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- Plant Parenting in Winter
As Chicago gradually returns to its regular winter weather program (i.e., cold and gloomy), two green thumbs at the MCA present a few tips for keeping your greenery alive during...- Long An aralia, succulent and snake plant sit on an office desk with a large, rust colored volcanic rock. The rock sits on a book titled "Fucking Apostrophes". A rectangular, white clock with a countdown to Christmas sits behind the rock and book.
- The Best of the MCA in 2014: Blog Team EditionThe start of a new year brings reflection on the past year and rightly so. 2014 was so packed it almost felt like two years rolled into one. The best...
- Long This is a photograph that appears to have been taken at a wedding. Two men, around 70 years old with thin, greying hair and fair complexions, are kissing and embracing. The men are wearing identical grey suits and similarly shaped dark framed glasses. Directly behind the embracing couple a younger white man with dark hair is smiling. Next to him, a white, late-middle aged man in a formal suit and tie, is clapping and smiling. The clapping man will be identifiable to Illinois residents as Pat Quinn, former governor of Illinois. The men are embracing inside an interior lit with daylight, with white curtains pulled back as decorative accents. What appears to be a champagne glass is visible in the far right corner of the photo.
- Takashi Murakami Screens Jellyfish Eyes at the MCAInternationally renowned artist Takashi Murakami recently traveled to Chicago to screen his film Jellyfish Eyes to a very enthusiastic audience that packed the Edlis Neeson Theater to capacity with many...
- Long Two children, a boy and a girl smile, arm in arm, as they are being hugged by a large grey depiction of a dog. The dog character is about twice as tall and three times as wide as the children, with long bushy grey fur. His ears hang over his face and cover his eyes, giving him a very light hearted and silly expression. The boy is holding a pink object that resembles a bouquet of flowers in shape, but looks slightly otherworldly and alien, in that it looks like a series of bubbly, pink teardrops.
