Lynn Basa Like many full-time artists, one of my income streams is through sales to art consultants. In fact, I no longer show in galleries but sell directly through independent art advisors. These are art professionals who work with corporate, healthcare, hospitality and other market sectors to guide them through every aspect of purchasing art, [...]
Jeriah Hildwine "Under the Bell" by Tom Torluemke Artist Tom Torluemke has been answering my questions about his thoughts and experiences in regard to gallery representation. He has been represented by numerous galleries since he was in his early 20s, as well as representing himself without the assistance of a gallery. Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. [...]
Robin Dluzen I came armed to the Harold Washington Library with very little knowledge of the Chicago Artists’ Archive that is housed within. I had arranged an appointment with Librarian Leslie Patterson, the keeper of the archive, and I was surprised to see the whole thing — all 9,844 artist entries– housed in a set [...]
Victor M. Cassidy New Acquisition, "Head of a Warrior," 6th century AD Most people, when they visit the Art Institute of Chicago, head straight to the Modern Wing or the Impressionists. Rarely do they start with the Japanese art galleries. Often as not, they just walk right by. Japanese art makes us work. It delivers [...]
Diego Nava La visión que tenemos en México de los inmigrantes es muy distinta a la que tienen los nativos de EUA, aquí, sabemos que se van por “sobra” de oportunidades laborales en nuestro país; en EUA, bueno, ellos les disparan en la frontera para que no invadan su territorio. Hoy conoceremos el arte de [...]
Chicago Art Magazine recently conducted an email interview with Jenny Kendler, co-founder of OtherPeoplesPixles, a Chicago-based company specializing in Artist Portfolio Websites. Chicago Art Magazine: Do you consider OtherPeoplesPixels an art company or a software company? Jenny Kendler: I think OPP functions somewhere between the two. Certainly, we couldn’t do what we do without being [...]
So Chicago Art Magazine: The Movie started as a joke in the post about our school, but now it’s actually becoming a reality as we record editorial meetings and prepare to turn the magazine over to our fearless crew (pictured below). You’ll start seeing these names in the byline, and then, starting on June 13, [...]
W. Keith Brown Mark Bradford, Strawberry, 2002. Courtesy of the MCA In 2007, Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette published Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945. The text investigates artistic and cultural notions of collectivity under the schizophrenic conditions of postmodernity and late capitalism. Stimson and Sholette sought to better understand how [...]
Originally posted on Chicago Art Collection Rachel Hewitt Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University We’ve previously discussed the role of art museums as educational resources for the public. What then of university art museums, specifically? It would be fair to say that these museums and collections have an implied educational role [...]
