<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418097/vownjdlxek1peopbj7bk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/driehaus-museum-in-chicago-brings-a-historic-auditorium-back-into-the-public-fold">Driehaus Museum in Chicago reactivates an ornate historic auditorium for the arts</a>The John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium was built in 1926 for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in Chicago. Designed by the firm Marshall and Fox, it borrowed heavily from the Chapelle de Notre Dame de Consolation in Paris. The auditorium was attached to the 1883 Nickerson Mansion, also owned by the college from 1919 until 2003, when the late philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus purchased the grand home—known as the “Marble Palace” in its day for its lavish interior.After a five-year restoration process, Driehaus opened the mansion as a museum largely dedicated to the art and design of the Gilded Age, while the auditorium stayed in the possession of the college. “The idea was always there to join these two back together with a common purpose,” says Anna Musci, who was recently named the museum’s executive director, and this week the museum announced it had purchased the auditorium with plans to hold public lectures and other arts events there.Via The Art NewspaperImage: Inside the Murphy Auditorium Photo: Allen Bourgeois&nbsp;<a href="https://www.milwaukeemag.com/the-milwaukee-art-museum-is-back-full-reopening-set-for-july-15/">The Milwaukee Art Museum Is Back! Full Reopening Set for July 15</a>After more than a year closed and a soft reopening, the Milwaukee Art Museum will finally reopen in full on July 15.&nbsp;“This is a fantastic opportunity for the community to reconnect with many of their favorite works of art that they haven’t seen in over a year,” said Robert Stein, Deputy Director and Chief Experience Officer, in a press release.The July 15 reopening will line up with a couple of new exhibits at MAM. The first is a three-part exhibition called “American Memory: Commemoration, Nostalgia, and Revision,” which explores elective editing of historical narratives in America’s past through drawings, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collection. Another new exhibit will be “First Impressions:&nbsp;Early Printed Books in Europe,” which features 25 objects that were created during the first century after the adoption of the printing press.&nbsp;Via Milwaukee Magazine&nbsp;<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=00119WqIEPrgbHZqhH4SZpKT9Fm0xK1ttGJ_oLMMSgRycbu9owOPcc0KfbZrEtYA1ElttMa88HHWuXKKA_PJFqL16APD49CVQggk1Vt-vpK40o-SMnSud-GmwsCe0do8IyKMppIQIxUhDM4FMFQeZMZgR5UZB-PzmYD&amp;c=TSfiNXNp-SqIYNafi1x8aEqdUksuzjfP2Y5Bd_tgB2dnVjXHMTjTUw==&amp;ch=GJbregmSO0paWdRZswIm5d-Ps-Ivte1ELsI76Q-9XaXsgK7WsU3v8w==">Intuit staff, board and friends mourn loss of founder Susann Craig (1936-2021)</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418098/ljkue5buodgvd3xnnvo5.jpg"><figcaption>Susann Craig</figcaption></figure>Susann Eickmeyer Craig, visionary Chicago art collector and a founder of Intuit, passed away peacefully on June 28, 2021, at Providence St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.&nbsp;In 1991, Craig joined a handful of Chicago art enthusiasts who came together to found Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. She served on the board of directors for 29 years before being elevated to life trustee status in 2020. Craig received the museum's highest award, the Visionary Award, in 2018. Before her death, she was delighted to learn that a gallery at the museum will be named in her honor.Via Intuit PR&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/cashing-in-on-the-nft-craze/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab4g#x">Cashing in on the NFT craze</a>Why are digital files of artwork, videos and tweets selling for insane amounts of money? CBS Sunday Morning Correspondent David Pogue explains in a video the origin and volatility of the market for NFTs (non-fungible tokens), and why content creators and speculators are generating a digital gold rush.Via CBS&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 7/12

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417510/deleorjugabmjsgm2knq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.architecture.org/exhibits/exhibit/helmut-jahn-life-architecture/">Chicago Architecture Center to Open Exhibition Celebrating the Late Helmut Jahn</a>HELMUT JAHN: LIFE + ARCHITECTURE will be a career retrospective of the late architect. Organized after his death in May, it celebrates Helmut Jahn’s design legacy and opens in the Chicago Architecture Center's Skyscraper Gallery on July 23.The exhibit includes several scale models of Jahn’s most notable designs including the the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago, an example of innovative post-modern design, currently to be sold by the State of Illinois without protection for its historic design.&nbsp;To support a debate on the future of The Thompson Center, the CAC and the Chicago Architectural Club created the James R. Thompson Center Design Competition that challenges architects to envision a new future for Jahn’s post-modern masterpiece.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/400579934617692">Chicago Art Department Leads Return to Second Friday in Pilsen East July 9</a>CAD is returning to its regular 2nd Friday programming thanks to generous support from friends at @marzbrewing and @revbrewchicago. Their 2nd Friday resumes tomorrow, July 9, and features the work of The Chicago Act (Artists Creating Transformation) Collective. The Collective builds political artistic collaboration and dialogue across multiple communities by generating work that both reflects and responds to current local needs identified by those most directly impacted. “Love in the Time of…” is an ongoing ellipse of their commitment to create from the various dimensions of love as they envision and move toward liberation. The exhibition is curated by CAD Resident Artist Silvia Gonzalez.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://hindmanauctions.com">Hindman Auctions Appoints Ashley Galloway as VP of Marketing&nbsp;</a>Hindman Auctions announced the appointment of Ashley Galloway as Vice President of Marketing. Ms. Galloway brings extensive experience in the art, corporate, and nonprofit worlds, having collaborated with top fashion and media brands, world-renowned art museums and fairs, production companies, and other high-profile institutions. Ms. Galloway joins the Marketing Department after leading her own company where she provided strategic marketing, branding, engagement, and business development solutions to a variety of cultural clients, such as Dirk Denison Architects, WNDR Museum, and The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Architecture. Prior to leading the company, Ms. Galloway served as Special Events and Engagement Manager at the Chicago Architecture Biennial where she managed brand growth and development. Ms. Galloway also previously worked as Lead Market Manager for Perrier with Mirrorball in Chicago where she oversaw strategic planning and brand management for the Chicago market, as well as driving partnerships and executing marketing campaigns aligned with brand vision, target clientele, and community engagement.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.weinbergnewtongallery.com/exhibitions-28-experimental-makers-workshop/">Weinberg/Newton Presents an Experimental Workshop in Its Store Windows This Summer&nbsp;</a>Chicago-based movement artist&nbsp;and cultural advocate&nbsp;Joseph Lefthand&nbsp;is activating Weinberg/Newton's Milwaukee Avenue space this summer with an Experimental Makers Workshop.&nbsp;Lefthand and his collaborators, artists Isaac Couchand Sarah Whyte, are exploring&nbsp;the relationship between personhood and institutional violence, utilizing elements of performance and design to conceive wearable art that re-imagines the human form as transitory, lucid, ethereal, and disruptive.&nbsp;The &nbsp;work produced during the workshop will be exhibited in the storefront windows August 16 – 28. More details about the workshop and participating artists are&nbsp;<a href="https://weinbergnewtongallery.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=13d5172bf37bbf601de9678f4&amp;id=5b3825cc18&amp;e=15280a40b5">here</a>.&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 7/8

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418399/yaf3x0qlasqy0eiurw7c.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/photos-at-zoom-discussion-session-terry-evans">Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Terry Evans</a>Friday, July 9, 12 – 1&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418400/imltcrthg4komhead59p.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/american-roulette-closing-reception-and-artist-walkthrough">American Roulette: Closing Reception and Artist Walkthrough</a>Friday, July 9, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418401/erhz2y3zwrsebxn80tl8.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/case-talks-presents-john-fanestil-debi-cornwall">Case Talks Presents: John Fanestil / Debi Cornwall</a>Saturday, July 10, 10 – 11&nbsp;amCASE Art Fund&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418402/qsvkfd0ilktlxpkaoow5.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/samuel-levi-jones-and-kellie-romany-in-conversation">Samuel Levi Jones and Kellie Romany in Conversation</a>Saturday, July 10, 12 – 1&nbsp;pmPATRON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Week: July 9 - 10

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418929/pkvjhi8ez4dma05ptezm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/still-open-ink-paintings-by-emily-rapport">Still Open: Ink Paintings by Emily Rapport</a>Opening: Saturday, July 10, 1 – 6&nbsp;pmEat Paint Studio&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418930/csnub8vi6pgtzsjsojad.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/wadsworth-jarrell-and-gerald-williams-works-on-paper">Wadsworth Jarrell and Gerald Williams: Works on Paper</a>Opening: Saturday, July 10, 7 – 9&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418931/jllnmrzchwou6rqns28q.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/prints-published-during-the-pandemic">Prints Published During the Pandemic</a>Opening: Saturday, July 10, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine Art&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418931/j8uhq0ffit9lymochs1j.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/group-exhibition-c4bd60cf-8ca4-47a5-ab55-11904411d340">Group Exhibition</a>Opening: Saturday, July 10, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmDragonfly Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418932/tetgdgeq87dppiu1wbvo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/stories-about-monuments-and-landscapes">Stories About Monuments and Landscapes</a>Exhibition Starts July 10FLXST Contemporary&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418933/ygakf0jrbxeg8rrm0tqn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sarah-vaughn">Sarah Vaughn</a>Exhibition Starts July 10Ken Saunders Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start July 10

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418929/mywoqapqwhfpl13culla.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/relentless">Relentless</a>Opening: Friday, July 9, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmHofheimer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418930/o28jkt7vb5api4qgugba.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/notice-wet-paint">Notice! Wet Paint.</a>Exhibition Starts July 9Gallery Victor Armendariz&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418931/nvizqgect5ittfy8utpm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/summer-group-show-9e490278-6214-4879-9279-819ed8ad8aee">Summer Group Show</a>Opening: Friday, July 9, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVale Craft Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418931/zayb2v3nazutwxv0hqkk.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/all-alive-the-big-top-comes-to-river-north">ALL&nbsp;ALIVE! The Big Top Comes To River North</a>Exhibition Starts July 9Carl Hammer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418932/d379rt89c9cp7pncntra.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/vanitas-contemporary-florals">Vanitas: Contemporary Florals</a>Exhibition Starts July 9Lily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418933/xilw6ksjqumw0peaulwp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/curatorial-fellowship-exhibition">Examining the State of Our Environment: 20/21 Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition</a>Exhibition Starts July 9Evanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418934/bg4enik0vgbsmg3dazk9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-substance-of-beauty-new-work-by-amy-donaldson">The Substance of Beauty: New Work by Amy Donaldson</a>Opening: Friday, July 9, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmgallery 1871 (formerly Chicago Art Source Gallery)&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418934/zo4fm17i1bj4cpr2q59f.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/joan-holleb-solo-exhibition">Joan Holleb: Woodlands and Cowscapes</a>Opening: Friday, July 9, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start July 9

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417602/nva7dtwlxz0xxjhrjlrx.jpg"><figcaption>Installation view, "Jill Magid Tender Balance" at the Renaissance Society. Photo: Useful Art Services.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.artnet.com/opinion/pandemic-aesthetic-contemporary-art-1983834?utm_content=from_&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=US%2010%3A21%20a.m.%20newsletter%20for%207%2F1%2F21&amp;utm_term=US%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BMORNING%5D">Welcome to Pandemic Aesthetics: How the Health Crisis Is Reshaping Contemporary Art—and Changing the Way We Look at It, Too</a>The first two exhibitions I visited in person after 409 days of seeing art only through my computer screen were Jill Magid’s “Tender: Balance” and William Pope.L’s “My Kingdom for a Title,” both in Chicago. Apart from being a fan of the artists and curious to see their new work, I chose these shows for pragmatic reasons: Their venues were located near one another and both were scheduled to close soon.&nbsp;What I did not expect was how these installations would speak to one another, and to me, about the pandemic.&nbsp;Via Lori Waxman, Artnet News&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417603/ord3dh1k21nqvzk0dhmi.jpg"><figcaption>An abstract sculpture in honor of activist and journalist Ida B. Wells, created by sculptor Richard Hunt, is seen at sunset on S. Langley Ave. in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on June 30, 2021. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/people/ct-dedication-ceremony-ida-b-wells-monument-20210629-nfsjdanscbavbjnbb2ejp4flry-story.html?utm_source=Newsletter_Daily-Rundown-Non-Member&amp;utm_medium=WBEZEmail&amp;utm_campaign=Daily_Newsletter_Daily-Rundown_+20210630&amp;utm_content=6/30/2021&amp;DE=WBEZEmail">First monument in Chicago to honor a Black woman will be unveiled and dedicated to Ida B. Wells in Bronzeville on Wednesday</a>After a seven-year crowdfunding quest and three years of building, the first monument in Chicago to honor a Black woman will be unveiled and dedicated this week in Bronzeville, where civil rights icon Ida B. Wells lived for much of her life.On Wednesday, the Ida B. Wells Commemorative Art Committee, a subcommittee of the Oakwood Shores Working Group, will host a dedication ceremony for the Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument, on the site of the former Ida B. Wells public housing development.Via Maya Mokh, Chicago Tribune&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417604/kvlispmohjvodp2kfpq9.png"><figcaption>Gainesville artist Tom Miller in front of his 2016 artwork, Nothing.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/florida-man-lawsuit-invisible-sculpture-1984780?utm_content=from_&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=6%2F30%20US%20Afternoon&amp;utm_term=US%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BAFTERNOON%5D">A Florida Man Is Threatening to Sue an Artist Whose Invisible Sculpture Sold for $18,000, Saying He Came Up With the Idea First</a>Earlier this month, an Italian artist named Salvatore Garau went viral when his “immaterial sculpture”—that is, a <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/italian-artist-auctioned-off-invisible-sculpture-18300-literally-made-nothing-1976181?artnet-logout-redirect=1">work of art made of literally nothing</a>—sold for €15,000 ($18,300) at auction.Articles about the sale was shared widely, often accompanied by captions of the “I could have done that” variety. Users posted pictures of blank spaces—their own invisible sculptures which could surely be had for a fraction of Garau’s price. Many bemoaned the fact that they didn’t think of it first.&nbsp;Via Taylor Dafoe, Artnet&nbsp; &nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 7/2

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417513/efdnfhnuufqv8ndsspca.jpg"><figcaption>Emery Blagdon created The Healing Machine to channel the curative properties of minerals and magnetic fields Photo: Rich Maciejewski. Courtesy of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/preserving-america-s-home-grown-art-environments?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=22d8f0fa85-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_06_24_08_39&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-22d8f0fa85-61117077">Art Preserve: first museum devoted to America’s homegrown ‘art environments’ opens in Wisconsin</a>After a ten-month delay resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is opening the Art Preserve, the world’s first museum dedicated to long-neglected art environments, on 26 June. The 56,000 sq. ft facility will exhibit and store more than 25,000 objects from the Kohler Arts Center’s art environment collection as well as serving as a hub for research on, and displays of, artists’ genre-defying creations.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/gainsborough-showstopper-the-blue-boy-comes-home-to-the-uk-after-100-years?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=7756d79366-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_06_28_10_30&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-7756d79366-61117077">Gainsborough showstopper The Blue Boy comes home to the UK after 100 years</a>A painting by Thomas Gainsborough described as a masterpiece of British art is returning to the UK. The Blue Boy (1770) will go on show at the National Gallery in London from 25 January next year (until 3 May 2022), 100 years to the day since it was last seen in Britain following a public uproar. The work is on loan for the first time from the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, where it has been on display since 1928.Via the Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/aamd-salary-survey-2021-1984578">Considering a Career in Museums? Here’s How Much Money You Can Expect to Make in Dozens of Different Roles</a>After a turbulent year marked by the pandemic and social-justice uprisings, how have salaries in the museum industry changed? According to the just-released salary report from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aamd.org/">Association of Art Museum Directors</a>&nbsp;(AAMD), the answer is: not much.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/gallery-as-service-1234597283/">Hybrid Auctions Are Now the Norm. Will Galleries Follow&nbsp;Suit?</a>One of the surprises following last year’s global lockdown was how well the art market seemed to function in a state of semi-suspended animation. There’s a variety of explanations for the industry’s unexpected ability to survive. There are macroeconomic factors involving stimulus packages and governments further easing already lax monetary policies. There are also technological ones based upon the existence of platforms for displaying art. (Many of these platforms already existed, but few of them were used frequently.) There are even psycho-social factors involving the need for cultural and intellectual engagement that requires minimal interpersonal contact.Via Artnews&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 6/30

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffThree whole days off? With a long weekend coming up, how will you spend those bonus hours in the heart of summer?&nbsp;If you're flustered and trying to figure out how to best spend your time, we recommend you take a look at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?category=exhibitions&amp;filter=all">exhibitions currently on view in the CGN Calendar</a>. With a return to openings, finally, there is a tendency to forget shows once they open, but many exhibitions are on view for several weeks, giving you many changes to visit in person and spend time engaging with art off-line.&nbsp;Below is a small selection of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?category=exhibitions&amp;filter=all">exhibitions currently on view</a>.&nbsp;Enjoy the art, and the long weekend!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418929/fgmsanldr092dysauheu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dorothy-graden-liminal-spaces">Dorothy Graden: Liminal Spaces</a>Exhibition Runs Thru July 11Evanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418930/erl9bfvetlqrtqq009z8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-color-of-normal">The Color of Normal</a>Exhibition Runs Thru July 11Juliet Art House&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418931/ry5ghqsfawxiwols91om.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/international-association-of-pastel-societies-iaps-2021-juried-gallery-exhibition">International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) 2021 Juried Gallery Exhibition</a>Exhibition Runs Thru July 18Zhou B Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418931/s8dpss9nx4nsvmfnpxyu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bill-mauldin-limited-edition-prints">Bill Mauldin, Limited Edition Prints</a>Exhibition Runs Thru July 31Jean Albano Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Exhibitions On View Now Through Mid July

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418929/sozr37eqnduhit6ssput.png"></figure><a href="https://banksyexhibit.com/chicago/?utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=website">The Art of Banksy Will Take Place at Epiphany Art Center</a>The Art of Banksy, the largest touring exhibition of authentic Banksy artworks in the world, announced the Chicago exhibition will be held at the 42,000 sf Epiphany Center for the Arts in the West Loop. The core of the exhibition will be presented in the campus’ Epiphany Hall – formerly known as The Church of the Epiphany – a landmark building constructed in 1885 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The exhibition is being touted as featuring $35 million worth of (privately held) Banksy art.&nbsp; “Epiphany Center for the Arts’ historic atmosphere offers an ideal setting in which to present The Art of Banksy. Epiphany is poised to become one of the largest cultural destinations in Chicago, and we hope that many will experience this unique space for the first time when coming to see our one-of-a-kind exhibition,” said Corey Ross, President &amp; CEO, Starvox Exhibits, which is presenting the exhibit alongside [ collectiv presents ].Via PR<figure class="image"><img></figure><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/swislow/lakefront-anonymous-chicagos-unknown-outdoor-art-gallery">Aron Packer Is Publishing a Book</a>We heard from Aron via email: "I have exciting news about a photography/folk art/public art project that I started documenting many years ago. I shelved it for years and then my good friend Bill Swislow took the baton and ran with it. Bill has written and produced a wonderful book, LAKEFRONT ANONYMOUS, which features many of my photos as well as Bill's. The book includes an article I wrote in the 90's reproduced from <a href="https://aronpackerprojects.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7ebf6056e18897faf852257a&amp;id=a32f853404&amp;e=118087ef3a">RAWVISION</a> magazine, along with new thoughts on this project 30 years later.&nbsp; Bill and I have started a <a href="https://aronpackerprojects.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7ebf6056e18897faf852257a&amp;id=57baf5ee5b&amp;e=118087ef3a">Kickstarter campaign</a> to help produce this book. Please check out the link to LAKEFRONT ANONYMOUS, which explains the project, and why you will surely want to help support this endeavor."&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img></figure><a href="https://intersectchicago.com">Intersect Chicago 2021 (Formerly SOFA Chicago) Coming to Navy Pier in November&nbsp;</a>Intersect Chicago 2021, the art and design fair formerly known as SOFA – Sculpture Objects Functional Art will take place in person November 4–7 to present an exploration of materiality and meaning in design, objects, furniture, and art with a focus on local, regional, and global creation. Intersect’s November 2021 edition will feature a diverse roster of galleries and cultural partners with dedicated programming, curated focus sections, and special events.Exhibitors, talks and additional programming will be announced at a later date.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 6/29

<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-thompson-center-state-vote-ryan-ori-20210622-pzjb2xozw5bizosn6ku4dyfzjy-story.html">State agencies expected to oppose adding Helmut Jahn’s Thompson Center to National Register of Historic Places</a>Preservationists fear two Illinois agencies will oppose having the James R. Thompson Center added to the National Register of Historic Places, which the groups see as a key to saving the Helmut Jahn-designed building in the Loop.The state agencies are expected to move to block the designation Friday in a meeting of the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council, preservation groups said, citing a publicly posted document in which the agencies say they agree that the Thompson Center should not be considered historically significant enough to be preserved.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/artist-beeple-sold-his-nft-for-69-million-cryptocurrency-christies-digital-art-11624536293?mod=hp_featst_pos5">Artist Beeple Sold His NFT for $69 Million—But Has a Tough Time Breaking Into the Art World</a>Digital designer and artist Mike Winkelmann, who goes by Beeple, sparked a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nfts-explained-whats-driving-prices-for-lebron-james-and-kings-of-leon-digital-collectibles-11615205133?mod=article_inline">global frenzy for non-fungible tokens</a>, or NFTs, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/beeple-nft-fetches-record-breaking-69-million-in-christies-sale-11615477732">after Christie’s sold his digital collage for $69 million in March</a>—but since then he’s maintained a relatively low profile, stoking curiosity about his next big move.Now, Mr. Winkelmann is opening up, revealing that he’s had a rocky entrée into the art establishment even though he currently ranks as the world’s third most-expensive living artist after Jeff Koons and David Hockney.Via WSJ&nbsp;<a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/phillips-new-york-sale-driven-by-emerging-artists-01624541383?mod=hp_minor_pos26&amp;adobe_mc=MCMID%3D53461186548703087300401360111402314735%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1624557292">Phillips’ New York Sale Driven by Emerging Artists</a>Phillips 20th-century and contemporary art sale Wednesday evening in New York&nbsp;continued the auction house’s streak of 100% sold sales driven by a slew of hot contemporary artists.&nbsp;The total reached US$118.2 million after several long rounds of bidding with buyers from across the world throughout the two-and-a-half hour sale.&nbsp;The stars of the evening were emerging artists, including Avery Singer, Matthew Wong, Emily Mae Smith, Titus Kaphar, Amy Sherald, Amoako Boafo, and Mickalene Thomas, among others.&nbsp;Via Barrons&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/immersive-van-gogh-experiences-1983011">Two Immersive Van Gogh Experiences Offer the Post-Pandemic Escapism Visitors Crave. They Have Weirdly Little to Do With Van Gogh</a>How did Van Gogh become the hottest artist of the post-quarantine, return-to-physical-spaces moment?I speak, of course, not of the real artist named Vincent Van Gogh, with his old-timey tale of suffering and transcendence. I speak of the undead mash-up of Van Gogh’s paintings with projection mapping, animation, and music, now doing beaucoup business in <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/immersive-van-gogh-guide-1974038">dozens of cities</a> across the globe in one of the largest coordinated art phenomena of all time.Via Artnet&nbsp;&nbsp;Thumbnail image: Exterior view of the Thompson Center in Chicago's Loop, Nov. 19, 2020. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 6/24

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418923/gejffizxdyxatgbuvb51.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nancy-rosen-monalisa-rosen-cut-paste-paint">Nancy Rosen &amp; Monalisa Rosen: Cut, Paste, Paint</a>Opening: Saturday, June 26, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmGallery Studio Oh!The artist behind Netflix's Original Series Grace &amp; Frankie, Nancy Rosen, joins us again for another showing of her newest works alongside her daughter-in-law, Monalisa Rosen.Nancy Rosen works on a variety of surfaces. She creates her images with the application of oil bars, china markers, graphite and oil paint, using live models. With her complex backgrounds she accentuates the quiet inner beauty of her figure and draws life itself into her subject.Monalisa Rosen creates mixed media collages in the form of silhouetted portraits with the use of fabrics, paper, oil pastels and paint. They are mainly made with leftover scrap fabrics discarded after making masks.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418924/k95atyk904bbqyooyjj6.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/karen-reimer-sea-change">Karen Reimer: Sea Change</a>Exhibition Begins June 26Monique Meloche GalleryThe overall effect of Reimer's conceptual technique creates an optical meditation on the larger collapse of cultural foundations and our capacity to coexist within the earth’s ecosystems.&nbsp;Each complex embroidery utilizes found textiles, a physical manifestation of an ethical salvaging of materials; the materials have been dyed and re-dyed, reconfigured, and re-sewn, they represent the many iterations of life and the infinite potential for plurality of existence.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418925/u29zpuyegsmkggqskdef.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/antonius-bui-the-detour-is-to-be-where-we-are">Antonius Bui: The Detour Is To Be Where We Are</a>Exhibition Begins June 26Monique Meloche Gallerymoniquemeloche gallery is pleased to present&nbsp;The Detour Is To Be Where We Are, an exhibition of intricate paper cutting works by Antonius Bui. This is Bui’s first solo show with the gallery.Antonius Bui (b. 1992, Bronx, NY) is a queer, gender-nonbinary, Vietnamese American artist. Their intensive paper-cutting process is exceptionally meditative; each sheet of paper represents an archive of memories and oral histories, mirroring the intergenerational trauma that so many refugee communities are faced with.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418926/ckbklkhhwwud3ajzt7ia.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ricardo-manuel-diaz-and-margarita-fainshtein">Ricardo Manuel Díaz and Margarita Fainshtein</a>Opening: June 26 &amp; 27, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is honored to present paintings by Chicago based artist Ricardo Manuel Díaz and printed works by Nova Scotian artist Margarita Fainshtein in The Horizon is a Circle, a two person exhibition that contemplates displacement, a sense of place, and what home means across geographic borders and cultures.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418926/ct71yfrdbvakcwkxxmm3.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-happening">The Happening</a>Exhibition Begins June 26FLXST ContemporaryIn our every day, small gestures of life occur in time invoking the future while repeating moments of the past. Inspired by the “happenings” first coined and performed by Allan Kaprow and artists in the US and abroad during the late 1950s and 1960s, “The Happening” at FLXST Contemporary creates both space and time that enables viewers to visualize synchrony of actions, intentions, and movements among artists exhibited together working across a variety of mediums however disparate their backgrounds, ideas, or social leanings might be. Collectively, the artists presented in “The Happening” explore forward-thinking practices and techniques often taken for granted, underappreciated, or misunderstood in their presentations and performances.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start June 26

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418924/rzmlar4mowkwhaliis2t.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nicholas-krushenick-1968-1978-a-decade-of-prints">Nicholas Krushenick 1968–1978: A Decade of Prints</a>Exhibition Begins June 25PICKLEMANKrushenick’s seven prints displayed at PICKLEMAN are like passing clouds; they resemble whatever you want them to. One of them looks like a zipper. Another’s a folded folio. Next to that is the sawtooth blade. Or at least that’s what I think. See them, and you can decide for yourself.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418925/on5xy93ogcgkuagqk0rj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/monica-j-brown">Monica J. Brown | Roots, Branches: Ancestor(s) Stones</a>Opening: Friday, June 25, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC GalleryAncestor(s) Stones are intuition mining tools. They represent ancient wisdom, antiquity. They are the knowing inherent in having bourn witness to the ages. They align with the string of memory that lives in DNA, passed down through generations. They represent grounding, leverage, or steps to take. The stones have taken many shapes…&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418925/fog7o7x4b3y9liqgzllr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/residual-marks">Residual Marks</a>Opening: Friday, June 25, 3 – 8&nbsp;pmHatch ProjectsChicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-muyjyuy-ftuikdrju-j/">Residual Marks</a>, a dual exhibition curated by HATCH 2019-2020 residents&nbsp;<a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-muyjyuy-ftuikdrju-t/">Fabiola Tosi</a> and <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-muyjyuy-ftuikdrju-i/">Stephanie Koch</a>.The exhibitions are presented under a shared conceptual framework of absence and emergence. What remains and what endures?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418926/wmeepgew8wvwkth0xnir.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/longing-compass">Longing Compass</a>Opening: Friday, June 25, 3 – 8&nbsp;pmBOLT Residency at Chicago Artists CoalitionChicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-muyjyuy-ftuikdrju-b/">Longing Compass</a>, a solo exhibition of new works by the BOLT artist-in-residence, <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-muyjyuy-ftuikdrju-n/">Karen Dana Cohen</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418927/ogimi6yhu3yzttvb2qyu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/our-planet-ourselves">Our Planet: Ourselves</a>Opening: Friday, June 25, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;Spring is here! And the beauty of our natural world is ever more apparent. Green shoots are poking through the crust, and once again the earth is warming in the sun. However “the warming earth” carries a more somber message as well – a reminder of the fruits of our greed, the fragility of our planet, the reality of our losses. And, as we face the urgency to respond, we raise our artistic voices – to celebrate, to mourn, to activate, and to contemplate how we live together in relationship to this one planet we must all share and nurture.&nbsp;“Our Planet: Ourselves,” gives expression to these messages. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start June 25

<html><head></head><body>Chicago exploded with activity last week when the city reached phase 5. It's been a long year, and now that many restrictions are falling away, there are suddenly not enough hours in the day to do everything and see everyone. Traffic is telling that tale minute-by-minute in the city.&nbsp;If you're longing to and able to get away, there are several art exhibitions taking place outside of the City (in Illinois as well as Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin) that may inspire you to escape for a day or weekend trip this summer.&nbsp;Have a look at the following highlights, and enjoy the return of your freedom this summer (and perhaps a respite from Chicago traffic).– The CGN team&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418923/bicqsxdwqm8pwjaexlps.jpg"></figure><a href="https://krasl.org">Michigan's Krasl Art Center: Art Fair on the Bluff and BLOW-UP</a>The 2021 Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff is back and in person this summer, celebrating artists and the community Saturday, July 10, and Sunday, July 11. Experience the talent of 155 artists from across the United States while enjoying the view and breezes of Lake Michigan and the charm and hospitality of St. Joseph, Michigan. <a href="https://krasl.org/art-fair/event-information/">Tickets start at $5.</a>While you're there, check out <a href="https://krasl.org/art/exhibitions/">BLOW UP II: Inflatable Contemporary Art</a>, an exhibition exploring the medium of inflatable art with imagery that is figurative, conceptual, and abstract. These large-scale inflatable sculptures, conceived by nine artists and art collectives from around the world, connote fun and whimsy, are familiar yet strange, and challenge the definition of art. Here, in an unusual feat, artists use air as an active tool in their work to subvert our perspective and surprise us. Including work by Chromaforms, Sharon Engelstein, FriendsWithYou, Josh Harker, Susan Lee-Chun, Matt Ritchie, Lizabeth Rossof, Jen Stark, and Max Streicher – many of whom have never worked in the inflatable medium previously.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418924/tuhek7gkeaz76fum9lyk.jpg"><figcaption>Roger Brown&nbsp;(American, 1941–1997),&nbsp;Chicago Hit&nbsp;By&nbsp;the Bomb, 1985, oil on canvas, 55&nbsp;×&nbsp;74&nbsp;×&nbsp;3 in. (framed).&nbsp;Indianapolis Museum of Art at&nbsp;Newfields, Promised Gift of Michael J. Robertson and Christopher A.&nbsp;Slapak, TR12054/12&nbsp;© The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Brown family. Courtesy of Kavi Gupta and Venus Over Manhattan.&nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://discovernewfields.org/calendar/private-eye-imagist-impulse-chicago-art">Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse in Chicago Art, at Newfields in Indianapolis</a>An expansive exhibition in Indianapolis features <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/4/the-personal-art-of-collecting">a collection profiled in the summer 2017 issue</a> of CGN. In the mid-1960s, a cadre of adventurous young artists began exhibiting at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.&nbsp; With myriad influences from Surrealism and non-Western art to comic books and popular culture, their audacious, highly idiosyncratic, and personal approach set them apart from contemporaries working on either the East or West Coast.&nbsp; By the mid-1970s, this loose-knit assembly was commonly referred to as the Imagists.&nbsp;Now, more than 50 years after their first appearance, the Chicago Imagists are regarded as among the most important postwar American artists.&nbsp;Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse in Chicago Art&nbsp;is focused on works by artists who comprise the original Imagist exhibition groups along with independent artists who shared their iconoclastic sensibility.&nbsp; Also featured will be works by Chicago-based artists from the preceding generation, known as the Monster Roster, and a complementary selection of younger, Imagist-influenced artists.The exhibition, on view through December 5, is drawn entirely from the collection of Drs. Michael Robertson and Christopher Slapak, one of the most comprehensive private collections of Chicago Imagist art, which has been promised to the IMA with some pieces already donated to the Museum.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418925/sa7su9hoyx9sm1xevr16.jpg"></figure><a href="https://rockfordartmuseum.org/exhibition/now">Rockford Art Museum: Technicolor Constellations: Tales from the Permanent Collection</a>Now through September 26 you can over 50 selections from the Rockford Art Museum's Modern and Contemporary Collection that tell the fascinating stories of how RAM built a public art collection.&nbsp;Technicolor Constellations&nbsp;invites visitors to connect with the captivating stories behind each artist and their work and find the links that brought the work to the museum. From private donors, foundations, artists, and acquisitions, this exhibition explores the importance of artwork donations, collectors and what it takes to get into a museum's permanent collection.Technicolor Constellations&nbsp;brings together work by 38 artists and includes painting, prints, sculpture, and video. Featured artists include Herman Aguirre, Alice Aycock, Jeff Koons, Kerry James Marshall, Tony Oursler, Diane Simpson, and Ken Warneke.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418926/uttmryxuakrfinog56vw.jpg"><figcaption>Kevin Beasley, Chair of the Ministers of Defense,&nbsp;2016 Polyurethane resin, wood, acoustic foam, jeans, trousers, du-rags, altered&nbsp;t- shirts, altered hoodies, guinea fowl feathers, wrought iron&nbsp;window gate, vintage  Beni Ourain Moroccan rug, kaftans,&nbsp;housedresses, Maasai war shields, Zulu war shields, and&nbsp;vintage peacock rattan chair On loan from The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection and The Rennie Collection</figcaption></figure><a href="https://sniteartmuseum.nd.edu/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/kevin-beasley-chair-of-the-ministers-of-defense/">Kevin Beasley at the Snite Museum at Notre Dame (South Bend, IN)</a>The Snite Museum just welcomed visitors back in person on June 1. An installation to visit at the museum in person is Kevin Beasley's Chair of the Ministers of Defense. This immersive installation explores ideas of power and race in America through  theatrics reminiscent of the Roman Baroque. Here, renowned conceptual artist  Beasley calls into focus Black liberation movements and ongoing  imbalances of power experienced by Black Americans and marginalized men  and women of color. The work maintains a formality often employed in religious  imagery and in art intended to convey the divine right of leaders. An empty, rattan “peacock” chair is at center; above is a house window clad in  protective iron bars, evoking a stained-glass window. Flanking are archetypical  Maasai and Zulu warrior shields, icons of African might. Surrounding are vaguely  figurative, resin-infused sculptures made from t-shirts, housedresses, and du- rags—all items associated with contemporary urban culture. On view through December 23. Other exhibitions as well as the museum's sculpture garden are also accessible in person.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418927/xho5xwlrktfg5hy9wbci.png"></figure><a href="https://kam.illinois.edu/exhibition/question-emphasis-louise-fishman-drawing">A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing at University of Illinois</a>A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing is the first career spanning exhibition and publication of Fishman’s works on paper from 1964 to the present. Running Aug 26, 2021 – Feb 26, 2022 at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois in Champaign, the project includes more than 100 works from the artist’s archive that have rarely been exhibited alongside significant institutional and private loans. Citing John Cage’s response in 1965 to the question, “what is drawing?” A Question of Emphasis encompasses collage, oil and wax, thread, acrylic text, ink, charcoal, printmaking, oil stick, watercolor, and tempera in Japanese-bound Leporello (accordion) books. This full range of mediums foregrounds Fishman’s robust and dedicated practice of works on paper, which have never been studies for her large canvases. Instead, Fishman has used drawing to think through physicality, materials, and intimacy on a different register: generally small- and medium- scale, often sculptural and tactile, and aligned to her particular historical contexts and her communities.&nbsp;Top image: Krasl Art Center's summer installation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Notable Exhibitions Happening Outside Chicago This Summer

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418923/tkcroagwdnw0piogmttp.jpg"><figcaption>Interpol says its ID-Art app has access to a database of 52,000 stolen artefacts © ID-Art/INTERPOL &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/interpol-launches-app-to-identify-stolen-art?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=be025f2896-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_06_14_03_56&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-be025f2896-61117077">Interpol launches app to identify stolen art—and it has already been used to discover loot</a>Interpol has launched a new, free-to-download app to help law enforcers identify stolen art. It has already scored successes during pilot tests by police in Spain and Italy.The new app, called ID-Art, allows users to check art against 52,000 works registered as stolen on Interpol’s database. It is also envisaged as a tool for collectors and museums, allowing them to create inventories of their collections. These records can be submitted to Interpol in case of theft and will greatly increase their chances of recovering stolen works.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-mexican-museum-art-mackenzie-scott-20210616-dr7w2eaggvh2hjmq4qr3syiq6m-story.html">Chicago’s National Museum of Mexican Art gets $8 million from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott</a>The National Museum of Mexican Art announced late Tuesday that it had received a donation of $8 million, the largest single gift in the Pilsen museum’s 39-year history.The unrestricted money came from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott and her husband Dan Jewett as part of their well-publicized donations of $2.74 billion, given to hundreds of organizations their charity team identified as equity-oriented, nonprofit projects working in areas that have been neglected.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/14/t-magazine/how-to-buy-art.html?referringSource=articleShare">How to Buy a Work of Art, According to the New York Times T Magazine</a>The sheer volume of art being sold across the world each year is far greater than at any point in human history. There was a 22 percent drop in global sales of art and antiques in 2020 — to all of $50.1 billion. Those figures, the most credible data on this topic that exist — and this alone will say a lot about the art world for the uninitiated — come from an annual report by the economist Clare McAndrew funded and released by Art Basel, a contemporary art fair, and its corporate partner UBS, the Swiss multinational financial services company and one of the largest private banks in the world, which by comparison reported $32.39 billion in revenue in 2020... For one last comparison: $50 billion is also the cost proposed by the International Monetary Fund to cover its global plan to combat Covid-19.But the fact is that buying art is not so obvious. Having an expendable income at all in the year 2021 is a difficult proposition for the vast majority of people. But if you are someone who has been lucky enough to maintain steady employment during the pandemic... and you have some extra money lying around and have spent the last year looking at the blank walls of your home with encroaching angst — simply having that money doesn’t automatically translate into owning a work of art. Where do you begin? What should you look at?Via NYT&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/estate-of-pop-artist-robert-indiana-reaches-agreement-1979915">Robert Indiana’s Estate Has Reached an Agreement With His Longtime Financial Backer After a Bitter Three-Year Legal Fight</a>A bitter, years-long legal dispute over the legacy of famous Pop artist Robert Indiana has come to an end. The artist’s estate, the Star of Hope Foundation, which the artist established before his death, and the Morgan Art Foundation, which holds the copyright to some of Indiana’s most famous works, have agreed to drop their overlapping claims and counterclaims.&nbsp;Via Artnet&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 6/16

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418923/vwqnhvu24b3wpl1nrqfu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-obama-portraits">The Obama Portraits</a>Exhibition Begins June 18Art Institute of ChicagoOn loan from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Obama portraits come to Chicago for the first stop of a five-city tour. As the family’s longtime home, Chicago has a unique connection to the Obamas, as does the Art Institute. The First Lady recalls visiting frequently with her family when she was growing up on the South Side, and the museum was also the site of the couple’s first date.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418924/qk9wusrx2loqzneegqlq.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-where-comics-came-to-life-1880-1960">CHICAGO: Where Comics Came to Life (1880-1960)</a>Exhibition Begins June 19Chicago Cultural CenterThe exhibition focuses on the origins of the comics in popular publishing, the immeasurable importance of African-American cartoonists and publishing, the first woman cartoonists and editors, the first daily comic strip, and finally the art and comics of undeservedly forgotten Frank King, who with “Gasoline Alley” captured not only the rhythms and tone of everyday existence in his characters that aged not only at the same daily rate as its newspaper readers, but were also fictionalized versions of real people.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418925/ca5h9uat1wqcyf9yniiw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ali6-trust-solo-show">Ali6 "Trust" solo show</a>Exhibition Begins June 19Vertical Gallery Project Space and Studios&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418926/lzjzc754dtojvrcy3jej.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-comics-1960s-to-now">Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now</a>Exhibition Begins June 19Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)The exhibition traces the evolution of comics in Chicago, as cartoonists ventured beyond the pages of newspapers and into experimental territory including long-form storytelling, countercultural critique, and political activism. Chicago Comics examines styles, schools of thought, and modes of publication across six decades of cartooning, including works from artists who are changing the medium today. The exhibition seeks to bring to the fore artists of color who were previously under-recognized throughout their careers. In this pursuit, the exhibition features archival material previously not seen in museums and offers a revised history of the art form. Represented throughout this timeline are special sections that highlight key artists including <a href="https://mcachicago.org/About/Who-We-Are/Artists/Kerry-James-Marshall">Kerry James Marshall</a>, Lynda Barry, and Chris Ware.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418927/ufrt0zmq2vu9hpqiolje.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/confluence-painting-and-sculpture-by-jennifer-vess">Confluence: Painting and Sculpture by Jennifer Vess</a>Opening: Saturday, June 19, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmWantoot Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start June 18 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418918/ckcennblcwd4ijhlh3v4.png"></figure><a href="http://chicagoarchitecturalclub.org/2021-CHICAGO-PRIZE-JAMES-R-THOMPSON-CENTER">2021 Chicago Prize Competition Calls For New Visions for the State of Illinois / Thompson Center</a>Designed by the late architect Helmut Jahn, the State of Illinois Center, also known as James R. Thompson Center, is facing the threat of complete demolition. Located in Chicago's “Loop” it is a major transportation node, commercial center and workspace. The building has been criticized for being ugly, oversized, inefficient, and poorly maintained. However, the Thompson Center has been pivotal to urban transit and a highly democratic contemporary civic center. At the time of its construction in 1985, Jahn’s State of Illinois Center was a stark contrast to Chicago’s historic and modernist architecture, yet today it is an architectural icon in its own right. For the fourth year in a row, the Thompson Center has been listed in the Landmarks Illinois’ annual Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois and it was included in Preservation Chicago’s Chicago 7 Most Endangered list in 2018, 2019, and 2020. The Chicago Architectural Club and the Chicago Architecture Center ask the 2021 Chicago Prize participants to envision a new life for the building through restorative architecture.The competition brief can be found at the following <a href="https://issuu.com/chicagoarchitecturalclub/docs/chicago_prize_2021_-_thompson_center_-_announcemen">LINK</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-obama-portraits-art-institute-chicago-20210611-5enwhd7f6fehxdbwavzg76slmq-story.html">‘Obama Portraits’ is opening at the Art Institute of Chicago: Expect long waits, and 44 other things to know</a>Since their 2018 unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the official state portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have been a pilgrimage for many, a curiosity for others, an argument for contemporary art, a clarion call for Black artists and a startling left-turn after decades of calcified propriety. To James Rondeau, president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Obama portraits are, also, home. Their story, he said, by nature of their local subjects, makes this “a Chicago story, and knowing the Obamas’ history with the city, and their history with the museum, any possibility to show the Obama portraits felt incredibly important.”So, after years of negotiations, starting June 18, “The Obama Portraits” will be shown at the Art Institute for the next two months — the first exhibition of the portraits outside of Washington, and the opening stop of a five-city nationwide tour.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp; &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418918/hmhpa1k4m5asxlobhhht.jpg"><figcaption>Via Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.zillow.com/myzillow/favorites?">Former Dorchester Church for Sale as Condos</a>&nbsp;This 1904 church, built by famed architect Solon Spencer Beman, at 4840 S Dorchester Ave in Hyde Park/Kenwood is eye-catching and trendy. It's for sale for $999,999 (down from $1,250,000)Via Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/06/14/chicago-based-scientist-who-helped-find-art-world-frauds">The Chicago-Based Scientist Who Helped Find Art-World Frauds</a>The recently released Netflix documentary series&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH18cKTmwZ8">“This Is a Robbery”</a>&nbsp;explores the twisted story surrounding the theft of 13 pieces of art from Boston’s <a href="https://www.gardnermuseum.org/">Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum</a> in 1990.One of the potential paths to recovering the $500 million in stolen artwork involves scientific analysis of paint chips, with microscopic detective work done by a Chicago-based innovator in the field.Via WTTW&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 6/15

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418918/ts1tf2otz0dmbwx2xtmh.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-sindhu-project-enigma-of-roots-7f959b32-41ef-4f65-8077-bc9b9a87c283">The Sindhu Project: Enigma of Roots</a>Exhibition Begins June 17South Asia InstituteThe Sindhu Project embodies responses of artists Mahwish Chishty and Gunjan Kumar to explorations of archaeological sites and artifacts in the expansive Sindhu (Indus) watershed, a geographical region stretching across northwest India and much of Pakistan. Through parallel journeys involving familial roots and enigmas of inhabited places across time, Chishty and Kumar bring contemporary art-making into dialogue with excavated forms that contribute to imagining this ancient riverine landscape.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418919/ekhyjk8ctoavxvczkf6f.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/atmospheric-landscape-paintings-brian-sindler">Atmospheric: Landscape Paintings: Brian Sindler</a>Exhibition Begins June 18Richard Norton GallerySindler is best known for his Plein-Air, Tonalist landscape paintings. He is influenced by the American Tonalist movement of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He has won numerous awards in Plein-Air painting competitions. Sindler enjoys painting in the Midwest, California, Arizona, Colorado and Virginia. He exhibits regularly at the Salmagundi Club in New York and at the Plein Air Festival in Door County, Wisconsin.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418919/wlv1iy5uoig69ccjxnlf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/international-association-of-pastel-societies-iaps-2021-juried-gallery-exhibition">International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) 2021 Juried Gallery Exhibition</a>Opening: Friday, June 18, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmZhou B Art CenterIAPS is a non-profit organization representing pastel societies worldwide, united in the common goal of the promotion and support of the fine art of pastel. As the international organization representing these societies as their members, IAPS represents thousands of artists worldwide. The 2021 Juried Gallery Exhibition features the best pastel artists working today in this medium. This exhibition received over 1000 entries to the exhibition from countries including China, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, France, Taiwan, Canada and the United States with 175 paintings selected.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418920/spzjnijagvcpxkljuqbs.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/solo-exhibition-beth-adler">Shape Shift: Works on Paper by Beth Herman Adler</a>Opening: Friday, June 18, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmOliva GalleryCurated by Kate Roth, “Shape Shift” highlights the shifts that Chicago-based artist Beth Herman Adler has experienced over the last four years, both in life and in her in her art. The show moves from works created during a difficult personal time through brightly colored, design-friendly monoprints inspired by mid-century modern motifs; it visits her Covid Houses and culminates in her very recent Luna series. All of the work employs Ms. Adler’s printmaking skills and often incorporates, drawing, painting, folded sculpture, collaging, and stitching.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418921/nurdc1gqknji5qls4pmi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/matt-schommer-tim-anderson">Northwoods</a>Opening: Friday, June 18, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat ProjectsFeaturing the work of:&nbsp;Dennis Schommer, Tim Anderson &amp; Matthew Schommer**please call or e-mail to reserve a time before attending this event**&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start June 18 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418918/tmisxwqbz3gjy1eywmy3.jpg"><figcaption><a href="www.dusablemuseum.org">The DuSable Museum</a> will be open until 10 p.m. Friday, June 12 for its DuSummer outdoor concert and entertainment series. The museum officially opens June 19.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-musems-chicago-open-late-20210610-upkfqyokzjhanjxjue3q67lm5q-story.html">5 Chicago museums will be open late Friday to celebrate city’s reopening</a>Some of Chicago’s museums are helping celebrate Chicago’s reopening Friday with late-night hours, staying open until 9 p.m. or 10 p.m.In a celebration announced by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office, five Chicago museums will participate to mark the June 11 Open Chicago initiate, when the city follows the State of Illinois in entering phase five of the pandemic recovery, or full reopening. “One of the best ways we can celebrate our city’s reopening is by spending time at our renowned museums, which have undergone so many challenges over the course of this past year,” said Mayor Lightfoot in the announcement. “That’s why I am thrilled that so many of our most iconic museums will be opening their doors until late this Friday night to give residents and visitors a head start on returning to a sense of normalcy.”Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/6/7/22522751/modernist-building-demolition-chicago-landmark-cenacle-sisters-retreat-historic-preservation?fbclid=IwAR3KKOvSaBq8CIwZZDG37hu10vJfqhJ7xC4b1zK21omBRMnpMNLuQhup__g">Modernist building’s slated demolition exposes weaknesses in Chicago’s landmark laws</a>The building’s official address on Fullerton Parkway is a parking lot, so odds are you’ve never really noticed the beautiful structure on Cleveland Avenue, set half a block back.But take a closer look: Some of the loveliest brickwork you’ll ever see in Chicago forms the 1967 Cenacle Sisters Retreat and Conference Center, at 513 W. Fullerton Parkway, designed by local architect Charles Pope.“It’s a keeper,” I would say. Except that it’s not. See it while you can, because it’s likely about to be smashed to rubble, with the express permission of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks.Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/met-return-benin-bronzes-1978902">The Metropolitan Museum of Art Will Return Two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, Putting Pressure on Other Museums to Do the Same</a>The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return three artworks, including two Benin Bronzes, to&nbsp;Nigeria, accelerating a fast-moving development to repatriate the nation’s treasures, which were looted by British forces in the late 19th century.The three artworks headed to the&nbsp;Nigerian national collections are two 16th-century brass plaques created at the Court of Benin and a brass head produced in Ife sometime around the 14th century.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-martha-lavey-steppenwolf-mural-20210609-uudulgypgjfq3eucvxlnrkus54-story.html?fbclid=IwAR25fI4ws7ecM8XYWXNLNExEVD1CT1GTE6xcVXqNEL4rzA7ltjeYtiNRhoU">Column: Martha Lavey, sorely missed, will be aptly remembered on the walls of Steppenwolf</a>When Chicago’s famed Steppenwolf Theatre opened its new Lincoln Park home in 1991, it debuted a building intentionally unadorned.The Tribune’s Sid Smith described the dour décor of the fortresslike building on Halsted Street as “deliberately threadbare.” The construction was by way of gray concrete blocks and washed cement, both inside and out...So Monday’s announcement that Tony Fitzpatrick has designed a special mural that will be attached to an exterior wall of the theater was striking news. The mural is part of the theater’s epic expansion over what (in 1991 and long thereafter) was a vacant lot between the theater and a parking garage that budget problems left famously unfinished. (As witnessed close-up by at least two generations of travelers on the CTA Brown Line).Fitzpatrick is anything but glossy or suburban. But his work also is a long way from concrete blocks and water stains. In fact, this commissioned mural (his largest to date and perhaps his crowning career achievement) will be printed digitally on ceramic tiles.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 6/10

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418918/ldlho92hpc0mwihldq2v.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/marina-black-unseen">MARINA BLACK: UNSEEN</a>Opening: Friday, June 11, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmCatherine Edelman GalleryThere are many photographers whose work reveals its intent upon first viewing. Then there are photographers like Marina Black, whose images reveal themselves slowly, allowing the viewer multiple interpretations. Black cites Goya’s The Disasters of War as one of her main influences, which many have interpreted as a protest against violence and the public who remain complicit. Her series Hasard Anticipé (anticipated chance) casts children as the subjects through which fear, joy, trauma and innocence is addressed. In Blacks world, the sanitized assumptions of childhood are replaced by the reality that innocence can be lost when children are not protected. In Hasard Anticipé, Marina Black presents photographs of daily activities – dancing, a soccer game, children swimming – that seem ordinary until wires, ropes and other objects obscure reality and the identity of those pictured. Black invites the viewer to construct their own narratives, while suggesting that innocence is something to attain, and should not be taken for granted.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418918/htrpzej9gdwghhw3fjvo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/technicolor-constellations-tales-from-the-permanent-collection">Technicolor Constellations: Tales from the Permanent Collection</a>Begins June 11Rockford Art MuseumFeaturing nearly fifty pieces from Rockford Art Museum's Modern and Contemporary Collection. Artist's include: Herman Aguirre, Alice Aycock, Jeff Koons, Kerry James Marshall, Tony Oursler, Diane Simpson and Ken Warneke.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418919/httvgcquh5ev2kgy6qa7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/joseph-e-yoakum-what-i-saw">Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw</a>Begins June 12Art Institute of ChicagoYoakum was born into poverty, had very little schooling, and at an early age left home to join a circus. He wound up working with several circuses, traveling across the United States as well as abroad and becoming intimately familiar with the world’s various landscapes. These experiences would provide the foundational memories that fueled his deeply spiritual vision decades later.This exhibition follows a shifting progression of Yoakum’s mountainous terrain, arid deserts, and majestic waterways, as well as a selection of his portraits of African American icons, testifying to the rich imagination of an exceptional American artist as well as to the remarkable circumstances that led to his lasting legacy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418920/zfjc8a2qkcauikxidlly.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/blow-up-ii-inflatable-contemporary-art">Blow Up II: Inflatable Contemporary Art</a>Begins June 12Krasl Art CenterBLOW UP II: Inflatable Contemporary Art explores the imaginative ways that air is used as a tool to create large-scale sculptures. Inflatable works are often initially regarded as whimsical or humorous, yet they can contain serious critiques of pop-culture, social norms and the politics of space. BLOW UP II explores the complex relationship between the familiarity of the material combined with serious commentary, creating a dialogue around reinterpretation.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418920/bmzcsjh40gmgwcqr7ebg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/matthew-metzger-heirloom">Matthew Metzger: Heirloom</a>Begins June 13The Renaissance SocietyMatthew Metzger’s paintings often closely replicate not-quite-familiar images, cultural artifacts, or common objects that signify nauseating conditions of power—conditions that for him leave self-expression feeling inadequate or corrupted, requiring a different way forward. While rendering each painting with an obsessive focus, Metzger relies on abstraction to more than formal ends, using it as an active means of distortion that mirrors the effects of our information ecologies and other aspects of culture today.In Heirloom, Metzger presents a new ensemble of works, conceived as an installation for the Renaissance Society and its space.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start June 11

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418918/y2yaxg9ybbqw1zabqzis.jpg"></figure><a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/06/02/chicago-cultural-center-reopens-with-store-selling-locally-made-good-new-exhibits/">Chicago Cultural Center Reopens With Store Selling Locally Made Goods, New Exhibits</a>The Chicago Cultural Center reopened Wednesday after being closed more than a year due to coronavirus.The center also worked with a design team, Made, from Englewood to revamp its Learning Lab. The lab is open to people of all ages and abilities and features an interactive light installation.And the center has a new store, called <a href="https://hi-buddy.org/">BUDDY</a>, where guests can browse goods made in Chicago by local artists and entrepreneurs. The store includes vinyl records, honey, toys for children, perfume and other goods.Via Block Club Chicago&nbsp;<a href="https://links.e.history.com/u/click?_t=3350a610bca54cb8a557dd283bdde91f&amp;_m=a905838e0852431097ae8412efd71632&amp;_e=7M3xs4kXjb2FMoi7qCnO77sNN2wJzFWUdfTFwetuL6UrGyCnlKiAQZz0vZ05NDETFhZMqGSIMOoDp0EtutrrsPj39HWnezBz4_4_3VNK3vGuHpE52orrUcMf0f6yr1Xp1PBODHIVIqQ8szNCAf2H3Zca8UY0cS2XOdPfiKOcoW3Obu5cCS7ppV_K8aysqWP6xi79qprhY3ByLeonYdr-woDh6vXKMste6ZnmP6BIwx2JBFQF7WR3fDGsnWIsKWwDhoAphbXlTQrmoUE0GfB6qa6_cMg9ItnJRtFpCkH9MnMyJMEPSXTjmIUcYyCL6CkljjHKeopr-0ad7X3gbek9tptVM5yTu-pGdU6OvGG9WQsziVQr5pU6fumUnqzQ5Id5y5q76CW9kslqGoibkVnPySsYdRPxlMjb3VsqAIFajcM%3D">How the AIDS Quilt Allowed Millions to Memorialize the Epidemic</a>The AIDS Memorial Quilt—with 1,920 individual panels, each inscribed with the names of people lost to AIDS—was displayed for the first time on October 11, 1987. It has grown ever since.Via History.com&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-christina-quarles-mca-chicago-20210602-xb4jeduo4reypkuxgo727nibqm-story.html">How to see the Christina Quarles show at the MCA? Go with the rising star artist, and forget your glasses.</a>Christina Quarles, rising art world superstar, Chicago native, Los Angeles resident, visited the Museum of Contemporary Art the other morning. It was her first time visiting her new show, which is also her first major solo exhibition. The museum had just opened and the early crowd was a pandemic trickle. No one approached Quarles, though a couple nudged each other and whispered about her clothes: They were trying to decide if this woman, the one in the colorful pajamas, made all of this stuff on the walls. Probably, right?Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/arts/design/Art-Preserve-Sheboygan.html">Rescuing Artists of Vision</a>Charles Smith preaches with sculpture, hundreds of hip-height figures that he’s been reworking, repainting and rearranging for decades, first at a small house in Aurora, Ill., and now at his homestead in Hammond, La. Every time this self-taught artist repositions his work he testifies anew to the unfolding history of racial violence in the United States, connecting it to personal traumas, including what he believes was the racially motivated murder of his father when he was 14, and his own combat experiences in Vietnam.On June 26, the 80-year-old artist will star in a new and experimental museum in Sheboygan called the Art Preserve, awaiting his instruction on how his concrete figures will be shown. The preserve is the first museum in the country to focus on artists known as “environment builders,” whose worldviews take immersive and physical form, and who often turn their entire homes into works of art.Via NYTimes&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/opinion/ai-weiwei-the-great-big-art-exhibition-1975114?utm_content=from_&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=US%209%3A45%20a.m.%20newsletter%20for%206%2F2%2F21&amp;utm_term=US%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BMORNING%5D">Op-Ed by Ai WeiWei: The Organizers of a Major U.K. Exhibition Used My Name to Promote Their Show. But They Were Too Afraid to Embrace My Ideas</a>What is art and what is its purpose? What is its relevance to our post-industrialist and consumption-oriented world? These questions may seem banal, but they are especially pertinent if we look at “The Great Big Art Exhibition,” organised by the U.K. visual arts organisation Firstsite this year. I am very honored to share that my 2021 project Postcard for Political Prisoners was not accepted—and that their rejection gave a real meaning to my artwork.Via Artnet&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 6/3

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEAJune brings a host of new exhibitions and openings in area galleries and museums, as well as – thankfully, following a mostly closed 2020 – art benefits and art fairs taking place both in person as well as virtually. There are many choices available for participation, engagement and support.&nbsp;Art benefit parties and art fairs have traditionally been the social nexus of the art world. Though Zoom carried us through much of the pandemic, art collectors, industry members and enthusiasts are all eager to reconnect in person through a shared love of art and a desire to support living artists and vital businesses and institutions. Following is a list of events coming up soon.&nbsp;See you at the party!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418907/ercv2upi2xmxuahk7wc2.png"><figcaption><a href="https://one.bidpal.net/wip2021/browse/2(details:item/19)">Raul De Lara</a> Smile #3 is part of WIP's art auction. Starting bid: $2,400 &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://chicagoartistscoalition.org/get-involved/annual-benefit">Chicago Artist Coalition's Work in Progress 2021</a>JUNE 9 @ 6pm (The auction preview and bidding is live now.)WIP 2021 will be Chicago Artists Coalition’s biggest night of the year, a virtual celebration of its 47 years as a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary Chicago artists. The event, taking place virtually on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, at 6:00 pm, highlights milestones of Chicago-based artists and curators and their influence both in and beyond the city. The event is free and open to the public and includes an art auction and recognition of the night’s honorees, artists Nick Cave and Bob Faust, and CAC supporter Jeff Shapack. CAC will also give grants to six artists.A ticketed Work In Progress 2021 VIP event will follow the free public portion of the evening and includes a private, virtual tour of Facility, Nick Cave and Bob Faust’s multi-disciplinary creative space in Northwest Chicago. A live conversation with the artists follows the tour. Tickets for both the free and ticketed VIP WIP 2021 events are available at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/work-in-progress-chicago-artists-coalitions-annual-benefit-tickets-85151282779">Eventbrite</a>.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418907/dnkg0lica7673hkccfx6.jpg"><figcaption>Part of MoCP's benefit auction: Seunggu Kim, Hanok Swimming Pool, August 2017.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.mocp.org/get-involved/annual-benefit.php">MoCP's DARKROOM Benefit Auction</a>JUNE 10 @ 5:45 pm (The benefit auction opens one week before the event on <a href="http://sothebys.com/">Sothebys.com</a>)DARKROOM is the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago's (MoCP) annual benefit auction and gala, which will be taking place entirely online. Photography enthusiasts will also have the chance to bid on celebrated contemporary and historical artists, including work by Dawoud Bey, Tabitha Soren, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward J. Steichen, Pete Souza, Victoria Sambunaris, Sandro Miller, Brian Ulrich, and more.&nbsp;The virtual event will kick off with a pre-show DJ set with the founder and owner of famed Metro Chicago, who will be spinning 45s—in honor of the museum’s 45th anniversary year—remotely from The GMan Tavern in Wrigleyville. Attendees will then enjoy a formal program and be able to engage virtually with MoCP staff, artists, fellow supporters, and surprise special guests during an interactive livestream. The evening will conclude with a virtual cocktail party hosted on <a href="http://wonder.me/">Wonder.me</a>General admission to DARKROOM is completely free. VIP tickets start at $250 and go up to $1000, with a range of exclusive benefits. Visit <a href="https://mocp.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e4250b7536dc23e9352b28ee&amp;id=23503a7f3b&amp;e=62775191de">mocp.org</a> for more information.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418908/knmxnqg1pd9mamtfvwua.jpg"></figure><a href="https://one.bidpal.net/intuit/welcome">Intuit's (Virtual) Visionary Ball&nbsp;</a>JUNE 10, 7–7:45pmJoin Intuit from home in celebrating 30 years of being Intuit! Special guest speakers, Intuit's famed silent auction, and profound art-driven stories that will uplift and inspire are all part of a reimagined Visionary Ball, Intuit's annual fundraiser, this year on ZoomRegistration has passed for the special $250 cocktail or wine Party-In-Place Package, but you can register for the free ticket until June 9 and you can browse the <a href="https://one.bidpal.net/intuit/browse/all">silent auction now</a>. Highlights include works by Lee Godie and Wesley Willis, as well as select thrift store finds by unknown artists.&nbsp;This year's Visionary Ball honors artist, art educator and researcher Lisa Stone.&nbsp;Learn more register at the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IUlykqRdjrN-R-Fx_zXRI8SRhhjuP22RCTYz_oCvyOGr3X8KdIaOwO8UrP_TPPFWrDSS1NQJivL6TnTIL92kCg2a-CwfTYeQ1M_kEAh1-VubIXlimT5VBOXrK5sAmyD4o0NKJZXnct4eyE_sAYF1vKBi83Cv4PYxZhQp1-GDFhc=&amp;c=VcDXc8hNCDGHRYfsF6v9k-E1VYTFZI3-3UpEp4uJ6Pubc_rZWATdwQ==&amp;ch=832EdJmwHUpFKTRAlxENRbveBhda20K9nKSiWemylClg1OZ3EUiksQ==">Visionary Ball website</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418909/drkuki7hsj83e7elb6on.png"><figcaption>The Old Town Art Fair is also famous for its garden walk&nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.oldtownartfair.org">The Old Town Art Fair Returns</a>June 12 and 13After a cancellation in 2020 (the first in the 70-year history) the OTAF is returning to its traditional 2nd weekend in June dates this month (June 12 and 13). &nbsp;Art Fair Chair Anne Giffels announced that all artists from 2020 were invited back for 2021. “We are thrilled that more than 200, out of 250, artists are returning this year. It speaks to the appeal of the OTAF for artists as well as our guests,” Giffels said. “We are committed to holding a Fair that follows strict safety protocols and welcomes everyone back to Old Town.”Safety measures for the 2021 Art Fair include a larger footprint for adequate room to move around as well as to accommodate spaced artist booths, plus other measures that are standard practice by now. There will also be additional space for food vendors.<a href="https://www.oldtownartfair.org">New this year, pre-registration will be required for entry to the Fair and is live now.</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418910/ezwcnlii3odgqqmesgpm.jpg"><figcaption><a href="https://www.artfinder.com/artist/kwaboama/#/">Kwame Boama Mensa-Aborampa</a>, painting</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.57thstreetartfair.org/virtual-fair">74th annual (Virtual) 57th Street Art Fair</a>Ongoing through May 2022The 57th Street Art Fair was very hopeful for an in-person fair this year but they were not approved in time to meet their planning needs. Instead, they have built a robust virtual fair that is <a href="https://www.57thstreetartfair.org/virtual-fair">live online</a> through May, 2022 and features more than 100 artists selling original works of art.&nbsp; You can learn more about different artists featured daily <a href="https://www.57thstreetartfair.org/facebook">here</a>.​The committee and the neighborhood is looking ahead to 2022, when they hope to see everyone in-person to celebrate the fair's 75th Anniversary.&nbsp;&nbsp;Top thumbnail: past Work in Progress party-goers&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

June Preview: Art Auctions and a Return to Parties

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418906/asip7avtpozensflta2z.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/catharine-newell-immersed">Catharine Newell: Immersed</a>Begins June 5&nbsp;Ken Saunders Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418907/jrtug7kmjfsl07acmgnn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/encaustic-in-america">Encaustic in America</a>Opening: Saturday, Jun 5, 2021 2 – 6&nbsp;pmAddington GalleryDuring the months of June and July, Addington Gallery hosts an exciting rotating exhibition of paintings made by some of the leading voices of encaustic painting in America.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418908/gmnfpihpf4deckouvmph.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hyun-jung-jun">Hyun Jung Jun: By Flame By Fog</a>Begins June 5&nbsp;GoldfinchHyun Jung Jun’s work takes many forms, from temporary installations to candles to cakes, and the work often begins and ends as something changed or erased altogether. In the artist’s words, Jun’s creations “take up more time than they do space.” They are often made to disappear. Although Hun’s practice engages familiar, domestic processes (her kitchen serves as a studio space, where she dips candles and experiments with cooking materials) her work seems to exist in a fantastical space where what is absent, shrouded, or entirely imagined is as real as anything else.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418909/ozagkdfypqi1bs16eg7r.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/summer-show-frida-kahlo">Frida Kahlo: Timeless</a>Begins June 5&nbsp;The Cleve Carney Museum of ArtThe exhibition will be the largest Frida Kahlo exhibition in the Chicago area in more than 40 years, and is hosted by the Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA) and the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) at the College of DuPage (COD). It will feature a 26-piece collection on loan from the Museo Dolores Olmedo as well as a multimedia timeline, 100+ photographic images from the artist’s life, a family-friendly children’s area and a Frida Kahlo inspired garden designed by Ball Horticultural Company, enabling museum-goers of all ages to grasp an understanding of Kahlo’s life and work through a variety of contexts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418909/yz4d8ofuqf2s1trbbjzq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ania-jaworska-bricks">Ania Jaworska: BRICKS</a>Begins June 5&nbsp;Volume GalleryBRICKS engages this elemental unit of construction formally and conceptually to create a homage that is at once sincere, humorous, pragmatic, and seductive.Bricks are both resolutely material and culturally potent. Especially in Chicago, they aggregate to form a backdrop to urban life, and not always elegantly or intentionally. At the same time, bricks provoke an earnestness, even reverence, among architects (Louis Kahn most famously) and lay brick enthusiasts (there are many among us, analyzing the techniques and sources of the brickwork in our neighborhoods). As metaphors, bricks appear in diverse contexts, negative and positive: a basketball that clanks off the rim; a ton of something dropped on us; a mighty-mighty woman; the road we follow to Oz.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start June 5 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418078/exjeqeash2xwp7ereuvr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tromarama-tromarama-2021">Tromarama: Tromarama 2021</a>Begins June 5&nbsp;DOCUMENTThe exhibition at the gallery will feature Beta, a site-specific installation that questions the standardized elementary education programs that have been implemented since Indonesia’s independence from Japanese occupation in 1945.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418079/urgm2cjo3mksulsujvpk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/edie-fake-2c3f5155-12ae-40a6-8909-6f27acb41d72">Edie Fake</a>Begins June 5&nbsp;Western ExhibitionsEdie Fake’s paintings start as self-portraits, and from there, they make a break for it, referencing elements of the trans and non-binary body through pattern, color and architectural metaphor. His precise, intimately scaled, gouache-and-ink paintings on panel are structured around the physical aspects of transition and adaptation as well as mental and sexual health.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418080/ofmguwcslfonjy5wjesa.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/field-studies">Field Studies: Steven Carrelli &amp; Adam Fung</a>Opening: Saturday, June 5, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmHofheimer GalleryField Studies&nbsp;is a drawing collaboration that began in 2011, when both artists&nbsp;lived in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.&nbsp;Field Studies&nbsp;continues presently as a long-distance collaborative art project with Steven&nbsp;Carrelli residing in Chicago, Illinois and Adam Fung living in Fort Worth, Texas.&nbsp;With few exceptions, the drawings are the size of a postcard and executed in&nbsp;pencil on paper.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418080/dgnqkeiprweid9gqygpi.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gallery-reception-water-becomes-blood">Gallery Reception: Water Becomes Blood</a>Opening: Saturday, June 5, 3 – 7&nbsp;pmWoman Made Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418081/ealfdidggbgy67fuaaw9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dorothy-graden-liminal-spaces">Dorothy Graden: Liminal Spaces</a>Begins June 5&nbsp;Evanston Art CenterDorothy Graden&nbsp;is a contemporary artist whose art is inspired by Ancient Visions, prehistoric art of the Americas. Her mission is to bring awareness of these amazing places and to promote preservation and protection of ancestral sites on this continent, most of which are considered sacred to Native Americans. For over 30 years she has been traveling through the American west to photograph and draw prehistoric rock art.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418082/a0mfxh3sndjfpo1oheop.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/modernist-strategies-highlights-from-the-wpa">Modernist Strategies: Highlights from the WPA</a>Begins June 5Krannert Art Museum, University of IllinoisFrom 1935 to 1943, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored the Federal Art Project, which employed as many as 10,000 artists during the Great Depression. In exchange for a modest weekly wage, artists produced paintings, sculptures, prints, and other works to be distributed to federal buildings and other public institutions. The University of Illinois received an extensive cache of works, which were transferred to Krannert Art Museum upon its founding in 1961.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start June 5 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418907/ihvbshybwbq9otz2y8qx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-social-justice-sewing-academy-connecting-generations-through-cloth">The Social Justice Sewing Academy: Connecting Generations through Cloth</a>May 28 – August 22Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider ArtFrom quilts supporting abolition and temperance to signature quilts made to raise money for war efforts to the AIDS Memorial Quilt, quilts have long expressed political beliefs and supported social causes. As quilt scholar Marsha MacDowell said, “Many people think of quilts as a warm, fuzzy domestic art. Yet we see time and time again, artists have used this particular medium to make strong statements that address human rights issues.” Most often, quilts with a message are made by adults, but, today, the tradition of quilting for social justice is being introduced to young artivists—or artist-activists—who pick up a needle and thread for the first time and learn to see quilts in a new way.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418907/fzxuhv7bxvvhh2z96ns7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffrey-gibson-sweet-bitter-love">Jeffrey Gibson: Sweet Bitter Love</a>May 28 – September 18Newberry LibrarySweet Bitter Love presents Jeffrey Gibson’s <a href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=e2a2ea5b5b&amp;e=a6ad3ea4a5">reflections on representations of Indigenous people in cultural institutions</a>. Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, responds to nineteenth-century portraits of Indigenous people in the Newberry Library’s collection. His paintings and wallpaper refute ethnographic symbolism with vibrant, glittering layers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418908/vefb3vrsasizvlefbwrp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/theaster-gates-how-to-sell-hardware">Theaster Gates: How to Sell Hardware</a>May 28 – July 31Gray WarehouseHow to Sell Hardware tells the story of Theaster Gates’s ongoing engagement with a family-owned True Value hardware store formerly located on Chicago’s South Side. Once a lively central space for local commerce, the True Value store shared in the growth and prosperity of a thriving community during the 1970s and 80s, filling its practical and social needs. The hardware store similarly mirrored the neighborhood’s downturns as business slowed in the 1990s with the emergence of big-box stores which drastically changed the needs and habits of the once-prosperous Chicago neighborhood.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418909/vaoymxvwkpl26oymi6w7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/susan-hall-and-allison-b-cooke-beneath-the-surface">Susan Hall and Allison B. Cooke: Beneath the Surface</a>Opening: Friday, May 28, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | WestMidwest artists Allison B. Cooke and Susan Hall explore the concept of transformation via the energetic addition and subtraction of materials. While Susan Hall peels away lace designs from hardened gesso to allow her phantasmic figures to take form, Allison B. Cooke combines years' worth of gathered parchments and pigments to build dreamlike renditions of remembered places and times.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418910/ojfk2zpbixfsy3ijekwo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/plain-air">PLAIN AIR</a>May 29 – July 17Carrie Secrist GalleryCarrie Secrist Gallery is thrilled to announce our first in-person opening reception of 2021 for&nbsp;Plain Air, a group exhibition featuring nine artists exploring the traditional genre of landscape.&nbsp;Please join us this Saturday May 29th from 12 - 5 PM at our gallery space located at 900 W. Washington BLVD, Chicago, IL.*This exhibition will also be viewable in person by appointment through July 17, 2021. To make an appointment in person, please visit the&nbsp;<a href="http://artlocalapp.com/sendy/l/YHTwzCkUESTHoPlztt892uoQ/EVjsZkMQvqEjK9w7IE3izg/J7KS763vqeureaEnGUs06763aQ">Reservation</a>&nbsp;page on our website. Our online viewing room for&nbsp;Plain Air&nbsp;will go on view Saturday morning, May 29 at 10AM (CST).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418910/dtjfc8steqbgmrdfsssv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/virginia-carstarphen-wanderings-maps-and-memories">Virginia Carstarphen: Wanderings, Maps and Memories</a>Opening: Saturday, May 29, 4 – 5&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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