Meeting Beatrice Fisher a Little Too Late: In Memoriam

Meeting Beatrice Fisher a Little Too Late: In Memoriam

Guest post by Damien James   I walked into Woman Made Gallery on Wednesday, October 14th, to view and review the Beatrice Fisher retrospective, which surveyed fifty years of art making. Intrigued by the gallery’s website, which noted that this was...
Damien James on the Chicago Humanities Festival

Damien James on the Chicago Humanities Festival

Guest post by Damien James In the brief Chicago Humanities Festival preview posted a couple of weeks ago, I listed what I hoped would be some highlights, and I wanted to take a moment now that the festival is about halfway through its run to tell you about two events...
The Yes Men in Chicago

The Yes Men in Chicago

GUEST POST BY DAMIEN JAMES The Yes Men, hoaxsters who have elevated civil disobedience to an art form by taking on the biggest, most socially irresponsible corporations and the government that allows those corporations to screw the people, will be making appearances...
Chicago Humanities Festival Preview

Chicago Humanities Festival Preview

We’re pleased to welcome Chicago artist and writer Damien James as our new guest blogger! Damien will be covering the Chicago Humanities Festival for us, and today brings us a preview of what we can look forward to at this year’s Festival. The Chicago...
Rant of the Week: Damien James at Newcity

Rant of the Week: Damien James at Newcity

Dear Art Thief. This is actually more of a stealth-rant, deploying reverse-psychology tactics and appeals to the culprit’s sense of fair play. Some creep stole an artwork by Chicago artist Damien James right off the walls of the Flatiron building, and...