MCA

On Tuesday Jesse and I went downtown to the Museum of Contemporary art.  I enjoyed the New York School exhibition that featured a black and white Franze Kline.
In the series, Dear Stanger, Shizuka Yokomizo created photographs of people living in ground-level apartments who agreed to have their portrait taken at a specified time of night, making them appear both lonely and defiant.

Kader Attia's use of refrigerators to create an urban skyline commented on the yearning for glamour from the perspective of an outsider.
A hypnotizing color video by Fikret Atay, called Tinica, showed a male playing a makeshift drum set in Batman, Turkey, a city created by rich oil reserves but suffering from illiteracy and unemployment.

Abelardo Morell's Camera Obscura image of the Empire State Building was spellbinding.
Lastly, we saw Chicago artist, Rashid Johnson's first solo exhibition.  As a black American, he explored the black experience in America through multiple media and the use of commonplace objects from his childhood.