The Art in Brewing Beer: Arcade Brewery

The Art in Brewing Beer: Arcade Brewery

This post is part of an ongoing series about art and beer.  Over the weekend, I met artist and brewer Christopher Tourre at his house as he and Lance Curran, his partner in Arcade Brewery, brewed a five and a half gallon batch of beer they call Oatmilk Stout. Tourre...
Accents on the Hyphen: Gwenn-Aël Lynn on Hyrbidity

Accents on the Hyphen: Gwenn-Aël Lynn on Hyrbidity

Caroline Picard: This series started for me because I kept hearing the word hybridity — in multiple conversations about different art works or practices, hybridity started to sound like a buzzword. While on the one hand, I know what the word means of course, it...
Barbara Kasten Talks With Heidi Norton

Barbara Kasten Talks With Heidi Norton

GUEST POST BY HEIDI NORTON As a photography student of the mid/late 90’s, Barbara Kasten was of great significance to me. I lost track of her during the first decade of the millennium, as the contemporaries of the Becher’s school (Gursky, Ruff, Struth)...
Blog as a Medium

Blog as a Medium

I came across an article by Martin Patrick, Restlessness and Reception: Transforming Art Criticism in the Age of the Blogosphere, that discusses at length the role of art criticism today and — unlike most pieces I read about the state of the world — ends on a...
Interview with Dmitry Samarov of “Hack”

Interview with Dmitry Samarov of “Hack”

I’ve been following Dmitry Samarov’s work for a few years now, about as long as I’ve been living in Chicago. Oddly enough, I first became acquainted with Mr. Samarov through Twitter, which at the time he was just starting to play around with and I...