The Psycopomp-er herself checks in do discuss Animal cognition, human speciesism, Aron Gent, threats to an Open Society, Fivver, Quilts, Jacquard fabric printing technology, operating as an artist and as an institution!
By Krystal DiFronzo This upcoming weekend cartoonists and publishers from around the world will flock to the Center on Halsted for the 5th Annual Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE). A book I’m really looking forward to picking up is Accursed: A Collection of...
1. New Relics from the Pleasuredome June 3, 2017, 5-8PM Work by: Dutes Miller Western Exhibitions: 1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642 2. Cuttings June 3, 2017, 12-7:30PM Work by: Aimee Beaubien Platform: 904 Sherman, Evanston, IL 60202 3. The POWER...
The artist-run space Cultivator relocated with its founders Joanne Aono and Brian Leber to Bray Grove Farm southwest of Chicago in Grundy County. Here Leber and Aono put their backs into their commitment to ecologically sustainable agriculture. They grow organic...
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This week we check in with Naima Keith and Ian Weaver…
Naima Keith Deputy Director of Exhibits and Programs at the California African American Museum and Chicago Art rocker and roller Ian Weaver join the show to talk about the Artadia Granting program, (COOK COUNTY – YOUR ARTADIA APPLICATIONS ARE DUE ON THE FIRST OF JUNE,) Museum Challenges, tindering artists, programing at CAAM, Pilsen and the Little Village, inventing histories for communities which have suffered erasure, the Black Knight Archive, and how facing the past helps us find the future.
The T is rich this week with a bizarre and public fight on Facebook between two prominent Chicago Art worlders, the South Side Weekly digs deep into Theaster Gate’s Rebuild Foundation, and the Chicago Torture Justice Center Opens today!