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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The Most Influential People in the Art World Today

The women and men on Observer’s 2023 Business of Art Power List have their fingers on the pulse of the art market, and they’re unflinchingly optimistic. In the face of market contraction, ongoing uncertainty about the role of major cultural institutions and everything else that’s happening in the art world, these power players find inspiration in everything from art’s philanthropic potential and growing reach to the rapidly changing narratives around what art is and who it’s for. In short, they’re the people wielding outsized influence on art’s present and its future.
By Dan Duray,  Farah Abdessamad,  Christa Terry,  and The Editors
Black and white photographs of man in corduroy suit and glasses

Collectors Marilyn and Larry Fields Make a Major Gift of 79 Works to MCA Chicago

The prominent Chicago philanthropists' collection contains works by more than 300 artists, including Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Before He Died, Off-White Founder Virgil Abloh Changed Contemporary Art

Abloh married his minimalistic, architecture-informed streetwear aesthetic with the worlds of luxury goods and museum exhibitions.
By Helen Holmes
Egon Schiele, Selbstbildnis mit Lampionfrüchten (Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant), 1912. Oil, opaque color on wood.

12 Must-See Art Museum Exhibitions in 2018

By Margaret Carrigan
Rashid Johnson photographed at Hauser & Wirth Gallery, 511 West 18th St., New York, New York, August 25th, 2016.

Anxious Man: Rashid Johnson on Navigating Worry, Violence and Parenthood

By Alanna Martinez
Martin Creed, Work No. 2630 UNDERSTANDING, (2016).

British Art Star Martin Creed to Light Up Brooklyn Waterfront With Giant Neon Sign

By Alanna Martinez
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Studio), 2014. (Purchase, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Gift, Acquisitions Fund and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Multicultural Audience Development Initiative Gift, 2015, )

One of the Great American Artists Gets an American Retrospective

By Ryan Steadman
Ken Griffin, chief executive officer and founder of Citadel LLC, (left) and Henry Kravis, co-chairman of KKR & Co., at the Museum of Modern Art's 'Party in the Garden' in 2013. (Photo: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Billionaire Hedge Fund CEO Ken Griffin Donates $10 Million to the MCA Chicago

By Molly Shilo
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