CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/11/2024

Join Artbook & MCA Store at EXPO CHICAGO 2024!

Thursday, April 11 through Sunday, April 14, join Artbook & MCA Store for EXPO CHICAGO 2024! Located near the East entrance, the Artbook & MCA Store presents a vibrant pop-up shop featuring exclusive products, limited-edition artworks and a hand-picked list of new and classic exhibition catalogs, art and photography monographs, artist's books and more! In particular, the store will feature products from MCA’s current exhibition, Nicole Eisenman: What Happened and works by Chicago photographer Jason Peterson.

ABOVE: Detail from Jordan Casteel, "Fendi," 2018, reproduced from The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. / Baltimore Museum of Art / Saint Louis Art Museum, 2023.

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TALKS & BOOK EVENTS

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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 7–8 PM
DIALOGUES STAGE
THE CULTURE | HIP HOP & CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Panelists: Chance the Rapper and Asma Naeem, PhD.
Moderated by Nate Freeman.

Join Chance the Rapper in conversation with Asma Naeem, co-curator of the exhibition The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, which traveled from the Baltimore Museum of Art to the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2023. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of hip hop’s birth, the exhibition brought together the past two decades in hip hop considered through a wide range of artifacts and mediums. Featured in the exhibition—alongside iconic works like Gordon Parks’ photograph "A Great Day in Hip Hop" (1998) and Mark Bradford’s stunning canvas "Biggie, Biggie, Biggie" (2002)—was the same red overalls (designed by Sheila Rashid) and classic black "New Era 3" cap worn by Chance the Rapper at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. Here, Chance will discuss his own contributions to hip hop through his career as well as involvement in contemporary art through a multi-year collaboration with visual artists from his upcoming Starline Gallery album. Moderated by Nate Freeman of Vanity Fair, the panel hopes to contribute to the growing scholarship around hip hop and its contributions to international contemporary art.

This panel will be followed by a signing of The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century with Asma Naeem.

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SATURDAY APRIL 13, 1–2 PM
VIP ACCESS
THE GUARDIANS OF ART: DEALING, COLLECTING AND STEWARDING PRINTS
Panelists: Dani Levinas, David Cleaton-Roberts, Monica Brown.
Introduced by Dennise Pentecostes.

Join Dani Levinas, former chair of The Phillips Collection’s board, prominent collector of Latin American modern and contemporary art and author of The Guardians of Art, for a discussion on print collecting practices alongside David Cleaton-Roberts, formerly the Vice President of International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) and the current director of Christea Roberts, a leading international contemporary art gallery dedicated to publishing, cataloguing, exhibiting and dealing in original prints and works on paper by its roster of over 30 important international artists and artists’ estates. Monica Brown, the vice president and department lead of prints and multiples at Freeman’s | Hindman, a legacy auction house based in Chicago, will give her perspective on the current market of prints both locally and nationally.

This panel is presented in partnership with Freeman’s | Hindman and will be followed by a book signing of The Guardians of Art.

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FEATURED TITLES AT EXPO CHICAGO 2024

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Barkley L. Hendricks: Solid!
KAWS: FAMILY
Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection,
Remember to Dream!
The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
The Guardians of Art
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
Tschabalala Self: Bodega Run
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors

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VISIT

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HOURS & LOCATION
Invitation-only VIP Preview: Thursday, April 11: 12–9 PM
Ticketed Vernissage: Thursday, April 11: 6–9 PM
Friday, April 12: 11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 13: 11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 14: 11 AM–6 PM
Purchase tickets here.

EXPO CHICAGO
Chicago Navy Pier
Festival Hall
600 E Grand Ave
Chicago IL 60611