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 [...]
Pilsen Part 3: Lacuna Lofts Inara Cedrins The Lacuna Lofts building in East Pilsen, at Canalport off Halsted, was originally a macaroni factory, seeing some use as commercial space until two years ago when Natalie Stubbs, the current property manager, proposed turning it into a space for artists. The design of the brick and wood [...]
Palomar Chicago: Offers Local Artist Program By Anthony Brass Justus Roe, "Life Like Bellum" Sitting in one of the country’s highest concentrated areas of art galleries, the Palomar Chicago hotel in River North is pulling out historic memories of a significant cultural event, while at the same time exposing local artists within its confines. The [...]
Carrie McGath Interior of DfbrL8r Walking into Defibrillator (aka: DfbrL8r) Performance Art Space, there is a feeling of noir, like walking into a black and white world that barely waits below the surface to come to life. The edgy performances that have happened there since its opening last winter, are ghostly presences still chivvying up [...]
Keepers of the Fire: Chicago’s Burning Man Community By Jeriah Hildwine Two thousand miles from here there is a desert, the dry remnant of a Pleistocene lake, a sun-baked alkali flat surrounded by jagged piles of rock. Beneath the surface the area is geothermally and volcanically active, and hot springs dot the surrounding area. In [...]
