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.
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 [...]
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.
We are pleased to announce that PR, our companion publication, now has its own home here at proximitymagazine.com.
PR is published in between each issue of PROXIMITY. It includes reviews, extended essays and a large graphic/art piece printed in a broadsheet style. You can find PR all over Chicago and they are FREE. So while you [...]
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 [...]
On the heels of the recent layoffs at the Art Institute we have heard further disturbing news about some local art institutions. Over the weekend Llyod Dobler, a long-running apartment gallery in West Town, was visited by City of Chicago police officers and told they can no longer host art events in their residence. We [...]
Don’t miss these recent pieces about making art in Chicago from our local artblogosphere:
New City Art’s Art School Unconfidential: What the city’s burgeoning MFA programs mean for the future of artists in Chicago is a great read comparing the students and programs of the big 5 Chicago universities.
The Bad At Sports Artists Run Chicago Episode [...]
Steve was featured in Issue 003 of Proximity. We are excited about his new show in LA at the Charlie James Gallery.
Steve Lambert solo show walkthrough from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Rebecca Smeyne
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Justin Goh
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Zach Abubeker
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Justin Goh
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Rebecca Smeyne
From Issue #2 – Photography by Justin Goh
From Issue #2 – Photography by Zach Abubeker
From Issue #2 – Photography by Aron Gent
In this episode of Proximity, we continue our mission: revealing art worlds, real and imagined. Today, we present a series of investigations by dreamers currently inhabiting under-represented art metropoles around the world. Places like Hamburg. Jacmel. Los Alamos. [ Read More... ]
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
The descriptions are hypnotic in Associated Press correspondent Bryan Mealer’s new book All Things Must Fight To Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo…
Among the things Horvitz mails to strangers: photographs of the sky, the sea, himself kissing a moon tree; a rock from the Hudson River
“I think there is always a gap to be bridged, with integrity on one side and compromise on the other.”
Technically a neighborhood in the city of East Chicago, Marktown lies just over the Illinois/Indiana state border along East 129th street.
Over the past twenty years, Rotterdam has emerged as one of the lesser-known cultural capitals of Europe.
Ruffenhofen is one of those places that, after 1400 years of settlement and development, remains a handful of houses and fields.
Can you imagine being in a community where being an artist is considered an honest and valued career choice? I am pleased to say I have found that community…
Some years ago, the city of Hamburg discovered that it could promote itself through its cool subcultural scene, which visual artists are an important part of.
“I hope the Secret Shop becomes a big secret.”
Outside of the Russian mafia, the Icelandic Artist wields a lot of power here.
Tokyo & The Presentation of Art in Unusual Places
Each year Oberhausen transforms into a gathering place for film and video…
Searching for Art in the Land of Curds and Beer.
Where are essays by contemporary artists on theory? That is, written pieces beyond the dreaded, largely pedantic and seemingly omnipresent “Artist’s Statements”?
This essay examines one collective, the Pocho Research Society (PRS) that has done just this by dedicating their practice to altering existing monuments…
Earlier this summer, I went on the first leg of a book tour for my new novel, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring…
Other Options attempts to identify artists’ practices, which critique these old paradigms, and the infrastructures that support them, while …
My friend Zoë has a passion for sewing. However, instead of pulling needles through fiber, she directs needles in and out of her private canvas—her skin.
A wedding party strides through the pedway beneath the Cultural Center to my car, and as chauffeur, I’m kicking myself that I failed to decorate it…
