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The Artist Facing the Art: Antonia Gurkovska
What is more important – the art or the artist?
Category: Featured
Poland’s Teatr ZAR on the MCA Stage 3/29 – 4/1
Teatr ZAR is the resident company at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland.
Weekly Pick: Jason Robert Bell at Thomas Robertello Gallery
The One Man Army Corpse presents a highly charged alternative reality in which monstrous totemic paintings and assemblages act as temple guardians to a new sacred text written by Bell.
“Patterns of Nature”: Claudia Kleefeld at Woman Made Gallery
Kleefeld manages to speak to her viewers on a universal, metaphorical level, as well as a deeply personal level.
Random Gallery Spotlight: Corbett vs. Dempsey
“We have done eight years of shows, and there will be things that we do in the future that will surprise people.” –Corbett
On Artist-Curators: Q&A with Angela Bryant of O’Connor Gallery
In my opinion, the role of the curator is much more of a recent phenomenon than that of an artist curating.
Watie White & The Chicago Project, 2012
White’s work is inspired by the social, but involves multiple interpretations and sharp appropriations of meaning.
Weekly Pick: “I Surrender” at devening projects + editions
A group exhibition celebrating the 5 year anniversary of devening projects + editions
Wait, Where are You Located Again?: Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery
Gosia Koscielak coins her online gallery work “internet studio/gallery practice” in order to move away from the dividing line of global and local art.
Early Fluxus Iconoclast Henry Flynt visits SAIC 3/6-3/9
Iconoclastic artist and philosopher Henry Flynt presents lectures and a screening of experimental cinema for the SAIC community and general public.
Weekly Pick: Alan Cohen at Document
Alan Cohen’s exhibition “Revisited Exposures” is a selection of works made in the 1970′s while studying at the ID with Arthur Siegel.
It’s Our Own Damn Fault More People Aren’t Collecting Art
A post from the Chicago Now blog archive, by Lisa Boumstein-Smalley
(Art) Talks of the Town: Never the Same’s Chicago Archive
Chicago has a very rich local art history that we spend very little energy as a community of participants in actually preserving.
Weekly Pick: Alderman Exhibitions’ Re-Opening and Screening
Alderman Exhibitions is hosting a Re-Opening Celebration and Screening in their new West Loop space.
Free Seminar: The Art of Modernism in Japanese Woodblock Prints 2/25
Bright Lights, Big City: The Art of Modernism in Japanese Woodblock Prints will examine the early period of modern Japanese prints, from 1904 to 1959.
Chicago Animator Jim Trainor: The Anti-Disney
Jim Trainor has established a name for himself as the anti-Disney.
Random Gallery Spotlight: The Poison Cup
The majority of sales come from wine, though art sales have been improving with every new artist featured.
Nicolas Maigret & HARD R @ the Nightingale 2/21
Upgrade!Chicago presents an evening of experimental sound/music performances and noise/new-media lectures.
Park West Gallery Presents: Leslie Lew and her Sculpted Oils
Lew’s outlook on what many deem “throwaway” materials – comic books and product advertisements – is simultaneously nostalgic and documentary.
