Top 5 Weekend Picks! (10/1 & 10/2)

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (10/1 & 10/2)

1. Leap of Faith at Architrouve Paintings by Chicago artist James Jankowiak. Architrouve is located at 1433 W. Chicago Ave. Reception is Friday from 6-9pm. 2. GLI.TC/H run.time & real.time at Transistor and The Nightingale Work by Theodore Darst, Ben Baker Smith,...
Don’t Miss: Henry Darger at Home (and) at Work

Don’t Miss: Henry Darger at Home (and) at Work

Some great upcoming programming planned around Chicago Artist’s Month that I wanted to bring to your attention. This weekend, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art will present Henry Darger at Home (and) at Work, a program comprising two...

Group Chatting with gli.tc/h Organizers

editors note: I foolishly didn’t record my own audio in this interview, so for the first half there are titles that guide viewers through questions I was incredibly fortunate to arrange a tinychat with the organizers of the upcoming gli.ct/h...

Four for Fall | Centerfield on Art:21 blog

Our latest post is up over at art:21 blog. This week, we look at a few of the gallery exhibitions that have opened in Chicago over the past month. A brief teaser below: Traditionally, fall is the time when galleries launch their new slate of exhibitions after a...
Portraiture as Punishment?

Portraiture as Punishment?

A few weeks ago here on the blog, I wrote a post about portraiture in the age of Facebook. At the conclusion of the piece, I said this: “To whatever extent our online selves reflect our offline selves, Haugsjaa and Moore’s portraits make it harrowingly clear that...