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I am interning at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago two days a week this summer.  I am helping in the photography archives and assisting the staff photographer.  Currently the Take your time: Olafur Eliasson exhibition is here and we spent some time photographing his installations.  I first saw Olafur’s work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in December of 2007.  I have learned that the SFMOMA organized this exhibition which explains why it fit with their space better than it does here.  From my understanding, as the organizers, the SFMOMA funded and sponsored this exhibition and it was tailored for their space.  When Take your time: Olafur Eliasson travels the SFMOMA is credited as the organizing institution.  I enjoyed wandering around when no one was in our Museum on Monday, one of my favorites being the Room for one color, 1997.  A hallway is lit with yellow mono-frequency lights, when inside vision is reduced to shades of yellow where details and texture are enhanced.  So we photographed a little bit around the museum then I spent the rest of Monday meeting new people and attempting to remember names.  I am looking forward to the 13th of June for the opening of Elements of Photography.  They are currently taking down William Kentridge (which had been on display for a little more than a year) to put up a photography exhibition featuring Hiroshi Sugimoto, Luisa Lambri, Walead Beshty, Adam Ekberg and others.