by Meg Onli | Nov 12, 2009 | Blog
Two Chicagoans have been announced as candidates for the Ordway Prize. Tania Bruguera, who splits her time between Havana Cuba and Chicago, and The Renaissance Society’s Hamza Walker are up for the prize with a handful of other artists and curators. The prize...
by Claudine Isé | Nov 12, 2009 | Blog
New City art editor, Frieze contributor, independent curator and culture essayist Jason Foumberg has a new website, designed by Ryan Swanson, that kicks ass. Professional writers know how important it is to have all of their written material online in an easy to...
by Claudine Isé | Nov 11, 2009 | Blog
As part of a new initiative to bring contemporary art into hospitals and other health care facilities around the country, RxArt, a New York nonprofit group headed by Diane Brown, will install several pieces by Jeff Koons in the CAT Scan room of Advocate Hope...
by Meg Onli | Nov 10, 2009 | Blog
powers of ten :: charles and ray eames from bacteriasleep on Vimeo. On this week’s Pick we check out Charles and Ray Eames adaptation of the book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke. “The Powers of Ten” is a short documentary that explores “relative...
by Meg Onli | Nov 10, 2009 | Blog, TV
LUMPEN TLVSN got a great interview with the Yes Men when they were in town for the release of The Yes Men Fix the World. via Lumpen: “Mike Bonanno and Laurel Whitney discuss the roots and future of the prolific corpo-political hoax-sters The Yes Men. On hand are...
by Guest | Nov 10, 2009 | Blog
Guest post by Damien James In the brief Chicago Humanities Festival preview posted a couple of weeks ago, I listed what I hoped would be some highlights, and I wanted to take a moment now that the festival is about halfway through its run to tell you about two events...
