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Starting Saturday, the MCA is free for all for 40 days to celebrate 40 years of bringing fun, engaging, and occasionally frustrating contemporary art to Chicago. Through November 14, your visit involves nothing more frustrating than remembering where you put your coat check tag and fighting massive crowds to see your favorite Warhol and Murakami.
It’s a gift to Chicago to be sure, but also a chance to reflect on four decades of freaky sculpture in the front plaza, ascending art stars, and major retrospectives:
Past
On display are Record Times: 40 Years from the MCA Archive, a celebration as history lesson, and the unimaginatively named Collection Highlights, featuring high-profile work from the 1940s through today.
Present
Saturday’s Opening Ceremony kicks off at 9:30 a.m. with free cupcakes. Delicious free tours and a free rock and roll panel discussion follows. Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 opens this weekend, examining how the artists and rockers intermingle. The collection focuses on rock hubs like London, NYC, L.A., and Cologne … but not Chicago. (What, our rock isn’t good enough for you?)
Future
MCA folk will ask you to give $40, become a member and enjoy Collection Highlights Part II for free whenever you want. And more members means an even bigger 50th birthday party.
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What is a gift about a rock show that celebrates local LA artists, local NYC artists while virtually ignoring the rich, complex exchange between the visual arts and rock music in our own city? Molon goes as far as lumping the whole midwest together as a region -and then uses that space to discuss two major LA artists -Mike Kelly and Jim Shaw....well, they used to live in Detroit!.......
This show Sympathy For The Devil at the MCA is a disgrace, a slap in the face to Chicago artists and, musicians...stay tuned to The Reader and Sharkforum.org to hear what many of the leading artists and musicians here in Chicago think about piece of curatorial malpractice-