Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Get the inside view. Walk through current MCA exhibitions with the curator and learn about the criteria and ideas that guided their selection of artists and artworks.

FREE with museum admission. Curator tour groups meet by the Visitor Service Desk on the second floor.

Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Liam Gillick’s Rescinded Production, 2008. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin by exchange. © 2008 Liam Gillick. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago Curator’s Tour: Amalia Pica Tue, May 21, 2013, 12 pm Steven Bridges Curator’s Tour: BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Jason Lazarus Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 12 pm Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Photo © Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Photographer, Nathan Keay Curator’s Tour: Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962 Tue, Mar 5, 2013, 12 pm Dieter Roelstraete Curator’s Tour: Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 12 pm MCA Curator Naomi Beckwith. Photo by Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Curator Tour: Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 12 pm Michael Darling Curator Tour: BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Paul Cowan Tue, Dec 18, 2012 Karsten Lund Curator Tour: Martin Creed Plays Chicago Tue, Dec 4, 2012 Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago July 2010 Photo © Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Photographer, Nathan Keay Curator Tour: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac Tue, Nov 27, 2012 Lynne Warren Curator Tour: Lynne Warren on John Cage Tue, Oct 9, 2012 MCA Curator Naomi Beckwith September 26, 2011 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago Curator Tour: Naomi Beckwith on Jimmy Robert Tue, Sep 25, 2012 Karsten Lund Curator Tour: BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Heidi Norton Tue, Aug 28, 2012 Michael Darling Photo by Julian Calder Curator Tour: Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity Fri, Aug 17, 2012 Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Liam Gillick’s Rescinded Production, 2008. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin by exchange. © 2008 Liam Gillick. Curator Tour: BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Tue, Jul 17, 2012 Joanna Szupinska Curator Tour: Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity Fri, Jul 13, 2012 Michael Darling Photo by Julian Calder Curator Tour: Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today Tue, Jun 26, 2012 Joanna Szupinska Curator Tour: Joanna Szupinska on First Fifty Tue, Jun 5, 2012, 8 am Helen Molesworth. Photo Credit: John Kennard. Curator Tour: This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s Tue, May 1, 2012 Julie Rodrigues Curator Tour: Julie Rodrigues Widholm on Rashid Johnson Tue, Apr 24, 2012 Pamela Alper Curator Tour: Julie Rodrigues Widholm on Laura Letinsky Tue, Mar 13, 2012 Naomi Beckwith Photo: Nathan Keay. © Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Curator Tour: This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s Tue, Feb 21, 2012, 12 pm Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Liam Gillick’s Rescinded Production, 2008. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin by exchange. © 2008 Liam Gillick. Curator Tour: Chicago Works: Scott Reeder Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 12 pm IAIN BAXTER&, Zero Emissions, 2008. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario. © 2011 IAIN BAXTER& Curator Tour: IAIN BAXTER& and Ron Terada Tue, Nov 29, 2011 Leonor Antunes, Caledonia, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin. Photo: Nick Ash Curator Tour: The Language of Less Tue, Oct 25, 2011 Curator Tour: Mark Bradford Fri, Aug 26, 2011 Susan Philipsz. Photo: Taavetti Alin; Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Curator Tour: Susan Philipsz Fri, Jun 10, 2011 Curator Tour: Jim Nutt Tue, May 10, 2011 Curator Tour: Without You I'm Nothing Tue, Mar 22, 2011 Curator Tour: Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character Tue, Feb 22, 2011 Curator Tour: Luc Tuymans Tue, Dec 7, 2010 Curator Tour: Urban China Tue, Nov 2, 2010