Nicely played, however, was the decision to install the jaw dropping behemoth of illusionism in the back gallery.

… I left “Actions” not bored in the least, despite the compulsive abundance of text, but rather with an uneasy sense that the utopian promise of space and technology has …

Some Dispatches.
First Fridays at the MCA: Art, Absinthe, and Loneliness, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day by Theresa Rothschadl and Review of American Radical by Matt Muchowski. Enjoy!

If you’re looking for love in all the wrong places, and you’d like to continue that losing streak, you might want to try First Fridays at the MCA.

Finkelstein was a professor of mine at DePaul University and he has gained fame and controversy for his books critical of the occupation of Palestine. Finkelstein was denied a tenure position at DePaul and I was one of the students who organized protests in support of his bid for tenure. I was a part of the occupation of DePaul President Fr. Holtschneider’s office. Finkelstein was a fantastic teacher and an excellent academic.

” What is refreshing about the exhibition is that there are no Midwest or Dutch stereotypes, but an investigation of materials and clear presentation of ideas which share both countries’ sense of place.”

The stenciled image read “End Torture in Illinois” and featured an outline of the state and the star locating the TAMMS supermax prison…

I was scared by the movie. I also laughed at some parts of it, just as Slate promised I would. What neither scared me nor pleased me was the gory stuff…

We are super happy to have been chosen to exhibit at Publish and be Damned. The event is held in conjunction with the London Art Book Fair and introduces some of the planet’s best independent publications to each other. Our Man in Spain, Jorge Miñano Ramírez, will be holding down our stand for Proximity.
“Surveying a [...]

Enjoy a review of the socially responsible Bi-Rite Grocery Store by Stuart Keeler. Makes us want to open one in Chicago.
Advanced tech and art knowledge is transferred via Ten Links with Christopher Hudgens.

The Bay Area, historically, has been on the cusp of change; this is evident in the social movements, as well as the trends in food, style and living where humanistic attitudes lead contemporary lifestyles. Maybe, it’s how you use your city space, why and what statement, if any is communicated that is the greatest form [...]

THE BLDG BLOG BOOK
Chronicle Books, $29.95
Let’s face it most of the web is for short attention span browsing and no one really reads anything lengthy online. This fact makes it odd that I am choosing for my first review in this series The BLDG BLOG Book by Geoff Manaugh.
I thought that everyone browsed the BLDG [...]

12 x 12 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago – June 6th-28th

@ Chicago Cultural Center

Click here for the photos from last weekend’s openings of “control c, control v” at ebers, Rod Hunting at the coop, “Unusual Suspects” at 2612 space, “The Diorama Show” at The Home Gallery, “Matthew Harris: Beyond China”, “Glenn Wexler: Transit 2″ &  “Spellbound” & “Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture” at the Hyde Park Art Center.

Reblogged everywhere on the artblogosphere Bravo is now casting their reality based show called the Untitled Art Project. They are seeking emerging and mid career artists.
Here’s your chance.  Now go to the Bravo casting call site for full details:
Casting Calls for The Untitled Art Project are as follows:
LOS ANGELES
Saturday, July 11 & Sunday, July [...]

Various Artists – Madison Museum of Contemporary Art – May 2 to August 23, 2009

Lilly Lampe reveiws two books: Fragments by David Carl and Trucks by John Himmelfarb

Jenny Holzer at the MCA Chicago.

Sarah Galvin reviews these three things. Enjoy.

Various Artists – Happy Dog Gallery -March 26th and 27th, 2009

Roots & Culture – Chicago, IL – March 28 – May 2nd 2009

In one photo, Jimmy Stewart stands humorously in the desert, staring oddly at what looks to be a gas-powered model airplane.

Some hear the term “Beautiful Losers” and think of the Leonard Cohen book.

I went to bed at three with my hair full of Miller High Life and other people’s sweat. I set my alarm for six. I didn’t have to get up for work until eleven…

Blame Dada. Wikipedia, that hallowed inter-web tome of ceaseless knowledge, associates performance art with the Dadaists.

Trapped in the middle of this century, like a sardine in a can, exists its most relevant artist, whom I’m quite certain you’ve never heard of.

Art Fag reviews Stan Shellabarger, Gordon Matta Clark, Patricia Acosta, Stina Kaczmaryn, Jeff Koons, and Michael Hernandez De Luna.

Various Artists – Green Lantern, Mar/Apr 2009

REVIEW: Paul Nudd and Nick Black at Antena – Feb/Mar 2009

REVIEW: Deborah Simon – Packer Schopf Gallery – Jan/Feb 2009

Alumni Bookworks, 1991 to 2008 by Various Artists (The Columbia College Chicago Book and Paper Center Gallery, March 2009

The fist time I went to Central New York state was the first time I knew where it was. The first time I heard about Sudan on the news was the first time I knew where it was, and what was on the nearby borders. Our personal maps of the world are continuously changing. Through [...]

James Jankowiak, William Betts, Katerina Šedá, Shawn May, Chuck Walker, Chang Jia, Jason Hackenwerth all reviewed by Art Fag.

Henry Darger Exhibition – INTUIT – Jan-Jun, 2008

Various Artists – Phantom Galleries, Chicago – February 2008

Sonny’s Café At the School of the Art Institute, Chicago – Feb 21,2008

Various Artists – MCA (Chicago) – Winter/Spring 2008

Various Artists – Museum of Contemporary Photography – Spring 2008

Indexical Frontiers, featuring Adelheid Mers – Inova Gallery – Spring 2008

Anne Wilson – Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago – Spring 2008

Various Artists – Tate Modern, London – Summer 2008

Institute for Social Research – San Francisco Bay Area – Fall 2007