by Claudine Isé | May 20, 2009 | Blog
Sid Laverents died of pneumonia on May 6th at the age of 100. Who was Sid Laverents, you ask? From his New York Times obituary: Mr. Laverents was a jack of many trades, a perpetual self-inventor. He played a dozen instruments and supported himself through the...
by Claudine Isé | May 20, 2009 | Blog
A few stories, blog posts, and interesting discussions in Chicago and beyond that are on my mind this week. **Image credit: Shannon Keller, Knitter. Keller’s work is currently on view at Show Cave in L.A. (via The World’s Best Ever). *CAA Study finds...
by Christopher Hudgens | May 19, 2009 | Blog, TV
The Future Is Now* *And by now we mean in the 22nd century, which is just one number away really. The future is important to artsits since many of us are closet geeks and we like to know what tech we will be unable to afford in 2018. The Apple future is oddly like the...
by Meg Onli | May 19, 2009 | Blog
This morning I found an email from Richard Holland that simply stated “utterly awesome” with a link. I clicked on the link and found myself at the home page for the film Sita Sings the Blues. I had seen the movie poster while I was at the Gene Siskle Film...
by Meg Onli | May 19, 2009 | Blog, TV
I found this really cheesy commercial from the Art Institute while I was searching for a video of Sol Lewitt on Youtube. It was made in 1988 to commemorate the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building. I sort of wish that this music would play in the lobby as you bought...
by Claudine Isé | May 18, 2009 | Blog, Editorial
From Holland Cotter’s New York Times review of the New Museum’s The Generational: Younger Than Jesus: “But my point is that beyond quibbles about choices of individual works, [Younger than Jesus] raises the question of whether any mainstream museum...
