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Title:	The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020
Date:	11/9/2024 - 3/23/2025
Address:	Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E Chicago Ave., Chicago IL 60611
Location:	Chicago, IL
Hours:	Tuesday: 10am – 9pm, Wednesday – Sunday: 10am – 5pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $22
Web Page:	https://visit.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/the-living-end-pain ...
Contact Info:	312-280-2660

Details:

The claim that painting is dead has been a common refrain among critics for decades. Nevertheless, artists have continuously pushed the medium forward. The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020 surveys the arc of painting over the last 50 years, highlighting it as a mode of artistic expression in a constant state of renewal and rebirth. This international and intergenerational group exhibition presents the work of more than 60 artists who have redefined painting using emerging technologies, imaging techniques, and their own bodies. Examining the impact that computers, cameras, and television, as well as social media and automation, have had on the medium, The Living End positions painting itself as a manual “technology” that has shifted further away from the immediacy of the artist’s hand over the past 50 years. The subsequent conceptual shift has led artists to challenge what constitutes a painting, how they are produced, and who (or what) can be considered a painter.