by Claudine Isé | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog
Today seems like an appropriately rainy day to discuss Pae White’s Restless Rainbow (2011) at The Art Institute of Chicago, which I saw and photographed about a month ago, on a day when it was pouring rain. I’ve been mulling over the piece ever since....
by Claudine Isé | May 9, 2011 | Blog
James Cuno has been named President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, it was announced today. He will leave his post as Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago at the end of June and assume his new position on August 1st. An excerpt from the press...
by Terri Griffith | Apr 29, 2011 | Blog
I love art books. My bookshelves bow with them and they offer thoroughgoing diversion when I can’t sleep. Monographs work best for this. I prefer thick paper, with big images that fill the whole page. Although I always read the introduction and biographical...
by Guest | Feb 21, 2011 | Blog
Guest Post by Julia V. Hendrickson Notes on a Conversation. With—Mark Pascale (Curator in the Dept. of Prints & Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Adjunct Professor of Printmedia at SAIC) In—the Prints & Drawings Study Center Commenced—on...
by Damien James | Jan 27, 2011 | Blog
GUEST POST BY DAMIEN JAMES 77th Street installation view, each 9.5 x 11 feet. Graphite on paper, 2010. Days before his solo show closed at Linda Warren Gallery, I briefly met Matt Woodward while he was on his way to the opening of yet another solo show of his work at...