by Meg Onli | Jun 26, 2009 | Blog
Man, this week sort of sucked. Not only did Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson die in the same day but there were layoffs in multiple museums and Kodak’s Kodachrome was discontinued. Bummer. This weekend however is Pride weekend in Chicago so if you want to see...
by stephanieburke | Jun 25, 2009 | Blog
‘Sup ya’ll. Drumroll please… 1. Three cheers for Futurism!? You’ve got to love an art movement obsessed with industrialized warfare who’s adherents where so woefully incompetent at warfare that most of them died as soon as they set foot...
by Meg Onli | Jun 25, 2009 | Blog
Yesterday we all saw the gossip on Proximity’s blog about the laying off of almost all full time employees at The Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Time Out Chicago got on the case and spoke with Spertus spokeswoman Susan Baum about the rumors....
by laurenvallone | Jun 25, 2009 | Blog
I met Rachel Kalom at a queer book group that met at a bar. Not a ton of book-discussing went on, but we did manage to get drunk at 3pm one Sunday every month. When she told me that she was co-curating a show with her coworker Brian Gillham, I was really excited to...
by Claudine Isé | Jun 24, 2009 | Blog
I wanted to post about Marco Brambilla’s elevator installation at The Standard hotel in NYC a couple of weeks ago, but all the YouTube links looked super-crappy and stuttery on my relatively old iBook G4. A few days ago Lynn Becker of ArchitectureChicago Plus...
by Claudine Isé | Jun 24, 2009 | Blog
I’m overheated, sticky, and mega-crabby today, and what’s more, a big goddamned tree just fell on my house. So here’s the list, short and sweet: *Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner papers now available online at the Smithsonian (via Two Coats of Paint)....
