by Caroline Picard | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog
I met Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris for the first time about five or six years ago. “Hooliganship,” the name of their performative duo, was on tour with the second issue of a DVD cartoon compilation called Cartune Xprez. They came to do a...
by Claudine Isé | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog
Just a heads’ up that tomorrow night, Thursday June 23nd, architect and designer Catie Newell’s project Second Story will have its opening at Extension Gallery for Architecture here in Chicago. Our Detroit correspondent Sarah Margolis-Pineo will be posting...
by Claudine Isé | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog
Next up in our Mantras for Plants series, artist Heidi Norton and I interview Cris Merino, Isa Merino and Carol Montpart, the directorial team behind The Plant Journal, a biannual magazine based in Barcelona, Spain (The journal’s editor is Cris Merino, and its...
by Christopher Hudgens | Jun 20, 2011 | Podcast
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_303-Yael_Bartana.mp3 download This week: Bad at Sports humbly presents Yael Bartana. We speak about her film work, identity struggles, the history of war and power, and just how an Israeli comes to represent...
by Abraham Ritchie | Jun 17, 2011 | Blog
Chicago is one of the few major cities that use taxpayer dollars to destroy art, to the tune of $9 million in 2010. It’s this situation that makes a book like Chicago Street Art a valuable historical document as well as a rare survey of the street artists...