museums

Museums Are Dead. They fell victim to torch-bearing mobs, looters, and the vociferous contempt of political and religious groups. But perhaps also through insular pedagogies, inequitable practices, and a lack of representation or transparency, museums contributed to their own demise. In our current social climate, it has become critical that we, as students, teachers, employees and participants of the museum, reflect on our roles within the white marble walls of the establishments we hold dear. The articles in the following pages represent the curiosity, research, perspective and tenacity required to lay the old museum, to rest in order to allow the new museum to thrive. Together we imagine a future for these institutions untethered from the colonial ties that bind them today. We address the difficult histories of the museum whose past has been marred with racism, sexism, classism, and questionable ethics. In this issue, museum practitioners tackle topics such as repatriation and inequitable labor practices through analysis of media and artifacts. Together we imagine the museum not as a lost cause, but as an opportunity to grow, to learn and to change. Long live museums.

Long-time journalist D. Ray Wilson offers a guide to historical sites and museums in greater Chicagoland. He includes capsule histories of the sites themselves, from the well-known Water Tower Pumping Station to off-the-beaten track sites like Fort Nonsense. Additionally, this guide includes museums small and large, art galleries, and public sculptures. Readers can also find a short history of Chicago from 1831 through the time of writing, along with brief introductions to prominent local figures.

This is a travel guide to Chicago from 1968

Language matters / Javairia Shahid -- Welcome / Floating Museum -- Introduction / Sarita Hernández -- Value of Small Things -- The Society of Smallness : a brief history / Georgina Valverde -- Life in miniature : an ode to the Thorne Rooms / Elizabeth Lalley -- Fresh Theft : consuming art / Yasmin Zacaria Mitchel -- Small things with great love : an art department-library exhibition initiative / Jane Darcovich -- A conversation by the Loo on small artist-run spaces / Noora Al Balushi with Paul Hopkin and Jeffrey Grauel -- Engagement -- Lift to release / Juan Camilo Guzmán -- Expanding care : curation in the age of engagement / Aletheia Wittman -- Panopitcan't, Structures of power / Silvia Inés Gonzalez -- Small objects, big impact / Laura Phillips -- Marginalization -- The art museum chasm / Marjorie Schwarzer -- Critical narratives of the marginalized / Karen Vidángos -- La Madre Chiquita / William Camargo -- The world in a box / Tim Gorichanaz -- Location -- Compressed, compact, concise, and refined : a museum in Switzerland / Deniz Balik -- Air, water, and earth : lessons on communication from a museum in the mountains / Michelle Dezember -- Open table / Roni Packer -- Hong Kong identity : utilizing the small to challenge the big / Benjamin J. Hruska -- The fine art of reduction : diminishment, distance and Taylor's Panorama of Sydney -- Disturbing histories -- Book review : Museums, Heritage and Indigenous voice : decolonizing engagement / Alexis Mixon -- Selections from Focusing (Vol II) / Alejandro T. Acierto -- Book review : Bone Rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums / Benjamin L. Locke -- Confronting the holocaust : immersive counter-memorials as sites of collective memory / Lillian Hussong -- The white palace of the west / Jonathan Kelley.

"Museums, like all other social institutions, reflect the tensions and contradictions of their times. The Museum and Exhibition Studies (MUSE) Graduate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago proposes that museum problems, including declining attendance, homogenous employee and visitor demographics, and inequitable workplaces, and are deeply seeded in the field and its professions and that remedies will require radical reimagining and change. Responding to the urgencies of the moment and recognizing the need to transform museums and our cultural work within their spaces, MUSE offers this new journal. Fwd: Museums signals a desire to lift up and forward ideas that might push our collective thinking about cultural work. This volume explores the theme of inaugurations, or firsts and beginnings, with over 20 contributions from scholars and creative practitioners."--Amazon.

This issue of Chicago Gallery News includes topics focusing on antiques and ranging from the 2014 winter art season, Edward Gorey, Chicago collectors, and William J. O'Brien.

The scene is familiar; you are chatting with your roommate about possible adventures to partake in around the city. Laura Szumowski gathered such a list she made with her roommate and illustrated them with location details and adorable graphics.

A coloring book that highlights famous Chicago sites with accompanying poems.

In These Times magazine provides left-leaning analysis of current events. This issue's headlines include: Year of the Donkey?, Where the Seats Are, Dueling Democrats, Why Pakistan Gets a Nuclear Pass, Is Diversity Enough?, China's Growing Desert, Halliburton ♥ Congress, Tracking the CIA Torture Flights