by Meg Onli | Oct 13, 2009 | Blog
This week’s pick is a long one. Susan Rankaitis, James Welling, and George Baker take the gloves off and throw down over abstraction in photography. via the UCLA: “From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent...
by Christopher Hudgens | Oct 12, 2009 | Blog
https://57c978.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Bucket-Song-Psalm-One.mp3 The grand prize winner of the CHIPUBLIB “Sound Off” Music Contest has been announced. The winner is Englewood’s own Christalle Bowen better known as Psalm One. A mp3 of the...
by Claudine Isé | Oct 12, 2009 | Blog
Ah, bloody ladies and their fucked-up bloody baby dolls. I’m still counting down the days to Halloween, and if I can find a babysitter of my own, I am so going to see this woman (actually, Stacy Stoltz as Elizabeth) up close and in person when The Hypocrites...
by Guest | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog
Bad at Sports is pleased to have Martine Syms of Golden Age as a guest blogger with her picks from last week’s New York Art Book Fair. “Martine Syms is a conceptual entrepreneur based in Chicago, Illinois. You can usually find her doing...
by Meg Onli | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog
On this week’s roundup I discovered dresses that are made for cats, Pruned gave their plans for a 2118 Chicago winter Olympics, and I found Chicago Gangsters’ badass album cover for Gangsterlove. If you haven’t checked it out yet go see Philip von...
by Claudine Isé | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog
The winner of the first annual edition of ArtPrize has been announced, and it’s Ran Ortner from Brooklyn, New York. The Prize is a contemporary art competition based in Grand Rapids, Michigan that has eschewed traditional expert juries in favor of a public vote...