by Claudine Isé | Feb 5, 2010 | Blog
Congratulations to Hamza Walker, curator at The Renaissance Society — it has just been announced that he’s won the Ordway Prize from Creative Link for the Arts and the New Museum! Walker, along with artist Artur Zmijewski, will receive an unrestricted...
by Claudine Isé | Jan 4, 2010 | Blog
While I was looking at the photographs of Anna Shteynshleyger at the opening of this Russian-born, Chicago-based artist’s new solo exhibition at at The Renaissance Society, a middle-aged woman wearing a fluffy, faux-fur coat sidled up next to me. “Do you...
by Claudine Isé | Nov 18, 2009 | Blog
I’d never heard of the Ordway Prize until a few weeks ago, when two highly respected Chicago-based arts professionals (artist Tania Bruguera, who also lives in Havana, Cuba, and Hamza Walker, curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago) were...
by Claudine Isé | Jun 1, 2009 | Blog
…I’ll ask you to try this instead: Go to your iTunes. Create a ringtone for John Cage’s 4’33” (if you don’t want to spend money for it on iTunes, you can find a free ringtone for 4’33” here). Install that ringtone on...
by Christopher Hudgens | Feb 22, 2009 | Podcast
http://media.libsyn.com/media/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_182-Jim_Lutes.mp3 download This week: Duncan and Richard talk to artist, professor and musician Jim Lutes about his work, his career, and his recent show at the Renaissance Society. “Chicago-based...
