Monthly Archives October 2010

Weekend Preview – Alyson Kennedy

This week’s look at some of what is going on this weekend. Check out links here and here for more listings. Hamish Fulton @ Rhona Hoffman Hamish Fulton mostly works with large-scale text and poetry wall-installations, but it takes some walking to get there. See the full range of media in his exhibition this fall at […]

Seven Artists of the Week – hair blowing out of my head

This week’s picks from me. I’m not showering until I get her back

Weekend Preview – power grab

This week’s picks on what to see this weekend, as always supplemented by these two links. Christopher Wool @ Corbett vs. Dempsey Christopher Wool is probably the biggest name to visit Chicago since last month’s openings at Rhona Hoffman and Kavi Gupta, and he’s leaping from your contemporary art history books to Noble Square with […]

Seven Artists of the Week – here, have more Calder than you can look at

This week’s picks from me: oh i see, its kinda got an oliver elaisson thing going

Propeller Fund Announcement (edited version)

The Propeller Fund is an awesome project launched this year by Gallery 400, UIC, threewalls (with funding through the Andy Warhol Foundation) which has made good on its promise to distribute $50,000 is funds to fifteen independant, self-organized, and Chicago-based art projects. The full list of winners is here, but I’ve trimmed down some of the language […]

Weekend Preview – we’re going to need a bigger studio

This week’s picks on what to see this weekend. As always, check out more links here and here. Also, there’s a new thing I’m trying this week: at the end of each show’s heading is a button that looks like  and which will take you to the show’s relevant listing over at onthemake.org. Its that […]

Seven Artists of the Week – with your host,

This week’s picks from guest Philip von Zweck. Thanks, Philip! And as a bonus, Das Racist – Sit Down, Man (direct link).

Weekend Preview – hashtag

This week’s picks on what to see this weekend. For more listings, check here and here. La Frontera @ Museum of Contemporary Photography This weekend the Museum of Contemporary Photography will open what looks like an exhibition of documentary photos from the border and above and hopefully below, featuring work from Michael Hyatt, Andy Kropa, […]

Seven Artists of the Week – Hello Chicago arts media outlets

This week’s picks from me. bbbut i reviewed monument 2 like twice