by Claudine Isé | Aug 22, 2009 | Blog
The Chicago Tribune’s Sunday edition includes a lengthy article by Mark Caro and Lauren Viera on on how Chicago’s art galleries are weathering the recession. According to the Trib, many gallery owners in the River North area are reporting that business...
by Claudine Isé | Aug 21, 2009 | Blog
Three Frames condenses feature length films into what is essentially a three-frame money shot (I’m using the polite term here)–animated .gifs consisting of only three film frames. There’s something about the twitchy, jerkily repetitive results...
by Meg Onli | Aug 21, 2009 | Blog
On this week’s roundup we check out the always fantastic Chip Kidd discussing comic book covers, a chimpanzee reenacts a scene from the ring, and a call for proposals for the seventh art shanty project. Have a great weekend. Chip Kidd on comic book covers. RT...
by Claudine Isé | Aug 21, 2009 | Blog
Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), a decade-long national initiative to improve conditions for artists (which includes efforts to connect artists to greater health insurance options and maintain spaces for art and artists in community development projects,...
by laurenvallone | Aug 20, 2009 | Blog
Jill Frank, who had a great show at GOLDEN just about a year ago, and now has a 12×12 up at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, will be giving an artist talk at the MCA this coming Tuesday, August 25th at 630pm. She was kind enough to answer a few...
by Claudine Isé | Aug 20, 2009 | Blog
This Saturday August 22nd is the last chance to see a two-person show at Spoke that uses multiple perspectives and narrative strategies to explore everyday life in the occupied territories. Tirtza Even and Toby Millman’s exhibition addresses “the...