21c Museum Hotel Chicago Free Admission Sunday

Free Admission Sunday from 24 hours a day at 21C Museum Hotel Chicago - see INFO below. The legacy of late-20th-century Pop Art is evident throughout the exhibition: Andy Warhols style and subject matter in particular is echoed in paintings by Rebecca Campbell, Lisa Alonzo, and Mickalene Thomas; in photographs by Hassan Hajjaj and Laurel Nakadate; and in multi-media works by Nick Cave, Roberto Guerrero, R. Luke DuBois, and April Bey, among others. This broad spectrum of artworks investigating celebrity, commerce, and the media suggests an evolving definition of Pop. In the 1960s, says philosopher Arthur Danto, Pop art was among other things an effort to overcome the division between fine and vernacular art, between the exalted and the coarse, between high and low. Pop Stars! demonstrates the dominance of the popular as todays ubiquitous culture. Culling from the canon of art history, mining the mass media, scouring the streets and screens where we live and dream today, these artists, alongside Kehinde Wiley, Brian Paumier, Robert Wilson, Fahamu Pecou, Frances Goodman, Derrick Adams, Titus Kaphar, Sanford Biggers, Brendan Fernandes, and others, enshrine the everyday, and intertwine past and present in transformative new intersections of art and life. More Info below.