by Claudine Isé | Nov 3, 2010 | Blog
I don’t really get this secret “Underbelly Project” exhibition that 103 street artists from around the world have created, and which is garnering much fanfair and publicity at the moment. I mean, yeah, on the one hand certainly I get it, and I like...
by Claudine Isé | Nov 2, 2010 | Blog
An upcoming event worthy of special note: this Thursday, the Art Institute unveils a new exhibition focused on the work of Chicago experimental filmmaker Tom Palazzolo, who began making films about Chicago in 1965 while attended SAIC with painters Gladys Nilsson,...
by Claudine Isé | Nov 1, 2010 | Blog
I’m always really pleased but also sort of baffled, too, when an artist invites me over for a studio visit. Once, when I had an institutional career, it was pretty obvious why an artist would want me in his or her studio, and what the stakes were: at minimum, the...
by Claudine Isé | Nov 1, 2010 | Blog
Chicago-born, NY-based artist Tony Matelli, who was a guest on Bad at Sports’ Episode 140, will lecture at Columbia College this coming Wednesday, November 3rd. On Matelli, from the the A + D website: “his hyper-real, playful, and often dark sculptural...
by Claudine Isé | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
I have a longstanding interest in what I think of as (for lack of a better term) “girl culture,” so Caitlin Arnold’s work is pretty much right up my alley. Not because she makes pictures of teen-aged girls per se, but because of the way she makes...
