Atrium Project: Celeste Rapone
Celeste Rapone, Sideline (after Ben Shahn) , 2025. Oil on canvas; 72 × 90 in. (182.9 × 228.6 cm).
Celeste Rapone, Sideline (after Ben Shahn) , 2025. Oil on canvas; 72 × 90 in. (182.9 × 228.6 cm). · License
Atrium Project: Celeste Rapone is on view at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, United States, until June 20, 2027.
Last verified October 25, 2026 · Official source ↗
As part of a ongoing series at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, artist Celeste Rapone presents a large painting titled Sideline (After Ben Shahn) in the building's entrance. The exhibition highlights her depiction of four seated women with entangled limbs, drawing on a 1940 work by social realist Ben Shahn to explore contemporary female intimacy, nostalgia, and anxiety.
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- Museum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoChicago, United States · June 27, 2026 – June 20, 2027Until 20 Jun 2027
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Celeste Rapone, Sideline (after Ben Shahn) , 2025. Oil on canvas; 72 × 90 in. (182.9 × 228.6 cm).
Celeste Rapone, Sideline (after Ben Shahn) , 2025. Oil on canvas; 72 × 90 in. (182.9 × 228.6 cm). · License · Source ↗