August 2023 Issue: Lit 50 (Print Edition)

The Choreography of an Exhibition

"Carla Acevedo-Yates, the Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, credits artists for inspiring her career. 'Artists are my teachers,' she says, 'All of my ideas come from my long-term dialogue with others and especially artists.' Growing up in Puerto Rico, Acevedo-Yates was surrounded by an art world markedly different from the one she finds herself in today. Art was not scarce, but the infrastructure was fragile, comprised primarily of DIY and artist-run spaces, with galleries often found in unconventional spaces such as shopping malls."(Jennifer Smart)

No Sanctuary

"Seen on a gray, rainy morning, St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen looks haunted. Scaffolding wraps its 185-foot-tall Baroque towers like a parasitic plant. At the church entrance, eight rose-colored granite columns are blocked by dirty plywood, on which are hung Polish and Vatican flags. Behind the plywood, someone has pitched a tent—the only comfort currently offered by the 109-year-old building. St. Adalbert’s is a symbol of a looming aesthetic disaster in Chicago—the closing and possible demolition of historic churches." (Mary Wisniewski)

The Lit 50 2023

Arts & Culture

Reviews

Poetry

84 Pages