Rashid Johnson, The Reader, 2008, a photograph

Museum of Contemporary Art ChicagoNear North Side / Streeterville

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

正在展出2026年11月7日 – 2027年4月25日$22

More than 70 works span the Chicago-born artist's career, from his New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club photographs to the Anxious Men and Broken Men series.

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Somewhere inside Antoine's Organ, a black steel grid thick with plants, books and video screens, there's a hidden piano. On set dates, musicians improvise from inside it for 30 minutes at the top of the hour. Space is tight, so the MCA asks you to keep moving during a set: the one gig in Chicago where leaving mid-song is polite.

Around it are more than 70 works in the Griffin Galleries, from the New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club photographs to black soap and wax reliefs and the Anxious Men and Broken Men series. It's the Chicago-born artist's third MCA solo show, after 2002 and 2012.

Reviewing the larger Guggenheim run in 2025, ARTnews called it "revelatory", while Hyperallergic's Seph Rodney saw books everywhere and wondered "where the apprehended knowledge shows up." The Organ has books of its own, so judge for yourself. Admission covers it ($22, $19 for Chicago residents, free 18 and under), and Tuesdays run to 9pm, free for Illinois residents from 5pm.

编辑推荐

《安托万的管风琴》（Antoine's Organ）是一件由钢格架构成的装置，格架上摆放着植物、书籍和视频屏幕，内部藏着一架钢琴，音乐家在其中演奏。装置周围悬挂着70余件作品，涵盖这位出生于芝加哥的艺术家的创作生涯。《ARTnews》称古根海姆博物馆展出的规模更大的版本“令人耳目一新”。

看点

Antoine's Organ
A black steel scaffold grid filled with plants in Johnson's handmade ceramic pots, books, domestic objects and monitors looping his early films, with a piano hidden at its centre.
The Reader (2008)
Johnson lies on a chaise longue in a white robe, holding a red-covered book up so it hides his face.
Self-Portrait with My Hair Parted Like Frederick Douglass (2003)
Johnson poses with the abolitionist's hairstyle in a print over four and a half feet tall, big enough, ARTnews noted, to see every pore.
The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club
Black-and-white portraits of members of a fictional club of Black intellectuals, inspired by the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois.
The Anxious Men
Faces drawn in black soap and wax, their eyes scratched round and round in tight circles and their mouths a grid of gritted abrasions.

适合

夜间参观
深度爱好者

带孩子

Free for anyone 18 and under. Family Day: Hibernate, Meditate (12 December, 11am to 3pm) is built around Johnson's work, is free to attend and has ASL interpretation.