by Visualist Chicago | Dec 22, 2016 | Blog
“Merdre!” In December 1896 the world was gifted with the premiere of Ubu Roi, an absurdist burlesque and a deep parody of Macbeth wherein an ambitious and cowardly man rises to power and then subsequently fails. It’s filled to bursting with...
by Guest | Dec 10, 2009 | Blog
Guest Post by Jennifer Breckner Some Notes on Hosting Brian O’Doherty, in his seminal 1976 book, Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, takes the traditional gallery space to task, critiquing the manner in which its white walls became the de...
by Guest | Dec 10, 2009 | Blog
Guest Post by Caroline Picard This essay was first published in the Artists Run Chicago Digest published jointly by threewalls and Green Lantern Press in 2009. On the matter of public (1) space : or my apartment gallery is an arctic explorer “‘Oh, you have...
by Guest | Dec 9, 2009 | Blog
Guest Post by Eric May (Ed. Note: May’s essay takes the format of responses to a series of questions about Chicago’s apartment gallery scene, posed by EC Brown of Floor Length and Tux). Do these space have real cultural or regional impact? Does anyone...
by Guest | Dec 9, 2009 | Blog
Editors’ Note: All this week we’re running some of the essays written for Floor Length and Tux’s “Untitled Circus” event this past weekend. A number of essays on Chicago’s thriving domestic/apartment gallery art space scene were...
