This week the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the landmark exhibition I Was Raised on the Internet, an immersive and participatory show examining the impact of the internet and how it has changed the way we experience the world. With nearly 100 interactive artworks from 1998 to the present, I Was Raised on the Internet spans photography, painting, sculpture, film and video, as well as emerging technologies, interactive computer works, and virtual reality.

On view at the Milwaukee Art Museum is  a new exhibition combining drawing, filmmaking, and animation with a spirited soundtrack. William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance engages viewers in a joyous danse macabre that speaks to issues around life, death, migration and displacement. The innovative work features a parade of figures, led by a brass band, projected on giant HD screens that will run the length of the Museum’s Baker/Rowland Galleries.

In 1904, Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866–1935) founded one of the world’s most celebrated design companies: the eponymous Georg Jensen. After emerging during a fruitful period in Danish art and culture, Jensen’s practice in Copenhagen continued to evolve, contributing to the meteoric rise of Scandinavian design in the United States and around the world. This exhibition—the first major American presentation of Jensen silver tableware and products for the home—tells a sweeping story of the creation of a global identity for Danish design and the changing ideals for modern living across the 20th century. Opens Friday, June 22 at the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Opening Reception at Linda Warren Projects on Friday, June 22nd from 5-8pm. Exhibit features work from artists Emmett Kerrigan, Lora Fosberg, and Juan Angel Chavez.

Artist talk: Saturday, July 21st from 3-5pm.

In tandem with the revelation of the Elmhurst Art Museum building’s full exterior for the first time in over 20 years, internationally acclaimed artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle will create Untitled Film (Red), a stunning architectural intervention within the McCormick House that builds on an idea of the original developers Robert Hall McCormick and Herbert S. Greenwald, who offered to make glass windows of the proposed prefab housing “almost any shade of the rainbow.”