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Elizabeth Catlett: "A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies" | The Art Institute of Chicago Bringing together over 100 works from across Catlett’s awe-inspiring career, this long-overdue retrospective showcases the significant role this revolutionary artist and radical activist played in her...

Tomorrow at the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social from 12 noon to 2:00 pm! For Writing in the Galleries in connection with the Elizabeth Catlett "A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies" exhibit! Come get a poem while you wait! www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...

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Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

I just caught a shot of my high school best friend! Not a mechanic.

and just down the block from the Moonlight Rollerway

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

I reconnected with someone I had not seen in 20 years via FB. We are now married.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

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What makes a work of art revolutionary? For Catlett, it depended on who the work addressed. Motivated by a conviction “to put art to the service of people,” Catlett produced sculptures and prints over her 6+ decade career that drew on her personal experiences as an African American woman, mother, and émigré living in Mexico. Directly addressing people whose perspectives and experiences, like hers, had historically been excluded from artistic representation, Catlett developed a distinctive visual language defined by its carefully delineated forms and strong compositional focus. Merging the political with the personal, her work influenced younger generations of artists, including many associated with the Black Arts movement of the 1960-70s, who shared her activist principles and commitment to harnessing art for Black liberation. In 1946, Catlett traveled to Mexico with a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship, proposing to complete “a series of lithographs, paintings, and sculptures of Negro women in the fight for democratic rights in the history of America.” Realized as 15 linoleum cuts, her series The Black Woman depicts the everyday realities, achievements, and fears of Black women, as well as matriarchal figures, including abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman and author Phillis Wheatley. The collective prints offer an expansive view of Black womanhood, at the same time inviting viewers to intimately connect with and act as surrogates for Catlett’s subjects through the first-person narrative captions that accompany each image. In both form and content, the series was heavily influenced by the paintings of Mexican muralists of the era and the revolutionary graphic arts produced at El Taller de Gráfica Popular (the People’s Graphic Workshop), a reform-minded print workshop committed to collaboration, accessibility, and social causes. Catlett made the series an experience that shaped her understanding of printmaking as a consciously political practice.

Elizabeth Catlett : (iconic work) Sharecropper, 1952, printed 1970

“I am inspired by Black people and Mexican people, my two peoples.”

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The Art Institute of Chicago now – Jan 4, 2026.

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Wow, I've never seen these before.
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yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Pete Hegseth has ordered the Washington Generals to napalm the Harlem Globetrotters

Painting of bedroom, blue walls, green window, tan bed, red bedding.

After a year traveling the world and hanging at other museums, The Bedroom is back in Gallery 241 at the Art Institute
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Also one of our top sellers in the gift shop!

What a wonderful woodcut.
"Singing Trees" by Gustave Baumann, 1928 via #ArtTab
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eats the worm at the bottom of the bottle.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

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A photo of Charlie Kirk with the caption "Trans rights are human rights" in loving memory Charlie Kiek 1993 - 2025

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

In 2010 Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith relocated to Chicago, where her work became increasingly site-specific and engaged in social activism. She created the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band Project, which has organized flash-mob appearances throughout Chicago. This project and other related works invoke the legacy of pioneering composer and performer Sun Ra (1914–1993, active in Chicago 1945– 61), who brought together jazz, poetry, pageantry, graphic design, and science fiction to create an image of the future (sometimes described as “Afrofuturist”) based on readings of African American history. The visualization of this movement, black diaspora identity formation, and an emphasis on agency rather than oppression are recurrent elements in Smith’s repertoire. Space Is the Place (A March for Sun Ra) records the spontaneous performance of the Rich South High School marching band playing Sun Ra’s eponymous 1972 composition in Chicago’s Chinatown Square. Undeterred by the pouring rain and the evident confusion of onlookers, the young musicians display great enthusiasm and charisma playing, singing, and dancing to Sun Ra’s still-powerful drum beat. Smith employs a cinema verité–like style to capture the juxtaposition of Sun Ra’s experimental composition performed by a student band among the twelve bronze statues of the Chinese zodiac lining the perimeter of the space, a reflection of the composer’s synthesis of ancient and avant-garde iconologies. Contemporary Art Discretionary Fund

Space is the Place (A March for Sun Ra) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/237293/

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism

ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think ar...

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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

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