No more visionary art

Over the last eight or ten months, I have been taking advantage of the opportunity this space provides by interviewing people whose work I admire or whose organizations I am curious about. I have not had an explicit plan or frame for these interviews: for their...
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (10/17-10/19)

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (10/17-10/19)

1. If They Mated at The Honey Hole Curated by Zachary Harvey with work by Annie Bielski, Jonathan Chacon, Nicole Cherry, Ryan Travis Christian, Autumn Elizabeth Clark, Travis Fish, Daniel Greenberg, David Leggett, Dave Lloyd, Esau McGhee, Genna Moss, Dylan Rabe, Josh...
EDITION #38

EDITION #38

New New Art and Event Space Opens in Logan Square Sector 2337 touches down on Milwaukee Blvd With or without a physical locale, Green Lantern Press has been a force in the Chicago art scene since Caroline Picard started to open up her loft space in Wicker Park to...
Interview with Cameron Crawford

Interview with Cameron Crawford

It occurred to me, after knowing sculptor Cameron Crawford for a while, that I thought of him first as a writer, not least of which because his conversations always sounded as if they should be recorded on paper – his language as if read. I saw Cameron read at...
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (10/10-10/12)

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (10/10-10/12)

1. The Space Between at Northeastern Illinois University Fine Art Center Gallery Work by Andrew Borowiec, Terry Evans, Juan Fernandez, Jason Reblando, Ross Sawyers, Chris Schedel, Greg Stimac, and Bob Thall. Northeastern Illinois University Fine Art Center Gallery is...
Lives Well Lived: The People’s Biennial 2014

Lives Well Lived: The People’s Biennial 2014

The second installment of a curatorial project by Jens Hoffmann and Harrell Fletcher, the People’s Biennial 2014 takes a stronger approach to its mission than the first. In 2010, the idea was to highlight five cities in the US that are not art centers and showcase the...