirsten Leenaars
As part of Cleve Carney Museum of Art Create's ongoing series 'Stuck in the Studio' CCMA curator Justin Witte talks with Chicago-based video
- Nov 26, 2019
- 3 min
The State News: New Broad Art exhibit features multimedia and local students
Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will be previewing their new multimedia exhibit titled “The Broadcast."
- Nov 26, 2019
- 2 min
ARTSY: 6 Artists Imagine What a World without Prisons Looks Like
Over the past two years, Chicago artists and locals have turned to art to consider criminal justice reform.
- Sep 17, 2019
- 1 min
(Re)imagining Tomorrow: a documentary
(Re)imagining Tomorrow, 2018, documentary 22:32 min A group of middle schoolers living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, talk about what it means...
- Sep 17, 2019
- 1 min
Local artists take on the criminal justice system in new exhibit
"For video artist Kirsten Leenaars, “envisioning justice” is about building strong communities even in the face of incarceration."
- Feb 12, 2019
- 1 min
Interview: Kirsten Leenaars: (Re)Housing the American Dream
Interview with Kirsten Leenaars about documentary project: (Re)Housing the American Dream.
- Dec 13, 2018
- 2 min
Review by David Mark Wise Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer at Contemporary Workshop, Chicago
New City, April 17, 2008 Kirsten Leenaars’ Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer is a fragile and vulnerable video installation now showing...
- Dec 11, 2018
- 1 min
Review EAM Biennial Chicago Statements, Elmhurst Art Museum
Review by Lorix Waxman (Chicago Tribune) EAM Biennial Chicago Statements, Elmhurst Art Museum. Review: https://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 3 min
Everyday Resistance in the Art Space
Women in Art Today Introduction: Everyday Resistance in the Art Space by Jeffreen M. Hayes Art is one of the few spaces where the...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 1 min
Episode 636: Haller Baggesen and Leenaars, interview Bad at Sports
Listen to the interview: http://badatsports.com/2018/episode-636-haller-baggesen-and-leenaars/ Lise Haller Baggesen and Kirsten Leenaars...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 1 min
WVYC Perspectives with YCP Artist in Residence Kirsten Leenaars
Listen to the interview about the artist’s practice and process, inspiration and the show (Re)Housing the American Dream up at York...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 5 min
Bad at Sports review: A World of Pain
Guest post by Lise Haller Baggesen for Bad at Sports The Doris Salcedo show, recently on view at the MCA, was a hard one to watch. Not...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 4 min
Curatorial Text #thisistomorrow by Jose Ruiz
EXHIBITION/CURATORIAL STATEMENT “I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 7 min
COMP Magazine Interview Kirsten Leenaars – Fictionalized Real Experience
Kirsten Leenaars choreographs visual and sound narratives through directing persons and place to create fictionalized realities. The COMP...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 4 min
Essay by Lori Waxman: Spinning Hula Hoops with My Dad, and Other Ways to Make Happiness
Spinning Hula Hoops with My Dad, and Other Ways to Make Happiness By Lori Waxman Art historians don’t usually write about happiness. It...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 4 min
Inside/Within Interview
KIRSTEN LEENAARS’S OPERATIC COORDINATIONS Kirsten is a Dutch artist whose minimal and open studio is found within her home on the north...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 7 min
“Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?”
Critical Inquiry http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/info/, “Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?”by Amy M. Mooney, Ph.D.,...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 1 min
Amy Moony and Neysa Page Lieberman on RISK
Amy Moony and Neysa Page Lieberman, curators of RISK: Empathy, Art And Social Practice talk about the show on Bad At Sports LISTEN...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 11 min
Kirsten Leenaars: Aesthetics and Social Practice
– POSTED BY MATT ROBINSON ON FEBRUARY 13, 2014 – I had the pleasure of conversing with artist Kirsten Leenaars. We talked social...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 1 min
WBEZ 91.5: An MCA Soap Opera
Kirsten Leenaars in conversation with Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the MCA, October 16, 2012. Listen here. In 2011,...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 1 min
Sounding out Useful Pictures
Sounding out Useful Pictures, 2013 , a conversation about love, care and making. Kirsten Leenaars in conversation with artist Adelheid...
- Dec 7, 2018
- 9 min
How To Get To Mutualisms
BAD AT SPORTS, September 7, 2011 Several months ago, I was invited to share a blog with a stranger. On that blog, I was asked to write...
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