The Exhibitions Not to Miss During EXPO CHICAGO
From Reggaetón to Matisse, Maurizio Cattelan and more, here's everything worth seeing during Chicago's biggest art week.
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EXPO Chicago is back at Navy Pier from April 24–27 for its 12th edition—the second under Frieze—with more than 170 galleries from 36 countries and 93 cities.
‘Displayed’ at Anton Kern Gallery
Diane Simpson’s towering Deco-inspired sculpture channels luxury shop windows, while Roe Ethridge’s Chanel-draped mackerels and Marina Pinsky’s glistening paint cans blur lines between high fashion and household grit. Flower arrangements conceal dark wit (one promises, ominously, I Will Cook Myself Tomorrow), and Simon Martin’s hypnotic video on an ‘80s Memphis bookshelf turns furniture into near-living sculpture. Seduction, here, isn’t subtle—it’s the point.
