September 6, 2009
The Show ‘n Tell Show
Sunday, September 6, 2009
We’re pleased to announce another edition of Chicago’s first and only Live Talk Show centered around design and the creative arts. The Show ‘n Tell Show is a late night-style show where the guests are the city’s most dynamic designers, photographers, illustrators, poster-makers and more. They each present [...]
September 5, 2009
Retórica del recuerdo
Rhetorics of memory
An installation by Jorge Miñano Ramírez
September 5 – Sept 22, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday September 5 6pm to 9 pm
Eastern Expansion Gallery
244 W 31st St
Chicago
El: Red to Sox/35th.
Bus: 29, 35
Artist Statement:
The exhibition is a starting point for a reflection about the concept of cultural memory and how it [...]
September 12, 2009
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
In Our Likeness: Portraits of Illumination
September 12 – October 31, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday September 12th, 4-7pm
PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION and PHONE!!
moniquemeloche
2154 W. Division (@ Leavitt)
Chicago, IL 60622
773.252.0299
www.moniquemeloche.com
tues-sat 11-6pm
For further information contact Whitney Tassie at 312.455.0299 or 773.252.0299
H.R. 2009 graphite on paper c. Davis + Langlois
“So cheat your landlord [...]
A few reads worth the diversion:
So Surreal: Thrift Shop Art May Be by Dalí
Several works attributed to the Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí are currently on display at a Salvation Army Family Thrift Store in a seedy industrial neighborhood in Houston.
30 things about art and life, as explained by Charles Saatchi
He rarely gives interviews, but a [...]
The juggernaut of arts podcasting from Chicago turns four this week. BAS player Kathryn Born profiles Team Bad At Sports at Art Talk Chicago and explains how they turn out a podcast once a week never missing a beat.
How do they do it?:
When funds dry up during economic downturns, many organizations are forced to disband. [...]
Forwarded from Facebook:
Club Nutz is a website/tv show and a comedy/music label that’s an actual club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. We will be recreating the Club Nutz experience for four days this fall in the main tent at Frieze Art Fair in London.
Club Nutz : a 4 x 4 meter miniature night club featuring a [...]
Online Editor Ian Whitmore is featured in Vague Paper, A UK-based photography magazine. Ian’s recent work centers around ignored spaces of our built environment. These spaces in between are often invisible to passers by and sometimes badly decorated by its planners. But there is beauty in the planters and melancholic landscape design behind “Nowhere.” Take [...]
One of our longest running projects, Lumpen magazine, is undergoing a major remodeling. The printed publication is being relaunched and re-designed. And starting this fall Lumpen will be available for free in NYC, LA as well as here in Chicago. Our new distribution model will function as a way to connect further with other art [...]
Indian art pushing boundaries
[Chicago] Gallery owners feeling pinch of recession
New Frida Kahlo Collection Denounced as a Fake
September 12, 2009
Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen of Urban Lab
invite you to an evening with The Seldoms
Saturday, September 12, 2009
6-9 PM
UrbanLab
3209 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60608
The Seldoms are kicking off our exciting 2009-2010 Season with an intimate, late summer gathering of friends and fans. We’ll share our plans for the year, including our first-time engagement at the [...]
September 19, 2009
Group Show for Daniel Pink, former chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, inspired by his line in the December 1997 issue of Fast Company: “What’s one thing that all free agents need? Copies!”
featuring Curt Bozif and Matthew Metzger
with Amy Adler, Conrad Bakker, Vince Leo and Sharon Lockhart
curated by Lane Relyea
Saturday, September 19, 2009
6pm-10pm
723 W. [...]
LANDSCAPES OF QUARANTINE
A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DESIGN STUDIO
Landscapes of Quarantine is an independent, multi-disciplinary design studio, based in New York City, consisting of eight evening workshops, from October 6 to December 5, 2009, in which up to 14 participants will gather to discuss the spatial implications of quarantine. The results of the workshop will be presented in [...]
Our friend Jim Duignan from the Stockyard Institute talks about the “The Cafeteria Sessions” program with The Multicultural Arts High School on the most recent Bad At Sports episode. Required listening for all you pedagogy heads.
August 29, 2009 12:00 am
Despite being considered to be the evolutionary kings of the jungle, we often distinguish ourselves by displaying behaviors contrary to the qualities of civility or higher culture that are presumed to set us apart from animals. Pardon me, I am just not feeling like myself today examines our primitive tendencies to violence, isolation, selfishness and [...]
One of the best architecture magazines in the world came out with their latest. Issue #20 of Volume looks mind blowing. The review at fantastic We Make money Not Art made me want to have it now! The theme for this issue is Storytelling:
This past year numerous dramas have competed for our attention: sub-prime mortgages, [...]
For those of you who like illuminated urine containers as street art please check out the most recent lighting installation by Luz Interruptus.
Kathryn Born has been increasing the visibility of the arts in Chicago with the Art Talk Chicago blog, a project run by the Chicago Tribune Company. For years the Tribune Co. has spent way too much money figuring out this internet thing. The recent series of blogs they created are a little too little too [...]
The Art Shanty Project is a groundbreaking festival or sorts that takes place each year on a frozen lake in Minnesota. For the past seven years they have been doing this incredible project. They are: Seeking visual artists, musicians, composers, media artists, architects, poets, scientists, dancer/choreographers, writers, builders, fisher-people, outdoors-people, naturalists, puppeteers, set designers, vocalists, [...]
August 17, 2009
*** Open invitation for the Seventh Art Shanty Projects ***
Seeking visual artists, musicians, composers, media artists,
architects, poets, scientists, dancer/choreographers, writers,
builders, fisher-people, outdoors-people, naturalists, puppeteers, set
designers, vocalists, spoken word artists, craftspeople, storytellers,
actors, playwrights, etc. interested in participating in the design
and construction of ice fishing shanty-like structures, producing
engaging projects, art, events and shows on frozen Medicine Lake [...]
Before you slip out into the weekend action, stay here a second and read some new items in our On-Line Content Section of the site. This week we feature an Interview with Dee Clements of Simple Gallery. You should also check out Casey Smallwood’s Top Ten Links. Delicious.
http://proximitymagazine.com/2009/08/casey-smallwood/
Why should you listen to Casey Smallwood when she tells you that these links are the greatest things to happen to the internet since Al Gore?
You should listen to Casey because she’s designed a dog suit for the future. You should listen to Casey because if you don’t, she will steal your pizza. You should [...]
Dee Clements is a local painter, curator and aspiring gallerist. Although Simple Gallery has been in the works as a brainstorm for ten years, it’s just within the past year that benefits have been held and the first artist grant has been awarded. Conducted over email between the end of July and beginning of August, [...]
August 21, 2009
Transparent Refect
Transparent Reflect examines portraits and self-portraits relationship in art. The show takes the traditional approach of making a portrait from an observational standpoint and mixes it with the more reflective side of a self-portrait. The artists in the show use photography, drawing, painting and installation works to portray their ideas though a range of [...]
August 15, 2009
Closing Party: Get It Together
Friday August 15, 7-11pm
Get It Together: Collage Assemblage & Collaboration was an event that took place in Chicago at Co-Prosperity Sphere. As an experiment in extracurricular gallery experience (say that 5 times fast), curators Chad Kouri of The Post Family and James Harry Ewert Jr. brought together local sweethearts of collage, [...]
August 14, 2009
Freakie Outie @ Eastern Expansion
Eastern Expansion is pleased to host Freakie Outie for a one night only performance August 14, 2009 from 7-9pm
Referencing peep shows and iPod commercials, Freakie Outie is a window-based performance installation which ties together personal electronics, affect, pop music and sensoral memory. Four performers at a time are contained within the [...]
Picked up the Chicago Reader and read Deanna Isaac’s column, As 4Art leaves for Bridgeport, yet another storefront in “Podville” goes dark. We are very familiar with the history of the Pod Empire and have watched the so-called “Chicago Art District” lose the vitality it maybe once had. When Pod III decided to move artists [...]
Society of the Query conference
13 – 14 November, Trouw Amsterdam in Amsterdam
With the Society of the Query conference -stop searching, start questioning-, the Institute of Network Cultures aims to critically reflect on the information society and the dominant role of the search engine in our culture. What does the dependency on the engine to manage [...]
The Gallery Crawl has a great intinerary up on their blog – Please note that the Well Hung Show is not opening at the Co-Prosperity Sphere – We reccomend that you check out Spoke and ANTENA on Friday, The Busy Beaver Button Company Grand Opening on Saturday and Mess Hall on Sunday. Happy art action.
August 9, 2009
EVERYBODY’S GOT (MORE) MONEY ISSUES
A local exhibition and event series continuing the conversations from a local reader about money and its relationship to our work and lives.
During the months of August and September, AREA Chicago and Mess Hall are organizing an exhibition and event series to expand the content of AREA#8 [...]
August 7, 2009
North American Wildlife
August 7, 2009, 6:00 pm-12:30 pm
Free
The Family Room
1821 W Hubbard, 202
Chicago, IL 60607
Map it
North American Wildlife is an assembly of conceptual artists working across all plat forms of visual, sound and multi media installations. During the hot Brooklyn summer of 2008, creatives Bryce Wymer Mitchell Paone and Dennis Brown made a decision that (over the [...]
August 22, 2009
Vega Estates Presents:
Joe Grimm & Ben Russell
(ASTRAL) PROJECTIONS
Saturday, August 22, 2009
6pm-10pm
723 W. 16th Street
Chicago, Il 60616
JOE GRIMM : The World of Things In Themselves
Joe Grimm’s current projector work negotiates the space between the physically real and the perceptually real; between noumena and phenomena. Modified 16mm projectors produce flicker rates with speeds that vary in complex [...]
August 7, 2009
August 7- September 5, 2009
ANTENA
1765 S. Laflin St.
Chicago IL 60608
www.antenapilsen.com
“Surveillance & Spirituality”:
New works by Gabriel Villa
Opening: Friday August 7 from 6pm-10pm
Gabriel Villa’s work will be featured in the upcoming solo exhibition, Spirituality and Surveillance: New Works by Gabriel Villa at Antena
(formerly known as Polvo), Chicago, IL Fall 2009. Also in the Fall 2009, a Solo [...]
On Wednesday, August 5th NPR program The Story will air a peice on Chicagrapher Brian Ulrich. This is an excellent follow up opportunity for those of you who have read our interview with Brian in Issue #4. For those of you who haven’t read it (it isn’t available online, yet) we encourage you to sit [...]
August 2, 2009
BEN RUSSELL presents
BEN RUSSELL : BURNS
CAMLAB (ANNA MAYER & JEMIMA WYMAN)
DIANA GUERRERO-MACÍA
MATT HANNER
SEMICONDUCTOR (RUTH JARMAN & JOE GERHARDT)
1716 S Morgan #2F
Chicago, IL 60608
August 2 to August 30, 2009
Opening reception: 6-10 pm, August 2, 2009
Private viewings by appointment*
*The performance of “Things That Have Once Been in Contact” by Camlab will be presented at approximately 7:15pm.
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ABOUT THE [...]
August 8, 2009
Palestine Revisited
Tirtza Even and Toby Millman each translate their experiences of personal encounters in Palestine in an exhibition at Spoke in Chicago’s West Loop district, opening Friday August 7th. The two projects, Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains by Tirtza Even and Access and Closure by Toby Millman each result from extensive stays in Palestine [...]
August 3, 2009
Monday August 3 – Sonotheque – 1444 W. Chicago – 312.226.7600
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE + SENSORY OVERLOAD
6-9PM
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE PRESENTS:
KURUTTA IPPEIJI/A PAGE OF MADNESS/A PAGE OUT OF ORDER (1926) 60 MINUTES – DIRECTED BY TEINOSUKE KINUGASA
MONSIEUR FANTOMAS (1936) 17 MINUTES – DIRECTED BY ERNST MOERNAN
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE: FROM ARTHOUSE TO GRINDHOUSE
EVERY FIRST MONDAY [...]
August 12, 2009
Tyler E. Boudreau Reads From
Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine
Wed, Aug 12, 7pm
Written by Marine Corps veteran Tyler Boudreau, Packing Inferno (Feral House) traces his 12-year career as a Marine, from boot camp in South Carolina to the first siege on Fallujah in 2004. Boudreau’s transformation from eager recruit, to a professional-minded Marine torn [...]
August 29, 2009
Letting Go
Opening: Saturday, August 29th 2009 6-10 PM
Show runs through September 20th
The art Ephameron makes is sensitive: with images and small texts she tries to recreate everyday feelings and thoughts, to capture moments with her art. Recurring themes like hands, birds and girls live in her fantasy world of emotions, colourless backgrounds and huge black [...]
