MCA Magazine

Summer

2017

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02 Director's Letter
04 RE RE RE RE RE

    A Space for Many Publics
    Grateful and Proud: Renovation Reflections
    Team Players

    The World We're In, The World We Want: Youth as Civic Agents<.ul>
13 On View
15 Takashi Murakami: The Artist, the Octopus
20 Conserving the MCA Collection
22 Tania Pérez Córdova: Smoke, nearby
24 I Am You
24 New to the MCA Collection
25 Amanda Williams: Gold Standards
27 Meet Tara Aisha Willis
28 Rehearsing Empathy in 600 HIGHWAYMEN's Fever
30 MCA Store
32 Mark Your Calendar
33 MCA Seen

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  • Chicago Works:Amanda Williams–
    A bright red-orange house is boarded up, standing next to an empty urban lot during sunset.
    1. Long A view of a house from the street at early sunset shows green grass, vacant lots, bushes, and tress. The house's windows are boarded up, and the house appears to be vacant. The entire house—except for the soffit, which is black, and parts of the upper facade, which are white—is painted a vibrant shade of red-orange.
  • Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg –
    A red, white, and silver cartoon mouse character is positioned diagonally so that its round head, bulbous ears, smiling grin and large friendly eyes fill the square canvas.
  • Tania Pérez Córdova: Smoke, nearby–
    A piece of glass is folded into quarters with green edges facing up, resting on a white surface. A smoking stick is wedged into the top fold. There is a dark, round shadow behind the sculpture on the right.
    1. Long A sheet of hard glass is folded over and bent in two as if it were a plastic bag. A smoking stick rests between the green lips that comprise the edges of the glass. A dark circular shadow dominates the area to the right of the glass, a stark contrast to the white background.

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