Your Concise Chicago Art Guide for September 2022

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Chicago art events this month, including the Chinese American Museum of Chicago’s Spotlight Series, Black life and lineage, female empowerment, and more.

Picasso and Ingres Face Off in London

Can two paintings an entire exhibition make? Yes. Especially when it is a Spaniard called Pablo Picasso squaring up to a Frenchman called Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

Home Is a Mindset for a Nomadic Artist

Carlos Bunga’s architectural installation in the Reina Sofía’s Crystal Palace creates the facade of stability and strength yet is actually ephemeral and even fragile.

Required Reading

This week, an architect designs his own home, unraveling the white supremacy of archives, pigeons in New York City, being “Asian” in the United States, apologizing to Sacheen Littlefeather, and more.