As part of her first solo museum exhibition, Amanda Williams (American, b. 1974), an artist who trained as an architect, presents new bodies of work that use sculpture and photography to respond to changing urban environments. Williams will give a talk at the MCA on Tuesday, October 17 from 6-8pm.

Revealing Mardi Gras Indians: Beaded Art of a Hidden Culture is an exhibition of colorful beaded and feathered suits. 

It is the largest such exhibition of Mardi Gras Indian artwork ever held. The event will feature 14 exhibits ranging from full suits to beaded fragments, some as many as 20 years old.

The opening event is 5:30-8:30pm on October 19th at The Golden Triangle, and the exhibit runs through December 31st.

On view now at the Arts Club of Chicago is work by acclaimed Slovak artist Roman Ondak. Known for a conceptual oeuvre that draws on both participatory and object-based processes, Ondak interrogates the peculiarities of daily life in a post-Soviet and increasingly global context. For The Arts Club, Ondak gathers four sculptural installations that have never been shown in the United States along with an ongoing series of paintings begun in the 1990s, most of which were produced expressly for this exhibition.

On view until January 2018 this exhibition takes a sweeping view and casts a contemporary lens on Von Bruenchenhein’s extensive oeuvre, paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, and poetry.

Michelle Grabner, Brett Littman, Lisa Stone, and Arts Center Curator Karen Patterson address pivotal moments in Von Bruenchenhein’s career—including architecture, botany, invention, and love—in this exhibition and a forthcoming catalogue, due to be released in September 2017.  

Opening Sunday, October 8 at the Art Institute of Chicago, this museum exhibition focuses on Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1937) a central figure in the development of Brazil’s modern art. Her influence reverberates throughout 20th- and 21st-century art. Although relatively little-known outside Latin America, her paintings and drawings reflect her ambitions to synthesize the currents of avant-garde art and create an original modern art for her home country.