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Building Bridges

People Matter empowers the Chinatown community with their sculpture at Ping Tom Memorial Park.

Brief: How to Advocate For a Monument To Chicago’s Police Torture Victims

Here's how to help, before the deadline on April 1.

SAIC Beat S04E02 – Zhisheng Wu on destruction and preservation

Season 4 continues with a sculptor who repurposed the remnants of destruction to create something new.

George Washington’s White House

In the controversy over a mural depicting genocidal violence, it's liberal vs. liberal.

Wabash Lights Merge Technology, Public Infrastructure, Art

Chicago artists Jack Newell an Seth Unger move into the second phase of their Wabash Lights project: a public art installation involving a digitally manipulated LED tube display on the underside of the Wabash CTA tracks.

Doris Salcedo’s First Retrospective Opens at the MCA

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago gives the Colombian artist the space to showcase poetics of absence and concrete memories.

Colleen Plumb’s Elephant on the Wall

The Chicago-based video artist is undertaking a three-month experiment in translating her video piece "Thirty Times A Minute" into guerrilla screenings in Chicago streets.