The Merchandise Mart has pulled the plug on the latest incarnation of Art Chicago, ending the three-decade run of what was once considered one of the world's most important art exhibitions.

Exit Art, the New York alternative art space, which previously announced plans to close after the death of its cofounder Jeanette Ingberman, will mount its final exhibition on March 23. 

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    by Bad At Sports

    In starting this space, I can see it coming alive on its own, just through the people who are taking part in it. I’m not completely passive, because I want to be involved, but I see it as something that can come together naturally. I like seeing how that happens in my work, and think it could happen here, too.
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    The emergence of alternative exhibition spaces in the 1970s subverted traditional exhibition formats and notions of public space. This shifting dynamic also resulted in an expanded conceptual framework for the definition of public art through the advent of site-specific interventions, performance, and
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