SERIOUSLY!!!! Bike it.

So, it turns out that anyone who “bikes” to the Merchandise Mart gets in free to Artropolis. That would include the Next Fair (which all you good Art minded Chicagoans should be off too anyway) and Art Chicago. This seems to be in relation to the Mart...

Elkins Stone Theory Institute part 1

Finally, after a six month wait, it is here… The audio from the 2007 Stone Summer Theory Institute: Is Art History Global? This will be a series of six or seven 2-4 hour excerpts from the week-long event. In advance of the second iteration “What is an...

You Fucking Sellout.

Lori Waxman sent me a note today saying that I had too check out this blog and post something about it.  She was right.  I love the Sellout Blog. It is the perfect blend of useful information and random “experience of life in the arts, style life...
That Darn Melanie Schiff

That Darn Melanie Schiff

Melanie continues to be one of the freshest bright lights in Chicago Art community! Aside from teaching, making, and curating as any good young Chicago artist does, she is one of only two Chicago based artists (Jennifer Montgomery is the other) in the 2008 Whitney...
Art Fair Madness

Art Fair Madness

It has struck me as strange that while people continue to delight in talk of an art market crash, the number of Art Fairs just proliferates. It is a bit like watching the Cold War Arms race. Just keep building them till you bankrupt the smaller spaces and smaller...