TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/15-10/21)
1. Doni Rochelle-Smith: Love Is on the Green Line: A Love Letter to Chicago October 17, 5-8PM Fourtune House: 4410 S Cottage Grove Ave 2. Dana DeGiulio & Matthew Girson: Paintings that have the look of paintings that are looked at October 17, 2-3PM...
Episode 975: Paul Nudd
Brian Andrews, Duncan MacKenzie, and Ryan Peter Miller sit down with Chicago-area artist Paul Nudd at Spudnik Press, surrounded by the work of the 1st International Milwaukee Riso Invitational.
Episode 974: Mari Eastman
What makes a painting worth saving? What happens when the image in your head refuses to become the image on your panel? And why does everybody want another fox?
Episode 973: Manuel Mathieu
What do you do when your hope for the future starts to feel fragile? And what can a painting, an act of remembrance, or a bottle of perfume do about it?
Duncan MacKenzie sits down with Haitian-born artist Manuel Mathieu at Calgary’s Esker Foundation for a conversation that moves between studio practice and the world beyond it. They begin with Mathieu’s presentation at the 2026 Venice Biennale, including GENOCIDE and his mosaic Abundance and Drought, then explore archives, erasure, political power, the responsibilities of artists, and whether art can make room for disagreement without closing down empathy.
Episode 972: Jeanette Andrews
Artist and magician Jeanette Andrews joins Duncan and Jesse at the Elmhurst Art Museum, the very place where, as a teenager, she began imagining how magic could become contemporary art. Nearly twenty years later, that ambition has become an exhibition.
Episode 971: Jean Alexander Frater, Matthew Girson & Dana DeGiulio at Material
What can eight small paintings tell us about the possibilities of an artist-run space? Duncan MacKenzie, joined midway by Jesse Malmed, speaks with Jean Alexander Frater, Matthew Girson, and Dana DeGiulio about a two-person exhibition at Material, Jean’s artist-run project space in Chicago’s Roscoe Village. Four paintings by Matthew and four by Dana are installed in an alternating sequence, setting up a conversation across the walls rather than dividing the gallery by artist.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/8-10/14)
1. Yejia Sun and Jintong Yang: Museum of What Will Have Been October 10, 3-4PM The Labyrinth Club: 3658 N Pulaski Rd 2. Tara Sabini and Jeremy Plotkin Wong: Pleasure Spread October 9, 5-9PM Oliva Gallery: 3816 W Armitage Ave 3. In Full View October 10,...
Sub-Rural, #64 Pope.L
Pope.L’s lengthy and productive career, regrettably cut short in 2023, is catalogued as conceptualist, activist, poet, performer, conjurer, and quasi-ethnographer. The artist was a radical progeny of Fluxus with keen rebukes of institutions, cultural or...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/1-10/7)
0. The Great Art Tailgate with Bad at Sports October 3, 11AM-3PM Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — Anne & John Kern Terrace Garden: 220 E Chicago Ave 1. The Caliber of Risk October 1, 6-10PM No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave Work...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/24-9/30)
1. Rob Fox Rich: Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst September 25, 5-9PM Fourtunehouse: 4410 S Cottage Grove Ave 2. Candace Hunter: Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? September 24, 6-8PM Arts + Public Life: 301 E Garfield Blvd 3. Araceli Zuniga: Egg...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/17-9/23)
1. Jesse Bond: OWN WHO YOU ARE: closing reception September 19, 6-9PM Sawhorse: 4222 W Fullerton Ave 2. Human-Nature September 17, 7-9PM The Franklin: 3522 W Franklin Blvd Artwork by: Andres L. Hernandez, Carlos Salazar Lermont, Hai-Wen Lin, Human Nature,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/10-9/16)
1. Laleh Motlagh: Rooted. Uprooted. September 12, 5-8PM SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art: 1527 N Ashland Ave 2. Reevah Agarwaal: Now I Braid My Own Hair September 12, 6-9PM Boundary: 2334 W 111th Pl 3. Robert Fields: EVERY NOW N’THEN . . . September 13,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/3-9/9)
1. Xinchen Li: The Shape of What Was September 4, 5-8PM ARC Gallery: 1463 W Chicago Ave 2. Rial Rye: Oscillation September 4, 6-9PM Ignition Project Space: 3839 W Grand Ave 3. I Am A Rock I Am A Roll September 5, 5-9PM KIOSK: 3054 N Sheffield Ave Work...
Sub-Rural #63, Chicago Works | Mike Cloud
A vital part of painting as a medium and practice juggles concerns about what constitutes art history and the public along with questions about a hierarchy in cultural critique, ethnography, craft, and geographic identity. We live in a time where fewer subjects fit...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (8/27-9/2)
1. Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman: Domestic Disruptions August 30, 3-6PM Riverside Arts Center's Freeark Gallery and Sculpture Garden: 32 E Quincy St, Riverside 2. Emmy Star Brown and Danym Kwon: The Peace of Wild Things August 28, 6-8PM Joy Machine: 4148 N...