August 2023 Issue: Lit 50 (Digital Edition)

The Choreography of an Exhibition Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates discusses her path to "Entre Horizontes" at the MCA "Carla Acevedo-Yates, the Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, credits artists for inspiring her career. 'Artists are my teachers,' she says, 'All of my ideas come from my long-term dialogue with others and especially artists.' Growing up in Puerto Rico, Acevedo-Yates was surrounded by an art world markedly different from the one she finds herself in today. Art was not scarce, but the infrastructure was fragile, comprised primarily of DIY and artist-run spaces, with galleries often found in unconventional spaces such as shopping malls."(Jennifer Smart) No Sanctuary Are historic churches the lost souls of a city? "Seen on a gray, rainy morning, St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen looks haunted. Scaffolding wraps its 185-foot-tall Baroque towers like a parasitic plant. At the church entrance, eight rose-colored granite columns are blocked by