The brilliantly curated Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the Collection, contextualizes works from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago permanent collection with thematics of the great assemblage sculptor Joseph Cornell. Cornell’s body of work is characterized by the found objects he installed in little simple boxes which evoke nostalgia, memory, and time. Divided into chapters, each room’s theme juxtaposed contemporary works with themes that mirrored Cornell’s undercurrents.  Highlights included Feathered Fantasies which paired works by Nick Cave, The Voyeur which […]

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