by Abraham Ritchie | May 14, 2014 | Blog
The ironies were too many to pass up writing about Pedro Vélez for Bad at Sports. Most immediately because I am a white male (no matter how I try, will this article be an episode of what Vélez constantly points out, neocolonialism?) who readily acknowledges the...
by Abraham Ritchie | Apr 5, 2013 | Blog
What does it mean when a city of almost three million with a thriving art scene has not a single full-time art critic? That’s the situation in Chicago when just weeks ago Time Out Chicago was bought out bringing an end the print edition, which circulated to 55,000,...
by Abraham Ritchie | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog
Preface This week the Fashion Institute of Technology held a panel on scale and spectacle called “Size Matters†(apparently unaware that they were in danger of ripping off and thereby angering curator Shaquille O’Neal, also a basketball player apparently, who...
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 It’s this situation that makes a book like Chicago Street Art a valuable historical document as well as a rare survey of the street artists...
