The Baffler is coming back! Old news but good news to us!
Minneapolis doctor gives artists a health care option.
Damien James writes about the October 29 Yes Men event at Co-Prosperity Sphere on Bad at Sports. Thanks DJ.
Paddy Johnson’s Art Fair As Economic Indicator: Are Things Looking Up worth the speculation.
The pavilion that should not have [...]
November 1, 2009
Release of AREA #9 Peripheral Vision: A Local Reader Inside and Outside Chicago!
November 1, 2009 from 2:00pm till 5:00 pm.
The release party will be coinciding with the closing party for The Demise of the South Side Community Art Center at the South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave. (CTA: Indiana stop on the [...]
Danish collective Superflex has created a series of films about the financial meltdown in which the artists treat the crisis as a form of psychosis to be treated by a hypnotist. Featured at Frieze Art fair and on BBC channel 4.
The Financial Crisis (Session I-V) is a new film work in which SUPERFLEX address the [...]
The Yes Men will be in Chicago for the premier of their new film The Yes Men Fix the World. Lumpen Magazine will be hosting an event for them at the Co-Prosperity Sphere, Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7:30pm.
There will be a presentation of their recent work and a workshop for an action will be [...]
November 13, 2009
The ACT-I-VATE Experience & Salon at Quimby’s
Dean Haspiel, co-founder of the premier online comic art collective, ACT-I-VATE.com, will be hosting a multimedia salon to celebrate the release of The ACT-I-VATE Primer, 16 original stories by some of the most highly respected visual storytellers working today. This will also be the Chicago debut of The [...]
October 24, 2009
AFTER EFFECTS
by Thad Kellstadt
OPENING-Saturday, October 24th, 7-11pm
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Thad Kellstadt’s After Effects attempts to explore the possible afterlife of objects, once dependent on human touch, now neglected but possessing a new presence. Some believe that the breaking of a mirror brings a lengthy stint of bad luck due to the soul confiscating power of the mirrors reflective [...]
October 30, 2009
Means Without End
October 30 – December 18, 2009
Opening Reception: October 30, 6:30-8:30 pm
Artist Talk: November 13, 7:00-9:00 pm
Chicago Photography Center
3301 N Lincoln Ave
773.549.1631
Means Without End, 2009 consists of hundreds of 10” x 10” unfolded photograms of peace cranes, tiled together to form a large multi-media installation. The number of color [...]
October 29, 2009
The Yes Men are in town for the Chicago premier of their new film The Yes Men Fix the World. They will be hosting an event at the Co-Prosperity Sphere on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7:30pm. Everyone is invited and its free to the public.
A presentation of their recent work and a workshop for [...]
Shepard Fairey lied about his Obama source material.
McDonald’s restaurant to open in the Louvre.
Mud stencils activism in Wisconsin and some from Illinois.
The Yes Men Make Chamber of Commerce Look Like (Bigger) Dinosaurs.
Our friend, Scott Thomas, was the Design Director of the Obama presidential campaign. He has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art and design from the historic campaign. Support the project by pre-ordering a book using the innovative Kickstarter website that helps individuals and groups fund their ideas [...]
October 31, 2009
Daniel Rich @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
October 31
http://www.andrewrafacz.com/exhibition_works.php?s_id=28
October 16, 2009
Lora Fosberg in the Project Space @ Linda Warren Gallery
Oct 16th
6-9pm opening
October 23, 2009
Zombie: A Mindless Affair@ Antena
Curated by Edra Soto
Oct 23rd
http://www.antenapilsen.com
November 7, 2009
This fall marks the 20th annual Chicago Humanities Festival! Celebrate with us as we explore the many facets of Laughter, including conversations about classic and alternative comics.
For more information and tickets to all events taking place this fall, visit us online at www.chicagohumanities.org or call our box office at 312.494.9509.
Jules [...]
November 5, 2009
This fall marks the 20th annual Chicago Humanities Festival! Celebrate with us as we explore the many facets of Laughter, including conversations about classic and alternative comics.
Matt Groening and Lynda Barry:
Cartoonists in Conversation
Matt Groening (creator of the The Simpsons, Futurama, and Life in Hell) and Lynda Barry (Ernie Pook’s [...]
November 7, 2009
This fall marks the 20th annual Chicago Humanities Festival! Celebrate with us as we explore the many facets of Laughter, including conversations about classic and alternative comics.
For more information and tickets to all events taking place this fall, visit us online at www.chicagohumanities.org or call our box office at 312.494.9509.
Chris [...]
Good Magazine’s Good 100 features Nance Klehm’s Chicago Humble Pile project. Visit spontaneousvegetation.net.
October 13, 2009
In Search of the Mundane
October 16 through November 8
at threewalls (http://www.three-walls.org/calendar/2009/10/in-search-of-the-mundane.php)
Opening Reception and Team Trivia Night with host Jon Brumit, October 16, 6-9 pm
In Search of the Mundane, organized by Randall Szott and the Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday [...]
Around the Coyote
2009 Fall Arts Festival
October 16-18
Around the Coyote is pleased to present its 2009 Fall Arts Festival in Wicker Park during the weekend of October 16-18. Around the Coyote will present over 100 different artists in a variety of disciplines: visual arts such as painting, drawing, and photography, poetry, music, and film, video, and [...]
Proximity presents an exhibition by Jenni Rope and a few visiting artists from Finland this weekend @ C-PS.
We also present an installation by Ryan Mandell @ Eastern Expansion this Friday.
There is a Fest/Fair bonanza to check out this week.
Frieze Art fair power brokers expected to kick ass.
Impakt, one of our favorite media festivals starts this [...]
We are going to this:
39 Verbs, Produced by Industry of the Ordinary
Packer Schopf Gallery
942 W. Lake Street
773.301.7162
www.industryoftheordinary.com
One-night exhibition: October 11, 5-8pm
Examine. Disperse. Impregnate. Cook. These are a few of the “39 Verbs” featured in the latest happening produced by Industry of the Ordinary, a collaborative initiative of Chicago artists Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson, that [...]
Thanks Norway and the rest of Europe in forgiving us for the Bush Presidency.
“In one sense, the award was a rebuke to the foreign policies of Mr. Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush..” – NYT
Utrecht Manifest 2009
3rd biennial for social design
4-18 October 2009
Artistic Director: Guus Beumer
Centraal Museum, CM Studio, Casco House,
Villa Jongerius and De Pastoe Factory
http://www.utrechtmanifest.nl
This biennial is intended to draw attention to the question of how and where the social is produced today: not thematically, but by approaching the cultural models of which biennials [...]
October 17, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009 7pm
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St.
Come to an evening of Presentations Pecha Kucha style with Jenni Rope and her friends. Beverages and Snacks will be served.
Absoulutely free
Topics to be discussed:
Terhi Ekebom: Illustrating fears and worries
Jenni Rope: The story of Napa
Tuomas Siitonen: Temporary architecture in Helsinki
Sari Palosaari: Constructed realities
October 16, 2009
ACTIONS: What You Can Do With the City
www.cca-actions.org
October 16, 2009 – March 13, 2010
GRAHAM FOUNDATION
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm; every third Thursday of the
month, 10 am to 9 pm. Group tours available. Free admission.
For more information and related events: www.grahamfoundation.org or 312.787.4071.
Actions: [...]
October 3, 2009
Lumpen Magazine Relaunch
Saturday October 3, 2009 8pm – 1am
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan Street
Say goodbye to the old lumpen and hello to the new one!
As some of you may know or have heard Lumpen Magazine has been undergoing some reconstructive surgery and will debuting it’s new face to the world October 3rd at The Co-Prosperity Sphere [...]
While all the real estate agents, Daley cronies and various other business/politician types are all mourning the loss of the Olympic bid Roger Ebert has written the most sensible and poignant article I’ve read in months. I cannot thank him enough for writing this.
Anyone on that Olympic committee could see, as most of us do, [...]
October 16, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009 through November 1, 2009
Opening reception: October 16, 7pm to 10pm
A Proximity Presents Exhibition Series
Enter the forest. A walk down the path might lead you to the climbing tree. In the swamp you can see a pyramid rise. Stop for a moment and hear the lambs roll around. This forest appears [...]
October 29, 2009
Nadine Nakanishi of Sonnenzimmer
Reads From Formal Additive Programs at Quimby’s
This is not another portfolio book by an artist… or at least it’s trying not to be. Formal Additive Programs, Nakanishi’s first release is an attempt to provide insight into a daily art practice and process, while focusing on the commonalities of figurative and abstract [...]
Accidental Publics Symposium
Friday and Saturday, October 2 & 3, 2009
Northwestern University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Directions
A two-day symposium focusing on temporary public artworks that address an “accidental public” people, viewers, an audience, or passersby who are not expecting to encounter a work of art. The purpose is to theorize and compare [...]
October 16, 2009
October 16 – November 12—Opening Reception Oct. 15 from 6-9pm
October 10, 2009
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
October 10 – November 15, 2009
MCA CHICAGO
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, is a new commission by British artist Jeremy Deller as part of The Three M Project. In an effort to encourage the public to discuss the present circumstances in Iraq, [...]
October 1, 2009
HEARTLAND
October 1, 2009 – January 17, 2010
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Exhibition presents new and innovative work by artists who are redefining the cultural terrain of the American Heartland.
The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents Heartland, a new exhibition that examines innovative forms of [...]
