Obama Presidential Center Opens With a Major Public-Art Programme

The Chicago campus opens the Obama Presidential Center on Juneteenth with more than 28 commissioned artworks, positioning public art as a central civic language. The Obama Presidential Center opened to the public in Chicago on 19 June, bringing a major new museum and civic campus to the South Side and placing contemporary art at the centre of its public identity. Timed to Juneteenth, the opening marked the arrival of a 19.3-acre site with a museum, public library branch, gardens, athletic […]