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CHICAGO — Theaster Gates’s latest exhibition, When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive , would give all but the most radical archivist a heart attack. It’s also utterly exciting, full of novel display tactics, ballsy creative repurposing, and plenty of dark humor, all of it done with great aesthetic panache. The show marks the artist’s most extensive engagement with the furnishings, objects, and images of the now-defunct Johnson Publishing Company, longtime chronicler of the lives of Black Americans in the magazines Ebony and Jet .
Founded in 1942 by John H. and Eunice Johnson, at its height JPC was the largest Black-owned media enterprise in the world. On view throughout all three floors of the Stony Island Arts Bank until mid-March, When Clouds Roll Away should not be missed.
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