REACH, a collaborative installation, by contemporary artists Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy, featuring two monumental hands reaching out to each other, has been installed at O’Hare International Airport. The installation is above escalators in the airport’s Multi-Modal Facility. The sculptural commission and installation was organized by the Chicago Department of Aviation and Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and is part of the Expo Chicago fair's program for large-scale and site-specific works.

At The Precipice is an exhibit that explores the use of color, tactility, material, and data. The artwork explores how it feels to inhabit an irreversibly damaged planet facing a precarious future and considers the purpose of art and design in understanding how our collective trajectory must rapidly change direction. This exhibit features more than 10 artists. Design Museum of Chicago 72 East Randolph Street Chicago, IL, 60601 United States. Runs through Oct. 30, 2023.

Chicago-born architect Germane Barnes explores the connections between identity and the built environment—using research, design, and activism to mine the social and political agency of architecture and uncover the spatial histories and futures of Black self-determination.