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Seven Artists of the Week – red women, green men

This week’s picks from me: You call this a thesis?

Weekend Preview – way behind

Crunch time version of this week’s what to see this weekend! For more, check out this link and this one too. Infoporn @ Co-Prosperity Sphere It has been a minute since I’ve highlit something down at CPS, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been failing to report on a lot of good stuff, such as […]

Seven Artists of the Week – Fatigue

This week’s picks from me. Click images for more from each artist. frankly if you’re still making art with crucifixes,

Weekend Preview – black days

This week’s things to try and see this weekend. The standouts all happen to fall on this Saturday, but make sure to check out these two links for all kinds of more listings. Jessica Labbatte, UBS 12×12 @ MCA Jessica Labbatte‘s still life photographs are just excellent, and its no surprise to see the MCA’s […]

Seven Artists of the Week – a safe house

This week’s picks from me. breaking images out of embedded flash since 1986

Seven Artists of the Week – the news

This week’s picks from me. Happy thanksgiving! shock us and we’ll  rock

Weekend Preview – about sixty years ago

This week’s picks on what to see this weekend. Be sure to check out other listings here and here, because there are a lot of really nice openings and shows going up this weekend and for some reason I’m not listing all of them. Deb Sokolow @ Western Exhibitions Deb Sokolow, one of my favorite artists […]

Seven Artists of the Week – the speed of time

This week’s artists of the week from me. http://javaboutique.internet.com/Lake/

Weekend Preview – there is no i in illiteracy

This week’s picks on what to see this weekend. Once again and as always, there are more things going on that listed here, so check out broader listings here and here. Ray Yoshida @ Sullivan Galleries A good case could be made that Ray Yoshida was Chicago’s most important artist, having effected the practice of […]

Seven Artists of the Week – with your ghost,

This week’s picks from guest week-picker Erik Wenzel. Check out the closing events for his show, Live A Little, Live Ennui, this week at the Harold Washington College President’s Gallery, 30 E Lake St, Room 1105, with Marilyn Volkman‘s presentation tonight, Wednesday, November 10th at 5:30PM, and Ethan Breckenridge‘s presentation tomorrow, Thursday, November 11th at 6:30PM. the […]

Weekend Preview – HB

This week’s picks on what to see this weekend. I almost always run into more shows than I can feature here, but this weekend seems especially loaded with great-sounding shows, so be sure to check out other listings here and here. Things to be Next To @ threewalls Kate Hackman and Shannon Stratton are bringing […]

Seven Artists of the Week – from the collection

This week’s picks from me. snake election

Interview – Michael T. Rea

It’s always nice to see successful art that is also instantly approachable, and Chicago sculptor Michael T. Rea makes the kind of art. If you’ve been to the last two NEXT fairs at the Merchandise Mart, you’ve probably seen some of his work; and if not, then certainly at Western Exhibition’s The Power of Selection, part 1. Rea’s […]

Karl Haendel @ Tony Wight Gallery

Karl Haendel has a CV peppered with prestige – he has shown in excellent spaces and biennials, won excellent awards, and has work in the public collections of MoMA, MoCA, and Guggenheim to name a few. If the bounce toward of tight graphite appropriation and reproduction in high art wanted a figurehead, Haendel would make a […]

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 […]