by Lise McKean | May 29, 2015 | Blog
An Invisible Hand David Weinberg Photography Chicago, May 22 – July 25, 2015 The savvy title caught my attention. The Reader’s wording in its art listing, “group show about the experience of living with poverty,” was even more curious. Was the description...
by Dana Bassett | May 26, 2015 | Blog
Fashion World Unrelated to Real One But, like, whatever. Walking into the tented entrance of SAIC’s THE WALK felt stepping off the rainy downtown street into another dimension. Maybe we picked the wrong art world to focus on? This was unlike anY...
by theladiesalmanack | May 20, 2015 | Blog
Ed. note: This is the first in a four part series hosted in collaboration with The Ladies Almanack, a feature-length experimental narrative film written & directed by Daviel Shy, based on the novel of the same title by Djuna Barnes. The first post of the...
by Eric Asboe | May 19, 2015 | Blog
I am sitting outside on a porch. Although, I know there is much more to come, it already feels like the height of summer – hot, humid, rumbles of distant thunder, tomatoes and cucumbers ready to be harvested. I have a lot to learn about my new home. If I had moved...
by Meg Santisi | May 16, 2015 | Blog
Old Fashioned Tiffany T 4 dashes bitters 1 splash soda 2 oz Bourbon 1 bar spoonful Goldschläger 1 tsp sugar 1 orange wheel 1 candied cherry Mad Men is finishing its final season, and I have to say, it’s probably one of the best shows ever made for television –...
by Jacob Wick | May 15, 2015 | Blog
After Open Engagement happened, a few people asked me if I had gone. I hadn’t; I didn’t. I kept on reading write-ups of what happened, some of which were great, but I kept on not caring at all about what was being said, what was being talked about, or what had been...
