February 5, 2010
LUMPEN MAGAZINE
& THE EVER-SO-SECRET ORDER OF THE LAMPREY
ANNOUNCE SPECIAL PARTY: Save the Whale!
In December 2009, an electrical fire destroyed the Whale, home of Kenneth Morrison, and damaged the adjoining home of Nat Ward and Michelle Faust. All three Pilsen artists and their pets survived, however now there is serious debt and a [...]
There are only a few weeks left before our deadline. Please contribute to the next issue. Read about the theme here.
We are going to miss all of our new friends from the Tupajumi Foundation. Their exhibition at the Co-Prosperity Sphere was a great example of how awesome a group show can be.
You can check out documentation of the C-PS show here and here. We look forward to working with them in the future. And you [...]
Proximity magazine contributor Anna Mayer raised consciousness at the LA Anarchist Book Fair this past Sunday.
The great folks of the Tupajumi Foundation are showing their work at Co-Prosperity Sphere this weekend only! See over three dozen works by as many artists from around the world. January 22, 7pm is the opening reception. A performance program with Waterbabies, Joe Kisser and Publicist (from Trans Am) follows at 9pm to 1am. [...]
Long ago in a world without internet, a few critical publications helped inspire and activate insurrection and counter cultural thinking here in the U.S. These publications provided real cultural coverage and analysis of how our lives were being consumed, co-opted and recombined by The Corporations. The Baffler was one of them. Their critique was a [...]
January 24, 2010
The Suburban Presents:Ethan Greenbaum+Katrin Sigurdardottir
OPENING: SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2 – 4 pm
EXHIBITION: JANUARY 24 – FEBRUARY 24, 2010
The Suburban125 N. Harvey Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60302708-305-2657thesuburban.org
Ethan Greenbaum, The Suburban
Sunday, January 24 – February 24, 2010
Opening Jan 24, 6-8pm
The Suburban is pleased to present The Suburban, a solo exhibition by artist Ethan Greenbaum. Greenbaum’s work is concerned with architectural and cultural [...]
January 22, 2010
Mike Kloss
The Hills Have Thighs
January 22, 2009
The Hills
THE HILLS ESTHETIC CENTER hosts an opening reception on Friday January 22nd, 2010 from 6-10 P.M. at 128 N. Campbell Street, Unit G, in Chicago, IL. The show “The Hills Have Thighs” features a mini-retrospective of Michael Kloss’ darkly imaginative pen and ink drawings, [...]
January 27, 2010
The Free Store
wrangled by Biggest Fags Ever (Zena Sakowski & Rob Kelly), Melinda Fries, & Salem Collo-Julin
Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago
400 S. Peoria St., Chicago
January 26 – March 6, 2010
Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm, Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 pm.
Extended hours on Thursdays – 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
(sharing [...]
One of the most interesting public art projects we have ever seen is taking place on a lake in Minnesota. Check out how Art Shanty Projects unfolds. It opens tomorrow!
January 16, 2010
Proximity #006 Release Party
Saturday, January 16, 2010 9pm – 1am
3219 S Morgan St
Please join us for the release of the sixth issue of Proximity magazine. There will be an evening of performances by Proximity friends and family as well as an exhibition of works by artists featured in past magazines. The exhibition is part of [...]
January 15, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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threewalls Gallery,119 North Peoria #2d,Chicago IL 60607
Armita Raafat
Exhibition Opening: Friday, January 15, 6:00-9:00 PM
Artist Talk: Thursday, February 4, 6:00 PM
The New Year begins at threewalls with a SOLO exhibition by Chicago-based artist, Armita Raafat. The first exhibitor in our newly expanded and renovated gallery, Raafat’s installation subtly transforms the [...]
Good magazine and coudal tipped us off to this.
Please help us create our next and most ambitious installment of the magazine.
Proximity isue 007 is themed “A Catalog of Strategies.” The issue will feature a lengthy directory of participatory, collectivist and interventionist projects and initiatives. We are seeking short entries, essays, and texts about alternative, counter, or oppositional practices and projects, created by individuals, [...]
Wow! Jeffrey Deitch! Read about the controversy on Bad At Sports.
January 16, 2010
Exhibition 4.01162010
Karen Archey
Chris Bradley
Brian Dongarra
Dominic Paul Moore
Montgomery Perry Smith
David Shafer
+ listenings from recorded Japanese fluxus
compositions by Toshi Ichiyanagi & Kuniharu Akiyama
Chicago, IL (January 05, 2009) – six artists inevitably converge, accidentally collaborate, & inadvertently
compete for viewers attention in this noisy & drolly dysfunctional exhibition. An experiment in obtrusiveness,
Exhibition 4.01162010 compiles works in a variety of [...]
Ok here is our last celebration of what we loved last year. Rachel Hewitt wraps it up.
Some of these picks aren’t necessarily spaces that opened in 2009 or the newest NPOs that have popped up on the map, but since I’ve just crawled out from under a rock, all of them are new to me, and all of them are pretty amazing.
January 8, 2010
“Out of Chicago”
Dayton Castleman & Jeremy Tubbs
January 8 – February 10, 2010
Opening Reception: January 8, 2010 5pm-8pm
Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Inc. 217 W. Huron,
Lower Level Chicago, IL 60654 773 671 5945
www.jennifernorbackfineart.com
Abigail Satinsky shares her favorite events at the Orientation Center on Studio Chicago
Time Out says small is beautiful
Vocalo shares the high and low points of architecture in Chicago from 2000-2009
Chicagoist’s Top 9 Of ’09
Steve Ruiz likes five from last year
New City’s Jason Fouberg high fives it, too.
February 6, 2010
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside – Out
Feb. 6, 2010 – May 30, 2010, Opening Feb. 6
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago
Production Site reexamines the artist’s studio as subject, presenting work that documents, depicts, reconstructs, or otherwise invokes that space, revealing how the studio functions as a place where research, experimentation, production, [...]
January 27, 2010
Temporary Services
Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics
January 26 – March 6, 2010, Opening Jan. 27, 2010
Gallery 400 at UIC
400 S. Peoria Street
Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics, is a newspaper and website (artandwork.us) that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on [...]
January 7, 2010
Express Gallery Talk: Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray pledged his soul so that he would remain forever young and handsome while his portrait aged and withered. After Oscar Wilde’s novel captured the attention of Hollywood, director Albert Lewin commissioned Ivan Albright to paint the infamous portrait. Explore how Albright interpreted Wilde’s tale of vanity, decadence, [...]
January 8, 2010
Johalla Projects
Friday, January 8, 2010
7:00pm – 10:00pm
1561 N Milwaukee Ave (2nd Floor)
Description
We spend our lives surrounded by strangers. They’re sitting at bars, shopping in malls, and working in offices all around us. And while strangers are everywhere, we’re rarely given the chance to explore their circumstances. Conversely, the artists in Getting Acquainted have chosen to [...]
January 8, 2010
New Works by Netherland
January 8-24, 2010
Artist and Rotofugi Gallery curator David “Netherland” van Alphen lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Though David’s family was from Holland, he was born in Toronto, and has been in Chicago for the last eight years. Being a child of the 70′s has influenced him greatly and is reflected in [...]
Read our second installment of our top picks for 2009. Bert says:
I am writing in hopes that our city starts to appreciate a balance rather than a conflict between sumptuously decadently beautiful and/or repulsive commodity-fetish art (which may never sell) and research-focused project-based community art (which may not really help that many people), both of [...]
Our second Top Ten picks for 2009. This one by Contributing Editor Albert Stabler.
January 8, 2010
Cheat Codes: lessons in love
A video art show curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Opening Friday January 8, 2010 from 6pm – 10pm
January 8 – February 6
A lesson in love [or, a cheat code] is a key sequence, password, or series of steps to be entered within a video art work [video game] that will provide the player [...]
An exhibition of work by the Rotterdam based Tupajumi Foundation.
Founded in 2001, Tupajumi is a foundation created solemnly for the promotion of selected artists. The idealistic principle behind the foundation is ‘If we share, we all benefit.’ With the growing support of artists, designers, friends and sponsors we organize international exhibitions at crucial locations within [...]
January 3, 2010
January 03 – February 14
The Renaissance Society will mount a solo exhibition of photographs by Chicago-based artist Anna Shteynshleyger (b. 1977). Trained at Yale, Shteynshleyger belongs to a generation of photographers whose work is notable for its formal beauty and technical execution. The exhibition will feature approximately 20 works that poignantly document Shteynshleyger’s life over [...]
January 15, 2010
January 15, 2010 – April 4, 2010
Much of our national memory of the civil rights movement is embodied by male figureheads whose visibility in boycotts, legal proceedings, and mass demonstrations dominated newspaper and television coverage in the 1950s and ’60s. Missing from that picture is a group of extraordinary women who, while less prominent in [...]
