by Guest | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog
guest post by Dan Gunn Alberto Aguilar announced his Instagram takeover of the @artinstitutechi feed in a bathroom mirror selfie. He positioned the cellphone to obscure his face and captioned the post with the deadpan statement “This is a takeover. I am Alberto...
by Duncan | Mar 5, 2016 | Podcast
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_541_Peter_Wachtler.mp3 download This week Dana Bassett and Duncan MacKenzie catch up with Peter Wachtler at Chicago’s Renaissance Society just after their 100th anniversary. We “borrowed” this from...
by Guest | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog
Right now, poetry is everywhere in the art world. Its resonates locally in murmurs and shouts, ranging from Diana Fridd’s whispered eulogies –for which she mines obituaries for nuggets such as “We Have No Words For This In English”—to Cheryl Pope’s hollering “Just...
by Jacob Wick | Feb 27, 2016 | Blog
The heavily securitized apartment towers of Interlomas rise out of the northwestern hills of Mexico City, soulless, securitized phalluses that house (protect) the soulless, tacky rich of Mexico. From many of their windows, surely double, even triple strength windows,...
by Kevin Blake | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
By Kevin Blake Tom Torluemke is an enigmatic figure in the Chicago art community. By enigmatic, I do not mean difficult to understand. Or outsider. I mean individual. I mean, unmistakably himself. His work has incredible range–physically as well as conceptually. He...
