Bad at Sports Giveaway | Traveling with Yoshitomo Nara

Bad at Sports Giveaway | Traveling with Yoshitomo Nara

Last week I reviewed the second installment of the New People Artist Series, Yayoi Kasuma: I Love Me. The people over at NPAS were nice enough to hook us up with three gift packs that include stickers, buttons, and a copy of their first release to the series,...
Lucia Fabio on Chicago Apartment Galleries

Lucia Fabio on Chicago Apartment Galleries

Start. A continuation of thoughts from the end of mini dutch. November, 2009. mini dutch ended a two year run in July, 2009. Subsequently, I moved to Los Angeles. Not to pursue a career as an artist or curator in a more viable city, but to be near my mother who was...
On Sundrun

On Sundrun

This Wednesday evening is the opening reception for Matthew Paul Jinks’ exhibition On Sundrun at Gallery 400. Matthew Paul Jinks’ work consistently deals with issues of memory, ritual, and inherited identity. Personal and cultural identity enacted, passed...
Ho Ho Ho Holiday Train!!!

Ho Ho Ho Holiday Train!!!

I had a very small window of opportunity over the weekend to see Carrie Schneider’s just-opened 12 x 12 project at the MCA. It was late Saturday afternoon, and I had about an hour and a half to take the El into the city from Oak Park in order to see the show...