by Claudine Isé | May 4, 2009 | Blog
Mahan Gallery owner/director Jacqueline Mahan and her associate director Colleen Grennan are both art fair newbies, or at least they were before participating in NEXT this past weekend. Mahan Gallery, which is widely regarded as one of the best galleries for younger...
by Claudine Isé | May 4, 2009 | Blog
This piece, exhibited at Gallery 400’s ‘Better to light a candle than curse the dark’ presentation at NEXT/Art Chicago, wins my award for most personally meaningful work of art encountered at the Merchandise Mart. Last Friday, I rounded a corner and...
by Claudine Isé | May 4, 2009 | Blog
“Harry who?” While a lot of the art featured in the booths on the 12th floor of Art Chicago wasn’t really my cup of tea, I did like all of the special exhibition projects, especially Lynn Warren’s side-by-side presentations of “The Hairy...
by Claudine Isé | May 2, 2009 | Blog
Some find these creepy, others strangely erotic. Check out the demo for the Digigrade leg extensions created by Seattle artist Kim Graham. (via Boing Boing via TYWKIWDBI). “>
by Claudine Isé | May 1, 2009 | Blog
Rarely have I felt the sting of my own digital poverty to the degree that I did today, my first day at Art Chicago, which would have been so much more pleasant had I not been lugging a flippin’ laptop around for hours (I thought they’d have Wi-Fi in the...
