Big and Bold

Big and Bold

Some big things worth mentioning — maybe… 1. RAPID PULSE, an international performance festival, is taking place this weekend and next week. The Chicago Reader just wrote a great something something, with the evocative sub-header “Wafaa Bilal wants...
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (8/20 & 8/21)

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (8/20 & 8/21)

Another round of weekend picks, brought to you by…well…me. Enjoy! 1. Caras de Mexico at 33 Collective Gallery Work by photographer Joe Compean. 33 Collective Gallery is located at 1029 W. 35th St. Reception is Friday, from 7-10pm. 2. Corazón...
Small Is (Usually) Good

Small Is (Usually) Good

CROSS-FADE, a group show of Chicago-based artists who are romantically involved, gives new meaning to the term relational aesthetics. The chosen lovebirds here are Julia Fish and Richard Rezak, Michelle Bolinger and Todd Simeone, and Kevin Kaempf and Michael Thomas of People Powered and Lucky Pierre, respectively—couples who don’t normally collaborate but, as organizer Stacie Johnson points out on the Swimming Pool Project Space website, “their independent practices have been in dialogue for some time.”