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Sep 17, 20241 min read
De Oversteek podcast: being a Dutch artist in Chicago
De Oversteek podcast: being a Dutch artist in Chicago
Dec 7, 20233 min read
Essay by Luis Felipe Fabre: A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home"
A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home,” 2021 Three-channel video / Video en tres canales, 1:04:05 EN: Last night I set about reading...
Dec 23, 20225 min read
Best Chicago art exhibitions of 2022
Best Chicago art exhibitions of 2022: ‘Tea, Torture & Reparations’ at DePaul, an outdoor ‘Flourish’ and a big year for the Cultural...
Dec 23, 20222 min read
A Review: What does freedom look like?
Chicago Reader Review: A Review: What does freedom look like?
Oct 23, 20225 min read
AIC Blog: An Exercise in Empathy and Trust: Collaborating with Lions
AIC Blog: Kirsten Leenaars and Joan Podkul: An Exercise in Empathy and Trust: Collaborating with Lions
Sep 9, 20227 min read
Review Newcity Art: A Lion for Every House
Review Newcity Art: A Lion for Every House
Jun 23, 20224 min read
Boulevard Dreamers on WBEZ: A weird, wonderful variety show pays tribute to Chicago culture
You’ll find a little bit of everything in Water Music on the Beach: Boulevard Dreamers, where every performer gets equal pay and stage...
Jul 19, 20215 min read
MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions
MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Artist Talk: The Politics of Imagination
Join us for the screening of Kirsten Leenaars’ work (Re)Housing the American Dream: Freedom Principles (2018) followed by an artist’s talk.
Jul 19, 20212 min read
Interviews with the Artists, Round One
in this interview we talk with Leenaars and Craig and revisit their amazing, collaborative video created for last fall's Lit & Luz Festival.
Jul 19, 20214 min read
Five Artists Rewarded Artist Response Grant
Artist Response Program is going to five individual artists and artist teams in project-related grants
Jul 19, 20215 min read
Five Chicago artists and artistic teams have been awarded $100,000 grants from DCASE.
Five Chicago artists and artistic teams have been awarded $100,000 grants from DCASE.
Mar 5, 202110 min read
‘The Long Dream’ and a labor nightmare
The MCA's latest exhibit preaches equity, but behind the scenes artists and former museum employees are demanding real change.
Oct 9, 20203 min read
Newcity Film 50, 2020: Chicago's Screen Gems
Film 50 2020: Chicago’s Screen Gems
Sep 19, 20201 min read
60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC Review: The Broadcast
The Broadcast proposes that the youth of this country have voices that badly need to be heard amidst the noise and chaos of our media landsc
May 28, 20201 min read
Watch the recording of the MCA Virtual Studio Visit: in conversation with Kirsten Leenaars
Chicago artist Kirsten Leenaars uses collaborative techniques to create artworks that investigate our media landscape and encourage critical
May 28, 20201 min read
Cleve Carney Museum of Art: Stuck in the Studio: Kirsten Leenaars
As part of Cleve Carney Museum of Art Create's ongoing series 'Stuck in the Studio' CCMA curator Justin Witte talks with Chicago-based video
Nov 26, 20193 min read
The State News: New Broad Art exhibit features multimedia and local students
Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will be previewing their new multimedia exhibit titled “The Broadcast."
Nov 25, 20192 min read
ARTSY: 6 Artists Imagine What a World without Prisons Looks Like
Over the past two years, Chicago artists and locals have turned to art to consider criminal justice reform.
Sep 17, 20191 min read
(Re)imagining Tomorrow: a documentary
(Re)imagining Tomorrow, 2018, documentary 22:32 min A group of middle schoolers living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, talk about what it means...
Sep 17, 20191 min read
Local artists take on the criminal justice system in new exhibit
"For video artist Kirsten Leenaars, “envisioning justice” is about building strong communities even in the face of incarceration."
Feb 12, 20191 min read
Interview: Kirsten Leenaars: (Re)Housing the American Dream
Interview with Kirsten Leenaars about documentary project: (Re)Housing the American Dream.
Dec 13, 20182 min read
Review by David Mark Wise Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer at Contemporary Workshop, Chicago
New City, April 17, 2008 Kirsten Leenaars’ Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer is a fragile and vulnerable video installation now showing...
Dec 11, 20181 min read
Review EAM Biennial Chicago Statements, Elmhurst Art Museum
Review by Lorix Waxman (Chicago Tribune) EAM Biennial Chicago Statements, Elmhurst Art Museum. Review: https://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/...
Dec 7, 20183 min read
Everyday Resistance in the Art Space
Women in Art Today Introduction: Everyday Resistance in the Art Space by Jeffreen M. Hayes Art is one of the few spaces where the...
Dec 7, 20181 min read
Episode 636: Haller Baggesen and Leenaars, interview Bad at Sports
Listen to the interview: http://badatsports.com/2018/episode-636-haller-baggesen-and-leenaars/ Lise Haller Baggesen and Kirsten Leenaars...
Dec 7, 20181 min read
WVYC Perspectives with YCP Artist in Residence Kirsten Leenaars
Listen to the interview about the artist’s practice and process, inspiration and the show (Re)Housing the American Dream up at York...
Dec 7, 20185 min read
Bad at Sports review: A World of Pain
Guest post by Lise Haller Baggesen for Bad at Sports The Doris Salcedo show, recently on view at the MCA, was a hard one to watch. Not...
Dec 7, 20184 min read
Curatorial Text #thisistomorrow by Jose Ruiz
EXHIBITION/CURATORIAL STATEMENT “I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to...
Dec 7, 20187 min read
COMP Magazine Interview Kirsten Leenaars – Fictionalized Real Experience
Kirsten Leenaars choreographs visual and sound narratives through directing persons and place to create fictionalized realities. The COMP...
Dec 7, 20184 min read
Essay by Lori Waxman: Spinning Hula Hoops with My Dad, and Other Ways to Make Happiness
Spinning Hula Hoops with My Dad, and Other Ways to Make Happiness By Lori Waxman Art historians don’t usually write about happiness. It...
Dec 7, 20184 min read
Inside/Within Interview
KIRSTEN LEENAARS’S OPERATIC COORDINATIONS Kirsten is a Dutch artist whose minimal and open studio is found within her home on the north...
Dec 7, 20187 min read
“Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?”
Critical Inquiry http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/info/, “Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?”by Amy M. Mooney, Ph.D.,...
Dec 7, 20181 min read
Amy Moony and Neysa Page Lieberman on RISK
Amy Moony and Neysa Page Lieberman, curators of RISK: Empathy, Art And Social Practice talk about the show on Bad At Sports LISTEN...
Dec 7, 201811 min read
Kirsten Leenaars: Aesthetics and Social Practice
– POSTED BY MATT ROBINSON ON FEBRUARY 13, 2014 – I had the pleasure of conversing with artist Kirsten Leenaars. We talked social...
Dec 7, 20181 min read
WBEZ 91.5: An MCA Soap Opera
Kirsten Leenaars in conversation with Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the MCA, October 16, 2012. Listen here. In 2011,...
Dec 7, 20181 min read
Sounding out Useful Pictures
Sounding out Useful Pictures, 2013 , a conversation about love, care and making. Kirsten Leenaars in conversation with artist Adelheid...
Dec 7, 20189 min read
How To Get To Mutualisms
BAD AT SPORTS, September 7, 2011 Several months ago, I was invited to share a blog with a stranger. On that blog, I was asked to write...
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