by Claudine Isé | Jul 12, 2009 | Blog
Seen enroute to 65 Grand this weekend. This is one of the many great things about summer in Chicago. You can see these kinds of ad-hoc gardens everywhere, if you look for them. Coincidentally, this weekend I also came across a book of photographs by Brad Temkin...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 11, 2009 | Blog
From yesterday’s L.A. Times: “The legal adventures of Shepard Fairey came to a head today when the L.A. street artist received a sentence of two years probation from a Boston court as part of a plea arrangement with prosecutors. Fairey agreed to plead...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 8, 2009 | Blog
The Getty Museum on Fire? Not so far, according to the latest L.A. Times report. Thankfully the Center’s evacuation seems to have gone smoothly. Sad to say, but this kind of disaster is a regular occurrence in SoCal, and it’s not the first time the...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 8, 2009 | Blog
For crying out loud, can everyone just give poor Jerry Saltz a break and leave the guy alone? How exactly did he become the Christ figure of the art press, the one we look to to Save Us, the guy that’s gonna solve everyone’s problems, including those of...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 8, 2009 | Blog
A few weeks ago we learned just how bad the Spertus Museum’s dire financial woes are: in September they’re cutting their visitor hours waaaaaay back, to just two Sundays a month, and are laying off almost all of their full-time employees. Yesterday the NEA...
