Ever since plans for Barack Obama’s Presidential Center were initially revealed, in 2017, the project had been mired in controversy. Designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, the complex was slated to rise on the edge of Chicago’s Jackson Park—a sprawling, 500-acre public parkland that hosted the World’s Columbian Exposition and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Though the $500 million complex will deliver ample community resources and a new branch of the Chicago Public Library to the neighborhood, it immediately garnered criticism for the proposed destruction of a crucial connecting link to the nearby Midway Plaisance Park. Some even suggested relocating the complex to an entirely new site elsewhere on the South Side, which gained support from local watchdogs and cultural organizations.

Now, the complex faces another roadblock. The Illinois State Historic Preservation Office, which evaluates construction projects that may impact the state’s cultural resources, has requested “additional design reviews” to gauge the project’s impact on Jackson Park. While the reviews are sure to rekindle discussions about relocating the center, the city has ruled that out as a viable option. Despite this, the center is still contending with a lawsuit from the local watchdog Protect Our Parks that protests its construction on public land. It’s impossible to predict how the reviews will go, but they may very well influence the project’s next move—and its fate at large.

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The Quebecois performance artist Miles Greenberg has undertaken perhaps his most ambitious project to date. Called Oysterknife and presented by the Marina Abramovic Institute, it sees the artist and movement theorist walking on a conveyor belt in an empty theater inside Monteral’s Centre Phi for 24 uninterrupted hours—the culmination of his career-long exploration of studying how movement and architecture relate to Black bodies. Its title references Zora Neale Hurston’s 1928 essay How It Feels to Be Colored Me, in which she says that she does not “weep at the world… I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” Though the performance took place last week, the Institute plans to share clips in the coming days.

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