Top 5 Weekend Picks! (2/21-2/23)

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (2/21-2/23)

1. The Call Is Coming From Inside the House at Roots & Culture Work by Elizabeth Allen-Cannon, Rachel Mesplay Helm, Matt Roche, Pat Egger, and Danni Parelman. Roots & Culture is located at 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave. Reception Friday from 6-9pm. 2. Coriolis Effect...
Public Art That’s Truly Public

Public Art That’s Truly Public

Preface This week the Fashion Institute of Technology held a panel on scale and spectacle called “Size Matters” (apparently unaware that they were in danger of ripping off and thereby angering curator Shaquille O’Neal, also a basketball player apparently, who...
From Illuminated Manuscripts to the iPad

From Illuminated Manuscripts to the iPad

I love art books. My bookshelves bow with them and they offer thoroughgoing diversion when I can’t sleep. Monographs work best for this. I prefer thick paper, with big images that fill the whole page. Although I always read the introduction and biographical...
Lets Run For Mayor of Chicago! and Other Links

Lets Run For Mayor of Chicago! and Other Links

Artist Tony Fitzpatrick Runs for Mayor of Chicago Read his facebook postings to follow the story but with Daley stepping down after 21 years the race begins and Tony Fitzpatrick has some fun points to be made. read more when someone makes a website for him? British...