by Martine Syms | May 19, 2010 | Blog, Review
Scott Wolniak was the proprietor of Suitable, an alternative (garage) space in Humboldt Park, from 1999-2004. He started the space after receiving his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and ended it when the roof collapsed. The goal of Suitable was to...
by Christopher Hudgens | May 19, 2010 | Blog
Graffiti Artist Banksy who has been making the rounds throughout US cities recently (Los Angeles, Park City for Sundance, Chicago and Toronto) created a work in Detroit which has created a larger debate on the role of public art and its relationship to longevity,...
by Meg Onli | May 18, 2010 | Blog
I received a copy of Arty Party in the mail a few weeks ago. Created by Sara Drake and James Payne the comic came about while taking both an art history and comic class at the same time. As their website notes; “Arty Part started when Sara was having trouble...
by Meg Onli | May 18, 2010 | Blog
This week’s pick I found while looking through Artforum’s video archive. If you haven’t checked it out I would recommend it. Gil Scott-Heron’s The Revolution will Not Be Televised (1971) was a promotional video for his collection of poems, Now...
by Claudine Isé | May 17, 2010 | Blog
Chicago artist and recent SAIC grad Dana DeGiulio has a new show up at Julius Caesar, the alternative space she co-runs with Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Diego Leclery, Colby Shaft and Hans Peter Sundquist. I’d seen several presentations of DeGiulio’s work...
