by Claudine Isé | Mar 26, 2010 | Blog
This week New City published an essay by its arts editor Jason Foumberg on the state of art criticism amidst the rise of blogging, online websites, and other forms of interactive media titled The State of the (Visual) Art. I didn’t read this as a piece on the...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 24, 2010 | Blog
Last weekend I checked out Volume Gallery’s debut presentation, an exhibition of limited edition furniture pieces by designer Jonathan Nesci titled THE NEW. The show was held for three days only at Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Nesci, whose design firm Hale is based in...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 24, 2010 | Blog
The Chicago Tribune’s Live section has a profile today of Quinn Dombrowski, a photographer and University of Chicago grad who has a flickr site, and a self-published book, that captures the astonishing range of graffiti marking the interior of the Regenstein...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog
Does the Museum of Modern Art’s live feed of Marina Abramoviç’s performance “The Artist is Present” defeat the purpose of the piece, or enhance it? “The Artist is Present” is the title of both Abramoviç’s retrospective, which...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 19, 2010 | Blog
****On WBEZ Chicago Public Radio this week, Eight Forty-Eight ran a report about artist Chris Drew’s fight against Chicago’s restrictive laws concerning street art vendors. The report compares Chicago’s laws on the issue to those of San Francisco and...