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 good!

Miller & Shellabarger @ Western Exhibitions 

Sometimes I wonder if a serious treatment of love has any place in this mixed up, muddled up, shook up art world, but Stan and Dutes have consistently demonstrated that a relationship can be as good a conceptual frame as anything else. Check out the opening for their new show on Friday, October 15th, from 5-8PM @ Western Exhibitions, 119 N Peoria St, 2A.

Miller & Shellabarger, Untitled (Grave, Basel, Switzerland)

Karl Haendel @ Tony Wight

Bad ass black graphite drawings are bad ass. Come see evidence this Friday, October 15th, from 5-8PM @ Tony Wight Gallery, 845 W Washington Blvd.

Karl Haendel

Scott & Paul Cowan @ Roots & Culture  

The Cowan brothers are showing work that either has to do with gesture, generosity, intent, or object-hood; or with some combination thereof. Witness an ever-unfolding generation of badness, maybe, this Friday, October 15th from 6-10PM @ Roots & Culture, 1034 N Milwaukee Ave.

Scott Cowan

Urban China @ The Museum of Contemporary Art 

Culture magazine Urban China has been turned to shrapnel for the walls of the MCA, all for an exhibition which takes a double look at China’s urbanization and the cultural, social, and political implications of the global surge into cities. It went over well at New York’s New Museum in 2009; lets see what’s new this year in Chicago. The exhibition will be on display this Saturday, October 16th @ Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E Chicago Ave.

Urban China

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