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" It just takes a few names or acronyms\u2014Ronald Reagan and Madonna, MTV and HIV\u2014to summon memories of the 1980s. So when all the familiar faces and words come together in the Museum of Contemporary Art&amp;#039;s exhibition &amp;quot;This Will Have Been: Art, Love &amp;amp;amp; Politics,&amp;quot; the decade comes rushing back. Curator Helen Molesworth takes an expansive view of the volatile 80s by featuring more than 150 paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos\u2014even wallpaper\u2014divided into four sections. While the themes range widely from The End is Near to Democracy to Gender Trouble, it&amp;#039;s the Desire and Longing section that truly speaks to the underlying emotions of the decade&amp;#039;s art. Visitors will see iconic work by Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, and Richard Prince alongside personal and political work that is not as celebrated\u2026yet. Look for heart-tugging photographs by Peter Hujar and Lorna Simpson, gorgeous paintings by Mary Heilmann and Lari Pittman, and politically potent work by Donald Moffett and Adrian Piper.  &amp;quot;This Will Have Been: Art, Love, &amp;amp;amp; Politics in the 1980s,&amp;quot; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 11 through June 3, 2012; mcachicago.org Click here to see the gallery for &amp;quot;Eighties Revival.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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