by Richard Holland | Mar 14, 2013 | Blog
Is the banality of your world getting to you? Does the rote day-to-day sameness make you long for some sort of mental Horace Greeley telling you to “Go west young manâ€(or woman)? Did three hours go missing on Saturday night? Well, have I got a show for you. If you...
by Jeffrey Songco | Mar 13, 2013 | Blog
To be blunt: It’s been quite difficult to write about Rachel Mica Weiss. Her seemingly simple artwork of woven fibers, heavy rocks, and large tapestries of knots deliver moments of considered contemplation. For me, that contemplation reduces my chances of...
by Mary Jane Jacob | Mar 12, 2013 | Blog
I’ve been part of an EU endeavor called City (Re)Searches. It started in Kaunas Lithuania, went on to Cork, and last month was for four days in Belfast; in June it will return to Kaunas and conclude in Rotterdam two years from its start. Yet the initiation of this...
by Abigail Satinsky | Mar 12, 2013 | Blog
A couple days ago, while sitting with the illustrious Duncan Mackenzie, Richard Holland, and Claudine Ise, recording some musings on Chicago art at a bar in the middle of the afternoon, we started to talk about the tradition of socially engaged art in Chicago. I talk...
by Shane McAdams | Mar 11, 2013 | Blog
I received my second speeding ticket in six months last week in Wisconsin. He got me on a long, well traveled straight away and pulled me over right in front of the school where I teach. Several of my students gave me thumbs up as they walked by. “Do you...
