Exit Interview: Stephanie Smith

Exit Interview: Stephanie Smith

  This summer it was announced that Stephanie Smith, a longtime Chicago cultural work, best known as deputy director and chief curator at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, has left her Chicago post to become chief curator at the Art Gallery of...
New York’s A Snoozefest…

New York’s A Snoozefest…

But we ain’t napping! Instead, we’re working our smooth moves to get NYC into bed with us. Founding members Amanda Browder, Richard Holland and Duncan MacKenzie are leading by example as they keep the bed warm at the Volta NY fair, where they’re...
Chicagoaxaca: An Interview with Iván Arenas

Chicagoaxaca: An Interview with Iván Arenas

Guest Post by Daniel Tucker On February 12th, two new printmaking exhibitions opened at Art In These Times, an occasional exhibition venue in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood that is situated in the offices of the 35-year-old progressive news magazine In...
Goodbye Frances “Frannie” Dittmer

Goodbye Frances “Frannie” Dittmer

It is our sad duty to report the untimely passing of Frances “Frannie” (nee Ronshausen) Dittmer, a giant in the world of art, philanthropy, and living life. Ms. Dittmer died when the airplane she was in went down over Puerta Vallarta, Mexico last week. Bad at...