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New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival

Event Phone: (773) 325-7506
Admission Price: $0.00
New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival is an exhibition of work from the last fifteen years by contemporary artists who appropriate, critique, or embrace “New Age” aesthetics and concerns from a 21st century perspective. Emerging in the 1960s and 1970s against a backdrop of war, social strife and a crisis of modernity, the multifaceted New Age “movement” was characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture, with an interest in spirituality, mysticism, holism, and environmentalism. It embodied a complicated conflation of politics, religion, science, social communities, art, music, and self-realization. Often dismissed for its association with drugged out hippies or flower-power children, how can New Age philosophies and practices be reconsidered today as relevant movement for social change and wellness? As ancient practices and rituals such as crystals, astrology, tarot cards, yoga, and meditation become both trendy commodities and necessary tools for self-care in an increasingly anxious world, how are they reflected in contemporary art making? Where does "New Age" intersect with curandera, Asian, indigenous and Afro-futurist practices? The exhibition presents works organized within broad themes associated with New Age culture including metaphysical practices, a return to craft and handmade objects, connecting with the natural environment, and imagined communes with a special focus on how women, LGBTQ artists, and people of color use these alternative practices as tools of resistance, empowerment, community, healing, and self-care. ​
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Venue Details:

DePaul Art Museum

935 W Fullerton
Chicago, IL 60614
(773) 325-7506
http://museums.depaul.edu/

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Sunday August 11, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
Saturday August 10, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
Friday August 9, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
Thursday August 8, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
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Thursday August 1, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
Wednesday July 31, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
Sunday July 28, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
Saturday July 27, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
Friday July 26, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
Thursday July 25, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
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Thursday July 18, 2019 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
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